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Why Were Two Medieval Stained-Glass Panels From Notre-Dame Auctioned Off At Sotheby’s?
That's what French authorities are investigating. The two medallions were taken from the Paris cathedral during its last renovation, in 1862, and were sold...
Revisiting The Birth Of Drag As America Knows It Today
Queer historian Hugh Ryan describes the scene in Manhattan's then-cheap East Village, which started in the early 1980s as scrappy do-it-yourself performance art, was...
The Scrappy Independent Publisher That Established English As A Language Of Indian Literature
In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali)...
Inigo Philbrick’s Former Partner-In-Crime Reveals The Tricks They Used To Defraud Art Collectors
"Art dealer Robert Newland, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a massive fraud scheme with imprisoned dealer Inigo Philbrick, has just...
Belarus Free Theater Sets Up Shop In Warsaw To Help Out New Exiles
The company's co-founders fled the Lukashenko regime in 2011, settling in London and leading clandestine rehearsals in Minsk via Skype. Now that the rest...
Argentine Police Make “Historic Seizure” Of Nazi Propaganda And Shutter Local Publisher
"Argentina's Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during...
Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Next Artistic Director Is, For A Change, From New Zealand
After 11 years under three successive leaders from overseas — Ethan Stiefel, Francesco Ventriglia, and Patricia Barker — and a certain amount of discord...
Northern England’s Top Concert Hall Gets A New Name: The Glasshouse
"For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm...
Fox Corp. Sued By New York City And Oregon For Lies About 2020 Election
"New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the...
2023 Praemium Imperiale Goes To Marsalis, Eliasson, Celmins, Wilson, Kéré
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis,...
The Gilmore Artist Award, A Sort Of MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship For Pianists, Goes To...
The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can't be applied for, and candidates don't know they're being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago CEO Anthony Freud Announces Early Retirement
The company's fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud...
Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?
"This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that 'Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,' as (language...
1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life
"His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their...
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing...
"'Tragedy,' in drama, is concerned with suffering, but there's more to it than that. ... Individuals inherit fallout from events in the remote past,...
Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting...
"Barrymore was initially announced as host of the Nov. 15 (National Book Awards) in late July. Now, just days after some protested her decision...
The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave...
The purloined painting, says the art detective to whom it was returned, "was a little bit cursed." - The Guardian
The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille
"They may only be three but they are a horde. They are (La)Horde. … How did the threesome end up as artistic directors of...
Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia
"In one of the most significant repatriations of art to Cambodia from a private collection, the family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to...
Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director
"An ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company," Tarell Alvin McCraney "is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale...
Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of...
"(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably —...
The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s...
"The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he...
Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens
"The prestigious award for books, drama and music, which had previously been open to just US citizens, will now consider permanent residents of the...
The US Military’s Long History With Drag (Which The Pentagon Has Now Banned)
While soldier-led cross-dressing shows go as far back as the late 19th century, "drag in the military really took off during World War I...
The Real-Life Man Who Was, And Was Not, Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote that the autobiography of Josiah Henson was one of her...
