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And Who Has Swooped In To Buy Bankrupt Radio Giant Audacy? George Soros.
"(His) buyout of approximately $415 million of Audacy's debt would make his Soros Fund Management the largest stakeholder of the second-largest radio company in...
BBC Says It Has “Secured The Future” Of The BBC Singers
Last year, public outrage caused the broadcaster to abandon its plan to dissolve the 20-member BBC Singers. Now the network has announced a partnership...
National Book Awards Extends Eligibility To Non-US Citizens
"The change will affect prizes for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature to begin including authors 'who maintain their primary, long-term home in...
English National Opera’s Orchestra Ends Its Strike Threat
All labor action planned for February has been called off as the company and the Musicians' Union have come to a revised agreement about...
With Las Vegas Philharmonic Between Music Directors, Leonard Slatkin Will Fill In
Donato Cabrera ends his 10-year term as the orchestra's music director this summer; with no successor yet appointed, Slatkin will serve as Artistic Consultant....
How Hard Is It To Make Animated Characters Cry? Let The Animators Tell You
"Heaving sobs and effervescent teardrops are the result of the exacting labor of artists who must precisely illustrate, iterate on, time, and log their...
Another San Francisco Theater Has To Do An Emergency Donate-Or-We-Close-Down Campaign
"Cutting Ball Theater, the 25-year-old company known for form-breaking new plays and rejuvenated classics, ... says it needs to raise $45,000 by March 1...
Meet The Mother Of Contemporary African Dance
"Germaine Acogny studied dance at the École Simon-Siégel in Paris. She was the only black student (there) and a teacher criticised her 'big butt...
Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyers Appeal His Rape Conviction Before New York State’s Highest Court
The basis of the appeal is that the trial judge should not have allowed testimony from three other women whose alleged assaults by Weinstein...
A Schubert Jukebox Opera? Yep.
"Jukebox" opera was hardly unknown in centuries past; it was called pasticcio. And while Schubert was a master of vocal music, his operas are...
13th-Century Fresco By Cimabue Has Been Restored And Revealed
The painting, in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, is of the Madonna and Child with angels and St. Francis himself. The project...
OMG, Looks Like The Saudis Have Actually Started Construction On That 100-Mile-Long Building
Many onlookers have been skeptical that The Line, Prince Muhammad bin Salman's planned glass-clad behemoth 170 kilometers long, 1,640 feet tall and only 660...
Here’s One American Newspaper That’s Actually Making Money With A New, Free (!) Print...
This past September, Deseret News, the Salt Lake City daily owned and operated by the Mormon church, launched The Digest, a monthly compendium of...
Second City Has Opened Its New York City Branch
"The new site (in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood) is less of a traditional comedy club than it is a sort of small campus for comedy...
England’s Arts Funder Warns Grantees To Avoid “Political Statements” And Artists Respond Angrily
"Artists, writers and musicians have reacted with fury to an Arts Council England warning that “political statements” could break funding agreements. ... ACE advised...
Completely Strung Out At The World’s Largest String Quartet Festival
"Imagine a small island where, for an entire week, you’re in the company of some of the world’s finest classical musicians. They play almost...
On This Valentine’s Day, Remember That Love Sonnets Don’t Have To Be For Romantic...
Scholar Shannon McHugh reminds us that, going all the way back to the medieval Italian origins of the form, sonnets have been written to...
For This Brazilian City’s Carnival, The Giant Street Puppets Come Out
In Olinda, a town on the northern coast near Recife whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the puppets range from the...
Notre-Dame’s New Spire Is In Place As Reconstruction Forges Ahead
"Scaffolding surrounding the spire came down this week, revealing the restored structure in a landmark moment for the cathedral, which was ravaged by a...
One Of London’s Best Theatres For New Plays May Have To Lay Off Its...
"The Royal Court is known for putting the names of emerging playwrights up in lights for the first time, but … (its) literary department...
As Shows Get Cancelled And Grants Get Rescinded, Hong Kong Arts Groups Must Guess...
Last month, the territory's Arts Development Council abruptly decided to withhold funding for a major theater awards event because (it later revealed) two disfavored...
At Carnival And Onward, Venice Is Taking Steps To Reduce The Endless Tide Of...
"Responding to residents’ fears that Venice is becoming a glorified water park, this city that has drawn awestruck visitors since the Middle Ages is...
Cleveland Ballet’s New Artistic Director On Stabilizing The Company After A Wild Few Months
After this past fall's revelations of misconduct that led to the resignation of executive director Michael Krasnyansky and the firing of artistic director Gladisa...
New York State’s $700 Million Film/TV Production Tax Credit Loses Money, Finds State Audit
"For every dollar the state gave in tax breaks from 2018 through 2022, the Film Tax Credit drew an estimated 15¢ in direct tax...
Now Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Have Struck Botticelli’s “Birth Of Venus” (At Least They Didn’t...
"Two activists from Last Generation pasted images of a flooded Tuscan town over the goddess's giant shell on the 15th-century work (at the Uffizi...
