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How To Spot A Forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragment
"In 2009, the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and- crafts stores, began acquiring a series of weathered fragments advertised as...
Thousands Are Angry About New Bronze Doors For 800-Year-Old Cathedral
"Plans to mark the 800th anniversary of Burgos's magnificent Gothic cathedral with three enormous new bronze doors have ushered in an unholy row, with...
Could This Series Be The ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ For The 14th Amendment?
"The new Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America, produced by Will Smith and Larry Wilmore, seeks to not through song, but extended,...
What’s At Stake For Chicago With The Sale Of Second City (To A New...
Chris Jones: "The issue now is the future of an institution that is not just a major tourist draw to Chicago but one of...
Dolly Parton To Tennessee: Please Don’t Put A Statue Of Me In The State...
"I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any...
City Of London Abandons Plan For New Concert Hall
"An ambitious £288m concert hall that was supposed to be 'the Tate Modern of classical music' has been scrapped by the City of London...
New Concert Hall For London Was A Doomed Project
Martin Kettle: "Justifying the cost, the priority, the location and the uses to which the hall would be put were all delicate tasks in...
Arts Groups Get Snagged In Facebook’s Australia News Ban
As the Australian government pushed the social media giant, along with Google, to pay news outlets there for use of their material for links,...
ABT Alum Takes Reins At Uruguay’s National Ballet
In 2012, a different ABT alum, Julio Bocca, was named director of the Ballet Nacional del Sodre in Montevideo with the remit to raise...
12th-Century Moorish Bathhouse Uncovered In Seville Beer Hall
There had always been rumors, and a few hints in surviving records, that there had been a hammam where the Cervercería Giralda now stands,...
(Un)Daunted: Crystal Pite On Choreographing For The Paris Opera Ballet
"You feel the weight of the famous Palais Garnier opera house itself, and the history and legacy of the legendary dancers who have performed...
The Woman Who Saved Samba, Back When It Was Outlawed
"A century ago, samba becoming synonymous with Brazil's cultural identity would have seemed impossible. In the early 20th century, Rio's ruling elite were ashamed...
U.S. Newspapers Are Starting To Accept The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions...
Why It’s Time To Reopen Movie Theaters
"Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should...
For First Time, Boston Symphony Will Have Female CEO
"In picking , the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" — the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where...
Marfa, Texas Is Getting An(other) Arts Center
"For the last year, Michael Phelan — a contemporary artist who has lived in Marfa full time since 2014 — has been quietly planning...
UK’s National Theatre Ends Tours To Europe
Yes, it's because of Brexit: a statement from a company spokesperson said that "the potential additional costs for visas and current uncertainty around social...
Did The Louvre Just Ruin Its Cy Twombly Mural?
"After a renovation of a storied gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Cy Twombly Foundation has claimed that a monumental ceiling painting...
This Summer’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival Will Happen (Almost) As Normal
Says managing director Sarah Hopwood, "We are determined to present a festival this summer in whatever form is possible. We consider this essential to...
‘Like The Metro At Rush Hour’: Vatican Museums Reopen To The Public, And It’s...
"Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last...
Indianapolis Museum/Newfields CEO Resigns After Week Of Outcry
"We are sorry. We have made mistakes. We have let you down. We are ashamed of Newfields' leadership and of ourselves," the board said...
Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels
"Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is...
The Five Flavors of Strategy
As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again....
How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
"When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews...
Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
