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Yo-Yo Ma Busks On The Streets Of Nairobi
"Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market is an unlikely place to hear classical music. Yet playing today in front of stalls where butchers roast meat and...
How CEO Jonelle Procope Saved Harlem’s Apollo Theater
"Jonelle Procope's 20-year tenure as president and CEO of The Apollo Theater evolved into an era of prosperity and expansion, markedly different from the...
How Karla Puno Garcia Found Herself Choreographing This Year’s Scriptless Tony Awards
"Ariana DeBose called me and asked if I was interested and available. I said yes and yes!" - Dance Magazine
After Ten-Year Legal Battle In The Netherlands, Art And Artifacts From Crimea Will Be...
The 300 items were assembled for a 2013 exhibition by the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam; the show was at a German museum when...
They’ve Found Thomas Cromwell’s Own Prayer Book, The One In The Holbein Portrait
"Curators at Hever Castle were conducting research ahead of an exhibition comparing Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn when they realized Cromwell owned a...
Chevron Admits It Destroyed The Public Art Work Erected Near Its Bay Area Refinery
"'The wood was placed in our wood bin weeks ago when it was taken down. It has been processed with other wood since then,'...
US Officially Requests To Rejoin UNESCO
"U.S. officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the U.S. in UNESCO policymaking...
Actor Treat Williams Killed In Motorcycle Accident
The 71-year-old star of the films Hair, Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Eagle Has Landed and the...
Golden Globe Awards Are Sold; Hollywood Foreign Press Association Will Disband
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have purchased the awards, which will become a for-profit venture, and all 310 current voters will remain eligible...
Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann Is Dead At 77
He served as music director of the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh for two decades (1982-2003) and of the Canton Symphony in Ohio for...
Temple Grandin: We Should Think Of AI In Concrete Terms
"To most people, A.I. is an abstraction, something akin to magic. That's dangerous. We would do better to think about it as we do...
Figuring Out What Komar And Melamid Were (And Weren’t) Really Up To
Ben Davis: "For me, getting an overview of the twists and turns of the Komar & Melamid corpus here … is something like a...
The Strange Sepia Beauty Of Photographs Of The Smoke-Filled Skies
Philip Kennicott: "They are accidentally beautiful, rather like an 80-degree day in January is accidentally pleasurable. To some, they may suggest the science-fiction scenography...
Joan Rivers And Her Carefully Cross-Indexed Card Catalog Of 65,000 Jokes
"Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like 'Parents...
At Philadelphia’s Oddest Museum, Changes By New Leadership To Make It Less Odd Are...
The institution in question is the Mütter Museum, which is focused on anatomy. The actions by new leaders, "mostly centered on concerns about displaying...
Benjamin Millepied Leaves Behind His L.A. Dance Project To Start Up The Paris Dance...
"Despite his success in the United States, … Millepied says it is easier to work in France. … But French society can feel less...
Why The Public Theater Dropped The Under The Radar Festival (And What Happens Next)
Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, said proudly that bringing Under the Radar to the theater was "the first artistic choice I made" in...
Radio Host Sues OpenAI For Defamation After ChatGPT Produced Copy Accusing Him Of Embezzlement
"Mark Walters, who hosts the Salem Radio Networks-distributed 'Armed American Radio' program, is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT program accused him of embezzling funds...
Britain’s Telegraph Newspapers Are To Be Sold Off
"The Daily and Sunday Telegraph are to be put up for sale in a deal that promises to reshape the media landscape after the...
Juilliard Fires Composition Professor Robert Beaser
The dismissal comes after "an independent investigation (into sexual harassment allegations) found 'credible evidence' that he had 'engaged in conduct which interfered with individuals'...
Wow, Egypt Is Really Upset About That Ancient-Egypt-And-Hip-Hop Exhibition In The Netherlands
The "Kemet: Egypt in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk" show at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has so incensed authorities in Cairo...
National Gallery Of Canada Appoints A New Director
Jean-François Bélisle, currently director of the Musée d’art de Joliette in Quebec, "arrives in Ottawa during a troubled period where a strategic plan to...
New York State Rescinds Policy Restricting Prisoners From Publishing Creative Or Journalistic Work
"A May 11 directive established a stringent, months-long approval process … (and) gave prison superintendents the power to block publication of work that violated...
The “New Michelangelo”: This Italian Sculptor Has A 21st-Century Take On The Art Of...
The 36-year-old artist known as Jago says he uses the same techniques his Renaissance forbears did. He's so highly regarded for his ability to...
This Year’s Theatre Olympics Are Especially Fraught, Shot Through With Europe’s War And Tensions
"At the heart of the 10th festival stands the divisive figure of Attila Vidnyánszky, artistic director of the Theatre Olympics and director of the...
