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France’s Culture Minister To Stand Trial For Alleged Corruption In Previous Post
Prosecutors allege that Rachida Dati, who was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, accepted €900,000 in lawyer’s fees between 2010 and...
Trump Will Pull US Out Of UNESCO For Second Time
“’Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,’ State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. (She)...
People Keep Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana
The notorious banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall, titled Comedian, debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, where a visitor walked into the gallery and ate the fruit....
The Difficult Birth Of The Fokine/Ravel “Daphnis et Chloé” At Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Mikhail Fokine’s idea for a ballet on the Greek myth was summarily rejected at Russia's Imperial Ballet. Sergei Diaghilev, however, was happy to take...
Britain’s Oldest Working Theatre To Get $41 Million Renovation
St. George’s Guildhall, located in the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn and dating from 1445, and the surrounding buildings and courtyards are to undergo...
UK’s Broadcasting Regulator Says Public Service TV Is Becoming An “Endangered Species”
“A report by Ofcom warns that UK-focused programming made by the British public service broadcasters (PSBs) – the BBC, ITV and Channels 4 and...
Los Angeles Times Owner Plans To Put The Newspaper On The Stock Market
Patrick Soon-Shiong, the pharma billionaire who bought the L.A. Times in 2018 (and was seen as a savior at the time but no longer),...
98-Year-Old Conductor Herbert Blomstedt Gets The “CBS Sunday Morning” Treatment
“Herbert Blomstedt is still conducting major symphony orchestras around the world at the age of 98. And as correspondent Martha Teichner reports, he plans...
Nonprofit Files International Criminal Court Case Against Russia For Plundering Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage
“For Ukraine, For Their Freedom and Ours!, a French nonprofit, has filed a case with the International Criminal Court (in the Hague), accusing Russia of the ‘systematic,...
Lyricist Alan Bergman, Who Co-Wrote Hit Songs, TV Themes, And Film Scores, Has Died...
“Blending Tin Pan Alley sentiment and contemporary pop, the Bergmans” — Alan and his wife, Marilyn (who passed in 2022) — “crafted lyrics known...
San Francisco’s Flagship Art Museums Lay Off 5% Of Staff
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, umbrella organization for the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, is eliminating 12 positions. A statement explained...
Donald Trump Sues The Wall Street Journal And Rupert Murdoch for $10 Billion
“Donald Trump sued Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters on Friday over an explosive report that the president wrote...
Minnesota Orchestra’s New CEO: Isaac Thompson Of Oregon Symphony
“Isaac Thompson has been named president and chief executive officer of the Minnesota Orchestra, returning to his home area after two years of holding...
What Happens When You Expose Octopuses To Art?
The Japanese artist Shimabuku wanted to find out — so he started making artworks for them. - CNN
Stephen Petronio Company To Give Its Last-Ever Performances At Jacob’s Pillow Next Week
The 69-year-old choreographer announced earlier this year that this season, the company’s 40th anniversary, is its last. Two years ago, he announced that the...
The Most Dangerous Book In America?
“What has been labeled the ‘bible of the racist right’ has influenced American culture in a way only fiction can. … There is no...
Detroit Opera, Facing Big Budget Shortfall, Cancels Next Season’s First Production
Following steep drops in donations and especially government funding, the company has called off all performances of Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West this...
Canada’s Giller Prize Will Close Down This Year Without New Sponsor Or Government Funding
“The annual $100,000 prize for fiction ended its 20-year partnership with lead sponsor Scotiabank earlier this year. At that time, Giller Foundation executive director Elana...
Meet The New Champion Of The Left-Hand Piano Repertoire
Nicholas McCarthy, a 35-year-old Briton who was born without a right hand, has not only conquered the well-known works such as the Ravel concerto,...
Making The Gisèle Pelicot Trial Into Theatre
“The three-hour performance (at the Avignon Festival) has been created by Milo Rau, the Swiss director and playwright acclaimed for his theatre interpretations of...
Steve Benson, Provocative, Pulitzer-Winning Editorial Cartoonist, Is Dead At 71
“(He) evolved from a conservative, high-profile member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into an outspoken atheist and liberal, all while...
Woody Allen Is Now A Novelist
Since the 1970s, Allen has written several books of short stories and essays, as well as a memoir, Apropos of Nothing, published in 2020, but...
Congress Approves Trump’s Clawback Of All Public Radio And TV Funding
The bill reclaims the entire $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the next two years for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB distributes two-thirds...
CBS Cancels “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” In A “Purely Financial Decision”
The cancellation, effective next May, of US late-night TV’s highest-rated program comes as CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Global, seeks FCC approval of an $8.4...
Wisconsin Has A New Professional Ballet Company
Wisconsin Dance Theatre, based in the southern part of the state between Milwaukee and Madison, just opened its debut production — A Hero’s Homecoming,...
