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Venice Renews And Expands Day-Tripper Entry Fee
“Visitors who download a QR code at least three days in advance will pay €5 — the same amount charged last year throughout the...
Kronos Quartet Has New Violinist And Violist For First Time In 47 Years
“The annual Kronos Festival … introduces the Bay Area to the quartet’s latest incarnation, with violist Ayane Kozasa and violinist Gabriela Díaz taking over...
Chief “60 Minutes” Producer Resigns, Saying His Independence Is Threatened
“In a memo obtained by CNN, (Bill) Owens said to 60 Minutes staff that the last few months have made it clear that he...
Judge Temporarily Halts Trump Order To Shut Down Voice Of America
“Judge Royce C. Lamberth … wrote that the administration's decision to dismantle the agency was ‘arbitrary and capricious. … Not only is there an absence...
Pawn Shop Owner In L.A. Charged With Trying To Sell Stolen Warhol
“Glenn Steven Bednarsh, 58, has been charged with knowingly buying a stolen Warhol trial proof depicting Soviet Union leader Vladimir Lenin in February 2021...
Woman Sues Kehinde Wiley For Sexual Assault
Artist Ogechi Chieke sued under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, filing the day before the window closed. The suit claims...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Pays A Little Visit To The National Gallery Of Art
“Members of the U.S. DOGE Service met with National Gallery of Art leadership Thursday, ... signaling that cuts or other changes may be on...
The Debut Of Climate-Protesting Ballet Vandals
At opening night of New York City Ballet’s spring season, as the dancers performed Balanchine, a woman began yelling from a balcony, “We’re in...
Is There A Future For Scots Gaelic?
“What was until the 14th century the primary language of Scotland was, in the 2022 census, spoken by 2.5% of the population (up from...
Medieval Cathedral Puts A Spotlight On Its Centuries’ Worth Of Graffiti
“You don’t notice them at first. ... But once the marks carved into the stonework of Salisbury Cathedral by centuries of pilgrims, churchgoers and mischief-makers are...
Academy Makes New Rule: No Voting In An Oscar Category Unless You’ve Seen All...
That wasn’t a rule already? No, it wasn’t, except for Best Foreign-Language Film (now Best International Feature Film) and Best Documentary Feature; otherwise, things were...
What’s Left Of Palmyra After Syria’s 13-Year Civil War
“The scale and beauty of the site still impress, although some of the showcase monuments are so badly damaged that it is hard to...
Bucking The Trends, Houston Grand Opera Is Growing
“With many opera companies in a doom loop of shrinkage caused by rising costs and stagnant (or worse) earnings, Houston has proved an exception....
Immersive Wall Street Play By “Sleep No More” Creators Shuts Down Without Warning
“Life and Trust, an immersive follow up to Sleep No More from the producing team Emursive, closed abruptly on April 19 after beginning performances in the summer of...
A New Opera About A Historic Supreme Court Case, Directed By Denyce Graves
“This month, Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony will present the world premiere of composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo’s Loving v. Virginia,...
Chuck Connelly, Neo-Expressionist Artist, Dead At 70
“(He was) known for his thick applications of paint and his furious brushstrokes … (and) an uncompromising personality; (his) paintings depicted scenes like Noah’s...
Meet The Attorney Whom Trump Tasked With Weeding Out “Improper Ideology” From The Smithsonian
“Lindsey Halligan, 35, is a Trump attorney who seems to have tasked herself as a sort of commissioner — or expurgator, according to critics...
U.S. House Members Urge Vice President Vance To Halt Overhaul Of Smithsonian
Four Democratic members of the House committee overseeing the institution wrote, “we now stand at the brink of seeing the Smithsonian at its worst:...
Two More Ex-Dancers Sue Shen Yun
“Two former dancers … filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the group of amassing a financial fortune and worldwide renown by subjecting an ‘army...
An Evening In The Life Of A “Drunk Shakespeare” Star
“Marissa Chaffee starts her shift by housing a Five Guys burger with pickles, mustard and ketchup. … Later tonight, she’ll chug (a "Witches' Brew")...
Ambient Music? An Online Archive Of Soundscapes From The Environment
“The Sonic Heritage project is a collection of 270 sounds from 68 countries, including from famous UNESCO-designated sites such as Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal,...
All San Francisco Is Arguing About The 45-Foot Nude Woman, And That’s Wonderful
Supporters agree that “R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane represents “feminine strength and liberation.” Critics complain that it’s just more of the male gaze and...
New York Public Radio’s “New Sounds” Saved From Cancellation For Second Time In Six...
The 43-year-old show, which has had a profound hold on New York’s new-music scene, was first slated for cancellation, evidently for non-budgetary reasons, in...
George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Sets New Record As Highest-Ever-Grossing Broadway Play
“The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play...
“Phantom” Is Coming Back To New York, Says Andrew Lloyd Webber, But Not To...
“In a new Instagram video – watch it below – Lloyd Webber, pretending to speak for the Phantom character, says that the musical is...
