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After 50 Years, Grammy Category For Best Album Cover Is Back
“In recent years, covers had been assessed as part of the best recording package category, which considers all physical materials and images. … Recording Academy...
Every Hub Of Street Dance Has Its Homegrown Styles. Check Out These Examples From...
“The New York Times invited cast members of American Street Dancer to demonstrate the fundamentals of Detroit Jit, Chicago Footwork and Philly GQ.” -...
At Paris Opera, Semyon Bychkov Will Succeed Gustavo Dudamel As Music Director
“The 73-year-old Bychkov agreed to a four-year contract (starting in August 2028) and will conduct two operas and six symphonic concerts per season, (general...
Béla Tarr, Prizewinning Maker Of Darkly Comic Films, Is Dead At 70
“Tarr became internationally in the ‘90s and ‘00s as his films” — among them Sátántangó and Werckmeister Harmonies — “were shown more widely, partly...
Somebody Stole The Sword Right Out From A Joan Of Arc Statue’s Hand
“The incident occurred on Monday morning, when the man approached the monument in Paris’s 8th arrondissement — with Joan of Arc dramatically riding a...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Has Officially Dissolved
“The nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations … announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted...
As Far As Congress Is Concerned, It’s Still The Kennedy Center
“A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing...
After Holiday Pause, Strike At Louvre Is On Again
“The strike initially launched last month was suspended over the festive period, but staff have now voted overwhelmingly to walkout over working conditions leaving...
Two Notables Harshly Criticized Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” — So He Painted Them Into It
Biagio da Cesena, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, and Venetian satirist Pietro Aretino hated the fact that Michelangelo was putting so many naked people...
A Hudson River School Painting On Public View For The First Time In 152...
In 1873, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway was taken to London by its commissioner. It remained overseas until last year,...
China Threatens To Jail Anyone Who Performs, Listens To, Or Shares Uyghur Songs
During a meeting in the historic Uyghur city of Kashgar in October, authorities warned residents that performing, playing, uploading onto social media, or storing...
Māori Vogue Balls Hit The Mainstream In New Zealand
The voguing scene, led by Māori (indigenous New Zealanders) and immigrants from the Pacific islands, only got started in the country about a decade...
Like “The Vandals In Rome”: Senators Investigate How MAGA Allies Are “Looting” Kennedy Center
Led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Democrats on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee say they’ve obtained documents suggesting that the Center is...
Australia’s Capital Will Finally Get A Big-City-Sized Performing Arts Center
“The new (2,000-seat) theatre will allow Canberra to host major national and international theatre productions that currently don’t visit Canberra because our 1965-built Canberra...
If We Want More People To Read, We Should Tell Them That Reading Is...
“This would be a more effective way to attract young people, and it also happens to be true. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists...
Rightist Politicians Instigate Parliamentary Inquiry On Impartiality Of France’s National Broadcaster
“The UDR party, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, set up the inquiry amid far-right claims that public TV and radio has...
Russia Reopens Theater It Bombed Out In Occupied Ukrainian City
“Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater (in Mariupol) with a gala concert on the building’s new main stage...
Janet Fish, Dead At 87, Painted Radiant Still Lifes As The Art World Favored...
“As rendered by Fish, bottles of window-cleaning fluid, jars of honey, plastic-wrapped trays of fruit, and glass vases bursting with flowers appeared to glow...
Historic Amsterdam Church Destroyed In New Year’s Eve Fire
The Vondelkerk, a 154-year-old Gothic Revival church which had been deconsecrated and run as a concert and events venue in recent years, ignited shortly...
Artnet’s “The Worst Art We Saw In 2025”
By no means is all of this bad art actually from 2025, though a fair bit of it is. In fact, one choice (this...
The Return Of Scott Rudin Was One Of Broadway’s Big Surprises Of 2025
Even four years after his decades-long, widely-gossiped-about abuse of his employees was publicly exposed and he was cancelled, few observers were expecting him to...
2025’s Big Art World Controversies
The (let’s say) unfortunate ways in which the Louvre’s inadequate security and deteriorating physical plant were revealed, a major gallery abruptly shutting down, two...
Six Ways To Dance Like A Shaker In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall lays out the half-dozen movements which were most important to the film’s dance sequences — and recounts how those movements changed...
The American Publishing Industry’s Tumultuous 2025
Much of the tumult came from the Trump White House, some more of it came from local and state officeholders banning particular books from...
LitHub’s 50 Biggest Literary Stories Of 2025
A book prize was "paused" when half the nominees dropped out because they objected to another nominee, Reading Rainbow came back, Salman Rushdie’s attacker...
