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Rumors Are Flying That A Right-Wing Journalist Will Be Made President Of The Venice...
No announcement has been made, and the current president remains eligible for a second contract term. Nevertheless, several Italian newspapers report that author/broadcaster Pietrangelo...
Free Luxury Housing For The Director: A Perk That Major Cultural Institutions Are Starting...
Many large organizations, such as the Met Museum, have owned condos or houses that they provide to their CEOs rent- and tax-free, as both...
Reviving Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” On An Actual Beach
"The glittering scene seemed like a dream. Surveying the shoreline of Rockaway Beach on a recent morning, Patricia Lent, from the Merce Cunningham Trust,...
A Bio-Musical About Hunter S. Thompson? Now That’s A Gonzo Idea.
And it's not called Fear and Loathing, either. In fact, its title is The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, it's premiering next week...
This Bespoke Video Message Service Is Helping Actors Earn A Bit Of Money During...
"Cameo, which allows celebrities to send personalized video messages to fans for a fee, … has seen a notable uptick of new talent onboarding...
Behold The World’s Best New Public Library
"A Barcelona library specialising in Latin American literature has been named the best new public library in the world by the International Federation of...
This Ukrainian City Named Its Museum After A Still-Beloved Local Hero. But He Was...
Yukhym Prigozhin was a mining engineer who helped make the city of Zhovti Vody prosperous. But his brother's grandson grew up to be the...
Arts Groups In Texas Are Confused And Worried About The State’s New It’s-Not-Just-Anti-Drag-Anymore Law
When specific reference to drag in the bill, known as SB 12, attracted national criticism, it was redrafted to cover "sexually-oriented performance" — defined...
Edith Wharton’s Never-Produced Play Is Finally Having Its Premiere
She wrote The Shadow of a Doubt in 1901 and came close to seeing it staged briefly on Broadway, only for the project to...
LACMA Finally Meets The Fundraising Goal For Its New Building That’s Already Half-Finished
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that it has exceeded the $750-million goal set for its fundraising campaign for a...
Woman Who Fatally Shoved Broadway Singing Coach Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter
Lauren Pazienza, 28, acknowledged throwing 87-year-old Barbara Maier Gustern, a beloved teacher and performer, onto a Manhattan sidewalk and then walking away in March...
John Eliot Gardiner Punched A Singer In The Face Because He Walked Off The...
After conducting two acts of Berlioz's Les Troyens at a festival in France, Gardiner allegedly berated bass William Thomas, slapped and then punched him,...
Jackass Tourists Paint Graffiti On Vasari Corridor In Florence
The Carabinieri have identified two German tourists in their early 20s as the alleged culprits who spray-painted letters and numbers associated with a Munich...
NBCUniversal Is Facing A Big, And Dramatic, Lawsuit Over Its Reality Shows
In a warning letter, two attorneys allege that "NBC has exceeded the moral and legal limits permissible in a civilized society … (with) a...
This Art-Dealing Dynasty Is Even More Filthy Rich Than Anyone Knew — For Now
The Wildensteins' business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by...
Yes, Indie Bookstores Can Help Change The World, Especially Now
Josh Cook: "People use books to develop their morals, support and test their belief structures, come to conclusions about the state of the world,...
“We Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Neofascist Revival”: Is The Directorship...
Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government is replacing the directors at the country's landmark museums — a number of which, such as the Uffizi, have highly...
Remember Choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s “No Manifesto”? She Didn’t Really Mean It.
The 1965 declaration was absolutist: "No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe ... no to moving or being...
Belfast’s Arts Center Could Be Shut Down Due To Financial And Management Troubles
Northern Ireland's state arts funding body is reportedly reconsidering its support of the Metropolitan Arts Centre in the province's capital. MAC — which includes...
“Fleabag” Has Been Casting A Long Shadow — Too Long — Over Women At...
"For a long time critics couldn't stop talking about the 'next Fleabag' in a way that may have been constraining for other women writing...
How Do You Translate A Musical Like “Chicago” Into Arabic?
You transpose it to Beirut. It was a complicated endeavor, especially (given the huge differences between Arabic and English) for the songs. But it...
Should We Just Drop The NC-17 Rating Altogether?
"(The film) Passages and its battle with the ratings system (are) another flash point in a long-running argument. ... Many question the value of...
Pew Research Center Runs The Numbers On US Radio Listenership
"First and foremost, the firm notes that approximately eight-in-ten Americans (12+) listen to broadcast radio weekly. Weekly listening to radio has remained relatively steady...
They’re Called Haptic Suits, And They Let Deaf People (And Others) Experience Music As...
"Developed by the Philadelphia-based company Music: Not Impossible, the device consists of two ankle bands, two wrist bands and a backpack that fastens with...
Is The Market Power Of BookTok Starting To Fade?
"But a new analysis by BookScan shows that BookTok's effect on sales is diminishing. The most notable sign of that softening came in July,...
