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Amphitheatres Are Popping Up — Er, Down — All Over Great Britain
From Pitlochry in Scotland to the Cotswolds to Sutton Hoo to Cornwall (well, that one's been there for 92 years) to north London, old...
How The Business Of Immersive Art Exhibits Works
Under the headline "Monet Is Next Dead Artist To Mint Money," a correspondent explains the finances of this very successful business. - Bloomberg Businessweek
This 5,000-Year-Old City Was Just Reopened To The Public. A Planned Dam May...
Ashur, on the banks of the Tigris, was the first capital of the Assyrian Empire, and big parts of its city gate and ziggurat...
It’s In Turbulent Times Like These That We See How Culture Really Matters
Russia, for instance, is attempting to wipe out a separate Ukrainian culture; as Ukraine's artist at the Venice Biennale says, "If it has no...
An Arvo With The Battlers Working On The Australian National Dictionary
Crikey, collecting the lingo that makes Strine Strine is a hard yakka that can leave a poor bastard with a head like a half-sucked...
Sydney’s Largest Art Museum Just Got A $100 Million Bequest
"The Lavender Bay home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art...
Paramount Will Not Be Removing From Its Streaming Service Old Movies And TV That...
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish: "By definition, you have some things that were made in a different time and reflect different sensibilities. I don't believe...
French Switzerland’s Second City Just Built Itself A Massive New Cultural Center
"A vast new arts hub called Plateforme 10 has opened in the Swiss city of Lausanne with the aim to revitalize the surrounding area...
Deep Inside Erotic Cookbooks: A Brief History
No, they aren't just gag gifts. From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine's food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton's Seducer's Cookbook (somewhat...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Casts Its First Disabled Richard III
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted...
Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Learns From Last Year’s Disastrous Mistakes
"For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year's festival ... may feel a little different....
Italy Opens A New Museum Just For Stolen Antiquities It Has Recovered
The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its exhibits will rotate every month,...
New York Philharmonic Names Successor To CEO Deborah Borda
Gary Ginstling, currently executive director of the National Symphony at DC's Kennedy Center, will assume the title of executive director this fall and move...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Is Back To (Almost) Normal
"Almost" because the Pillow's second theatre, the Doris Duke, burned down in 2020; rebuilding won't be complete until 2024. But the flagship Ted Shawn...
Checking In At La MaMa, A Cradle Of Off-Off Broadway, A Decade After Its...
Mia Yoo took over La MaMa after the death of the formidable Ellen Stewart. (Yoo's father is Stewart's adopted son.) While Yoo has kept...
YouTube Shorts Now Has 1.5 Billion-With-a-B Logged-In Viewers Each Month
"Related to its new milestone, YouTube also promoted Shorts' ability to drive viewers to creators' long-form video channels as a byproduct of its investments...
Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio...
San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter...
There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with...
There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says...
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum...
Can An Artist Really Make A Living Online With A Thousand Serious Fans?
That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who'll each spend $100 annually to...
One Of America’s Hottest Young Playwrights Is Putting Down Syndrome Onstage
Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is "the rare play to feature both a lead character — and...
Has A Stolen Altarpiece From Italy Been Sitting In The Cleveland Museum Of Art...
"At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister...
“Fundamentally, It’s Just Really Beautiful”: Reviving The Music Of The First Published Black Composer
Born in 1520 to (most likely) a Portuguese father and African-descended mother, Vicente Lusitano published three volumes of highly accomplished sacred works and music...
Nashville (!) Has Developed A Thriving Early Music Scene
"(Historical performance has) been ebbing, flowing, and growing in Nashville for nearly 20 years. The city is home to two HP ensembles ... (and)...
