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Cambodia Bans Thai Films And TV
“Cambodia escalated its cold war with Thailand on Friday when it announced a ban on Thai movies and TV shows and a boycott of...
Is Art Basel Being Overshadowed By Its Own Spinoffs?
For decades it was the contemporary art world’s do-not-miss fair, but the Swiss mother-ship now faces competition from Art Basel events in Qatar, Hong...
Audience Members Explain Why They Went To L.A. Opera Despite Protests, Troops, And Curfew
Steven Lass: “L.A. is not scary. You could be in a bad place at the wrong time, but that can happen anywhere.” Jason Roblee: “They...
With Its Own Building Closed For Renovations, Pompidou Center Moves Into Newly-Restored Grand Palais
The Beaux-Arts landmark on the Champs-Elysées, built for the Paris Universal Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1900, has been renovated for the first time in...
One Of Philadelphia’s Biggest Arts Funders, Left Homeless By UArts Collapse, Has New Home
“The Barnes Foundation will be the new home for The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a major funder of local arts programming, after...
Indoor Skydiving — Not Only Is It Really A Thing, It’s Turning into A...
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over...
Alt-Weeklies Are Not, In Fact, Dead (Despite The Long Casualty List)
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and...
Some Broadcast TV Series Are Getting Impressive Viewer Numbers On Streaming For Weeks After...
“The 35-day figures for the 2024-25 season show that for series that originate on broadcast or cable networks, five weeks of streaming can grow a show’s...
From Atlanta To Savannah To Valdosta, Orchestras In Georgia Seem To Be Thriving
Indeed, many of them report that they’re having larger audiences and healthier finances than before COVID. The AJC reached out to ten orchestras of...
Bringing The Plants To Life At Philly’s Soon-To-Open Calder Sculpture Garden
Calder Gardens will be a stylized oasis with woodlands, wildflower-filled prairie meadows, and rivers of grasses running through it — all carefully laid out...
Why The French Government Withdrew An AI Video It Released Celebrating The Nazis’ Withdrawal...
“The problem was that authorities did not check the video for historical accuracy. In a scene of Parisians jubilantly celebrating the 1944 end of...
How The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Got Their Pay Quintupled
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and...
Here’s The Early Post-Tony Awards Fallout On Broadway
Sunset Boulevard has seen its weekly gross up more than $400,000 to $1.7 million. Purpose and Oh Mary! had grosses rise by well over...
Actor Hits Tyler Perry With $260 Million Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of Perry’s BET series The Oval, alleges that Perry used his power to assault, harass, and exploit...
Iran Closes Its Museums And Orders Artifacts Transferred To Safe Storage
“As the conflict with Israel continues to escalate, Iran has closed its museums and cultural heritage sites until further notice, according to local news reports....
Pianist Alfred Brendel, 94
“His technique was sufficient but rarely dazzling, and his tone was full and generally attractive but not especially lustrous. ... What attracted listeners was...
Reworking A Nouveau Circus Show On Short Notice After A Key Performer Gets Injured
In this case — the Montreal-based troupe The 7 Fingers, rehearsing in New York for a show opening in two days — the injury...
Tourists Sit On, And Break, Crystal-Coated “Van Gogh Chair” In Museum
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona was caught on closed-circuit TV sitting on artist Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski-encrusted...
How Did A Giant Water Pistol Get To Be The Symbol, And Preferred Weapon,...
It started as a joke, of course. The first really angry protest on the issue happened on a hot summer day in Barcelona, and...
Met Opera Attendance This Spring Was Down, Probably Due To Reduced International Tourism
The company sold 72% of capacity this past season, the same as 2023-24 but below projections. General manager Peter Gelb said that attendance was...
Trump Administration, Having Shut Down Voice of America’s Persian Service, Races To Restart It...
“The U.S. Agency for Global Media told employees placed on administrative leave to immediately return to their roles providing counter-programming to Iranian state media...
Publisher Releases Facsimile Edition Of GarcĂa Lorca’s Secret Homoerotic Sonnets
While “Sonnets of Dark Love” was once published in translation in France, it had never appeared in the poet’s homeland or native language because...
Paramount Global Is Now In “Active Settlement Discussions” Over Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit
The new was revealed in a motion by Trump’s attorneys requesting a deadline extension in his lawsuit against Paramount Global, parent company of CBS,...
Leonard Lauder, Major Philanthropist And Art Collector, Has Died At 92
The billionaire chief of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company had special relationships with the Whitney Museum (he was a former board chairman) and the...
Huge Crowds Protest Overtourism In Spain, Portugal, And Italy
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against...
