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Kennedy Center Special Deals For Trump Allies Investigated By Senate Democrats
“Senate Democrats are investigating the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts over its spending practices and booking deals involving political allies, accusing its leadership,...
Secret To Code Of “Kryptos” Sculpture Sells For Almost $1 Million
“The long sought-after solution to the fourth passage of Kryptos, artist Jim Sanborn’s secret-code-bearing sculpture at CIA headquarters, sold at auction Thursday night for...
Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait Sets New Price Record For Female Artists
The 1940 self-portrait of the artist asleep in bed, titled El sueño (La cama) — in English, “The Dream (The Bed)” — sold for...
Resurrecting Fats Waller’s Lost Broadway Musical
Early to Bed (1943) is the only book musical for which Waller wrote all the music, yet no official score or even libretto exists....
A Messy Crisis At France’s Leading Festival Of Graphic Novels And Comics
Bande dessinée (comic strip) is considered the “ninth art” in France, and the Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême is its pinnacle. But...
America’s Leading Medical Museum To Get $27 Million Upgrade
“The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which runs the popular Mütter Museum, announced plans on Monday to expand its footprint at 22nd and Chestnut...
How New Motion-Capture Technology Might Affect Dancers And Choreographers
An exec at the firm Move AI insists that the combination of motion-capture and AI software isn’t to replace dance artists but to streamline...
Ex-Employees Accuse Smoky Robinson Of Sexual Assault
“Two more former employees of the soul music star Smokey Robinson, both male and female, have alleged he sexually assaulted them, which he denies. Robinson...
One Company Is Flooding The Zone With Tens Of Thousands Of AI-Generated Podcasts —...
“Point AI, a startup with eight employees, (cranks) out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports to a detailed account of...
What’s Behind The Board Exodus At The Palm Springs Art Museum? Evidently, A Financial...
It’s not as simple as the museum not having enough money. An audit report indicates that there have been some very questionable accounting practices...
Titles About Middle East Dominate 2025 National Book Awards
Winners include Rabih Alameddine's Beirut-set The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Fiction), Omar El Akkad’s examination of the war...
Some Arts Organizations Are Turning Down NEA Grants Rather Than Follow Anti-DEI Rules
“After the (NEA) canceled a large percentage of its awards in May, organizations across the country have decided they would rather find money elsewhere than be...
Who Paid $12 Million For Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet? Believe It Or Not …
Yes, the themed-museum-and-entertainment franchise Ripley’s Believe It or Not! was the purchaser of Cattelan’s America at Sotheby’s in New York this week. In its...
San Diego Symphony Extends Contract With Music Director Rafael Payare
“The Venezuelan-born conductor — who became a naturalized US. citizen last year on the stage of the symphony’s Jacobs Music Center — began his...
Here’s One Israeli Orchestra That Isn’t Met With Protests When It Tours
The Galilee Chamber Orchestra, currently touring the US, is based in Nazareth (considered the cultural capital for Israel’s native Palestinians, about 20% of the...
Fort Worth Opera Tries A Pay-What-You-Can Program
For each of this weekend’s three performances of Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, set to Jean Cocteau’s 1946...
Howard University Is On A Mission To Preserve The History Of Black American Newspapers
The project is digitizing U.S. newspapers that are are now in the public domain (after 95 years). The center also has permission to place...
Norwegian National Ballet Did A Piece About Sami History By A Sami Choreographer. Oslo...
That question worried the choreographer, administrators, and the dancers, none of whom are Sami themselves. What’s more, the piece was about a particularly sensitive...
Wagnerian Tenor Gary Lakes Has Died At 75
A veteran who performed at the Metropolitan Opera 106 times and at many other companies, he was known for such challenging roles as Tannhäuser,...
La Jolla Playhouse Appoints Jessica Stone As Artistic Director
As of early next year, the two-time Tony nominee (for her direction of Kimberly Akimbo in 2023 and Water for Elephants in 2024) will...
Well, If We Thought The Color-Blind Casting Debate Was Settled, We Were Wrong
“It can now be hard to remember that colorblind casting was once an inflammatory proposition. … But the triumphal march of colorblind casting — hiring...
Alabama Public Television Decides Not To Break Up With PBS (Yet)
“Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted Tuesday to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort —...
Gustav Klimt Portrait Is Now Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Auctioned
The six-foot-tall painting, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16), shows a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons draped in a Chinese robe. Its sale...
Two Of New York’s Biggest Arts Philanthropists Died This Year. Will Anyone Follow In...
As one former museum director put it about Leonard Lauder and Agnes Gund, “They could open doors, they could bring people together, they would...
Giller Prize 2026 Goes To “Pick A Colour” By Souvankham Thammavongsa
This is the second time that the Laotian-Canadian author has won Canada’s top literary award; she is only the fourth author to do so,...
