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A Tally Of Cultural Sites In Ukraine Destroyed Or Damaged By Russian Attacks
"Since the invasion in February, The New York Times's Visual Investigations team has been tracking evidence of cultural destruction across Ukraine. ... These documented...
Garth Drabinsky Adds Antitrust Claims To His Countersuit Against Actos’ Equity Over “Paradise Square”
"This summer, Actors' Equity Association filed lawsuits against a Paradise Square producing entity in both state and federal court. ... After those lawsuits were...
Did Britain’s National Gallery Just Completely Botch A Painting Restoration?
Oh, no, not another Beast Jesus! Piero della Francesca's The Nativity (ca. 1470-75) is back on display after three years with the conservators. There's...
What’s In The New Actors’ Equity Broadway Contract
"(The just-ratified agreement) provides pay increases for those working on Broadway and, in a move prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, allows producers to make...
Here’s One Country Where Putin-Supporting Russian Performers Are Still Invited
"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these...
An Ancient Grammar Mystery Is Solved, Clarifying A 2,500-Year-Old “Language Machine”
In ancient India, the grammarian Pāṇini developed a set of rules that basically constitute an algorithm, allowing any word or phrase to be coined...
How Allen Ginsberg Caused Gail Collins To Organize A Pro-Gay Rights, Anti-Censorship Rally In...
The future New York Times columnist met the Beat poet and invited him to come to her college to speak. Then the dean of...
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Inventor Of The Moog Synthesizer, Is Dead At 90
"(He) collaborated with engineer Robert Moog in the 1960s to invent a portable synthesizer that revolutionized the sound of rock, classical and other forms...
How On Earth Do These People Improvise A Shakespeare-Style Play On The Spot?
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy,...
Rare Early Self-Portrait Of Cézanne Discovered Underneath Still Life
Cincinnati Museum of Art chief conservator Serena Urry was inspecting the artist's Still Life with Bread and Eggs this past spring when she saw...
The Museum Of Sex Will Open Its First Satellite Branch In Miami
"Bringing to mind the oft-debated adage 'bigger is better,' the Miami institution, which will occupy a repurposed warehouse in the city's Allapattah district, will...
The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2022
The list is broken out into the top 20 large communities and the top 10 each of medium-sized and small communities. Because of the...
NPR Cancels Next Year’s Summer Internship Program
"(The decision comes) amid $10 million in budget cuts, close to 3% of NPR's annual budget, linked to an anticipated $20 million decline in...
Wales’s Leading Concert Hall To Be Leased To Private Operator
A committee of Cardiff's city council has approved in principle an operating lease of St. David's Hall — which hosts the BBC National Symphony...
The Metropolitan Opera Is Back Online
"The website was restored at around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, and ticket sales have resumed after more than a week of chaos. Met Opera...
How George Balanchine Made Classical Ballet American
Jennifer Homans: "He was absorbing modernism from Europe and interest in the motorcar, the airplane, the train, the speed, ... the idea that there...
“Flimsy, Paper-Thin Architecture Held Together With Tape”: The Guardian’s Architecture Critic Has At The...
"The ruptured, splintered aesthetic goes beyond the sculptural moves alone. Sheets of buckled steel are screwed crookedly against the edge of the undulating façade,...
Every Autumn, Madrid Is Littered With Sculpture Knockoffs Of “Las Meninas”, And Madrileños Are...
"The fifty figures scattered throughout the city include a Menina Wonder Woman, a military Menina, a Menina painted with skulls, another wrapped in aluminum,...
For The First Time, There’s Sondheim, In Spanish, In Spain, Courtesy Of Antonio Banderas
In 2019, in his hometown of Málaga, Banderas founded a nonprofit company called Teatro del Soho to produce musicals more serious than the blockbuster...
Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To...
Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office. Lula wasted no time...
Despite Its Paralyzed Box Office, The Met Opera Keeps Going, And Audience Members Keep...
A week after the cyberattack which has paralyzed its ticketing and payroll operations, the company has not missed a single performance. And with its...
The Long HarperCollins Strike Will Have A Real Effect On What Books People Get...
"The outcome of the strike, which began Nov. 10, ... may have a ripple effect on jobs across the publishing industry. Its impact may...
Warner Bros. Discovery Expects To Write Off $3.5 Billion-With-a-B In Content Costs
"The company said it now expects to incur total pre-tax restructuring charges" — that is, charges related to the merger of Warner Bros. and...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Offshoot, With The Winner Chosen By Prison...
"Some prisons have organized their own literary prizes, but the inmates' Goncourt" — Goncourt des détenus, as it's called in French — "is unprecedented...
English National Opera Will “Definitely” Move Out Of London, Says CEO
Following the stern directive from Arts Council England, the government funder, to leave the capital, "(Stuart) Murphy said he had been contacted by MPs...
