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BBC Execs, Facing Steep Cuts, Want Defense Budget To Help Pay For World Service
“BBC executives are hoping to ease the burden on the stretched Foreign Office budget (which usually funds the World Service) by classifying some of...
Ivan Klíma, Most Prolific Of Czech Dissident Authors, Has Died At 94
“Over a career that spanned more than six decades, Mr. Klíma emerged as one of Central Europe’s most distinctive literary voices, chronicling what it...
Did The Postwar Modernists Ruin The Whole Idea Of New Classical Music For Everyone...
Countless casual classical listeners will tell you they hate the “new stuff.” When asked for an example, they’ll cite some highly dissonant music written...
Bari Weiss Is Now Editor-In-Chief Of CBS News
“Paramount said Monday that it has bought the news and commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss” — a long-controversial...
Martha Graham’s Work Is Finally Getting Serious Attention In Britain
“I was thinking, she’s the mother of modern dance,” said English National Ballet artistic director Aaron S Watkin. “She’s so iconic and famous, but...
Here Are The Finalists For The 2025 National Book Awards
Fiction by Rabih Alameddine, Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell and a memoir of family tragedy by Yiyun Li are among … five nominees in each of five competitive...
Broadway Shows Have Started Choosing Baltimore To Launch National Tours
“There are various reasons why, including Baltimore’s proximity to New York, the city’s revered venues and history as a theater town. ... More recently,...
One Of Georgia’s Biggest Opera Stars Is Leader Of Protests Against Government
Paata Burchuladze, a 70-year-old bass who had a major international career, has become a leader of mass opposition to the government of the pro-Putin...
With No Warning, Cleveland State Univ. Hands Its Student-Run Radio Station Over To Local...
WCSB, which opened in 1975, had offered an extremely wide range of programs (classical, reggae, jazz, talk, hip-hop, etc.) typical of student-run university stations....
Unknown Music By Henry Purcell Discovered
“A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard...
Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Closes Education Department
The move, attributed by management to financial challenges, comes as the museum is set to open a $22 million public sculpture park this week....
National Gallery Of Art In D.C. Closes Due To Government Shutdown
“It is the first major museum in D.C. to shutter because of the shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs an array of museums in...
Megahit Novelist Jilly Cooper, 88
“The novels were robust, and full of comic observation – she had a caricaturist’s eye for telling contrasts of detail, a handsome sleek horse...
The History Behind Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
Swift’s satirical suggestion that Ireland’s poor breed their children as food for elites wasn’t really an attack on the English (even though he suggested...
Chicago Makes Another Try At A Period-Instrument Baroque Orchestra
The city has had notable trouble keeping such a group. The long-established Newberry Consort performs earlier repertoire; Baroque Band folded in 2016; Haymarket sticks...
Amiri Baraka’s Most Incendiary Play, Staged In An Actual Sauna
Dutchman, written in 1964 (when Baraka was still LeRoi Jones), is set in a sweltering subway car years before air-conditioning. Recently, for the second...
Joseph Walsh On Restaging Liam Scarlett’s Ballet “Frankenstein”
Walsh helped Scarlett create several scenes for the London premiere in 2016, then danced the title role in the 2017 revised version at San...
“Veep” Creator Wants To Do A Trump Project But Says Nobody Will Finance It
Armando Iannucci described his conversations with U.S. buyers this way: “I got a lot of, ‘Yeah, you wouldn’t get the money for that at...
A Brief History Of The FCC Squaring Off Against The Networks
While the agency has generally avoided actively threatening broadcast licenses because of shows’ content, the FCC has certainly been willing to fuss at the...
Actress Patricia Routledge, British Sitcom Icon, Is Dead At 96
“If one had to seize on a defining quality, it was her ability to see the humanity in a variety of eccentrics and outsiders....
Film Composer Joe Hisaishi Is Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Composer-In-Residence
In the position, which runs for the next two seasons, the beloved composer for Studio Ghibli animated features will get a major commercial recording,...
Head Of Presidential Library Out After Refusing To Deaccession Sword For Trump To Give...
Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously worked at the National Archives, said he was ordered to resign from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. He...
Staffers At Chicago’s Museum Of Science And Industry Authorize Strike
After more than two years of negotiations, 90% of union members voted to approve a potential walkout. Most employees of the museum earn an...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture Goes To Petrit Halilaj
Halilaj — at age 39, the youngest-ever winner of the award — is donating the prize money to a foundation he and his sister...
Glenn Lowry Is Now A Free Man. What’s He Doing Next?
His hugely consequential three decades as director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art ended in September. For now he has consulting gigs in Saudi...
