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Here’s A Possibility: Replacing Looted Items In Museums With State-Of-The-Art Replicas
"When the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia repatriated a Bakor monolith to Nigeria at the end of June, … it received an almost identical...
Israel’s Most Controversial Play Is Revived For The First Time Since 1970
"Hanoch Levin's Queen of a Bathtub, … a musical that used satire to attack perceived militarism, self-righteousness and racism in the aftermath of Israel's...
Though Ravaged By The Pandemic And Real Estate, The Bay Area’s Flamenco Scene Hangs...
More than two years without performances or paying students, combined with soaring costs for both renters and owners, drove several of the senior figures...
Antonio Stradivari’s Home And Workshop Have Reopened
"Budding luthiers and young musicians can now get a step closer to the master by honing their skills in his original house and workshop,...
Arts Groups Are Aghast At The Possibility Of Tearing Down San Diego Civic Theatre
"If it goes away" as part of a major downtown redevelopment proposed by City Hall, "so too does the prospect of seeing, within county...
The License Fee Is Regressive, And Rich People Should Pay More For The BBC,...
"The 'regressive' licence fee system could be replaced by a tax on broadband bills or a household levy based on property value, Richard Sharp...
The Billionaire Who Bought The San Diego Union-Tribune To Save It Is Now Selling...
Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times in 2018, promising to invest in the papers the way Jeff Bezos did in...
The Netherlands Is Returning Hundreds Of Looted Items To Indonesia And Sri Lanka
"Objects (returned include) the 'Lombok treasure,' consisting of 335 objects from Lombok, Indonesia, the Pita Maha collection, a key collection of modern art from...
Overrun By Tourists, The Acropolis Imposes Limits On Visitors For The First Time
"Unprecedented queues at the foot of the site ... and unruly scenes at the gateway to the sanctuary have spurred the Greek government to...
A Talk With Yasuhisa Toyota, The Great Concert-Hall Acoustician
The man responsible for the sound at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, and the...
A March On City Hall For Arts Funding (!)
In Bristol, England, cultural organizations expected to have their upcoming grants from the local government confirmed by the end of last October; now, they're...
England’s Libraries Generate At Least £3.4 Billion In Economic Activity Every Year: Study
"Libraries in England generate at least £3.4 billion in value a year through services supporting children's literacy, digital inclusion and health, a study has...
Those Unknown Rembrandts Discovered This Past Spring Have Sold For $14.2 Million
"A pair of previously unknown and 'exceptionally rare' portraits by Rembrandt sold for over £11.2 million ($14.2 million) Thursday after they were discovered in...
“Here Lies Love”, The Imelda Marcos Disco Musical? Filipino-Americans Have Feelings About It
For immigrants, it's seeing their own history on a Broadway stage; for their children, it's a major lesson. ("Growing up, the only thing I...
Does The Karaoke Disco Musical About Imelda Marcos “Trivialize The Suffering Of Millions Of...
"Here's what to know about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, the People Power Revolution of 1986 and the controversies the show" — Here Lies Love,...
ABT’s Gabe Stone Shayer Publicly Calls Out The Company For Seeing Him As Black...
"Nothing bothered me more than being cast in Lifted, a 'groundbreaking' show designed to feature only ABT's Black dancers. … I trained to be...
Cultural Centers Are Burned, Bombed, And Looted In Sudan’s Savage Civil War
Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings...
On The First Day Of Threads, 30 Million Users Signed Up. Could The New...
"Threads, the latest of Meta's copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. …...
Mario Vargas Llosa Is In The Hospital With COVID (Again)
The 87-year-old Nobel-winning novelist was hospitalized on July 1 in Madrid. This is his second bout of the respiratory illness. - CNN
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Selects An Alum As Artistic Director
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds...
William Byrd: The Remarkable Life And Music Of Elizabeth I’s Favorite Composer
For years he managed the tricky business of remaining a committed Catholic at Elizabeth's Protestant court before settling in a rural haven. He wrote...
Four Leading Composers On How William Byrd’s 400-Year-Old Music Influences Their Work
Comments from Caroline Shaw, James MacMillan ("Classical music audiences tend to forget about the pre-Baroque, and it's a pity because William Byrd is one...
Wayne Sleep At 75: How The Little Firecracker Of British Ballet Became A Major...
He was a virtuoso, able to match any jump by Nureyev or Baryshnikov (and he worked with both). But, at 5'2", he'd never dance...
Another Casualty Of The Shrinking Of Dance Criticism: US Work Visas For International Dancers
Part of the stack of paperwork required for an O-1 visa is evidence that the dancer or ensemble applying possesses "extraordinary ability." Reviews from...
Here’s Stable Work That Will Use Your Studio Art MFA: Custom-Designing Corporate Artworks
"In the firms that cater to mid-market developments, art-school graduates spend their days pumping out huge volumes of the kind of innocuous work a...
