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This Year, The Salzburg Easter Festival Will Be The Salzburg All Saints Festival
The state of the pandemic being what it is just now, management didn't want to cancel the event entirely as they did last year,...
AAMD’s Deaccession Dilemma (& the Met’s Equivocations)
Is the “slippery slope” on the verge of becoming even more treacherous? In conversations with its members this week, the Association of Art Museum...
Your Guide To The Nastiest Profanities In French
A hard-R-rated primer to what gets said in the language of Molière when one is really f***ing p****d off, what you can use to...
Tony Hendra, Comic Writer/Editor/Actor, Dead At 79
" began writing and performing comedy while a student at Cambridge University, traveling in the same circles as future members of the Monty Python...
How The Revenue From Music Streaming Gets Parcelled Out To Artists (And Why It’s...
"Clearly, the 'every track play pays the same' model (known in the jargon as 'platform-centric') has the potential to seriously damage classical music and...
How The Breakdancing Competition At The 2024 Olympics Will Work
"Sixteen b-boys and 16 b-girls will compete in Paris, chosen through qualifying events organized by WDSF on five continents. There will be no numbered...
Between Budget Cuts And COVID, Mexico’s Arts Sector Is In Full-On Crisis
"Citing corruption and waste under previous administrations, centre-left President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced hefty budget cuts across all government departments in May 2019....
It Was A Mosaic From Caligula’s Pleasure Yacht. It Became A Park Avenue Coffee...
"Officials unveiled the mosaic at the Museum of Roman Ships, which was built in the 1930s specifically to house the treasures of two huge...
The Oprah Effect: What Being Interviewed By Winfrey Can Do For You
" means being ready to expose yourself to her satisfaction, in exchange for having one of the world's great empaths help you reshape your...
Theatre In America After A Year Of The Pandemic
Rob Weinert-Kendt: "So what happened — what changed — in this past 12 months, and how will this lost, frantic year be remembered? I...
‘Culture Of Fear’ At Detroit Institute Of Arts, Outside Study Found
"The Detroit Institute of Arts is taking steps to improve its workplace culture following a critical review by outside investigators who said they had...
What Does Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Bill Have For The Arts?
"The relief bill includes $470 million earmarked for cultural organizations, with $135 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National...
Only Half Of Britain’s Billion-Pound Arts Relief Fund Has Been Paid Out
"The National Audit Office … examined the allocation of the funds so far and found that of the £1bn that has been made...
Hindu Supremacists Force Shutdown Of Indian Theatre Festival
"The annual theatre festival organised by the Indian People's Theatre Association in the small town of Chhatarpur became the object of abuse and violent...
Inside The Implosion Of ‘Reply All’: Where The Fallout Fell
The conflict over the podcast's, and producing company Gimlet Media's, diversity and equity problems unfolded amidst a fraught unionization campaign and negotiations for the...
The Implosion of ‘Reply All’ And How Gimlet Media Went Awry
When Reply All, Gimlet's tentpole podcast, began airing a four-part series about the reportedly unhealthy and racially exclusionary workplace atmosphere at Bon Appétit magazine,...
Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Lou Ottens, Dead At 94
As chief of new product development for Philips in 1960, Ottens invented the first portable tape recorder. But it was reel-to-reel, a format which...
Men Dancing En Pointe: Why Should Only The Women Get To Do It?
Dancing on the tips of the toes has always been part of the ballerina mystique; traditionally, men have done it only for comedy. Now...
The Switch To Virtual Concerts Has Changed These Musicians’ Work Permanently
"It seems like a good time, as the pandemic continues to block live performances in all but a few socially distanced, outdoor shows, to...
Yahoo News Is On TikTok? Yes, And It Has Over A Million Followers
Yahoo may be seen by much of the minivideo app's Gen Z core audience as a dinosaur, but Yahoo News has been on TikTok...
How The Arts Can Be A Tool In Community Wealth-Building
"Too often, arts-based approaches undermine rather than support equity, as Richard Florida … now acknowledges. … How does one ensure arts-based development avoids this...
Touring Broadway Shows Are Gearing Up To Restart In The Fall
"Subscription packages for some of Broadway's biggest hits are being sold at a handful of the nation's performing arts centers, while a host of...
These Fragments Were Dismissed As Fake 140 Years Ago. Were They Actually The Oldest...
An antiquities dealer in Jerusalem came forward in 1883 with what he claimed were fragments of the original book of Deuteronomy. After scholars at...
Netherlands Is Creating Master Blueprint For Returning Artworks Looted From Colonies
" On 29 January, the government of prime minister Mark Rutte became the first in Europe to approve a central mechanism for repatriating colonial...
Angry French Arts Workers Occupy Theatres, Demanding Reopening
"Theatres, cinemas, museums and other cultural spaces have been shut since France's last full lockdown in October, and … thousands marched in cities across...
