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Van Gogh Museum Says It May Have To Close Without More Money From Dutch...
“The museum … needs a refurbishment to preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh, but two years...
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Cuts Its Workforce By 25%
Following Congress’s elimination of federal funding of public TV and radio and state-level finding cuts, SDPB is laying off 15 staffers and eliminating five...
Fired Trinity Wall Street Music Director Arrested For Possession Of Child Porn
Julian Wachner, who established Trinity Church Wall Street as a dynamic force in New York’s classical music scene, only to be dismissed following an...
Edinburgh International Festival Sees Best Ticket Sales In A Decade
“2025’s EIF season, themed ‘The Truth We Seek’, sold 88% of available tickets. The figure is up by 29% on last year, when EIF...
Did Three Malevich Paintings Really Turn Up Under A Retiree’s Bed When She Moved?
So says the owner of the works, Yaniv Cohen, who claims he was given them by his wife’s grandmother, whose father acquired them secretly...
Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Reopens After Seven-Year Renovation
The Citizens Theatre closed in 2018 for what was supposed to be a three-year rehabilitation. The COVID pandemic, and the ensuing inflation, both delayed...
John Williams Doesn’t Think Very Highly Of Film Music (Including His Own)
“Film music, however good it can be – and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … The music...
Edinburgh International Festival Says Demand To Give Up Baillie Gifford As Sponsor “Threatens Our...
“The festival said (the) demand for it to end its commercial partnership with the Edinburgh-based fund manager ‘ultimately reduces the very spaces where difficult...
Memoir Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Most Prominent Accuser Will Be Published Posthumously
Virginia Giuffre spent several years completing Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice with co-author Amy Wallace. On April 1,...
Comedian Reginald Carroll, 52, Shot To Death In Mississippi
Police officers found Carroll wounded in Southaven, Mississippi, immediately south of Memphis, at the offices of the merchandise company for a fellow comedian with...
Kennedy Center Names New Director Of Dance Programming, One Who Complained About “Leftist Ideologies...
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, was hired just days after the Kennedy Center fired its entire dance programming staff. Nakagawa...
“Emily In Paris” Crew Member Collapses And Dies On Set
Diego Borella, an assistant director on the Netflix series, had a sudden heart attack as he and colleagues were preparing to shoot a scene...
Ticket Sales Were Flat For 2025 Edinburgh Fringe
“The figures showed around 2.6 million tickets were sold for 3,893 shows — a similar level to last year and well below the peak...
Teddy Abrams Extends At Louisville Orchestra For Three More Years
“Over the course of his tenure, Abrams has transformed the mission of the Louisville Orchestra, molding it into what he describes as a ‘public...
What Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick Has To Say For Himself Now That He’s Out...
“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that...
That Musical Making Fun Of “Raygun,” The Australian Olympic Breakdancer, Is Really Kind Of...
“Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers,”...
Denmark Ends Its 25% Sales Tax On Books
The government says it is cancelling the VAT on books, one of the highest in the world, — despite the estimated loss of €44...
How One Classical Critic Made Peace With The Cell Phones, Candy Wrappers, Coughs, Talkers,...
Michael Andor Brodeur: “Self-reflection on the matter leads me to believe that my allergy to concert-hall disruption is a direct product of my own...
Opera Australia’s Next Music Director: Andrea Battistoni
The 38-year-old native of Verona is currently chief conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic and, as of the start of 2025, music director of Turin’s...
Why We Turned The Williamstown Theater Festival Upside-Down
Managing director Raphael Picciarelli: “We weren’t chasing hype for its own sake. We were trying to spark the feeling that draws people to Burning...
Ghana’s Government Is Cancelling Construction Of David Adjaye-Designed National Cathedral
“The president's office announced that it has begun the process of ending the current contracts connected to the cathedral and will launch a further...
Trump White House Releases List Of Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable
“An angry article on the White House website, headlined 'President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,’ lists a series of perceived offenses from museums in the...
Longtime Conservative Critic Of US Universities Is Now Defending Them
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), whose stated mission is the defense of free speech rights, made its bones as a leading...
Kennedy Center Bosses Fire Entire Dance Programming Staff
“The layoffs leave unclear the future of the performance genre, which is a subscription driver for the arts venue. … Notably, the dance package no longer...
“All Things Considered” Host Ari Shapiro To Leave NPR
Shapiro has spent 25 years at the network, the last ten of them as a host of the flagship afternoon/evening newscast. In his announcement,...
