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Getty Museums In L.A. Now Seen As “Beacon Of Fire Preparedness”
"The Center, which houses a sprawling collection in a modernist building, is described on the Getty website as a 'marvel of anti-fire engineering.' The...
US Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Law Banning TikTok
"TikTok, which has 170 million monthly American users, had argued the ban tramples on the First Amendment rights of both the app and its...
Bankrupt University Of The Arts Building Is Sold At Auction — To Curtis Institute
The renowned music school outbid Temple University for the former Arts Alliance building, very near Curtis's home on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia, after an...
Countertenor David Daniels Sues U. Michigan For Firing Him For Sexual Misconduct
"Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance....
Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has...
GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the...
Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place
"Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected...
Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary...
David Lynch, 78
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences...
Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage
Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which...
Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet
It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp,...
The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution
The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St....
In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel
European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the...
Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82
"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope...
Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors
"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the...
Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing...
Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space...
Conductor Hannu Lintu Named Singapore Symphony’s Next Music Director
The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his...
Alt-Weekly Chicago Reader Is At “Imminent Risk Of Closure”
The paper, which was owned by the Sun-Times for six years before being sold to a not-for-profit in 2018, has continued to be plagued...
Bristol, UK City Council Poised To Eliminate Arts Grants And Cut Culture Budget By...
The city government is facing possible bankruptcy due to a £52 million budget gap over the next five years. Among the drastic measures being...
Can “The Conversation” Do For Local News What It’s Done For Academic Research?
"The nonprofit outlet has built a brand on connecting the knowledge of professors and researchers to both the news cycle and a general audience...
Former Theatre Company CEO Faces Trial On Multiple Sexual Abuse Charges
Timothy O’Connor, former chief executive of the Harvest Rain Theatre Company in Brisbane, Australia, faces charges from seven accusers aged from 12 to 29;...
Movie Audiences These Days Are Laughing At Some Pretty Intense Stuff
"(Chuckles) ripple through the crowd when Nicole Kidman laps up milk from a saucer on her hands and knees in Babygirl, when Lily-Rose Depp...
A Plan For Making The Arts “The Next Big Thing” In Downtown Chicago
"A group of civic, business and community leaders calling themselves 'Team Culture' wants to reimagine major parts of downtown — filling vacant, often shadowy...
A Proposal For Keeping The Wanamaker Organ Safe And In Regular Use
The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's...
New Research On Circulation Of Audiobooks At US Libraries
"Digital audiobooks accounted for 70 percent of adult audio circulation and 56 percent of youth audio circulation in libraries queried in the time frame...