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A Strike By Greek Archaeologists (!) Over A New Law Changing Museum Governance
The legislation moves five major antiquities museums out of the Ministry of Culture, giving them more independence but also requiring more fundraising. The archaeologists...
After The Choreographer-Dog Poop Attack, Other Critics Recount How Angry Artists Have Gone After...
"Jonathan Miller ... once sent me a New Year's Day card urging me to cease my 'foul pork scratchings' and told an interviewer that...
After Banning The BBC’s Modi Documentary, India Sends The Tax Police To Raid Its...
"More than a dozen income tax officials first entered BBC newsrooms (in Delhi and Mumbai) early Tuesday, seizing accounts, financial documents, and phones of...
At 80, Even With A “Serious Neurological Condition,” Daniel Barenboim Can And Will Keep...
"I know I am expected to say this illness changed my life. No. Things that were very important to me as a musician before...
The Joffrey Ballet Is Attacked On Social Media For Staging “Anna Karenina”
As one commenter put it, "It looks like you've been living under a rock for the past year, but at least try to read...
Oregon Ballet Theatre Appoints A New Artistic Director, Its Third In Two Years
"Oregon Ballet Theatre has announced that Dani Rowe will become its next artistic director, effective February 27, after an 18-month search. The company has...
Playbill’s CEO Personally Suppressed A Story About Bad Audience Behavior
Said Philip Birsh, whose family has owned Playbill for over five decades, "We want people to go to the theater. This piece exaggerated the...
Pompidou Center Will Set Up An Outpost In Saudi Arabia
"After expanding its horizons in Málaga, Shanghai and Brussels, with the prospect of a spinoff in the pipeline for Jersey City, United States, in...
One Of Broadway’s Big Three Theater Owners Merges With London’s Ambassador Theatre Group
Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway venues, is combining operations with ATG, which operates more than 50 venues, mostly in Britain, as well as...
A Brief History Of Valentine’s Day Cards
"Fertility-related customs have been celebrated in mid-February since pagan times. ... By the 18th century, we see something that begins to resemble modern Valentine's...
California’s Greatest Poet Wrote Exactly One Poem In English And None In Spanish. Can...
"Want to become a signature voice of your troubled nation? Perhaps you need a decades-long exile in California. It worked for Czesław Miłosz, who...
BBC News Staffers Move Near Mutiny Over Chairman’s Political Interference And BoJo Scandal
"The chairman is supposed to maintain the independence of the BBC," observed one insider about Richard Sharp, "but has said publicly it has a...
Northeastern University In Boston Bought Mills College In Oakland To Save It From Closing. ...
"The tension at the school, now known as Mills College at Northeastern University, reflects the challenges that colleges face when merging campus cultures and...
Reporter At West Virginia Public Broadcasting Fired Due To Interference By State Officials
"Interviews with 20 people with direct knowledge of events at WVPB indicate Amelia Ferrell Knisely's involuntary departure from her position as a part-time reporter...
Composer Friedrich Cerha, Who Completed Berg’s “Lulu”, Is Dead At 96
"As well as composing, he has done important work as a conductor (of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw amongst others), teacher (his...
King’s Singers Florida Concert Cancelled Two Hours Before Curtain Because Of Performers’ “Lifestyle”
It seems Pensacola Christian College, where the group had sung before without incident, got wind that some members of the sextet are gay. The...
Ballet Director Suspended After Rubbing Critic’s Face With His Dachshund’s Poop
On Saturday, enraged at her harsh review of his new piece In the Dutch Mountains (get it?), Hannover State Opera ballet director Marco Goecke...
Philadelphia Orchestra/Kimmel Center Ticketing System Is Paralyzed By Hackers
"The ticketing systems of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc. remained hobbled for a fifth day Monday following a cyber attack that struck...
“Catastrophic Consequences”: Edinburgh Fringe Venues Beg Government Not To Clamp Down On Airbnb-Style Rentals
The expansion of short-term rentals has been pricing out Edinburgh residents for years. But the cost of accommodation for festival performers and visitors has...
The Big Vermeer Show In Amsterdam Was Completely Sold Out Two Days After Opening
"Every single available ticket to see the Rijksmuseum's Johannes Vermeer retrospective is already gone, the Amsterdam institution said over the weekend, dashing the hopes...
In Cambodia, A Circus Helps Rescue Traditional Arts And Traumatized People
The Phare Circus, founded in 1994 by an art therapist, provides education and training for young people, many poor, and a livelihood for artists...
This Prominent Woman Conductor Isn’t All That Interested In The Gender Issue
Simone Young: "What does being a woman have to do with conducting? My tits don't get in the way. ... And it is maestro,...
A Second-Day, Six-Point Look At Australia’s New Cultural Policy
"1. It is a truth universally acknowledged that democratic governments who produce National Cultural Policies sound decidedly naff. Sorry, but there's no escaping it....
For The Sake Of “Moral And Spiritual Values,” The Kremlin Fires The Tretyakov Gallery’s...
Two weeks ago, following an alleged complaint from a visitor about art with a "destructive ideology." Russia's Ministry of Culture demanded that the Moscow...
Marianne Mantell, Co-Creator of The Audiobook Industry (Yes, Really), Is Dead At 93
At age 23, she and college pal Barbara Holdridge launched Caedmon Records with an LP of Dylan Thomas reading A Child's Christmas in Wales....
