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Eight Matisse Prints Stolen In Brazil
“In a daylight robbery on Sunday, two armed thieves stole eight prints by Henri Matisse and at least five engravings by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari from the...
Where Drag Meets The Viola (There’s A Joke In There Somewhere)
Stuck at home in Palo Alto with two parents who teach in Stanford’s music department, Ezra Costanza created the drag character Obsidienne Obsurd, a...
Ex-Director Of Dance At Kennedy Center Says Her Firing Wasn’t A Surprise
Jane Raleigh: “There was definitely an overarching feeling of waiting for the shoe to drop. I was committed to staying until I was removed,...
Pathé Will Return To Making English-Language Films
“French production and exhibition giant Pathé is looking to ‘re-launch’ its English-language film business with the appointment of FilmNation president of motion pictures Ben Browning as co-CEO of...
CEO Of Waterstone’s And Barnes & Noble Says They Would Sell AI-Authored Books (If...
“We as booksellers would naturally and instinctively disdain it,” said James Daunt, but “maybe it's going to produce the next War and Peace. And...
Star Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Jailed In Japan On Drug Charges
The 36-year-old author of the multiple-Tony-nominated Slave Play and current creative director of the Williamstown Theater Festival was arrested at the airport in Okinawa...
US Federal Grants To Museums And Libraries Restored Following Court Case
“The Institute of Museum and Library Services is reinstating all grants that were previously terminated by the Trump administration. A short statement posted on the...
London’s Barbican Centre To Get An Overhaul That Might Just Make It Easier To...
It will be a mammoth task, and a necessary one. The 43-year-old Brutalist landmark in central London has never been renovated, and its physical...
Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels Its Holiday Concerts
While next weekend’s classical programs are still scheduled, the orchestra’s Holiday Pops shows for the weekend before Christmas and its New Year’s Eve Gala...
Royal Shakespeare Company To Eliminate Its Music Department
As part of its company-wide layoffs, the RSC will terminate its entire live music staff and switch to using recorded music. - The Stage...
Netflix To Buy Warner Bros. Discovery For $82.7 Billion
“The deal has a total enterprise value (including debt) of approximately $82.7 billion, with an equity value of $72 billion, the companies said. The...
Pantone’s 2026 Color Of The Year Is … White?
Well, Pantone is calling it “Cloud Dancer” and describing it with a lot of verbiage that strains credibility, but yes, it is white. As...
Now Bollywood Has A Rival For The Spotlight In India’s Enormous Movie Industry
Bollywood, based in Bombay/Mumbai and producing movies in Hindi, has always been the center of India’s cinematic universe. Yet there are centers of filmmaking...
Ailey Company Launches Its First Season Under Director Alicia Graf Mack
Mack, who did two stints as a principal dancer with the company (and got a master’s degree in-between), says her vision is to balance...
“The Picasso Of India” Finally Has A Dedicated Museum — In Qatar
“More than a decade after his death, the Indian Modernist M.F. Husain is getting the monumental tribute he long imagined. Qatar” — where he...
Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Says He’ll Go Home To Iran Despite Latest Prison Sentence
On Monday, while in New York to accept three Gotham Awards for his latest film, It Was Just an Accident, Panahi was sentenced to...
New York Times’s New Chief Theater Critic: Helen Shaw Of The New Yorker
“The (Times) has been publishing reviews by a number of writers since predecessor Jesse Green was reassigned earlier this year. That list notably did not include...
Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi To Retire After 44 Years
The conductor joined the company back in 1982 and helped build it into an impressive operation for a city of Sarasota’s size and a...
Bringing The Musical-Theater Version Of “La Cage Aux Folles” Home To Paris
The property was born in the French capital, first as a play, then as a hit film (followed later by the big US remake)....
Whistleblower Alleges That CEO Of Chicago’s Black History Museum Misused Funds, Abused Staff
The now-former vice president of education and programs at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center is suing the institution and its CEO, Perri...
A Great Big New Film Studio In A Grim New Jersey Brownfield?
Hedge fund manager Arki Busson is hoping to ride a wave in production studio construction generated by state-government subsidies. His goal: 1888 Studios, the...
World’s Third-Busiest Public Library Faces Job Cuts, Accusations Of “Digital Vanity Projects”
The State Library of Victoria in Melbourne is Australia’s busiest, yet a restructuring is eliminating 39 jobs — including reducing the number of public-facing...
Two More Of Abu Dhabi’s Extravagant New Museums Have Opened
The Zayed National Museum, designed by Norman Foster’s architecture firm, is one of the five museums planned for Saadiyat Island, the emirate’s purpose-built cultural...
The Takács Quartet To Lose Its Last Founding Member
Cellist András Fejér has been with the famed string quartet since its founding exactly 50 years ago. As of next September, Fejér will retire;...
How Did The Ancient Assyrian Library Of King Ashurbanipal Survive For 2,600 Years?
Oddly enough, the collection —well, the cuneiform clay tablets, not the papyrus — has come down to us today precisely because the Babylonians and...
