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Joseph Walsh On Restaging Liam Scarlett’s Ballet “Frankenstein”
Walsh helped Scarlett create several scenes for the London premiere in 2016, then danced the title role in the 2017 revised version at San...
“Veep” Creator Wants To Do A Trump Project But Says Nobody Will Finance It
Armando Iannucci described his conversations with U.S. buyers this way: “I got a lot of, ‘Yeah, you wouldn’t get the money for that at...
A Brief History Of The FCC Squaring Off Against The Networks
While the agency has generally avoided actively threatening broadcast licenses because of shows’ content, the FCC has certainly been willing to fuss at the...
Actress Patricia Routledge, British Sitcom Icon, Is Dead At 96
“If one had to seize on a defining quality, it was her ability to see the humanity in a variety of eccentrics and outsiders....
Film Composer Joe Hisaishi Is Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Composer-In-Residence
In the position, which runs for the next two seasons, the beloved composer for Studio Ghibli animated features will get a major commercial recording,...
Head Of Presidential Library Out After Refusing To Deaccession Sword For Trump To Give...
Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously worked at the National Archives, said he was ordered to resign from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. He...
Staffers At Chicago’s Museum Of Science And Industry Authorize Strike
After more than two years of negotiations, 90% of union members voted to approve a potential walkout. Most employees of the museum earn an...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture Goes To Petrit Halilaj
Halilaj — at age 39, the youngest-ever winner of the award — is donating the prize money to a foundation he and his sister...
Glenn Lowry Is Now A Free Man. What’s He Doing Next?
His hugely consequential three decades as director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art ended in September. For now he has consulting gigs in Saudi...
Joshua Beamish On Why He’s Started A(nother) Ballet Company In Vancouver
“While Vancouver offers a wealth of contemporary-dance companies and high-caliber ballet schools, ‘no one is bringing classical ballet here beyond a touring Nutcracker, or producing...
AI Joins The Argument About Whether This Caravaggio Is Authentic
There are three surviving versions of The Lute Player: one in the Wildenstein collection, one at the Hermitage, both authentic, and one in Britain,...
Mass MoCA (Yes, The Museum) Is Starting Its Own Record Label
The huge contemporary art museum, in the old factory town of North Adams in Massachusetts’s northeast corner, is launching Mass MoCA Records, which will...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Starts Revitalizing Its Academic Program In Deal With Temple...
Almost two years after it abruptly eliminated its degree-granting programs, PAFA is entering a ten-year partnership with Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture...
Federal Judge In Florida Rules That First Amendment Doesn’t Forbid Libraries From Removing Certain...
The suit in question concerned the Escambia County (Pensacola) School Board’s decision to block its libraries from stocking And Tango Makes Three, the well-known...
Broadway Actors Are Preparing To Strike Just As Peak Season Is Starting
Actors' Equity negotiations with the Broadway League are continuing for now, even though the last three-year contract ended on September 28. The number-one issue...
Trump White House Dismisses Over Three-Quarters Of National Council On The Humanities
Only four of the 26 members of the advisory body remain; the rest were terminated via a notably terse email from the White House...
FCC Considers Relaxing Limits On How Many Media Outlets Corporations May Own
“The agency voted to take public comment … on a rule that limits a company from owning more than two stations in a market,...
Despite Federal Government Shutdown, Smithsonian, Kennedy Center And D.C. Monuments Are Open — For...
The Smithsonian museums and National Gallery will remain open for as long as leftover cash-on-hand lasts, which will be at least through Monday. Kennedy...
Paris’s Picasso Museum Is Adding A Sculpture Garden
“Named ‘Picasso 2030,’ the project will create a space devoted to the artist’s sculptures by connecting a garden area behind the museum to an...
Wild At Heart: Daphne Du Maurier, One Of English Lit’s Most Misunderstood Authors
“From the pages of After Midnight emerges a sense of du Maurier that’s far from the meek, naive narrator of Rebecca. These stories are the work of a...
Murder Investigation Launched As A Star Of France’s Early Music Scene Is Found Dead
Denis Raisin Dadre, 69, a recorder virtuoso and specialist in Renaissance reed instruments, founded Ensemble Doulce Mémoire in 1990 and developed an impressive array...
The Best International Feature Oscar Is Broken. Any Solution Could Make It Worse.
“The deadline for countries to submit movies for the 2026 Oscars' international feature category arrives Wednesday. And, as usual, the submissions — each country gets to...
The August Paris Opera Ballet Walks On The Wild Side For Its U.S. Tour
The world’s oldest ballet company is known to most of the world for the precise, pristine classicism. At home, though, it’s been performing cutting-edge...
Italian Police Seize 21 Works From Dalí Exhibition As Suspected Forgeries
“The works were part of an exhibition, ‘Salvador Dalí, tra arte e mito’ (Salvador Dalí, between art and myth”) that had been on show...
Artisans Use Medieval Techniques To Restore One Of England’s Grandest Old Cathedrals
“York Minster is one of a very few cathedrals in Britain to have a full-time team of stonemasons working alongside about 50 glaziers, carpenters,...
