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The Louvre Will Reduce The Number Of Visitors It Admits By A Third
"The Louvre in Paris, the world's most well-attended museum, will now limit the number of daily visitors to 30,000 'in order to facilitate a...
Ailing Daniel Barenboim Steps Down From The Job He’s Had For 30 Years
Following a three-month hiatus from conducting due to a neurological condition, Barenboim announced that he'll retire as general music director of the Berlin State...
The High-Tech Wizard Of Biblical-Era Manuscripts
"(Michael Langlois's) approach, which combines the close linguistic and paleographical analysis of ancient writings with advanced scientific tools … can sometimes make long-gone inscriptions...
A Revival Of Morse Code Is Putting The Digit Back In Digital Communication
"Strangely enough, while the number of ham operators is declining globally, it's growing in the United States, as is Morse code, by all accounts....
Bachtrack’s Annual Classical Muic Statistics Show Most-Performed Works, Composers, Busiest Artists, Etc. For 2022
Among the surprises: nearly a fifth of the 100 most-performed works were written after 1918, and topping the entire list is Ravel's La Valse....
Turns Out One Of The More Controversial Russian Oligarchs Is, Behind The Scenes, A...
A wrongful termination lawsuit against production company New Republic Pictures by its founder has revealed that billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev — major art collector, soccer...
More Theater Companies Consider Moving Away From The Traditional Artistic Director Model
Lily Janiak looks at the situation in the Bay Area, where small companies in particular have had trouble hiring or retaining ADs — the...
Paris’s Rodin Museum Abandons Its Unpopular Plan To Build A Satellite in The Canary...
"The Rodin Museum in Paris has scrapped its controversial €16 million (roughly $17 million) project to build an outpost in Santa Cruz de Tenerife...
Archaeologists Unearth Massive 1,000-Year-Old Viking Hall
"Archaeologists digging in the village of Hune in Denmark have discovered the remains of a vast Viking hall — what they're calling the 'largest...
Academic Freedom Wars Continue After Professor Is Fired For Showing Students Images Of Muhammad...
The incident happened in a virtual art history class at Hamline University in Minnesota last fall: the professor gave his students advance warning before...
San Francisco’s Basement Performance Venues Flooded By Repeated Storms
"As with the historic storm that pummeled the Bay Area over New Year's weekend, the outside world doesn't always stay outside. Now flooded venues...
Turns Out Alexei Ratmansky Is Leaving ABT To Go To New York City Ballet
Two weeks ago, the world's most admired living ballet choreographer announced that he's ending his 13 years as artist in residence at American Ballet...
UK Government Abandons Plan To Privatize Channel Four
"The decision represents a dramatic U-turn by Rishi Sunak's Conservative government to that of Boris Johnson, which was forging ahead with privatization proposals last...
Defunding Of English National Opera Was A “Politically Motivated Stunt”, Says Ex-Culture Minister Under...
Nadine Dorries tweeted that she's been "blamed for lazy, politically motivated decision making at (Arts Council England), who … pulled this as a stunt...
ABT Director Susan Jaffe On How She Programs A Season
In this video interview, Jaffe talks with Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema about inspiration, engagement, production, and creating or incubating new works. -...
How A 38-Year-Old Don DeLillo Novel Nails The 2020s
"While White Noise is intentionally specific to 1985, the tendencies described have only intensified. … The same tensions DeLillo mined so eloquently still grip...
Live Performances Of Podcasts Are Attracting Huge Audiences
"Compared with 2013, the number of events has gone up by 2,000%, no doubt helped along in the past year by the COVID-driven rise...
The First Published Black Composer Is Enjoying A Renaissance After More Than 400 Years...
Until 2020, very few music fans had heard of Vicente Lusitano; even those music history scholars knew him only for a treatise and a...
50 Years Of Ms. Magazine, Remembered Year By Year
"Ms. Magazine was a brazen act of independence when it launched 50 years ago. First introduced to the world as an insert in New...
“The Lion King” Just Had The Most Lucrative Week Of Any Broadway Show Ever
"Last week, Disney's The Lion King grossed $4,315,264 in ticket sales, which is the most any Broadway show has ever made from a single...
Fay Weldon, Author, Screenwriter, And Unorthodox Feminist, Is Dead At 91
"A polemicist whose opinions shaped themselves around the plot of her latest book, a pragmatist who giggled her way through every sentence, she was...
Ten Years Of The Prototype Festival, New York’s Hotbed Of Award-Winning Chamber Opera
Founded in 2013 during what had been the slow weeks of mid-January, Prototype — which has already produced two operas that went on to...
The Philly Pops Is Working On A Plan To Save Itself
"Citing public dismay at news that the Philly Pops would shut down at the end of this season, leaders of the group have reversed...
British Museum Confirms That It’s Negotiating An Arrangement To Return The Parthenon Marbles To...
"'We've said publicly, we're actively seeking a new Parthenon partnership with our friends in Greece and as we enter a new year constructive discussions...
The Icelandic Language Is Full Of Scots And Irish Gaelic, Argues Researcher
"A book by Thorvaldur Fridriksson, an Icelandic archaeologist and journalist, argues that Gaelic-speaking Celtic settlers from Ireland and western Scotland had a profound impact...
