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UK’s National Gallery To Undertake Half-Billion-Dollar Expansion
“Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping £375 million ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first...
How Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Actually Work (A Brief Guide)
For instance, before the Rosetta Stone, scholars had assumed the symbols were ideographs or pictographs. Were they, in fact, phonetic symbols? Turned out that...
California Shakespeare’s Former Home May Soon Have A New Tenant Putting On Shows
The landlord of the Bruns Amphitheater, where Cal Shakes performed from 1991 until it closed last year, is negotiating a 15-year lease with a...
Cranach Portrait Of Salome, Decapitated 88 Years Ago, Has Been Re-Capitated
By 1937, the 16th-century portrait of King Herod’s stepdaughter with the head of John the Baptist was considered “unbearable for refined people,” so a...
Sculptor Robert Grosvenor, Who Helped Pioneer Minimalism And Then Moved Beyond It, Has Died...
“Grosvenor gained acclaim in New York during the 1960s when he showed his work alongside famed Minimalists. … But the sculptures made by Grosvenor...
Startup Will Use AI To Reconstruct Orson Welles’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”
“Amazon-backed (firm) Showrunnner announced a new AI model designed to generate long, complex narratives — ultimately building toward feature-film-length, live-action films — for its...
PBS Has Cut 15% Of Its Staff Positions
The job losses, totaling nearly 100, include the layoff of 34 current staffers and the elimination of more than 60 vacant positions. The move...
Barnes & Noble To Acquire Bay Area Mini-Chain Books Inc.
“Books Inc. is seeking bankruptcy court approval to be acquired by Barnes & Noble for $3.25 million. The privately held company, which filed for voluntary...
Trump Wants Federal Takeover Of 9/11 Museum And Memorial
“(Two White House) officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions have been preliminary and exploratory, and it was unclear exactly...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Authorize Strike
“(The move) escalat(es) a bitter contract dispute just weeks before the orchestra is set to open its new season. The vote, announced Thursday, Sept. 4, allows...
St. Louis Symphony Musicians Ratify New Four-Year Contract
“The contract, ratified a year before the current one expires, includes a $10,000 salary increase in the first year and at least 3% raises...
How John Williams’s Score Made “Home Alone” What It Is
Director Chris Columbus: “(It) not only propels the story forward but from a narrative standpoint, he’s taking the audience’s hand and inviting them inside...
Lear deBessonet, Lincoln Center Theater’s New Director, On Reaching Out To All Of New...
“We’re doing an outdoor public campaign that involves subways and taxi tops and things like that in the outer boroughs, which are very purposefully...
How Nielsen Is Revamping Its Ratings System To Account For Streaming Video
“Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel … The new measurement tool combines Nielsen’s existing panel with data from cable, satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs...
Sweden Has Completed And Released Its Cultural Canon. (Abba Isn’t In It!)
“What are the 100 things that unequivocally define Swedish culture? Flat-packed furniture from IKEA? Of course. Pippi Longstocking? Indeed. The touchstone films of Ingmar...
The New Owners Of “The Onion” Brought Back Its Print Version. That Gamble Is...
“The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Was Apolitical. The Invasion Of Ukraine “Changed Everything”
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and...
Exec Who Led Disney To Become A Broadway Powerhouse Is Stepping Down
“Thomas Schumacher, who led Disney Theatrical Group for decades and helped it produce enduring musical theater hits like The Lion King and Aladdin, changing Times Square and Broadway...
Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist With Amazingly Varied Career, Is Dead At 98
Her 1960s paintings about Hollywood actors, movie violence, and gender are now thought to be key to the Pop art movement, though she was...
Nazi-Looted Old-Master Painting Recovered In Argentina After Being Spotted In Real Estate Listing
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by 18th-century artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was spotted in a photo from a house in Mar del Plata owned...
Canadian Province Suspends Its Book-Banning In Schools
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction...
Ousted National Portrait Gallery Director To Lead Milwaukee Museum Of Art
“Kim Sajet, who left her role as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after a high-profile clash with President Donald Trump in June, has landed...
At 93, Dan Rather Is Still Covering The News
Seven days a week, he has a video call with two fellow editors for his online outlet, called Steady — and then he gets...
How High Plains Public Radio Is Expanding Rural News Coverage Despite Funding Cuts
Over three years, the broadcaster will build the High Plains Civic Media Network, a system of part-time contributors (some of them volunteers), coordinated by...
Actors’ Equity UK Loses Years-Long Lawsuit Against Casting Directory Spotlight
“(The judge) ruled against Equity’s claim that Spotlight is an employment agency … (and) concluded that Spotlight, a website widely used by U.K. talent...
