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Spoleto Festival USA Tries Out A Pay-What-You-Will Ticket Program
"An anonymous donation this year made affordable rates for a quarter of the festival's shows possible, (subsidizing) about 1,300 tickets, valued at about $50,000....
Amid Italy’s Catastrophic Floods, Museums Close, And One Becomes An Emergency Shelter
It's still too early to assess damage to museums and heritage sites in Emilia-Romagna, where 13 people have died and 10,000 are displaced amid...
Salman Rushdie Makes First In-Person Appearance Since Attempted Murder
"Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event's...
Immersive Theater Meets Mexican Masked Wrestling
Aa a joint project of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, designer David Israel Reynoso and theater company...
Culture Is Now Utterly Boring, Argues William Deresiewicz, And It’s Because Of Far More...
"Decent we have, sometimes even good: well-made, professional. But wild, indelible, commanding us without appeal to change our lives? I don't think we even...
As The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Continues, Writer-Directors Are In A Bind
Directors Guild members are bound by the customary no-strike clause while their contract term lasts, and they're supposed to make necessary minor script changes...
Sam Zell, The “Grave Dancer” Mogul Who Nearly Destroyed Great Newspapers, Is Dead At...
While he got that nickname for making his fortune by buying distressed real estate cheap, he earned his greatest notoriety for his leveraged buyout...
A Setting Of The Orthodox Liturgy, Kept Hidden For A Century, Is Heard In...
Konstantin Shvedov composed his setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in 1913. It was kept secret through the Soviet years until Irina...
After A 15-Month Struggle, The Topless Dancers Of North Hollywood Have Finally Unionized
"Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar," Star Garden, "will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the...
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...
