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Getty Trust Names NYU’s Provost Its New CEO
"The world's wealthiest arts institution, the J. Paul Getty Trust, has selected a new president and CEO: New York University Provost Katherine E. Fleming....
Attempts To Ban Books From US Libraries More Than Quadrupled In 2021
The annual report from the American Library Association said that there were 729 challenges to books in school, university, and public libraries in 2021,...
Classical Grammy Winners: LA Phil’s Mahler 8th, Met’s “Akhnaten”, Philly’s Florence Price, Caroline Shaw
The Philadelphia Orchestra's release of Price's First and Third Symphonies took Best Orchestral Performance, while Dudamel's Mahler Eighth from Los Angeles won Best Choral...
New York Times Officially Names Zachary Woolfe Classical Music Critic
In a long-expected move, Woolfe, who became the Times's classical music editor in 2015, succeeds Anthony Tommasini, who retired as chief classical critic last...
Where Aaron Sorkin Found What Atticus Finch Has In Common With Donald Trump
Adapting Mockingbird for the stage, Sorkin knew Atticus shouldn't be an icon of rectitude. "I realized I didn't have to create a flaw for...
Franz Kafka, Inveterate Hypochondriac
"By the time he was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of 34, Kafka had already spent two decades worrying about disease. He took...
XR (That’s Extended Reality) Arrives On The Dance Scene
"I'm in an abandoned-looking house, where a woman appears like a dancing apparition. Then I'm going down a rabbit hole into a tea party...
The Legendary Music Tree, From Which Are Made Guitars Like No Others
Here is the story of one particular trunk of mahogany in a remote Belizean forest. - Smithsonian Magazine
Charles Darwin’s Notebooks Mysteriously Returned After Years Missing
The 1830s notepads, last seen 22 years ago and formally declared missing in 2020, were left in a pink gift bag on a floor...
Jeremy O. Harris Wants Audience Members To Come Into His Plays Blind
"I think a lot of people's response to my plays are based on projection. ... I love that. It's my ideal. Because then you're...
Boris Johnson’s Government Will Privatize Britain’s Channel Four
"'I have come to the conclusion that government ownership is holding Channel 4 back from competing against streaming giants like Netflix and Amazon,' tweeted...
UNESCO Tallies Damage To 53 Cultural Sites (So Far) In Ukraine Since Russia’s Invasion
"As of March 30, UNESCO said, the confirmed damaged sites, located in several regions across Ukraine, include 29 religious sites, 16 historic buildings, four...
Priceless Morozov Collection Will Be Returned From Paris Exhibition To Russia, Not Seized By...
The gathering of these 200 artworks at the Fondation Louis Vuitton was one of the most popular museum shows in French history. Following the...
The Hermitage Amsterdam, Having Cut Ties With St. Petersburg, Rebrands As Dutch Heritage Amsterdam
The museum was originally set up as a privately funded branch of the St. Petersburg flagship, an affiliation now ended due to the invasion...
Charo Is Not A Ditzy Cuchi-Cuchi Woman, She Only Plays One. She Is A...
She studied with Andrés Segovia and is a virtuoso in classical and flamenco styles. "At her shows, after she sings and gyrates to a...
Meet The Guy Who Plays The Western Villains In Chinese Movies
Almost nobody knows him back home in England, but in China — thanks to a chance meeting while waiting to renew his visa —...
The Racy Roots And Louche Beginnings Of Kabuki Theatre
It's now an elaborate, rarefied classical art form, but kabuki got its start in the red-light district across the river from Kyoto in 1603,...
The Medieval Manuscripts That Offer Health Care And Household Tips
Compiled by a French noblewoman circa 1256 and copied across Europe over the next two centuries, the Régime du corps ("body regimen") survives in...
YouTube’s Most Notorious Stars Seem To Be Burning Out Or Growing Up
"Many of them seem tired of the demands of online celebrity and seem to be moving on from pushing for ever more shocking videos....
Facebook And Instagram Hired Republican Strategy Firm To Trash TikTok In The News Media
Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's umbrella corporation for Facebook and the companies it's bought, has been paying conservative consulting group Targeted Victory to place letters to...
Classical Radio In The US Has Done Astoundingly Well Through The Pandemic
"Stations rose to the occasion to provide refuge from a world that felt scary and uncertain. That has translated into ratings records" — WDAV...
Russian Artists Abroad On Putin’s War And Oppression And The Prospects Of Returning Home
Sarah Kaufman talks to performers who've been expatriates for decades but sometimes work in Russia (such as conductor Vladimir Jurowski) and one (theater director...
$1.3 Million Worth Of Looted Asian Art Impounded From Ivy League School
"More than a dozen artifacts linked to infamous antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor were seized from an (unnamed) Ivy League school's art gallery on Wednesday...
There’s Still One Small Newspaper That’s Printed With Old-Time Linotype
Every week, up in the Colorado Rockies, editor and publisher Dean Coombs prints roughly 400 copies of The Saguache Crescent on a Mergenthaler Model...
How “For Colored Girls” Made It To Broadway In The First Place
"To fully appreciate Ntozake Shange's work, and what it means to have it return to Broadway this spring (in a production directed by Camille...
