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Getty Villa, Which Narrowly Escaped L.A. Fires, Sets Reopening Date
The museum of ancient Greco-Roman art and its collections survived the January fires, but 1,300 damaged trees have been removed from the grounds. The...
Untangling The Meaning Of Khipu, The Mysterious Knotted Strings Of The Incas
There’s no other system of encoding information quite like khipu, the knotted strings and cords used to keep records in the Inca Empire. For...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
“The big leap that the OSS made was book knowledge: the accumulation of a vast amount of seemingly trivial information, if analyzed intelligently, …...
Storm King, The Sculpture Park In New York’s Hudson Valley, Reopens After A $53...
“Storm King now boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has...
Sweden Tries To Decide What Should Be In Its Cultural Canon (Or If It...
“In 2023, the government began an initiative called the Culture Canon, with two streams: an ‘experts’’ canon and a ‘people’s canon,’ (each with) 100...
Documenting And Archiving: How Should Choreographers Preserve Their Work?
“Even if you don’t think of yourself as a prominent entity, you never know what’s going to happen,” points out Hallie Chametzky, director of...
What It’s Like To Play The World’s Most Expensive Musical Instrument (Which Is Probably...
You probably expect that this $30 million instrument is either a huge pipe organ or a Stradivarius violin or (perhaps) cello. It is indeed...
Kennedy Center Counts On Touring Broadway Shows To Make Ends Meet. Will Those Tours...
“As the center continues under Trump’s leadership, more productions may choose to steer clear, either out of principle or to avoid uproar from artists...
A New Frida Kahlo Museum In Mexico City, Right Next To The Casa Azul
The museum will be set in the Casa Roja, a private residence purchased by Kahlo’s parents and passed down through the family. While the...
Marcel Ophuls, Who Made The Documentary “The Sorrow And The Pity,” Has Died At...
“The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), his documentary on the behaviour of the citizens of the French city of Clermont-Ferrand during the Second World War,...
Photographer Sebastião Salgado, 81
“For decades, Mr. Salgado was on hand for many of the world’s major crises. ... He described his mission as seeking to convey a...
Golden Palm At Cannes Goes To Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just An Accident”
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value won the Grand Prize; The Secret Agent took honors for best director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and best actor (Wagner Moura);...
6,500 Years Ago, Maybe 100 People Spoke This Language. Now It’s The Source For...
“Although the tongue called Proto-Indo-European hasn’t been used in 4,000 years, about half Earth’s inhabitants speak its more than 400 descendant languages. … The...
How “Stereophonic” Stopped Playwright David Adjmi From Giving Up Writing Plays
“I’d had a terrible, scarring artistic collaboration a couple of years prior, and it broke me. And on top of that, I was actually broke, financially....
Why It’s A Good Thing That Human Memory Is Flexible And Unreliable
Though it may sound paradoxical, forgetting is an important part of learning: you forget what’s unimportant in order to focus on retaining what’s crucial....
Tom Hanks Will Return To The Stage For The First Time Since 2018
The Oscar and Tony winner will star in a theater adaptation of his collection of short stories The World of Tomorrow this fall. The...
Spoleto Festival (The Italian One) Has A New Artistic Director
Daniele Cipriani, a dance impresario well-known in Italy, has been nominated by the minister of culture to be artistic director of the Spoleto Festival;...
Ma Cong Brings Jolts Of New Energy To Richmond Ballet
In his first season as successor to founding artistic director Stoner Winslett, Cong has revitalized the company’s offerings with contemporary pieces by the likes...
New York City Ballet’s Andrew Veyette And His Difficult Journey
The NYCB stalwart is about to give his farewell performance after 25 years with the company. Yet he almost didn’t make it to this...
There’s A New Stalin Monument In The Moscow Metro, And, Well, Opinions Differ
“The life-size wall sculpture in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station depicts Stalin standing on Moscow’s Red Square surrounded by a crowd of Soviet citizens looking...
Institute Of Museums And Library Services Begins Restoring Cancelled Grants And Rehiring Fired Staffers
The IMLS, a federal agency whose grants were all summarily cancelled by the Trump/Musk DOGE, has started reinstating grants and rehiring employees following a...
Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Which Survived Beirut Blasts Is Restored And On View
“After three years of painstaking restoration work, the J. Paul Getty Museum is unveiling Hercules and Omphale, a long-lost Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1652) painting nearly destroyed in the explosions that struck...
Major DC Classical Presenter Moves Next Season’s Concerts Out Of Kennedy Center
In order to “thoughtfully match artists and their work with venues that best serve the art, the audience, and the moment,” Washington Performing Arts...
How A Physics Undergrad In Boston Became A Master Glassmaker In Venice
Roberto Beltrami had traveled to Boston University to study, and in his sophomore year a Dale Chihuly exhibition awakened his fascination with glass, and...
The Media Circus That Keeps Driving South Korean Celebrities To Suicide
“The Korean public holds celebrities to a higher moral standard than normal people, and the media is very aggressive (in) reporting on scandals. They...
