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At The National Symphony In DC, The Music Director Is Personally Lending String Players...
"Since 2011, Gianandrea Noseda has quietly amassed an impressive collection of string instruments, and since 2019, he's been covertly feeding those instruments into the...
Former Art Institute Of Chicago Payroll Manager Pleads Guilty To Stealing $2 Million
"Michael Maurello ... falsified payments to employees and funneled museum payroll into his personal bank accounts from 2007 to 2020, the written plea agreement...
Texas County Backs Off Plan To Close Its Public Library Rather Than Restore The...
"Llano County Judge Ron Cunningham announced that the county's library system will stay open. … Commissioners considered whether or not they would shut down...
Philly Pops Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Philadelphia Orchestra-Kimmel Center
"The (federal) suit … claims that the orchestra, since merging with the Kimmel Center, has engaged in 'unlawful, anticompetitive and predatory conduct' to 'eliminate...
Uffizi Galleries Raise Ticket Price By 25%, And Italians Argue Over The Cost Of...
"The Uffizi Galleries (in Florence) have hiked their ticket prices because of pressures from rising energy prices, … sparking a debate about how much...
Biden Revives The President’s Committee On The Arts And Humanities — With Some Very...
The advisory board on cultural issues, which was disbanded by Donald Trump, has among its new members Shonda Rhimes, Jon Batiste, George Clooney, Kerry...
The Brad Pitt-And-The-Starchitects-Save-The-Lower-Ninth-Ward Fiasco Has Hit Another Low
The Make It Right Foundation was supposed to provide well-designed replacement homes for wiped-out Katrina victims in the impoverished New Orleans neighborhood. The houses...
The Professional Ballerina And PhD Physicist Who Dances With Robots
"Merritt Moore … is walking, talking, dancing proof that you can build a career in both science and art. She has a PhD in...
Nobody In Hollywood Would Finance A Film Titled “How To Blow Up A Pipeline”
"Shot in the deserts of Texas, the film takes (climate activist Andreas) Malm's call to action and builds it into a heist movie. …...
How Bookshop.org Helped Save Independent Bookstores From Being Completely Crushed By Amazon
"What started as a favor done on a business-trip whim has since become the great project of Andy Hunter's professional life. In its first...
Anne Perry, Murder Mystery Author Who Took Part In A Notorious Murder Herself, Is...
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister...
The Taliban Are Actually Moving To Protect An Ancient Buddhist Site
"The Afghan heritage site Mes Aynak is currently at risk of being destroyed due to a delayed mining project. The site, just 25 miles...
Today In Schadenfreude: Florida Woman Runs Her Rolls-Royce Smack Into A $3 Million Damien...
The unnamed motorist, who claims not to remember the incident, drove into the Palm Beach backyard of billionaire art collectors Steven and Lisa Tananbaum,...
The Popular New Place For Catching News Podcasts? YouTube
Polling from the firm Morning Consult that US podcast consumers, in the aggregate, prefer YouTube to audio-only platforms. Staffers from Slate, ESPN, and NPR...
Dallas Theater Center, Struggling With Attendance And Finances, Announces Layoffs
"Dallas Theater Center will lay off an undisclosed number of staff, it announced Tuesday, a cost-cutting measure that comes as the organization has struggled...
English National Opera Accepts £24 Million Funding Deal To Leave London
"The funding (from Arts Council England) would support the ENO's 'reimagined artistic and business model' to have a primary base outside of the capital...
BBC Reverses Decision To Cut Number Of Musicians In Its Orchestras
"The cuts, which were announced in March, would have reduced roles in the BBC Symphony, Concert and Philharmonic orchestras by 20%. On Thursday, the...
“What Chicago Needs Is A New Opera Company. Make That Two Or Three New...
Lawrence A. Johnson, founder of the Classical Review network of websites, decries what he sees as the deadly dull state of the art form...
Young Adults In Upper Egypt Work To Keep The Nubian Language From Vanishing
"In the 1960s, much of Old Nubia was destroyed by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. … Between 50,000 and 130,000 people were...
Martin McDonagh Complains That Some Theatres Refuse To Produce His Plays Because They Have...
"'Only in the past few years have I had theatre companies refuse to do my plays, because they don't like some of the wording,'...
Disappointed By Streaming, Hollywood Is Kissing And Making Up With Movie Theaters
"The exhibition industry is finally looking like its pre-pandemic self again. That's partly attributable to studios releasing new installments of successful franchises, but it...
British Theatres Discover A New Target Audience: Female Novel-Readers
"(There is) a string of new stage shows based on hit books by female authors that were enjoyed largely by female readers. Waiting in...
Italy Will Impose Steep Fines On People Who Vandalize Or Damage Cultural Sites
"At a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, the government approved proposed legislation championed by the culture minister that would impose fines starting at €10,000 (nearly...
Sexual Harassment Allegations Rock India’s Top Bharatanatyam School
Students, both female and male, at the Kalakshetra Foundation's Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts in Chennai have alleged sexual advances by faculty members...
Thirteen Women Accuse Gérard Depardieu, France’s Biggest Film Star, Of On-Set Sexual Misconduct
"The accusations were made by female actors, make-up artists and production staff, some of whom spoke on the basis of anonymity, and allegedly occurred...
