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Museum Directors Warn Climate-Protesting Art Vandals: The Art Is Much More Fragile Than You...
"Climate activists targeting masterpieces around the world are not fully aware of how delicate the artworks are, the directors of almost 100 galleries have...
Now The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Coming After Classical Music
At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam last week, members of the activist group Extinction Rebellion interrupted Verdi's Requiem, shouting "We are in the middle of...
China’s 400-Year-Old Women-Only Script Is Having A Revival
Nüshu, a phonetic, syllabic script (as opposed to the standard Chinese ideogram characters) used by and between women, developed in a rural area of...
Margaret Atwood And Wayne McGregor Make A Ballet Out Of “MaddAddam”
Atwood says, "I just want to know how you are going to get around the giant blue penises."Â McGregor's only response (other than laughter)...
Anselm Kiefer’s 200-Acre Gesamtkunstwerk In The South Of France
Michael Heizer's "City" isn't the only massive art installation out in the boondocks that took decades and millions of dollars to build. For 30...
“Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?” And The Age Of “Hagsploitation” Cinema
"In the years following its release, Hollywood started producing a string of (movies) which, like Baby Jane, provided veteran actresses including Barbara Stanwyck, Tallulah...
Classical Music Radio In Britain Is Losing Lots Of Listeners, Even Though Classical Music...
Data indicate that interest in classical music itself is growing, but BBC Radio 3, the more populist Classic FM, and newish Scala Radio have...
At 108, This Woman May Be The World’s Oldest Active Dancer
Eileen Kramer started dancing professionally in 1939 and lived in India, Europe, and the US before returning to Australia at 99. She now lives...
They’ve Found The Oldest Known Sentence To Be Written In An Alphabet
There are more ancient surviving writings in hieroglyphics and cuneiform, but the inscription on this 3,700-year-old personal-care item is the oldest to use letters...
Securities & Exchange Commission Investigates Hedge Fund That Invests In Broadway Shows
A marketing document from the Broadway Strategic Return Fund claims that the fund's value quadrupled from January 2016 through September 2021, a period that...
One-Person Shows Are Having A(nother) Boom — And Not Just Because They’re Cheap To...
There have been other periods when stage monologues were big on New York stages. The difference this time is the audiobook and podcast boom;...
“Absurd”, “Insane”, And “Not Doable”, Says English National Opera CEO About Moving To Manchester
Stuart Murphy: "We looked at the money. We spoke to people the Arts Council hadn't bothered to speak to in Manchester, from across the...
Gal Costa, Legendary Brazilian Songstress, Is Dead At 77
"The soprano with wild curls of dark hair was … an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements who enjoyed a nearly...
A Look Inside The CIA Museum (Yes, There Is One)
The museum, whose collection documents CIA history from circa World War II to the present, is at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia and...
Dance And Incarceration — Both Inside And Outside The Prison
"(There's) a growing array of artists using dance to shed light on issues surrounding incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline and the justice system as a...
Unknown Translation Of Molière By “Clockwork Orange” Author Anthony Burgess Is Discovered
"Miser! Miser! is a complete translation of L'Avare (The Miser) of 1668 ... that Burgess wrote in the early 1990s, yet it has never...
This Standup Comic Specializes In A Very Niche Audience: Nurses. And He’s A Huge...
Nurse Blake, "(a) 31-year-old standup whose real name is Blake Lynch, is a genuine phenomenon, a social media star with millions of followers, which...
How Do You Get A Rock Music Scene Started In An Isolated Town In...
"(A new) report looks into the hurdles faced by the buzzing-but-fragile music scenes of Nuuk, Greenland and two other far-northern cities: Torshavn in the...
Are NFTs The Way To Help Choreographers Keep Control Of Their Own Intellectual Property?
"Even if centralized platforms like TikTok and YouTube have issues, they also help people build brands, increase their audiences and distribute their content. Likewise,...
Is “The Music Man”, And Is Broadway, Really #SoWhite? Not These Days, Writes John...
"(The current Broadway revival has) many Black cast members, such that Blackness becomes more than any cartoonish notion of African-esque masculinity. We have moved...
Two Dozen Ancient Roman Bronzes Discovered In Tuscany
"Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times. The statues were discovered under...
At Disney+, Subscribers Pour In And Cash Pours Out
"Disney's direct-to-consumer division, which also includes Hulu and ESPN+, on Tuesday reported an operating loss of nearly $1.5 billion, more than doubling its loss...
Architect Jack Diamond, Who Designed Innovative Yet Understated Arts Venues, Is Dead At 89
Co-founder of Toronto firm Diamond Schmitt Architects, he was lead designer for that city's Four Seasons Centre, the Maison Symphonique in Montreal, the Mariinsky...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Strike Warhol Campbell’s Soup Cans
At the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, two activists scrawled across several of the Warhol prints (which were protected by glass) with blue...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, The Rest Of The Dance World Gets Serious...
"There's increasing professionalisation of the form: in 2024 Sadler's Wells is opening a hip-hop academy at their new theatre in Stratford to train 16-...
