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Is This Really “America’s Oldest Theatre”?
That's what the banner says at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theatre, where performances have been happening since 1808. As protesters demand action on diversity, equity,...
Christian Boltanski, Who Turned Found Objects Into Haunting Art Installations, Dead At 76
"Boltanski's installations often make grand statements about death, particularly as it relates to the Holocaust, World War II, and the lingering effects of these...
Is This Or Is This Not A Goya? The Prado Can’t Make Up Its...
The Madrid museum decided back in 2008 that The Colossus was painted by an apprentice rather than the master himself. Now curators are hedging...
Facebook And Instagram Say They’ll Give $1 Billion To Content Creators Through 2022
"The program is invite-only but will allow creators to earn money by using certain features on Facebook or Instagram, such as by regularly livestreaming....
Houston Symphony’s Next Music Director Will Be Juraj Valčuha
The 45-year-old Slovakian maestro, currently music director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and for seven years chief conductor of Italy's national...
Jeff Bezos Gives Smithsonian Air And Space Museum $200 Million
It's the largest donation in the Smithsonian Institution's history, and $70 million of it will go toward the museum's ongoing renovation, while the remaining...
Knopf Names Sonny Mehta’s Successor As Editor In Chief
Arguably the most prestigious division of the Penguin Random House conglomerate, Knopf has been without a leader since Mehta, who held the job for...
With Sydney Back In COVID Lockdown, Arts Promised Millions In New Aid
The New South Wales state government announced $75 million (Aus) in funding to compensate arts organizations that have had to close their doors again....
“An Outsized Image Forged From Undersized Gifts” — How Did Eugene Ormandy Do It?
His baton technique was, er, idiosyncratic; he couldn't conduct complex meters; he could be cruel. And after 44 years as music director, seemingly everyone...
The Italians Who Dangle From Ropes To Repair Historic Sites
"EdiliziAcrobatica's team has rock-climbed up and abseiled down some of Italy's most significant historic monuments. … Suspended from ropes, the acrobatic technicians can perform...
Remember Waacking? It’s Back
The kinetic, flamboyant, arm-waving dance style was born in the Black and Latino gay nightclubs of L.A., spread via the TV show Soul Train,...
Donald Pippin, San Francisco’s Pied Piper Of Opera, Dead At 95
For 40 years, he and his resourceful company, Pocket Opera, used young singers, small instrumental groups, and librettos in English to bring unfamiliar works...
What Happens If An Archivist Sneezes On A Centuries-Old Manuscript?
First, for God's sake, he shouldn't wipe it off himself. (This lesson was learned the hard way.) Beyond that, there are ways of...
Pornhub Is Now Offering Virtual Museum Tours
The website has launched "Classic Nudes", a curated selection of NSFW art at the Louvre, the Met, the Prado, etc. View the works online...
California Budgets $50 Million In Pandemic Relief For Small Theaters
"The subsidy came after intense lobbying from small theaters concerned about their future after a 15-month shutdown. Compounding the effects was the prospect of...
Court Throws Out Judge Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen
The former Alabama jurist and Senate candidate sued the actor/mockumentarian over the scene in the Netflix series Who Is America? in which Baron Cohen's...
Meet Spoleto Festival USA’s First New General Director In 35 Years
Succeeding longtime chief Nigel Redden in October is Egyptian-American musicologist Mena Mark Hanna, a teacher, composer, Coptic Orthodox cantor (!), and former administrator at...
Can The Metropolitan Opera Start Its Season On Time? It’s Up To The Musicians’...
The company, which was having money troubles even before the pandemic, finally has agreements with the unions for onstage (AGMA) and backstage (IATSE) workers....
Italy Bans Cruise Ships From Venice (And They Mean It This Time!)
An announcement to this effect was made earlier this year, but the mammoth passenger boats turned up anyway. But now the national government, eager...
The Man Who Saved The Slovenian Language
Over six centuries in the Habsburg empire and most of another in Yugoslavia, the tongue of this tiny Alpine land might well have faded...
British TV Has Become A Major Worldwide Export
And it isn't just Downton Abbey and Killing Eve: MasterChef and Naked Attraction air in dozens of countries. In fact, other nations are now...
Robots Are Now Sculpting In Carrara Marble
AI software isn't designing the sculptures in the Italian quarry town (yet), but it is controlling precision machines that do the strenuous grinding and...
Wayne McGregor: ”We Need, In Dance, To Slightly Rebalance What It Is We’re Watching...
"The more we see diverse body types on stage, the more people understand that dance as an expressive art form can have this wide...
The Play For Our Moment? A Harold Pinter One-Act From 1960
Charles McNulty: "The Dumb Waiter lampoons the subservience to authoritarian power by focusing on the behavior of the stooges. Pinter humorously captures their moral...
Master Bluegrass Fiddler Byron Berline Dead At 77
"Weaving elements of pop, jazz, blues and rock into an old-timey approach to his instrument, Mr. Berline contributed instrumentals" to recordings by Bob Dylan,...
