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Mona Lisa To Get Its Own Room In Extensive Renovation At Louvre
"The renovation project, branded 'Louvre New Renaissance,' will include a wide new entrance near the Seine River, to be opened by 2031, (President) Macron...
This Broadway Play About Fighting Over Vaccines Is Very Tricky — Because The Audience...
The third scene of Eureka Day depicts a board meeting at a private school in Berkeley (!) after a student gets mumps. The board...
Little-Known Bernini Sculpture Is On Public View For First Time In Centuries
"Triton (1653) is on permanent loan to the (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) courtesy of a private collector. A terracotta study model, it depicts the Greek...
Australia’s Contemporary Dance Pioneer Is Still Performing At Age 91
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman more or less created the country's contemporary dance scene when she co-founded and directed Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide in 1965....
Is This The Worst Page On The Internet? Or An Important Lesson About The...
"The name of this monstrosity, which was released earlier this month, is Stimulation Clicker, and it is more than a game. It is a...
McVulnerability (Beware The Influencers Who Cry On Camera)
"(Their) weepy confessions are, ostensibly, gestures toward intimacy. They’re meant to inspire empathy, to reassure viewers that influencers are just like them. But in...
Bring Intermissions Back To The Movies!
The Batman (176 minutes). Oppenheimer (180 minutes). Avengers: Endgame (182 minutes!). The Irishman (a whopping 209 minutes!). Do Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan want...
Texas Public Schools Have Big, Busy Arts Programs. It’s Time They Be Funded Properly.
Last year those programs nearly did get a budget boost, and a key legislator keeps trying, arguments and studies ready. - Texas Monthly
Classical Concert Top Tens For 2024: Busiest Orchestras And Performers, Most-Played Composers, Etc.
There won't be too many surprises at the top of the lists — Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang as busiest pianists, Mozart and Beethoven...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Co., Now Reopened, Has Ambitious Plans
Its most famous alumnus, David Schwimmer, has joined the board, plans to return to its stage, and is doing fundraising around the city. He...
British Museum Was Partly Closed This Weekend Following Cyber-Vandalism By Ex-Employee
The alleged perpetrator was an IT contractor fired earlier this month. He returned on Thursday to breach and shut down the museum’s security and...
WH Smith To Sell Its Non-Airport Bookstores
The company's bookstore division, which has 500 retail outlets in cities and towns throughout the UK, has seen declining revenue for years, leading to...
Ten Surprising Facts About Andy Warhol
For instance, he was a gym rat when he was younger, and even after he was shot he could do 46 pushups. And he...
“Twin Peaks”: An Oral History
"When they did the premiere of Twin Peaks: The Return, the executives had not seen it, and they said: 'Mr. Lynch, would you say...
Christopher Stowell Is New Artistic Director Of Royal Winnipeg Ballet
A former principal at San Francisco Ballet and artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, he was most recently Karen Kain's associate artistic director at...
Sleep Tourism Is Becoming A Thing
"Sleep-deprived travellers are choosing their hotel on the basis of its pillow menu or booking themselves into away-from-it-all sleep retreats with tailored sleep-inducing activities....
The Gwyneth Paltrow Skiing Trial Has Become An Off-Broadway Musical
The show, titled Gwyneth Goes Skiing, has already played in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, and Park City, Utah, where the actual events took place....
Hollywood Composers, Whose Work Is Drying Up, Find Solace In Home Concerts Of Their...
"One surprising thing," says one of the co-founders of the free-with-RSVP series, called Night Temple, "is how these really accomplished film composers, who have...
A Play About TikTok Performed In Person And Online At The Same Time
"'If you get me to 20,000 likes, I’ll do something amazing.' That is what the performance artist Louise Orwin promises audiences in Famehungry, a...
Daniel Libeskind Has Designed A Low-Income Housing Project, And It’s Good
"His global brand would seem like an odd choice for the most basic tier of New York’s urban shelter, sort of like handing out...
Insurance Cos. Want To Deny $19.7 Million Claim For Fake Basquiats
Liberty Mutual and Great American are refuting the claim submitted by the owners of the 25 paintings which were on display at the Orlando...
Penguin Random House Parent Announces “Strategic Collaboration” With Open AI
"Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has agreed to a 'strategic collaboration' with OpenAI to use ChatGPT technology across many of its operating units....
Chicago Public Media Begins Offering Buyouts
"Struggling with declining revenue in its groundbreaking nonprofit radio/newspaper model, Chicago Public Media is offering voluntary buyouts for Chicago Sun-Times journalists and business employees...
Ballet In A Theatre With An Air Raid Shelter: Kyiv’s “The Snow Queen”
A full house for the National Ballet of Ukraine these days is 560 people, because that's the capacity of the bomb shelter in the...
The Louvre’s Building Is In Seriously Bad Shape, Warns Director
In a leaked memo to French culture minister Rachida Dati, Louvre director Laurence des Cars wrote that overcrowding at the museum is causing "physical...
