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Marin Alsop Has A New Job: Artistic Director Of The Polish National Radio Symphony
She first conducted the orchestra, based in Katowice, a bit over two years ago; since then, she's led them in 15 concerts at home...
Françoise Gilot, The Only Lover Who Dumped Picasso And An Accomplished Artist Herself, Is...
"She also published graceful, incisive memoirs and poetry collections, even as she spent decades battling with those who sought to define her by the...
A Young Polio Survivor And Refugee Heals Herself And Others Through Dance
"Chantal-Iris Mukeshimana came to Belgium as a child after fleeing the genocide in Rwanda. Decades later, she founded a dance school where fellow wheelchair...
Design Unveiled For Planned Holocaust Museum In Boston
"The Boston-based Holocaust Legacy Foundation has unveiled renderings of its proposed Holocaust Museum Boston, to be located along the Freedom Trail, by the intersection...
Why The French Military Hires Science Fiction Writers
The job? "To imagine future threats to national security. So far, sci-fi novelists from the Red Team Defense project have written more than a...
Each Side In The “Here Lies Love” vs. Broadway Musicians’ Union Dispute Makes Its...
"The union is demanding a 19-piece live orchestra, as mandated by contracts, barring 'special situation' exemptions. Producers want the show as it has been...
Speranza Scappucci Named Covent Garden’s First Principal Guest Conductor In 25 Years
"It will mark a new era for the (Royal Opera House) at a critical time, amid an arts education crisis, government funding threats and...
Putin Moves Russia’s Most Famous (And Fragile) Icon From Its Museum To The Church,...
The 15th-century icon of the Trinity by Andrei Rublev, Russia's most revered icon painter, was moved from Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery into Christ the Savior...
After Years Of Protests And Bad Press, The British Museum Has Ended Its Sponsorship...
"BP's sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and...
With 98% Of The Vote, SAG-AFTRA Authorizes A Strike
"The 'yes' vote does not trigger a strike, but allows the union's top negotiators to potentially call a work stoppage once their TV/theatrical contracts...
Nashville Symphony Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero Will Step Down — Partly — In 2025
After a Grammy-winning 16-year tenure, the Costa Rican conductor will finish his term as full-time music director, but he will lead the orchestra part-time...
The Rijksmuseum’s Vermeer Exhibition Broke Records (Of Course It Did)
"The Rijksmuseum said the exhibition that drew on collections around the world to bring together 28 of the 37 paintings generally ascribed to Vermeer...
Astrud Gilberto, Who Sang “The Girl From Ipanema,” Is Dead At 83
In 1959, she accompanied her husband, bossa nova star João Gilberto, and Antônio Carlos Jobim to a New York recording session with Stan Getz....
Composer Kaija Saariaho, 70
She first came to notice in contemporary classical circles in the 1980s with atmospheric modernist music which frequently incorporated electronics; she achieved stardom with...
Watching A Master Craftswoman Make A Mask For Noh Theater
"The artisan Nakamura Mitsue employs her four decades of experience as she cuts, carves and paints, gradually forging an eerily lifelike human face from...
The Architect Of Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Designed A Curved-Keyboard Piano
Rafael Viñoly was at a dinner party with Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim, who complained about the challenges of a standard keyboard for someone...
A 15th-Century English Manuscript Gives A Rare Glimpse Of A Real-Life Traveling Minstrel’s Routine
"The manuscripts were copied by cleric Richard Heege, a tutor to the Sherbrooke family, part of the Derbyshire gentry. … Dr. Wade concluded that...
Warning The National Art Museum of China, Xi Jinping Uses The Phrase “Politically Correct”...
In a letter last month on the institution's 60th anniversary, the Chinese president said NAMOC should "be persistent in upholding a politically correct direction,...
Collaboration Gone Wrong, Vicious Feud, Or Performance-Art Prank? The Drama Between Author Michel Houellebecq...
It certainly started as a collaboration, with the collective KIRAC making a documentary about France's reigning literary provocateur (age 67 and married, as if...
Controversies Over Research Into One Cambridge College’s Ties To Slavery Turn Ugly
"What happened at (Gonville & Caius) demonstrates the collision between two different worldviews: one that sees research into the history of slavery as a...
Hollywood’s Commercial Choreographers Have Formed A Union of Their Own
"After forming in 2022, the Choreographers Guild started accepting members this spring. The labor organization plans to tackle a host of issues: It aims...
Unreleased Live John Coltrane Recordings Rediscovered In New York Public Library
The recordings of joint concerts with Eric Dolphy at New York's Village Vanguard were stumbled on by a Bob Dylan researcher. They've now been...
How The Smithsonian Has Helped Rebuild Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Wrecked By ISIS
Dr. Richard Kurin, founder of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, writes about how the Washington museum complex, along with the Louvre, the World Monuments...
Salman Rushdie’s Next Book Will Be About His Getting Stabbed Onstage
"It will be a relatively short book, a couple of hundred pages. It's not the easiest book in the world to write but it's...
Oklahoma Legislature Overrides Governor’s Defunding Of State’s Public TV Network
"Cheers broke out in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as lawmakers approved the bill that reauthorizes OETA (the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority) as a...
