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Europol’s Most Recent Operation Pandora Raids Recovered 11,000 Stolen Artworks And Artifacts
"Pandora VII, which resulted in crackdowns across 14 European countries and was led by Spanish authorities, involved checks across airports, ports, border crossings, auction...
Penguin Random House And PEN America Sue Florida Over Book Bans
"PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a group of parents have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district...
Montana Just Passed A Law Banning TikTok. But Can The State Enforce It?
"The law will prohibit downloads of TikTok in the state and fine any 'entity' — an app store or TikTok — $10,000 per day...
British Museum Faces Another Repatriation Request — For Asante Gold From Ghana
The Asante people's traditional monarch, "the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director (to...
World’s Oldest Surviving Hebrew Bible Sells For $33 Million
"The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten (10th-century) parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased … on behalf of the American Friends...
This Ancient Amphitheatre Stages The Classics Of Greek Drama In Grand Style
The auditorium, carved out of a hillside in Syracuse on Sicily's southeastern coast, "seats 5,000. The stage is 27 metres wide and 44 deep;...
Who Was The First Modern Celebrity? Sarah Bernhardt
The great French actress wasn't the first to be famous solely for being famous (that phenomenon came later), but she was the first to...
Breakdancing Debuts At The 2024 Olympics. Meet Some Of The Hopeful Young Competitors
"Next summer, the best 16 B-boys and 16 B-girls from around the world will face off in solo battles soundtracked by a live DJ...
U.S. Carmakers Are Eliminating AM Radio From Their Dashboards
"Despite protests from station owners, listeners, first-responders and politicians from both major parties, automakers … are removing AM radios from new electric vehicles because...
Two Florida Moms At The Center Of The Fight Against Book Bans
"Jen Cousins and Stephana Ferrell track school board votes and the fates of books across Florida's 67 districts. They file public records requests, appear...
Nicholas Hytner’s Plan For Reforming British Arts Funding
The stage and film director, former head of the National Theatre in London, argues for two different (and, of course, generously financed) government funding...
Ten British Classical Luminaries Suggest Ten Ways To Save Classical Music
Antonio Pappano, Isata Kanneh-Mason, Sarah Connolly, Edward Gardner, and others offer suggestions from turning off the cell phones to incentivizing philanthropy to restoring music...
The Torch is Passed At Dance Theatre Of Harlem
"As they prepared for the leadership transition, (outgoing artistic director Virginia) Johnson and (successor Robert) Garland spoke with Dance Magazine about their deep, shared...
New York Stock Exchange Moves To Delist Radio And Podcast Giant Audacy
"NYSE notified the company that it is not in compliance with its continued listing standards" because of its low share price (down 13% to...
Politically Sensitive Titles Are Getting Yanked From Hong Kong’s Library Shelves
"Books about the Tiananmen Square massacre, Hong Kong protest movements, and other subjects deemed politically sensitive by Beijing have been removed from the former...
Court Convicts Five Men In Dresden Green Vault Jewel Robbery
"(In) the biggest art heist in modern history, the thieves made off with a haul worth more than €113 million ($123 million) from the...
Greece’s Prime Minister Seeks An “Innovative,” “Win-Win” Solution To The Parthenon Marbles Dispute —...
"We will never recognize that these sculptures are owned, legally owned by the British Museum,” said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "But again, we have...
Neutraface — The Typeface Of Gentrification?
"Maybe you recognize it from the Shake Shack nameplate. ... Even if you think you've never seen it before, if you step outside, you...
Lumberyard Is Selling Its Upstate New York Headquarters And Pivoting Away From Dance
The facility only opened in 2018, and by the following year, demand for its technical rehearsal residency was nearly outrunning supply. Then the pandemic...
Salman Rushdie Gives Rare Post-Stabbing Public Speech
"Nine months after being stabbed and seriously injured onstage, (he warned) that freedom of expression in the West is under its most severe threat...
A Florida Teacher Is Under Investigation For “Indoctrination” Because She Showed Her Class A...
"Jenna Barbee, a fifth-grade Florida teacher, is under investigation by the Florida Department of Education after showing her class the animated Disney movie Strange...
Claire Chase, Flute Superhero
She's commissioned an extraordinary amount of new repertory for the flute (in all its ranges, from piccolo to contrabass), her colleagues are thrilled by...
A Student Warns Professors: We’re Already Using ChatGPT Far More Than You Realize
"In reality, it's very easy to use AI to do the lion's share of the thinking while still submitting work that looks like your...
How The Barnes Foundation Fights Off The Hordes Of Tiny Art Vandals
No, this isn't about young protesters from Just Stop Oil gluing themselves to Renoirs. It's about moths, mostly, and other pests that might eat,...
Tony Awards Broadcast Will Go Ahead, But Not As Usual, With OK From Writers’...
"Organizers 'are altering this year’s show to conform with specific requests from the WGA, and therefore the WGA will not be picketing the show.'...
