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Hedge Fund Billionaire Turns Over $70 Million Of Looted Antiquities
Michael Steinhardt gave up for repatriation 180 objects that he had purchased from dealers over the years. In exchange for his cooperation, including never...
Promising Young African-American Conductor Lands Two Major European Posts
Ryan Bancroft, a 32-year-old Californian, led his first concert as chief conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Proms this past...
Another Politicized Museum Appointment Has Poland’s Art Community Furious Again
"In a move that has been roundly criticized by members of the Polish art community, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw announced...
Italy Bars From Arts Venues Anyone Without A “COVID Super Green Pass”
"The pass shows proof of vaccination, or recovery from the virus within the last six months. It will be needed to enter theatres, cinemas,...
The Diagram Prize For The Oddest Book Title Of 2021 Goes To —
Is Superman Circumcised?, which is, in fact, a serious study of the origins of the DC Comics character (subtitle: "The Complete Jewish History of...
Mezzo Jamie Barton Intends To Dismantle The Patriarchy, Or At Least Its Standard Opera...
"I've spent a lot of years doing roles where I'm the third person in a love triangle, … and the lead soprano almost always...
Spain’s “Scrap Cathedral”
Using bricks and wood scavenged from building sites, shards of stained glass, and stacked oil drums for pillars, former monk Justo Gallego spent six...
The Pivot That Got One Of L.A.’s Biggest Dance Centers Through The Pandemic
"In August, the Los Angeles-area stalwart the Lab closed its dance space, a 12,000-square-foot location. … Instead, it has transformed from a dance studio...
The Choreographer Who Designs Movement For People To Use Computers With
Lins Derry "is one of the world's foremost experts on the design of choreographic interfaces: the practice of using carefully designed bodily motions (think:...
Antony Sher, One Of Britain’s Great Stage Actors, Dead At 72
Though an accomplished writer and screen actor, he was most admired for theatre classics from Shakespeare to Pinter. In 1985, for Richard III and...
After 25 Years, “Citizen Ruth” Is Relevant Again, And Star Laura Dern Is Very...
In this Q&A, she says that in 1996, Harvey Weinstein and Miramax deliberately buried the movie, but that young people today (including her daughter's...
Why Sexual Grooming And Abuse Seem To Happen So Often In Ballet
"Unfortunately, ballet's rigid hierarchy, job scarcity and conditioning of dancers to be compliant makes it a comfortable environment for perpetrators to thrive in." Kathleen...
Biggest-Ever Vermeer Show Is Coming, And It Could Be The Last
At least two dozen of the 35 surviving paintings of Johannes Vermeer will be on display in the spring of 2023 at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum,...
Medieval Rock-Hewn Churches Of Lalibela Retaken By Ethiopian Government Forces
The UNESCO World Heritage Site and pilgrimage center has been one of the battlegrounds in the civil war between Ethiopia's central government and rebels...
NPR Morning Edition Host Noel King Is Leaving For A Sort-Of Competitor
She is moving to Vox Media as editorial director and co-host (with current host Sean Rameswaram) of Today, Explained, Vox's morning news podcast. What's...
A Playwright-Turned-Librettist Considers Opera’s Centuries-Long Penchant For Adapting Pre-Existing Properties
Adaptations from well-known sources go right from the beginnings of opera as a distinct genre circa 1600 (Peri's Euridice and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo) to the...
Italy Shows Britain (And The Rest Of Us) How To Return The Parthenon’s Looted...
"The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports has announced that Italy will return a fragment of the Parthenon Frieze, which has been on loan...
Female Filmmakers Are Rethinking And Reworking The Western
"These female-made Westerns are really tackling toxic masculinity and the ways in which men's attempts to prove themselves as men can backfire, rather than...
“The Russian Proust”, Who Died At Auschwitz, Will Have A Novel Published In English...
Yuri Felsen (né Nikolai Freudenstein), born in St. Petersburg in 1894, fled to Paris after the Revolution and was considered by Russian émigrés to...
Dominique Morisseau On Why She Pulled Her Play “Paradise Blue” From The Geffen Playhouse
"I felt in this situation that everybody's wellness was not considered. The theater makers that were causing the harm were being centered over the...
After 31 Years, A New Hint In The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft
A retired Boston jeweler says that, shortly after the 1990 heist, an acquaintance brought in a gilded bronze eagle for him to appraise —...
Hashing It Out: Is “West Side Story” Worth Doing In 2021, Or Is It...
As the Steven Spielberg/Tony Kushner film arrives, New York Times critics Jesse Green and Isabelia Herrera, playwright Matthew López, theater historian Misha Berson (author...
Alvin Lucier, Pathbreaking Avant-Garde Composer, Dead At 90
"During a career spanning six decades, Mr. Lucier moved from a respectable position as a traditional composer … to the near-personification of experimentalism in...
Turner Prize 2021 Goes To A Mockup Of A Belfast Bar
Array Collective has become the first Northern Irish artist(s) ever to receive the award. The winning work, titled The Druithaib's Ball, is a full-size...
If Boris Won’t Make British Audience Members Mask Up, Then Venues Will
When performances started up again in the UK over the summer, masks weren't made mandatory (much to the alarm of some visitors from abroad)....
