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After Two Years In Germany, Kyiv Symphony Musicians Wonder If Their Exile Will Ever...
"More than 1,000 days after she and her fellow musicians were first displaced, (violinist Tetiana) Martyniuk-Bahrii said she had grown accustomed to the uncertainty....
San Francisco Opera Announces Another Abbreviated Season
Before COVID, the company typically offered eight productions per season, but, as with the current season, there will be only six productions plus a...
Ron DeSantis Wants To Restore Florida’s Arts Funding — With Strings Attached
"A year after (he) controversially vetoed $32 million in arts grant funding, he wants most of it back. But he … wants language in...
Bass Paul Plishka, Whose Met Opera Career Spanned 50 Years, Has Died At 83
Though he also sang with the great companies of London, Paris, Milan, Munich, San Francisco, and other cities, he's best known for his long...
Art Collector Who Bought $6.2 Million Banana Sues David Geffen Over Giacometti
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency mogul who earned international notoriety when he purchased Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (the banana duct-taped to a wall) and ate it,...
Researchers Discover Portrait Hidden Beneath Titian’s “Ecce Homo”
"The newly discovered work shows an unidentified man with a thin moustache, quill in hand, standing next to a stack of papers or books...
Giller Prize Ends Relationship With Its Lead Sponsor Following Months Of Protests
"The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the...
A Cantonese Opera About Donald Trump
A Hong Kong troupe specializing in the traditional form (a sort of cousin to the better-known Beijing opera) has produced a modern-dress piece based...
Why Alexei Ratmansky Is Not Recreating Petipa’s “Paquita” This Time Around
Back in 2014 in Munich, he and historian Doug Fullington did a full reconstruction of Petipa's 1881 version of the piece for the Imperial...
David Pountney Is 77, And He Plans To Be Directing Operas For A Long...
Not only is he directing, he writes librettos and does translations; in fact, he still hates supertitles and thinks opera should be in the...
Meet British Theatre’s New Crop Of Artistic Directors
The leaders of four London theatres, including the National Theatre and the Young Vic, along with theatres in Sheffield, Liverpool, and Wales, talk about...
Malaysia Promotes Abroad Films It Censors Or Bans Domestically
"Even as the Malaysian government lauds local films that win praise and prizes abroad, some of the most-celebrated ones are either not shown in...
Sales Of Two Fiction Subgenres Are Soaring Thanks to BookTok
"Sales of science fiction and fantasy books rocketed last year, with their value increasing by 41.3% between 2023 and 2024. The booming popularity of...
Chrysler Building Has Been Repossessed by Cooper Union
The art/architecture/engineering school, which owns the land under the midtown Manhattan landmark 35 blocks uptown, had been leasing the building to real estate developer...
Temple University Buys Main Academic Building Of Now-Shuttered University of The Arts
"Terra Hall at Broad and Walnut Streets, just a few blocks from (Philadelphia's) City Hall, is the second UArts building to complete the sales...
Van Gogh Museum Summarily Rejects That $50 Garage-Sale Painting; Experts Suggest Different Attribution
The LMI Group spent years using high-teach chemical and data analysis to produce a 431-page report arguing that the portrait of a fisherman is...
Trial For Knife Attack On Salman Rushdie Begins This Week
Hadi Matar faces attempted murder charges for repeatedly stabbing the author as he was onstage, about to give a public lecture, at the Chautauqua...
Filmmaker Convicted Of Sexual Assault In Major French #MeToo Trial
Christophe Ruggia was found guilty of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel, starting when she was the 12-year-old lead in his film The Devils. -...
Today In Dancing Robots: A Lunar New Year Show In Beijing
"Developed by Hangzhou Yushu Technology, also known as Unitree, the robots kept up with the beat of a Chinese folk dance and danced with...
This Parody Of “Emilia Pérez” Is A Better Work Of Art Than Its Model:...
"In addition to being the most compelling conflict between France and Mexico since the Battle of Puebla, Johanne Sacreblu is the critique of shallow...
This May Be America’s Very Last Store Selling Real Typewriters
Much to the owners' surprise, business has soared at Philly Typewriter since the pandemic. Now they sell machines, train repairers, and host a Type-In....
US Authors Guild Offers Certification Label For Books Created By Real Writers And Not...
"The initiative, called 'Human Authored,' will allow authors to log on to the portal and register their book. They will then be able to...
Have Karla Sofía Gascón’s Old Tweets Torpedoed The “Emilia Pérez” Oscar Campaign?
The discovery of posts from 2020-21 in which she disparaged George Floyd, Islam, Arabs in Spain, China and its COVID vaccine, and even the...
Patti Smith Collapses Onstage In Brazil
The 78-year-old, who had been suffering a days-long migraine, was onstage in São Paulo, reciting some of her writing during a joint performance with...
At Last! Scotland’s Arts Groups Finally Know How Much Funding They’ll Get
While the announcement of three-year funding grants is months overdue, it's finally here — and, at £208 million, more generous than many organizations had...
