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Notre-Dame’s Isn’t The Only Famous Pipe Organ This Week To Return To Life After...
Just a day before the catastrophic 2017 blaze that nearly destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a smaller fire broke out in the Cathedral of...
America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Communities In 2024
As usual, the annual index lists the top 20 large cities, top 10 medium-sized and top 10 small communities. Because the numbers crunched are...
MFA Boston Is Auctioning Off 17 Old Dutch And Flemish Masters Paintings
Just seven years after two major donations doubled the size of the museum's Old Dutch/Flemish holdings, a group of works is headed to Christie's....
The One Place And Time That Opera Is Always A Major News Event
That's the annual gala opening the season at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, which (by long tradition) happens on December 7. And there...
One Of London’s Top Drama Schools Is Opening A New York Outpost
Next month, LAMDA (London Academy of Musical and Dramatic Art) will open a location in midtown Manhattan with both office and flexible studio space....
The Artist Who Recreated The Lost Recipe For The Ancient Maya Blue Pigment
Luis May Ku, a native Mayan artist and teacher in the Yucatán Peninsula, spent years researching Spanish colonial documents, interviewing village elders about their...
Reimagining The Songs That Alvin Ailey Cut From “Revelations”
The version we see today is about half the length of Ailey's 1960 original; nine songs were removed for an overseas tour in 1962,...
Does This Skating Company Do Contemporary Dance On Ice? Well, No … But Also...
The artistic director of the Montreal-based troupe Le Patin Libre ("free skate") stresses that audiences shouldn't expect anything like Merce Cunningham or Pina Bausch...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Dividing Itself In Two
"(The giant media conglomerate) said it is restructuring into two operating divisions, one focused on the legacy cable TV business and the other on...
Makin’ The Bacon For Broadway’s “Our Town” (Yes, We Mean Real Bacon)
To add sense memory to the penultimate scene, the prop crew cooks two pounds of bacon during every performance, using a box fan to...
Editor Who Published Hacked Sony Emails 10 Years Ago Now Confesses His Regret
Andrew Wallenstein, then-co-editor-in-chief of Variety: "I’m not going to say if I had to do it all over again I would do it differently...
YouTube Viewership On Real Television Sets Is Soaring, And The Company Is Finally Leaning...
"YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous. … The trend...
These Replicas Could Solve The Problem Of The Parthenon Marbles
"If the Marbles return to the Acropolis, the hole they will leave in the British Museum may be filled by perfect replicas. The Oxford-based...
Can Literary Prizes Survive If Writers Keep Protesting Against The Sponsors?
"Might these events deter future winners of prizes with controversial sponsors" — the Baillie Gifford prize in the UK, the Scotiabank Giller Prize in...
San Francisco Symphony Chorus Gets New Contract, Thanks To $4 Million Gift
"The deal … promises to maintain the current compensation and performance levels for the 32 paid choristers during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. …...
London’s Barbican Centre Gets $243 Million In City Funding For Major Overhaul
"A £191 million funding package to support critical repairs and upgrades at (the arts complex) were approved on Thursday … (by) the City of...
Raygun, The Australian Olympic Breakdancer, Had Lawyers Shut Down A Musical About Her. Is...
Attorneys for Rachael Gunn, who gained global notoriety with her last-place performance at the Paris Olympics, put the kibosh on Raygun: The Musical, arguing...
Women-Only-No-Men-Allowed Art Installation In Australia Returns For Final Victory Lap
The "Ladies' Lounge" at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania reopens through January 13 after an appeals court voided a ruling...
Danai Gurira Returns Home To Offer Training To Zimbabwean Playwrights
"Gurira set up Almasi (Collaborative Arts) with film and theatre producer Patience Tawengwa to give Zimbabwean creatives access to the sort of training and...
Huge New Music Soundstage And Production Center Planned For Former Chicago Stockyards
The nonprofit Third Coast Music has won the city's request for proposals to develop the site. Its plan is for an $80 million facility...
Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Finally Settles On A Grants Plan For This Fiscal Year
"The city agency (Metro Arts) is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle. … This year, (there's) a much...
Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing
Justin Davidson: "A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar...
Congressional Support Grows For Requiring All New Cars To Have AM Radios
"In the lame-duck session …, support continues to build for a bill that would require AM receivers to be included in vehicle dashboards. Three...
Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The...
"In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished...
Chicago Symphony Receives Largest-Ever Donation: $50 Million
The gift from the family foundation of real estate magnate and former Chicago Tribune owner Sam Zell provides "vital" capital to reduce debt, fund...
