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Over $200 Million Worth Of Stolen Paintings Recovered By French Authorities
"A Paris court has secured 135 stolen paintings estimated to be worth over €200 million for the family of (collector) Uthman Khatib, (who) is...
Design For 2025 Serpentine Pavilion In London Revealed
"Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has unveiled her design for this year's Serpentine Pavilion in London, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the annual...
Three Suspects Arrested In Theft Of Ancient Gold From Dutch Museum
"Dutch authorities on Wednesday arrested three suspects after the theft of a ancient golden helmet considered a cultural icon of Romania and were on...
Marianne Faithful, 78
"(The) British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and smoky-voiced chanteuse, channeling her struggles with drug abuse and personal...
Quentin Tarantino Says He’s Writing A Play
"If you’re wondering what I’m doing right now, I’m writing a play. It’s probably going to be the next thing I end up doing....
Reviving The Original Staging Of The Tchaikovsky Ballet “Sleeping Beauty”
Pacific Northwest Ballet dance historian Doug Fullington talks about drawing on the original libretto and photos from the 1890s and the Stepanov notation made...
Why So Many Architects Detest “The Brutalist”
"There is nothing more irritating to enthusiasts than when the mainstream tries to portray their niche world and gets it wrong. And The Brutalist...
Two Cultural Funding Agencies Ask Oregon Legislature To Merge Them
"And the two shall become one. That’s the plan that the Oregon Arts Commission and the Oregon Cultural Trust, two state agencies that overlap...
English Heritage Sites To See Layoffs And Winter-Season Closures
"Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of...
Another Evildoers-With-AI Problem: Fake Author Profiles On Social Media
Writers and agents have been finding profile pages on Facebook and Instagram which appear to be those of authors but which those authors themselves...
Musical Theatre Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” Cancelled Following Sexual Misconduct Allegations
"The musical was to have been staged at Leeds Playhouse from 11 April to 11 May before touring to Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester. …...
Frick Collection In New York Sets Official Reopening Date For This Spring
"After an over-five-year closure, New York’s Frick Collection will once again welcome the public to its Upper East Side Gilded Age mansion — now...
Major Layoffs At BBC World Service
"BBC World Service is set to axe 130 jobs as it seeks to save around £6 million for the next financial year. Planned cost-saving...
Minnesota Orchestra Posts $3.8 Million Deficit But Record Earned Revenue
That budget gap (the orchestra's fifth in six years) is due to the end of COVID-related financial assistance from the Federal government. Yet earned...
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Former Music Director Of Vancouver And Syracuse Symphonies, Is Dead At 84
He spent 40 years (1964-2004) as music director of the Tokyo Symphony, assisted the young Seiji Ozawa at the Toronto Symphony in 1968-69, and...
A Chinese Lion Dance Troupe Resists The Patriarchy
Top-level lion dancing in China incorporates acrobatics and martial arts — and has traditionally excluded women from performing. But an 80-member lion-dancing troupe called...
Reviving The First Known Opera By A Black American Composer
Edmond Dédé was born in 1827 to a free Black family of musicians in New Orleans. He settled and made his career in France....
Superstar Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin Has Co-Authored A Peer-Reviewed Physics Paper
The paper, just published in the American Journal of Physics, derives a formula to describe the dynamics of a fictional virus that is the...
Sundance Film Festival Is Leaving Park City, Utah. What Will That Mean For The...
"The organizers have said, essentially, that the event has gotten too big for Park City. When Sundance arrives every January, it balloons the ski...
Site-Specific New York Company On Site Opera Shuts Down
"For more than a decade, (the) small but nimble group brought opera to unexpected places: the Bronx Zoo, Madame Tussauds, cafes and soup kitchens....
Climate-Protesting Theatre Vandals Interrupt West End “Tempest”
On Monday evening, two members of the group Just Stop Oil climbed onstage at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, fired a confetti cannon, stopped Sigourney...
Artistic Director Of Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre To Step Down
Weyni Mengesha will depart as of August 31 after seven years in the post. A statement said she is leaving in order to focus...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Pioneering Native American Artist, Has Died At 85
"For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for)...
Ballets By Female Choreographers Performed By US Companies See Slight Decline
Women choreographed 30.6% of works presented by the largest 150 companies in the 2023-24 season, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous season. However,...
Smithsonian To Close Its Diversity Office Following Trump’s Order
"The organization is also freezing federal hiring immediately and instating a five-day return-to-office policy," both pursuant to othr executive orders from the White House....
