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Despite Federal Government Shutdown, Smithsonian, Kennedy Center And D.C. Monuments Are Open — For...
The Smithsonian museums and National Gallery will remain open for as long as leftover cash-on-hand lasts, which will be at least through Monday. Kennedy...
Paris’s Picasso Museum Is Adding A Sculpture Garden
“Named ‘Picasso 2030,’ the project will create a space devoted to the artist’s sculptures by connecting a garden area behind the museum to an...
Wild At Heart: Daphne Du Maurier, One Of English Lit’s Most Misunderstood Authors
“From the pages of After Midnight emerges a sense of du Maurier that’s far from the meek, naive narrator of Rebecca. These stories are the work of a...
Murder Investigation Launched As A Star Of France’s Early Music Scene Is Found Dead
Denis Raisin Dadre, 69, a recorder virtuoso and specialist in Renaissance reed instruments, founded Ensemble Doulce Mémoire in 1990 and developed an impressive array...
The Best International Feature Oscar Is Broken. Any Solution Could Make It Worse.
“The deadline for countries to submit movies for the 2026 Oscars' international feature category arrives Wednesday. And, as usual, the submissions — each country gets to...
The August Paris Opera Ballet Walks On The Wild Side For Its U.S. Tour
The world’s oldest ballet company is known to most of the world for the precise, pristine classicism. At home, though, it’s been performing cutting-edge...
Italian Police Seize 21 Works From Dalí Exhibition As Suspected Forgeries
“The works were part of an exhibition, ‘Salvador Dalí, tra arte e mito’ (Salvador Dalí, between art and myth”) that had been on show...
Artisans Use Medieval Techniques To Restore One Of England’s Grandest Old Cathedrals
“York Minster is one of a very few cathedrals in Britain to have a full-time team of stonemasons working alongside about 50 glaziers, carpenters,...
Public Radio Organizations Form Consortium To Operate Satellite Distribution; NPR Sues To Stop Them
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in one of its last grants, awarded $57.9 million to a new consortium called Public Media Infrastructure to cover...
Naxos, World’s Largest Indie Classical Label, Sold To Chinese Corporation
The landmark deal, announced on September 25, gives Beijing-based Kuke Music Holding about 70% ownership of Hong Kong-based Naxos Music Group through two simultaneous...
North America’s Largest Repertory Theatre Company, Stratford Festival, Names New Artistic Director
“Jonathan Church, known for his work as a director and producer on multiple hit shows in London’s West End, and as the leader of...
Syracuse University Pauses Admissions For 20 Undergrad Majors, Most Of Them Arts And Humanities
The decision was made by the institution’s senate in its first meeting of the 2025-26 academic year without faculty input. Among the majors affected...
University Of Oxford To Open New $250 Million Arts Center
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, opening on October 13 and built for £185 million ($250 million), includes a 500-seat concert hall, a 250-seat theatre,...
Why The Latest “Cabaret” Revival Was A Smash In The West End But Crashed...
The London production of Rebecca Frecknall’s staging, for which the theatre was remodeled into a seedy Kit Kat Club, is going strong after four...
San Francisco Contemporary Dance Institution ODC Names New Co-Artistic Director
Mia J. Chong, a choreographer and currently a staging director for ODC, will succeed 83-year-old founder Brenda Way. The 54-year-old dance organization encompasses a...
Oklahoma Eliminates Arts Requirement For High School Students
“Starting with eighth-graders this year, Oklahoma won’t require fine arts credits to earn a high school diploma. ... The decision to offer fine arts curriculum...
Vancouver Art Gallery Selects Architects For Its Second Attempt At A New Building
“After previously picking Swiss firm Herzog and de Meuron to design the building, the project was scrapped last year when its budget reportedly ballooned...
Orange County Museum Of Art Officially Acquired By University Of California Irvine
“UC Irvine will oversee the OCMA’s 53,000-square-foot, $98 million facility, which opened in 2022, within the Segerstrom Center for the Arts campus in the...
Judge Suspends Plan For Mass Firings At Voice Of America
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., ruled that the U.S. Agency for Global Media cannot implement a reduction in force eliminating 532 jobs for...
Maker Of “The Sims” Bought By Jared Kushner And Saudi Arabia
“Electronic Arts Inc., the maker of Madden NFL and The Sims, is set to be acquired for about $55 billion … (in) the biggest...
Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia Leaves Kimmel Center
“Anne Hagan, the group’s executive director, said it had become ‘difficult for us to keep up with payments’ for Kimmel base rent and the...
Behold The St. Louis Symphony’s Newly-Renovated Home
They’ve left the classic façade (and the acoustics) of Powell Hall intact and built around it the gleaming new Jack C. Taylor Music Center,...
Stephen King Says He’s Now The Most Banned Author In The United States
"I am now the most banned author in the United States — 87 books," he tweeted. "May I suggest you pick up one of...
New York Times Names Jesse Green “Culture Correspondent”
In July, as part of a widely-reported sweep which affected high-profile critics in three other disciplines as well, the newspaper removed Green as chief...
Social Media Has Made Dostoevsky A Hot Property
“Fyodor Dostoevsky — rigorous dialectician and grand inquisitor into the human soul — is having a moment. The American ‘new right’ has enlisted the...
