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Ever More Stories Of Bill Murray’s Bad Behavior Are Popping Up
Tales of inappropriately sexual behavior (described by the actor as joking), screaming at colleagues, and even dropping a nine-year-old Seth Green into a trash...
Saudi Arabia Is Evidently Building A New Museum Just For Leonardo’s “Salvator Mundi”
The world's most expensive artwork has not been seen in public since it was sold at auction for $450 million in 2017. The anonymous...
Yayoi Kusama And Kiki Smith Are Making Big New Pieces Of Public Art For...
New York's MTA has commissioned the two superstars to create huge floor-to-ceiling mosaic murals for the new Long Island Rail Road terminal deep under...
Derek Jacobi, At 84, Thinks He’ll Never Do Live Theatre Again, Either
"It's not stage fright exactly. But I'm not comfortable like I used to be. And it's far easier to do telly and films. They...
When “Sesame Street” Came To Post-Soviet Russia
The idea and hope behind Ulitsa Sezam, which debuted in 1996, five years after the USSR came apart, was to help its young audience...
The Neon Lights That Made Hong Kong Hong Kong Are Fading Away
"Once ubiquitous in Hong Kong, the signs ... have been steadily removed in the last few decades. The recent dismantling of some of the...
She’s The Edinburgh International Festival’s First Woman Director. What Are Nicola Benedetti’s Plans?
She's made her career as a classical violinist, but the EIF includes dance, theatre, and popular music as well. "'Well, classical music does count...
U.S. Ballet Companies Are — Gradually — Performing More Works By Female Choreographers
Dance Data Project's latest report says that in "ballet and classically inspired companies" the vast majority of the repertoire was created by male choreographers,...
Are Great Works Of Art Properly Protected From Demonstrators’ Soup-Throwing And Super-Gluing?
A leading expert on museum security answers questions about which artworks are and aren't protected by glass (and why), the tensions between protecting the...
Disney Tells France: We Won’t Release Any Blockbusters In Your Cinemas Unless You Change...
"Disney is to release Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in French cinemas next month but has warned that future blockbusters may go straight to its...
Patti LuPone Says She Has Given Up Her Actors’ Equity Card And Her Stage...
She tweeted the news on Monday but actually turned in her card this summer. LuPone said in a subsequent statement, "When the run of...
America’s Oldest Working Theater Is Selling Naming Rights
"The Walnut Street Theatre is seeking a single donation of more than $10 million to complete a capital campaign for the long-planned, pandemic-delayed expansion...
The Next Music Director Of London’s Royal Opera House Will Be Jakub Hrůša
"(The Czech conductor), 41, will begin his tenure in September 2025. He succeeds Antonio Pappano, who steps down from the post at the end...
The Booker Prize For 2022 Goes To “The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida” By...
"(This) supernatural satire set amid a murderous Sri Lankan civil war ... is about a photographer who wakes up dead, with a week to...
The Nude That Artemisia Gentileschi Painted For Michelangelo’s House Was Covered Up By Prudes
"Visitors to Florence's Casa Buonarroti can watch a team of experts as they work to restore Artemisia Gentileschi's Allegory of Inclination, using technology to...
Netflix For $7 A Month (Plus Ads) Is Coming
"The ad-supported service is scheduled to debut Nov. 3 as Netflix tries to reverse a drop in subscribers. It will cost $7 per month...
Parkour Dancers In Paris Have Become Anti-Light Pollution Activists
"Groups of young athletes practicing Parkour ... have been swinging around big French cities switching off wasteful shop signs at night, in a bid...
A Museum Telling The History Of Public Housing In America
Occupying the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum will record and preserve the personal stories...
The National Library Of France Has Finally Reopened, And It Has Some Hidden Gems...
"After 12 years and 261 million euros (more than $256 million) of renovations, the country's national library in the heart of Paris has reopened...
A Visit To The Oldest Public Library In The Americas
"The Palafoxiana Library ... owes its existence to one of Puebla's early Catholic bishops, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who in 1646 donated his...
TikTok Is Taking An Awfully Big Cut Of The Money Syrian Refugees Are Raising...
"Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation...
It Appears That Chaucer Was Not A Rapist After All, Newly Discovered Documents Indicate
It turns out that Cecily Chaumpaigne, believed to have been the victim of Chaucer's alleged attack, was on the same side as Chaucer in...
The 2022 Stirling Prize For Britain’s Best New Building Goes To The New Library...
"Selected from a pool of shortlisted projects, the outstanding new building replaces a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years ago and...
And What’s The New York Times’s Initial Verdict On The New David Geffen Hall’s...
Zachary Woolfe: "Any judgment on a hall's acoustics is highly provisional after just a few visits. ... But a mighty improvement is already obvious....
Now Climate Activists Are Throwing Soup At Van Gogh Paintings
Not that they've stopped gluing themselves to art, mind you. A pair from the group Just Stop Oil went to London's National Gallery and...
