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Cue the Regulators! Met’s Deaccession Regression Attracts the Critical Eye of NYS Attorney General’s...
The Metropolitan Museum’s adoption of the Association of Art Museum Directors’ relaxed deaccession standards, driven by the financial challenges of the pandemic, has caught...
Will European Audiences Come Back To The Theatre?
"The shift has raised questions about whether audiences will return to theaters in the same numbers as before, and whether a blend of...
Musée Rodin In Paris May Be Ordered To Release 3D Scans Of Sculptures
The museum has 3D scans of its holdings but is extremely reluctant to release them to the public, since the institution supports itself by...
The Astounding Pianist And Composer Who Was Born Into Slavery
Born without eyesight on a Georgia plantation in 1849, "Blind Tom" Wiggins learned to play piano by ear and became a prodigiously gifted player,...
Patrick Dupond, Star And Director Of Paris Opera Ballet, Dead At 61
He entered the company's school at age 10, joined the company at 16 and was an étoile at 21. He became one of the...
How Did Dr. Seuss Himself Respond When Criticized For Racist Caricatures?
Philip Nel, a Seuss scholar (yes, there is such a thing): "Yes, there are some examples of him revising in response to criticism, and...
Dr. Seuss Sales Soar After Publishers Withdraw Six Books With Racist Caricatures
In the wake of the decision by Dr. Seuss Enterprises to stop printing and selling If I Ran the Zoo, And to Think That...
Illinois’s Reopening Rules Make No Sense For Chicago’s Arts Venues
Under the current Phase 4 of Gov. Pritzker's five-phase plan, indoor gatherings are limited to a maximum capacity of 50% or 50 people per...
BAM Gave Its President Nearly $1 Million To Buy New Apartment (And Then She...
When the Brooklyn Academy of Music hired Katy Clark as its new CEO, the board wanted her to live in Brooklyn, where real estate...
New York City Is Reopening Movie Theaters
"It was a surprise to many when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced without fanfare last week that movie theaters in the five boroughs could open...
COVID Is Back At La Scala Ballet
The opera house's regular testing regimen revealed that 35 dancers and three administrative staffers at the ballet company had the novel coronavirus. Performances, rehearsals,...
Germany To Start Reopening Museums
"Chancellor Angela Merkel and German state leaders have agreed to start easing restrictions. If coronavirus cases are below 100 per 100,000 people over seven...
What Exactly Constitutes A Good Female Body For Ballet?
Gia Kourlas: "For Lovette, a member of New York City Ballet since 2010, this pause from performance has brought some clarity. 'I'm not...
Streaming Music Is Big Business — So Why Do Classical Musicians Get So Little...
The payout to a musician from a Spotify subscriber is about $.003 per stream — and only one-fifteenth of that tiny figure for a...
Chris Barber, Trombonist Who Shaped Britain’s Jazz Scene, Dead At 90
" was one of the most accessible and charismatic figures to emerge from the New Orleans-inspired jazz revivalist movement that played such a significant...
COVID Could Not Stop The Wooster Group
"They're our holy fools, who — even when no one is watching — keep the art's sacred fires burning. Rehearsal isn't so much a...
Alt-Weeklies Looked Doomed Even Before The Pandemic. Here’s How Some Of Them Have Hung...
The structural troubles those papers were facing before 2020 were bad enough; then COVID shut down their main sources of ad revenue (performance venues,...
Why Do Asian Actors Keep Getting Overlooked For Awards, Even As The Films They’re...
Parasite got six Oscar nominations and four awards, none of them for any of its actors. That case continued a pattern that has held...
How Weird Are This Season’s Tony Awards Going To Be?
Weirder than ever before, no doubt. As the voters fill out their ballots this week and next, none of the shows they're considering have...
Read Nabokov’s Long-Lost Superman Poem, Now In Print At Last
"The Man of To-morrow's Lament" — written as the superhero's internal monologue as he walks through the city with Lois Lane, ruing that they...
Small-Scale Indoor Performances To Return To New York In April
" said that arts, entertainment and events venues can reopen April 2 at 33 percent capacity, with a limit of 100 people indoors or...
Louvre Gets Back 450-Year-Old Armor Stolen 39 Years Ago
"A military antiques expert alerted police after being called in to give advice regarding an inheritance in Bordeaux in January and becoming suspicious about...
Reviving Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Six Years After ISIS Destroyed It
It was six years ago last week that extremist forces rampaged through the place, smashing ancient Assyrian sculptures with sledgehammers, burning books, looting anything...
So Who Made Pantone The Boss Of Colors Anyway?
Pantone started out, under another name, as a printing company, and one of its employees, Larry Herbert, got tired of trying to figure out...
‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which now seems almost anodyne, was the subject of a criminal prosecution in 1960, but Lolita, which came out the previous...
