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A New Cadre Of “Monuments Men” (Of All Genders) Trains To Protect Cultural Heritage...
Patterned after the famous "Monuments Men" who tracked down treasures looted by the Nazis, a group of archivists, archaeologists, art historians, and other specialists...
Getty Museum Determines Its Orpheus Sculptures Were Looted And Sends Them Back To Italy
"The J. Paul Getty Museum is returning its Orpheus group of sculptures — a significant group of nearly life-size terra-cotta figures known as 'Orpheus...
State Legislation Threatens To Criminalize Librarians For Providing Information About Abortion
"(The American Library Association) says it is 'developing guidance' for libraries and library workers and working with other organizations to 'oppose any efforts to...
Singer, Superstar, Soldier, Spy — Who Was Josephine Baker, Really?
"Even if Baker's career had been restricted to her role as an entertainer, it would have had the allure of a thriller. The racecraft...
A Major Corruption Scandal At Berlin’s Regional Public Broadcaster
"It's quite a catalog of allegations that have been leveled against Patricia Schlesinger. Until recently, she was both the director of the regional public...
Director’s Husband Banned From Premises Of Royal New Zealand Ballet
"Michael Auer, the Royal New Zealand Ballet's fired ballet master and husband of artistic director Patricia Barker, was banned from all company premises after...
Virginia Republicans Are Bringing Back Obscenity Trials
"Rather than demanding that school boards or librarians remove books, the current case takes the books to court, using an obscure Virginia law that...
Why Have The Culture Warriors Come So Angrily After Drag Queen Story Hour?
"It is not just about fabulous queens competing on RuPaul's Drag Race; even Mr Tumble performs in drag on CBeebies. So, how have we...
Kirill Serebrennikov And The Quandary Of Russian Artists During Wartime
Back home in Russia (where he spent years under house arrest on trumped-up charges), among culturati in Ukraine, in Europe (where he now lives...
A Wicked Daughter, A Fake Clairvoyant, And $139 Million Worth Of Stolen Art (Including...
Tarsila do Amaral's painting Sol Poente (Setting Sun) is one of 16 artworks (not including stolen jewelry and cash) that were conned out of,...
Western Art Masterworks Unseen For Decades Are Now On View In Tehran
A very popular exhibition of minimalist and conceptual art this summer at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art features major pieces by Marcel Duchamp,...
One Broadway Show Has Reintroduced Mask-Only Nights
"The Broadway production of The Kite Runner announced a policy Tuesday requiring masks for audience members at Friday evening performances only. The new hybrid...
Climate Change Has Started Causing Serious Problems For Outdoor Performance
Extreme heat, flash floods, and, especially, smoke from wildfires — which can affect venues hundreds of miles away — have been the cause of...
The Staff (What’s Left Of It) At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Unionizes
"The group of 16 employees — which includes front-of-house staff, stagehands and arts administrators — filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board...
How To Fight Back Against Library And School Book Bans
Margaret Sullivan: "Local residents should show up at school board meetings to express dissent publicly, get in touch directly with school administrators to insist...
Is There An Objective Way To Rank The Most Beautiful Cities? No, But This...
"Analysts ... first mined Google Street View footage in cities around the world for images of hundreds of residential streets and some 2400 iconic...
The Secrets Of Stage Blood
"Are there more types of fake blood than there are of real blood? Oh, positively. ... As a prop master for the last 30-odd...
Why Do The Ranks Of Crossword Puzzle Constructors Remain So Un-Diverse? Simple: The Pay’s...
"It turns out the crossword industry really does consist of earnest wordplay lovers donating their time to unpaid mentorships, generally as part of an...
Qatar Is Basically Setting Up A Giant Open-Air Museum In Doha. Have A Look.
"A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, Rashid Johnson mosaic, and a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture — in the likeness of an endangered marine mammal — are...
Orchestras Are Chafing, And Sometimes Buckling, Under Their Post-Shutdown Workloads
New programming initiatives mean musicians are rehearsing more unfamiliar works, and, come curtain time, standard repertoire sometimes ends up underrehearsed. Â Shutdown-induced layoffs mean remaining...
A New Factor In Writing TV Scripts: The Online Superfans Scrutinizing Every Line Of...
"Storytellers have to do more than spin a satisfying yarn; they must contend with fans who are so involved, they're practically racing them to...
A Conservative Version Of Prestige TV? Considering “Yellowstone”
"It is too easy to call it a conservative show. Like its audience counterpart, Yellowstone thinks it is at war with progress when it...
Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease
"His production company, Zentropa, ... said it released the information in order to avoid speculation about his health leading up to the premiere of...
After More Than A Century, Britain’s Dancing Times Magazine Is Shutting Down
"Dancing Times was established in October 1910 ... and has been published continuously every month for 112 years. ... The economic impact of the...
Meanwhile, Anthony Gormley’s Memorial To Alan Turing In Cambridge Has Been Approved With Little...
The as-yet-untitled sculpture, to be placed near the library at King's College, is, like the one planned for Imperial College, London, made of stacked...
