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Protesters Disrupt Israel Philharmonic Concert In San Francisco, Audience Members Fight Back
Activists scattered throughout Davies Symphony Hall interrupted the show one by one, displaying Palestinian flags and yelling denunciations of the war in Gaza. Some...
45-Foot Nude Woman Finds Her Place In San Francisco After All
The statue’s much-discussed appearance in Union Square was called off when engineers determined that it was literally too heavy for the site to bear....
Gérard Depardieu Sexual Assault Trial Begins In Paris
“Depardieu, 76, is accused of having groped a 54-year-old set dresser and a 34-year-old assistant director during filming in 2021 of Les Volets Verts (‘The Green...
Valencia’s Annual Burning Of Statues
The burning, called Crema, of hundreds of wood-and-papier-mâché sculptures is the climax of the spring festival called Las Fallas in Spain’s third-largest city. This...
Meet Idina Menzel’s Latest Broadway Co-Star: A Tree
Stella, as she’s called, is the title character in the new show Redwood, and she has been very carefully designed. - The Christian Science...
The Broadway Choreographer Who Started A Hip-Hop Dance Company At An Ivy League School
Jennifer Weber — choreographer of Broadway hit & Juliet and creator of decade-old touring show The Hip-Hop Nutcracker — tried out for every dance...
Maybe Paul Gauguin Was Not The Syphilitic Colonialist Child-Molester People Had Thought He Was
Biographer Sue Prideaux has found materials indicating that the artist did not have syphilis at all, his lover was well over the age of...
Fred Eversley, Sculptor In “Light And Space” Movement, Dead At 83
“Whereas (most Light and Space) artists focused in their work on perception and transcendence, Eversley” — a former aerospace engineer — “was more interested...
U.S. Museums Might Be Better Off Financially If They Made General Admission Free: Report
The new study from the think tank Remuseum, based at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, is titled “Access, Scale, and Market Share” and presents...
Alexei Navalny, Anne Carson, Hisham Matar Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for...
San Francisco Symphony’s Music Director Is Not On Next Season’s Schedule
Esa-Pekka Salonen didn’t resign as the orchestra’s music director; he simply said that he wouldn’t renew his contract, which runs through the 2025 season....
Last Week Trump Ordered This Agency Dissolved. This Week He Appointed Its New Director.
“Last Friday, (he) signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services,...
Britain’s National Trust Freezes Hiring Due To Sudden Leap In Costs
“The National Trust has frozen all but essential recruitment and is pausing some projects as it faces a £10 million jump in labour costs...
Louisville Orchestra CEO Resigns After Less Than Three Years
Graham Parker told the board of his decision “to spend more time with his family” in January and stepped down at the end of...
What These Newly Deciphered 4,000-Year-Old Tablets Tell Us About The Akkadian Empire
These particular artifacts mostly demonstrate that the people running the empire day-to-day were (pick one or both) thorough, detail-oriented administrators or obsessive bureaucrats. -...
Behind the Scenes: How The Great Golden Toilet Robbery Went Down
Maurizio Cattelan’s satirical piece America, a fully functioning 18-karat gold toilet, was ripped from the plumbing and stolen from an exhibition in England in...
Barbara Hannigan, Herbie Hancock, And Queen Win 2025 Polar Music Prize
“Founded in 1989 by ABBA's Stig Anderson, the Polar Music Prize is an annual award, usually given to one contemporary and one classical musician....
How One Big U.S. City’s Arts Organizations Are Dealing With The Tumult At The...
As the rules and criteria for grants have abruptly changed, many organizations in Philadelphia are taking a watch-and-wait stance, some, like the Black-founded-and-run Philadanco,...
Jury Duty As Theatre, Or Theatre As Jury Duty
“Jury Games (is) one of several immersive theater productions that are taking jury service … and repackaging it as entertainment. Similar experiences will be...
City Of Miami Beach Ends Attempt To Evict Cinema For Showing Best Documentary Oscar...
“Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution last week describing the film No Other Land as antisemitic, but he withdrew it during Wednesday’s commission meeting after five...
After 37 Years, Chicago Sun-Times Film Critic Richard Roeper Is Leaving
“Roeper co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, succeeding Gene Siskel after his death. He announced his final day with the Sun-Times”— from which he...
National Symphony Music Director Gianandrea Noseda Will Stay On Through 2030-31
The four-year extension means that the Italian conductor will remain in D.C. at least through the National Symphony’s centennial season. - The Washington Post...
Radio Free Europe Sues Trump Administration Over Elimination Of Funding
“Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty — the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under Communism during the Cold War — said on Tuesday...
David Hallberg Extends As Artistic Director Of Australian Ballet
The five-year extension of his contract means that Hallberg will stay on in Melbourne at least through 2030. The company has also appointed a...
Pianist András Schiff Cancels All Tour Dates In United States
“(The) eminent concert pianist, who has boycotted strongman rule in Russia and his native Hungary, said on Wednesday that he would no longer perform...
