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US Securities And Exchange Commission Sues Former Execs Of MoviePass For Fraud
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and...
President James Madison’s Crystal Flute Gets Played By Lizzo
The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest. Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla...
France Increases Its Arts And Culture Funding By 7% To €4.2 Billion
Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the...
Dayton Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down At The End Of This Season
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen...
Was Piet Mondrian The Austere Ascetic People Took Him To Be?
No. No, he was not. - The New Yorker
Not Every Device Shakespeare Used Makes Sense After 400 Years. How Do Today’s Directors...
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people...
Pop-Up Libraries In Vacant Storefronts Are Helping Bring Post-Pandemic Melbourne Back To Life
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy...
The Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Phenomenon Of “Semantic Bleaching”
"(It's) like staining all the color out of our words, and it happens with overuse. Another way to describe it is supply and demand....
Who Owns Rights To The TV Coverage Of Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral, The Broadcasters Or...
"The BBC, ITV and Sky News have been given until Monday to produce a 60-minute compilation of clips they would like to keep from...
The Court Cases Over Texas’s And Florida’s New Anti-Moderation Laws Could Save, Or Destroy,...
"If these laws take effect, platforms will be forbidden from prohibiting or deprioritizing certain kinds of content — creating the potential for a future...
How Adnan Syed’s Release Mirrors The Change In True Crime Media
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for...
Cleveland Orchestra Receives An Extraordinary Gift: The Only Complete Manuscript Of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony
The score, written between 1888 and 1894, was donated by orchestra board member Herbert Kloiber, who purchased it in 2016 from the estate of...
UK Amends Museums Law To Allow Deaccessioning Items For “Reasons Of Morality”
"The country's High Court of Justice ruled in 2005 that, per the British Museum Act 1963, national museums could not remove items from their...
In Antwerp, They Built One Museum Inside Of Another
The city's Royal Museum of Fine Arts is now opening after a $100 million, 11-year renovation that involved constructing a small white-cube museum for...
Australian Performers Are Back Onstage And In Fine Form. Not Enough Australians Are Coming...
Australia's state capitals had some strict lockdowns, with Melbourne the world's most severe. Performing arts groups are still reporting attendance remaining stubbornly below 2019...
France Enacts Another Measure To Protect Independent Bookstores: A Mandatory Delivery Charge
"This will adapt the book industry to the digital era by restoring an equilibrium between large e-commerce platforms, which offer virtually free delivery for...
She Moved From A Principal Position In Philadelphia To The Corps De Ballet In...
When the lockdowns started, Lillian DiPiazza was a principal at what was then Pennsylvania Ballet. She spent the next two years going back and...
What’s The Hottest Theatre Piece In Brooklyn This Fall? An Installation Inspired By Noah’s...
The Antwerp-based collective FC Bergman bringsto BAM a work titled 300 el x 50 el x 30 el (the dimensions of Noah's Ark as...
Prosecutor Says Alec Baldwin And Others Could Face Charges In “Rust” On-Set Shooting
In a request for more funding to pursue the case, the district attorney for Santa Fe County stated that "we will be potentially charging...
Universal Isn’t Even Going To Bother Releasing The Gay Rom-Com “Bros” In The Middle...
"It's still unclear exactly what markets in the region will be affected, but it's likely to include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt...
Joseph Thompson, Former Director Of MASS MoCA, Found Not Guilty In Fatal Driving Accident
Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide...
Dustin Lance Black Reports Suffering A “Serious Head Injury”
The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and creator of the recent TV miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven didn't reveal the nature of the injury,...
In Florida, Three Orchestral Players Fired For Refusing To Get COVID Vaccines Are Suing
The three musicians, who were dismissed from the Naples Philharmonic as of June 30 and have filed suit against the orchestra's parent organization, claim...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On Strike
The 180 unionized members of the museum's 350-strong workforce walked out after two years of negotiations failed to yield agreement on a contract. The...
Guggenheim Museum Ends Its $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize
The museum instituted the biennial award in 1996 to honor "outstanding achievement in contemporary art." Asked why the prize is being discontinued, Guggenheim chief...
