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A Hudson River School Painting On Public View For The First Time In 152...
In 1873, Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Autumn in the Ramapo Valley, Erie Railway was taken to London by its commissioner. It remained overseas until last year,...
China Threatens To Jail Anyone Who Performs, Listens To, Or Shares Uyghur Songs
During a meeting in the historic Uyghur city of Kashgar in October, authorities warned residents that performing, playing, uploading onto social media, or storing...
Māori Vogue Balls Hit The Mainstream In New Zealand
The voguing scene, led by Māori (indigenous New Zealanders) and immigrants from the Pacific islands, only got started in the country about a decade...
Like “The Vandals In Rome”: Senators Investigate How MAGA Allies Are “Looting” Kennedy Center
Led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Democrats on the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee say they’ve obtained documents suggesting that the Center is...
Australia’s Capital Will Finally Get A Big-City-Sized Performing Arts Center
“The new (2,000-seat) theatre will allow Canberra to host major national and international theatre productions that currently don’t visit Canberra because our 1965-built Canberra...
If We Want More People To Read, We Should Tell Them That Reading Is...
“This would be a more effective way to attract young people, and it also happens to be true. When literature was considered transgressive, moralists...
Rightist Politicians Instigate Parliamentary Inquiry On Impartiality Of France’s National Broadcaster
“The UDR party, an ally of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally, set up the inquiry amid far-right claims that public TV and radio has...
Russia Reopens Theater It Bombed Out In Occupied Ukrainian City
“Moscow-installed authorities marked the rebuilding of the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater (in Mariupol) with a gala concert on the building’s new main stage...
Janet Fish, Dead At 87, Painted Radiant Still Lifes As The Art World Favored...
“As rendered by Fish, bottles of window-cleaning fluid, jars of honey, plastic-wrapped trays of fruit, and glass vases bursting with flowers appeared to glow...
Historic Amsterdam Church Destroyed In New Year’s Eve Fire
The Vondelkerk, a 154-year-old Gothic Revival church which had been deconsecrated and run as a concert and events venue in recent years, ignited shortly...
Artnet’s “The Worst Art We Saw In 2025”
By no means is all of this bad art actually from 2025, though a fair bit of it is. In fact, one choice (this...
The Return Of Scott Rudin Was One Of Broadway’s Big Surprises Of 2025
Even four years after his decades-long, widely-gossiped-about abuse of his employees was publicly exposed and he was cancelled, few observers were expecting him to...
2025’s Big Art World Controversies
The (let’s say) unfortunate ways in which the Louvre’s inadequate security and deteriorating physical plant were revealed, a major gallery abruptly shutting down, two...
Six Ways To Dance Like A Shaker In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall lays out the half-dozen movements which were most important to the film’s dance sequences — and recounts how those movements changed...
The American Publishing Industry’s Tumultuous 2025
Much of the tumult came from the Trump White House, some more of it came from local and state officeholders banning particular books from...
LitHub’s 50 Biggest Literary Stories Of 2025
A book prize was "paused" when half the nominees dropped out because they objected to another nominee, Reading Rainbow came back, Salman Rushdie’s attacker...
The Entertainment Industry’s Biggest Innovations Of 2025
“The year saw the industry take some big swings, like the Las Vegas Sphere getting into the theatrical business with an enhanced version of...
Kennedy Center Board Rigged Bylaws So That Only Trump’s Appointees Could Vote
“The current bylaws, obtained by The Washington Post, were revised in May to specify that board members designated by Congress — known as ex...
Beleaguered San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels Yet Another Concert
“The organization has canceled its Classics 5 concert, which was scheduled for January 16. … The Philharmonic is made up largely of musicians who previously performed...
Why 2025’s Hoped-For Movie-Theater Revival Didn’t Pan Out
There were reasons to feel optimistic about the trajectory of an industry that has been knocked down and counted out for half a decade....
Carmen de Lavallade, Pathbreaking Dancer And Choreographer, Has Died At 94
She beguiled audiences for seven decades, toggling between ballet and modern dance, film and television, concert stage and nightclub. Her noble bearing, high cheekbones,...
Was The Bayeux Tapestry Meant To Be Lunchtime Reading For Monks?
That’s the theory proposed by historian Benjamin Pohl. It’s fairly certain that the tapestry was conceived and designed by the monks of St. Augustine’s...
Check Out Some Of 2025’s Most Scathing Book Reviews
“Among the books being driven into the woods by pitchfork-wielding villagers this year: Louis C.K.’s masturbatory debut novel, Olivia Nuzzi’s delusional fortune cookie, Woody...
An “Art Vortex”: The Plan For New York State’s Most Strangely-Shaped Performing Arts Center
It is formally named the Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center, but absolutely everyone calls it The Egg. The Albany landmark will soon reopen...
Artistic Director Of Vancouver’s Ballet BC Announces Departure
“Medhi Walerski will leave his role as of June 30, 2027, following the company’s big 40th-anniversary season. Walerski has led the company since July...
