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Composer Éliane Radigue, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And Drone Music, Has Died At 94
While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned...
CBS News Insiders Worry That “60 Minutes” As We’ve Known It Is Doomed
“As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to...
The Volunteer Army Documenting Museum And Park Wall Texts Before The Trump Administration Rewrites...
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other...
Paramount Increases Its Bid For Warner Bros. Yet Again
New studio mogul David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has increased its unsolicited offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery from $30 to $31 in cash per...
Atlanta Opera Begins Construction On New $72 Million Campus
The company is repurposing a century-old golf-course clubhouse along the city’s Beltline into the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts. The complex...
Layoffs At London’s Young Vic Theatre After Years Of Deficits
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes...
Director At Palace Of Versailles Appointed To Lead Troubled Louvre
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at...
COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Resigns After $600K Goes Missing
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after...
Louvre’s Director Resigns After A No-Good-Very-Bad Year
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of...
Some Plays Thought To Be By Shakespeare Or Marlowe Now Reattributed To Thomas Kyd
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman...
For The First Time, A Company Has Won Venice Biennale Danza’s Golden Lion For...
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem...
Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens...
How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). -...
One Of The World’s Major Collections Of Banned Russian Literature Is In Manhattan
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from...
Confirmed: This Country House Is Definitely A Gaudí
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s)...
Actor Robert Carradine Dead Of Suicide At 71
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in...
Berlin Film Festival Winners: “Yellow Letters”, Sandra Hüller, “Salvation”, “Queen At Sea”
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two...
Why The Uproar About The Tourette’s/N-Word Incident At The BAFTAs Isn’t Dying Down
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. …...
Gustavo Dudamel On His Transition From Los Angeles To New York
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a...
A New Spirit Of Choreographic Artistry In Olympic Figure Skating
“It seems we’re in a particularly fruitful era of artistic innovation in skating. What’s driving the current wave — and how might it shape...
Reading “Animal Farm” In Afghanistan: A Women’s Book Circle Becomes A Form Of Resistance
With the Taliban having outlawed the education of girls and severely restricted women’s other rights, a clandestine group of women gather weekly to read...
Melbourne’s Arts Community Alarmed As State Government Funding Keeps Falling
From 2022 to 2026, the grant pool distributed by state arts agency Creative Victoria has fallen by over 25%, from $81.2 million to $59.4...
Germany’s International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, Loses Millions In Government Funding
Between a reduction of €10 million ($11.8 million) in federal subsidies and the requirement to cut €11 million ($12.9 million) in expenses due to...
Commercialization Of Frida Kahlo Has Gone Way Too Far, Says Her Grandniece
There is by now an untold variety of Frida merch, from watches to candles to tequila to home décor to a branded Miami condo...
Isaiah Zagar, Known For His Psychedelic Philadelphia Mosaics, Is Dead At 86
A self-taught mosaicist, Mr. Zagar used broken bottles, handmade tiles, mirrors, and other found objects to cover walls across the city, particularly in South...
