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Classical Music Is Good For Babies, Even Before They’re Born: Study
A team of researchers in Mexico worked with 36 pregnant women, playing them "The Swan" from Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals and Arpa de...
NEA To Shift Funding Priorities Toward U.S. 250th Anniversary
"The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that it will alter its 2026 grant guidelines, eliminating a fund for underserved communities and prioritizing...
Fulton County, Which Encompasses Atlanta, Cuts Arts Funding By More Than Half
County commissioners on Wednesday rejected calls to undo their reduction of their arts and culture budget from the previous $3 million to $1.3 million....
Christie’s Pulls El Greco From Auction At Request Of Romanian Government
The painting, which depicts the martyrdom of St. Sebastian, had been in the collection of the Romanian monarchy. The country's postwar government "allegedly" had...
Karla Sofia Gascón Says She Will Sit Out Awards Campaigning
Following criticism from Emilia Pérez director Jacques Audiard (who called Gascón "self-destructive"), she posted on Instagram, "I decided … to let the work talk...
All About Screen Savers (Remember Those?)
"Today’s Tedium ponders the screen saver, including how we got it and what it represents today. The toasters are flying." - Tedium
This Opera Company Is Devoting Its Entire Season To An Accordion-Playing Lesbian
That would be the late Pauline Oliveros, great American maverick and pioneer of "deep listening." The company: Long Beach Opera, for which an all-Oliveros...
Restoring 20-Foot-Tall Rubens Paintings Is Quite A Workout
They can't even bring paintings that size to the conservation studio; the studio has to be brought to the paintings. So the conservators are...
Arthur Miller Wrote Six Comedies. And They’re Funny.
What's more, the four Miller tragedies that usually get performed have some funny parts as well (at least if the production is good). Yet,...
One Of Joan Didion’s Journals Will Be Published This Spring
"Discovered in a filing cabinet next to the American writer’s desk after her death in 2021, Notes to John is addressed to Didion’s husband,...
Culture Warrior Jordan Peterson Is Having Trouble Selling Tickets In San Francisco
In fact, he's already cancelled half a dozen West Coast tour dates. Imagine that. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
UNESCO Has Completed Reconstruction Of Historic Landmarks In Mosul
The $144 million project was to rebuild the Great Mosque of Al-Nouri and other structures in Mosul's old city which were destroyed during the...
Chicago’s Cultural Commissioner Under Fire For Skipping Meetings And Bullying Staff
Leaders in the city's arts scene say that Commissioner Clinée Hedspeth has postponed meetings and has little communication with them. Meanwhile, about a quarter...
Stephen Petronio Will Close Down His Dance Company This Summer
"What doesn’t work anymore, (he) said, is what he has been doing for decades: sustaining a company of dancers through touring and grants." The...
Harvard Art Museums Receive Major Gift Of Edvard Munch Works
The bequest by the late collectors Lynn and Phillip Straus includes two paintings and 62 prints — raising the total number of Munch works...
Daniel Barenboim Reveals That He Has Parkinson’s Disease
"The 82-year-old musician has been in failing health for some years, and in January 2023 resigned from his position as the general music director...
Deciphering A 1,900-Year-Old True Crime Tale
This papyrus, dating to roughly 130 CE, had been catalogued as written in Nabataean, the language once spoken at Petra. But researcher Hannah Cotton...
The Anger Behind Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-Winning Comedy “English”
The Iranian-American playwright says she was inspired "by a lifetime of seeing people treat my parents, who speak English as a second language, as...
What You Get When You Cross Crystal Pite And Simon McBurney
You get Figures in Extinction, a trilogy which choreographer Pite and director McBurney have been creating for Nederlands Dans Theater. "The idea was to...
BBC Asked Minority-Group Members What The Network Could Do Better. Their Answers Were Quite...
"(Researchers) gathered a group of 15 to 20 people monthly for six months to talk about how they viewed news in general and the...
After Two Years In Germany, Kyiv Symphony Musicians Wonder If Their Exile Will Ever...
"More than 1,000 days after she and her fellow musicians were first displaced, (violinist Tetiana) Martyniuk-Bahrii said she had grown accustomed to the uncertainty....
San Francisco Opera Announces Another Abbreviated Season
Before COVID, the company typically offered eight productions per season, but, as with the current season, there will be only six productions plus a...
Ron DeSantis Wants To Restore Florida’s Arts Funding — With Strings Attached
"A year after (he) controversially vetoed $32 million in arts grant funding, he wants most of it back. But he … wants language in...
Bass Paul Plishka, Whose Met Opera Career Spanned 50 Years, Has Died At 83
Though he also sang with the great companies of London, Paris, Milan, Munich, San Francisco, and other cities, he's best known for his long...
Art Collector Who Bought $6.2 Million Banana Sues David Geffen Over Giacometti
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency mogul who earned international notoriety when he purchased Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (the banana duct-taped to a wall) and ate it,...