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Dalí Museum In Florida Announces $65 Million Expansion
The 35,000-square-foot addition to the St. Petersburg institution, expected to begin construction this year and open in 2028, will increase exhibition space, add a...
Is This Bust Of Jesus A Michelangelo? Independent Researcher Says Yes, Scholars Are Skeptical
Valentina Salerno, an actress and novelist with no formal training in art history, says she has reviewed numerous documents indicating that the sculpture, located...
Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road
“As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to...
Belarus Free Theatre To Appear At Venice Biennale
“The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official...
Where Stradivarius Found Just The Right Wood
“A study of the tree rings in Stradivarius violins, published in January in the journal Dendrochronologia, has revealed the most likely origin of some of...
Meet The Last Of The Signpainters For The Markets Of Naples
“Announcing the clementines, artichokes and other goods on offer are cheerful, hand-painted signs in sun-bright lettering. Quotidian but also quintessential, the signs have become...
Ballerinas Learn To Partner Each Other For Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s New Piece
Gentleman Jack, premiering this weekend at England’s Northern Ballet in Leeds, is Lopez Ochoa’s adaptation of a 2019 television series about Anne Lister, a...
Barbara Hannigan On The New Work She’s Premiering: “It’s Like Turning Your Soul Inside...
Composer Laura Bowler wrote the piece, which sets excerpts from Nobel laureate Han Kang’s The White Book, following her mother’s death in an accident...
The Artist Who Copied Out The Complete “Moby-Dick” By Hand
Bethany Collins spent four months transcribing the 900-odd-page text. She finds many of Melville’s concerns relevant today: “following the lone madman who will take...
Follow One Of Broadway’s Top Electricians Through His Workday
Jimmy Fedigan has worked on 125 shows, working up from substitute spotlight guy to overseeing the entire technical production of the musical Chicago. In...
Niche-Casting: Live Online Talk Shows About Specialized Topics Are On The Rise
Many of these productions function as modern-day trade magazines. One show targets car dealership owners. Another, TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network), focuses on tech overlords. Malcolm Harris,...
This Fast-Rising Standup Comedian Makes Dance An Integral Part Of His Show
“Chris Fleming … marries the idiosyncrasies of his writing — one bit has him pretending to be a dirty cast-iron skillet — with a...
Buckminster Fuller Sculpture Collapses Following Snowstorm
The piece, installed outdoors at the LongHouse Reserve on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, is one of only five existing versions of Fuller’s Fly’s Eye...
Downtown L.A.’s Latest, And Smallest, Performance Venue Looks Like An Electrical Box
Indeed, when artist S.C. Mero was installing it in the Arts District, police stopped her, concerned she was ripping out copper wire. Inside, the Electrical Box...
Buffalo’s Public Radio Stations To Rearrange Programming
“Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) plans to move programming currently on news/talk WBFO (88.7) and BTPM Classical WNED (94.5) in Buffalo, NY, resulting from...
Site Of Cancelled Pompidou Center Jersey City May Become Affordable Housing
“Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, who took office in January” and killed the project shortly afterward, “announced Monday that the city would work with...
Post-Assad, Syria’s Powerhouse TV Industry Has New Freedoms And New Challenges
“While Egypt is known for its movies and Lebanon for its pop singers and composers, Syria’s TV series” — especially the high-profile dramas aired...
Britain’s Ballet Black At 25
Founding Artistic Director Cassa Pancho: “There was nowhere in this country for Black classical dancers to be hired. It was suggested to me that...
This Little Company Brings The Ephemerality Of Theater To A Whole New Level
Every month, in an American Legion hall or women’s center (anywhere but a theater) in Los Angeles, Public Assembly presents three 12-minute plays that...
Should AI Be Used In Grantmaking? If So, How?
Arts-minded folks are likely to hate the idea, but there are pressures which could push toward it: increasing application volumes, limited staff capacity, and...
Painting Unseen For 65 Years Authenticated As Rembrandt
The artwork, Vision of Zacharias in the Temple, has been in private hands since 1961, a year after art historians declared it not to...
Rebecca Benaroya, Doyenne Of Seattle Arts Philanthropists, Has Died At 103
“Together with her late husband, real estate developer Jack Benaroya, Becky Benaroya championed dozens of arts, humanitarian and civic organizations including the Seattle Symphony,”...
Several Sets Of Regulators Could Still Block The Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
Among those regulators are the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority. What’s...
Paramount Says It Won’t Sell Off Warner Bros. Cable Businesses
“Paramount Skydance’s leadership says there are no plans to divest or spinoff cable assets after merging with Warner Bros. Discovery for $110 billion. The...
Chicago Launches Plan To Create Loop Arts District
“The district will be supported by nearly 90 Loop arts organizations that will develop the neighborhood as an arts and culture destination. … (It)...
