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After Months Of Domestic Pressure, Italy’s Government Slashes VAT On Art By 77%
“On Monday, the Italian government announced it will cut the country’s VAT on art sales from 22% — the highest in the European Union...
What Are “Italian Brain Rot Animals” And Why Are Young Adults Obsessed With Them?
They are memes generated by artificial intelligence and adored by Gen Alpha and the youngest of Gen Z — and if you’re older than...
Spain’s Supreme Court Orders Franco’s Heirs To Return Medieval Statues To Santiago De Compostela
The statues, from the city’s cathedral, became the city’s property in 1948 and were subsequently moved to Franco’s summer palace at his wife’s request....
American Conservatory Theater Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein Is Moving To Houston’s Alley Theatre
“Jennifer Bielstein is leaving her role after seven years on the job, opening one of the top leadership positions in Bay Area theater as...
How A Library Of Congress Specialist Wooed Stephen Sondheim To Donate His Papers
“When Stephen Sondheim visited the Library of Congress in 1993, he saw something that stopped him in his tracks. Mark Horowitz, a senior music...
Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” Is Pretty Much Always Timely. Why Isn’t It Staged More Often?
A military hero turned civilian leader, a rigid strongman, weaselly senators, demagoguery, class dynamics (not to mention an interfering mother) — these things are...
Inside BBC World Service’s First Experiment With AI Translation
The broadcaster has just launched the website BBC News Polska, for which a team of four native Polish speakers is curating material on global...
Indie Filmmakers Are Using California’s New Tax Credits As Studio Features Go Elsewhere
“Of the 48 titles selected to receive filming subsidies, only five are feature films, announced the California Film Commission on Monday. They account for...
Is Removing Cultural Appropriation From “La Bayadère” Even Possible? This Company’s Giving It A...
Dutch National Baller director Ted Brandsen: “Just as you don’t (simply) replace a Rembrandt with a new painting, you don’t let such wonderful ballet...
Athens’ Ancient Outdoor Theatre Gives Its Final Season Before Three-Year Renovation
“The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished tradition for many Greeks. But this edition...
New Hampshire Lawmakers Are Still Trying To Cut State Arts Budget To $1
“(Giv.) Ayotte had proposed a $16 billion two-year budget that included nearly $1 million annually for the arts council. ... But some legislators consider...
Sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, Master of The Bronze Sphere, Is Dead At 98
“Pomodoro’s massive spheres are instantly recognizable: shiny, smooth bronze globes with clawed out interiors that Pomodoro has said referred to the superficial perfection of...
High-Tech Storytelling Is All Over Broadway These Days
“Stages have been brimming with large-scale and high-resolution videos, deployed not simply for scenery but also as an integrated narrative tool. It is all...
There’s A Boom In Translated Fiction. A New Prize Aims To Give A Boost...
“(Three publishers) have launched the biennial Poetry in Translation prize, which will award an advance of $5,000 to be shared equally between poet and translator. The...
Alison Bechdel Explains Why Her New Graphic Novel Isn’t The Memoir She Had Planned
“It started out to be ... (a) serious memoir project about money and what it’s like to live in a capitalist system. … But...
David Finckel And Wu Han Will Step Down From Their Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo
The cellist-pianist couple, also co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, founded the Silicon Valley-based summer festival in 2002 and have...
Layoffs And Programming Cuts At Wisconsin Public Radio
“Faced with ongoing budget shortages and the possibility of federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio is laying off at least 15 staff members and...
English National Opera’s Next Music Director Will Also Take Helm At New Zealand Symphony
André de Ridder, currently music director of the opera house and orchestra in Freiburg, Germany, will start work at both ENO and NZSO in...
Miss Manners Weighs In On Female Orchestra Musicians’ Concert Attire
A Gentle Reader complains about the seeming informality of some all-black women’s attire on orchestral stages. Miss Manners replies, “Surely women musicians can find...
Bringing Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theater Into The 21st Century
Like its better-known counterparts in Bali and Java, the wayang kulit of Kelantan in northern Malaysia tells the stories of the Hindu epics Mahabharata...
Why Is Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” So Important? Because Of The Tricks It Plays On...
“A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas comprises a nesting doll of paradoxes that play with pictorial space to...
Ballet Shoe Company Faces One-Two Punch: Catastrophic Fire And High Tariffs
The pointe shoe manufacturer Virtisse, based near Philadelphia, saw its entire inventory — 25,000 pairs, worth over $3 million — literally go up in...
The Reason American Small-Town Newspapers Are Closing Isn’t Lack Of Money
As the only outlet covering their communities, these papers still have an audience willing to pay for them, and many of them are profitable....
Journalist William Langewiesche, “Master Of The White-Knuckle Narrative,” Has Died At 70
“A globe-trotting correspondent for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, … (he) worked as a commercial pilot before becoming one of...
“Golden Girls” Gossip: Bea Arthur And Betty White Despised Each Other
Said co-producer Marsha Posner Williams, “When that red light was on, there were no more professional people than those women, but when the red...
