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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...
Joshua Beamish On Why He’s Started A(nother) Ballet Company In Vancouver
“While Vancouver offers a wealth of contemporary-dance companies and high-caliber ballet schools, ‘no one is bringing classical ballet here beyond a touring Nutcracker, or producing...
AI Joins The Argument About Whether This Caravaggio Is Authentic
There are three surviving versions of The Lute Player: one in the Wildenstein collection, one at the Hermitage, both authentic, and one in Britain,...
Mass MoCA (Yes, The Museum) Is Starting Its Own Record Label
The huge contemporary art museum, in the old factory town of North Adams in Massachusetts’s northeast corner, is launching Mass MoCA Records, which will...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Starts Revitalizing Its Academic Program In Deal With Temple...
Almost two years after it abruptly eliminated its degree-granting programs, PAFA is entering a ten-year partnership with Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture...
Federal Judge In Florida Rules That First Amendment Doesn’t Forbid Libraries From Removing Certain...
The suit in question concerned the Escambia County (Pensacola) School Board’s decision to block its libraries from stocking And Tango Makes Three, the well-known...
Broadway Actors Are Preparing To Strike Just As Peak Season Is Starting
Actors' Equity negotiations with the Broadway League are continuing for now, even though the last three-year contract ended on September 28. The number-one issue...
Trump White House Dismisses Over Three-Quarters Of National Council On The Humanities
Only four of the 26 members of the advisory body remain; the rest were terminated via a notably terse email from the White House...
FCC Considers Relaxing Limits On How Many Media Outlets Corporations May Own
“The agency voted to take public comment … on a rule that limits a company from owning more than two stations in a market,...
