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‘Salvator Mundi’ May Be by Leonardo, But Its Hand May Not Be
Two different studies — one by the Louvre, the other by an independent art historian and her AI researcher husband — find that the...
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Has A New Director (And She’s An Alum)
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13...
Remember That Fake Gauguin The Getty Bought? They Were Warned
"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m...
Furloughed Staff To Waterstones: Please, At Least Pay Us Minimum Wage! Waterstones: That ‘Would...
Britain's relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee's salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers...
When Dancers Form COVID Bubbles
A look at how small groups of (properly tested and quarantined) dancers and choreographers got together (at long last!) to make work this past...
Build Back Better
At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time...
A “Unique Addition” to the Whitman Repertoire
When PostClassical Ensemble undertook our world premiere recording of the 1944 radio play Whitman, we did so believing that Bernard Herrmann's Whitman setting is...
Should Prime-Time TV Series Work In COVID Storylines? Or Is That The Last Thing...
"In rooms all over the internet, hospital dramas, first-responder shows, situation comedies and courtroom procedurals were having similar debates. To ignore the events...
Archaeologists Discover Stone And Bronze Age Burials At Site Of Stonehenge Tunnel
"Bronze age graves, Neolithic pottery and the vestiges of a mysterious C-shaped enclosure that might have been a prehistoric industrial area are among the...
How Did A Book Of New Poetry Get Passed Off As The Work Of...
Matty Weingast's The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns was marketed by America's leading Buddhist publisher — and hailed by many...
Could We Really Revive The Federal Theatre Project? How Would That Work In 2021?
The short answer is that it couldn't work the way it did in the 1930s: the legal and theatrical landscape then was too different....
Libel Lawsuit In Poland Could Derail Holocaust Research, Observers Fear
"Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles' behaviour during the Second World War, a case whose outcome is...
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Suit Over Guelph Treasure
The collection of ornate medieval reliquaries is now held by Berlin's state museums; the American heirs of German Jewish art dealers, claiming that the...
Poetry Magazine Faces Down Furor Over Printing Work By Sex Offender
" has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition dedicated to...
Was Philadelphia’s Leading Classical Radio Host Just Fired?
Gregg Whiteside, who for 17 years hosted weekday morning programming and the Philadelphia Orchestra concert broadcasts at WRTI, abruptly disappeared from the air last...
Stunning Aztec Eagle Carving Unearthed In Mexico City
The 42"-by'28" bas-relief of a golden eagle, carved from a reddish volcanic rock called tezontle, was found by archaeologists at the Templo Mayor, the...
Kirill Serebrennikov, Russia’s Most Famous Dissident Director, Fired From His Moscow Theatre
On Tuesday, Serebrennikov hosted an event at the Gogol Center — which he has directed since its opening in 2012 and which has become...
Dante’s Descendant Wants Poet’s Conviction On Corruption Charges Reversed
In 1302, caught on the wrong side in one of Florence's perpetual factional struggles, Dante Alighieri was fined and banished on a probably trumped-up...
Taking Ballet Class Outdoors In The Middle Of A New York Winter
"Across the city, amateur and professional dancers are donning sneakers, masks and lots of layers to carry on with a familiar ritual that, for...
The Times’s ‘Five Minutes That Will Make You Love {Piano/Sopranos/String Quartets}’ Series? It’s...
Says classical music editor Zachary Woolfe (who came up with the idea in the shower), "It has doubled our audience for classical music. It's...
Staging Theatre In A Row Of Empty Miami Beach Storefront Windows
"The pandemic closed the city on March 13, the eve of the opening of Miami New Drama's first musical. To keep the 5-year-old company...
Why Men Should Spend Less Time Watching Porn And More Time Reading Erotica
"Finding your thrills in erotic literature, rather than in video scenes, might take a little longer, but it means caring more about the characters...
AI Robot Recommends ‘The 67 Best Books To Give A Woman’
"On its face this list is a little concerning — in a few years, robots might render humans' book-recommending jobs obsolete. I, a human...
Golden Globe Nominations 2021: ‘Mank’, ‘The Crown’, ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, ‘Nomadland’
Streaming services thoroughly dominate the roster: Hulu took 9 nominations, Amazon Studios 10, and Netflix a whopping 42. Among notable details: Tom Hanks and...
Mexico Makes Legal Claim To Collection Of Pre-Columbian Art About To Be Sold At...
"The National Institute of Anthropology and History, a division of the Mexico government dedicated to the preservation of cultural artifacts, has filed a legal...
