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Auction Of Buddha Relic Gems Suspended After India Threatens Legal Action
The Piprahwa gems were discovered on the estate of an English landowner in India in 1898; they were inside reliquaries labeled as containing the...
Bewildered And Frustrated, Hollywood Doesn’t Know How Trump’s Tariffs Will Work (Or Even if...
How would tariffs on overseas film production work when the industry's so internationalized? Whom would be charged, at what point? Are such tariffs even...
George Clooney’s “Good Night, And Good Luck” Breaks Another Broadway Record
“(The show) brought in $4,003,481.50 last week, becoming the first Broadway play to surpass $4 million in a single week. The play also broke its own...
Reckless Tourist At Colosseum In Rome Survives Getting Impaled On Metal Fence
Last Friday, a 47-year-old man scaled a metal fence at an entrance to the ancient landmark, then fell and was impaled on one of...
The Louvre’s Leaky Roof Nearly Damaged A 13th-Century Painting
“A powerful hailstorm breached the Louvre’s roof (on Saturday) afternoon, causing water to drip into the Salle Rosa room hosting its headline exhibition, ‘A...
House Republicans Propose Giving Kennedy Center $257 Million For Repairs
“A House committee approved a budget proposal last week that called for allocating $257 million to the Kennedy Center for capital repairs and other...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper is Sold, Ending Legal Struggle
“On April 28, a bankruptcy court ruled that the (Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) will be sold for $1.4 million to McFarlin Building LLC....
Soprano Patricia Racette Is Next Artistic Director Of Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Racette has a long history with the company: she first performed there in 1993 and has returned numerous times since; she made her debut...
Percival Everett’s “James” Was Not Initially One Of The Pulitzer Fiction Finalists
Here’s what happens when the Pulitzer board either (a) considers none of the three finalists submitted by the jury in a category a worthy...
Houston Ballet Selects A Baryshnikov Protégée As Its New Executive Director
Sonja Kostich studied at Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and was 17 when he invited her to join ABT. She went on to dance...
Trying Out A New Finale For “Don Giovanni” — Mozart’s Requiem
At Berlin's Komische Oper, stage director Kirill Serebrennikov has replaced the opera’s moralizing final sextet with an epilogue: a solo dancer represents the dead...
Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Subverted Media Messages, Is Dead At 78
“Hosts of video artists … owe a debt to Birnbaum, who found clever ways of upending the one-way stream of information that pours forth...
Juilliard Dance Division Names A New Director
“Melissa Toogood, a Bessie Award-winning dancer who was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its final years, succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who...
What Will Be On Display In The New LACMA? Four Curators Reveal Their Plans
“The discussion offered a glimpse into the animated debate that the museum’s 45 curators have been engaged in over the last five years, reimagining...
Second City Actors In Chicago Threaten Strike
“Performers and stage managers at Chicago’s venerable comedy venue The Second City are threatening to strike if they are unable to reach an agreement...
California Governor Proposes $7.5 Billion In Federal Tax Incentives For Film Industry
“Just a day after Donald Trump revealed his plan to impose 100% tariffs on ‘any and all’ films produced in ‘foreign lands,’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he wants...
Senior NEA Officials Resign Amid Trump’s Mass Grant Cancellations
“Among those leaving the agency are directors overseeing grants for dance, design, folk and traditional arts, museums and visual arts, and theater. Also departing...
2025 Pulitzer Prize For Music Goes To Susie Ibarra For “Sky Islands”
It is, says the Pulitzer committee, “a work about ecosystems and biodiversity, that challenges the notion of the compositional voice by interweaving the profound...
“Purpose” By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize For Drama
This is his first Pulitzer, though he has been a finalist twice before. The production, directed by Phylicia Rashad, originated at Steppenwolf in Chicago...
Bloomberg CityLab Architecture Critic Alexandra Lange Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“The Pulitzer board praised (her work) ‘for graceful and genre-expanding writing about public spaces for families, deftly using interviews, observations and analysis to consider the architectural...
2025 Pulitzers For Literature Go To Percival Everett, Kathleen DuVal, Tessa Hulls
Percival Everett’s James continued its run of awards with the fiction prize, while Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause won for...
Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes
“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want...
Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE)...
Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the...
Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the...
