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Enforcing EU Sanctions, Finland Impounds $46 Million Worth Of Art Headed To Russia
The artworks, which belong to prominent Russian museums including the Hermitage and Tretyakov, were being returned from exhibitions in Italy and Japan. Finnish customs...
One Of Those Guys Who Writes SEO Clickbait Articles Fesses Up
"I spend my days writing optimized blog articles that feature short paragraphs and less-sophisticated wording — proven SEO winners — to help my clients...
Why “Fairview” Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury Finds Writing About Race Difficult
"Because to write about anything, you have to declare something and I find that very hard to do. I do very much feel: 'Is...
City Of Sarasota Approves Plan For New Waterfront Performing Arts Center
"The arts center will be the centerpiece of a 53-acre park on the Sarasota bayfront. It will have a 2,250-seat main stage theater and...
Olga Smirnova Opens Up About Walking Away From The Bolshoi Ballet And Running Away...
"My life totally changed in one day. In the morning, I didn't know I was going to leave Russia. And in the night, I...
Two-Time Oscar-Winning Director Asghar Farhadi In Iranian Court On Charge Of Plagiarism
The somewhat confusing case — earlier reports that the director had been convicted were later denied — concerns Farhadi's A Hero, an Oscar-nominee this...
Baltimore Symphony’s New CEO: Mark Hanson, Formerly Of San Francisco Symphony
"Hanson, 48, who already has led two orchestras larger than the BSO" — the San Francisco and Houston Symphonies — "will begin his new...
Palace Of Versailles Reopens The Tennis Court Where French Democracy Was Born (Wait, What?)
The Jeu de Paume room was built in 1686 for Louis XIV to play the game of the same name, an ancestor of modern...
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,...
