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Cleveland Museum Of Art Sues Manhattan DA To Get Its $20 Million Roman Statue...
"The museum has filed suit against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over the August seizure of “Draped Male Figure,” which has been part of the...
Vincent Patrick, Author Of “The Pope Of Greenwich Village”, Is Dead At 88
"The son of a Bronx pool-hall owner and numbers runner, Mr. Patrick was raised in a milieu sprinkled with the grifters, hustlers and mobsters...
So Just What Is This $150 Million Offer George Clooney Made (And The Union...
The heart of the offer, also backed by Scarlett Johannson, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry and others, is to remove the cap on actors' pay...
The UK’s Best New Building: A Retirement Community In London Wins The 2023 Stirling...
"In its arrangement of spaces, carefully judged details and tactile material qualities, (the John Morden Centre) is a model for how to create a...
Misadventures In Museum Marketing: Van Gogh Museum Drops Its Pokémon Cards, Victims Of Their...
"Pokémon-hungry crowds descended upon the museum for the van Gogh–inspired merchandise that placed the brand’s most popular creatures in the context of van Gogh’s...
Arabic, Even Classical Arabic, Has A Rich Vocabulary Of The Erotic. It’s Been Erased...
Ahmed Naji, the only writer in Egypt ever to be sent to prison for the crime of offending public morality: "These words haven’t vanished...
At 89, What Keeps Wole Soyinka Going Strong? Being A “Closet Masochist”
“I should be slowing down, I know, but each time I try to slow down something happens, and I have to get on the...
The Nine-Year, £240 Million Journey To Opening Manchester’s Big New Arts Center
"When the venture was first announced in December 2014 ... the building was due to be called the Factory." Now the organization running it...
The Power Of 100 Black Orchestral Musicians On One Stage: The Gateways Festival At...
The event began in 1993 as a three-day symposium in North Carolina: "Gateways: Classical Music and the Black Musician." Now based in Rochester, the...
The Guardian Fires A Longtime Cartoonist For An Ill-Considered Panel About The Gaza War
This isn't the first of Steve Bell's cartoons to draw accusations of anti-Semitic imagery in 40 years with The Guardian, but it could be...
Another Prominent New York Dealer Charged With Trafficking Stolen Antiquities
"A recent announcement by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of the return of 19 antiquities to Italy disclosed charges against veteran New York antiquities...
Italy’s Ruling Party Is Doing To RAI What The Tories Are Trying To Do...
Deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini announced that the annual license fee that supports the country's national broadcaster (as with the BBC) will be cut...
Netflix’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Really Is Working
"Netflix on Wednesday disclosed summertime subscriber gains that surpassed industry analysts’ projections, signaling the video streaming service’s crackdown on password sharing is converting former...
The Most Produced Playwrights of America’s 2023-24 Season (Excepting Shakespeare)
For the second year running, Lynn Nottage tops the list, which includes nine women out of 20. (Lauren Gunderson, once the perennial leader, is...
America’s Ten (Really Twelve) Most Produced Plays Of The 2023-24 Season
For those who keep count, works by female creators make up almost half the list (definitely half if you count Carole King), and three...
Hillary And Malala Are Co-Producing A Broadway Musical About Suffragettes
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely...
La Scala Opens Its New 17-Story Tower, Designed By Mario Botta
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets,...
Can This New Director Stabilize Germany’s Biggest, And Most Beleaguered, Ballet Company?
The Staatsballett Berlin, an amalgamation of three pre-1989 companies, went through three artistic directorships in less than a decade while also dealing with recalcitrant...
How Far Apart Are SAG-AFTRA And The Studios? Nearly Half A Billion Dollars
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture...
How The Scholastic Book Fair Made Itself A Target For Both Sides In The...
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic...
The Very Meticulous, Very Determined Architect Of The New Arts Center At Ground Zero
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard...
Royal Albert Hall’s Archive Rescued From Flood Damage In £1 Million Project
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of...
Cairo Film Festival Is Canceled
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of...
Barnes & Noble Is Reviving Business By Dropping Something Chains Almost Never Drop: Visual...
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James...
Half A Dozen More Stolen Paintings Get Delivered To Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to...
