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Smithsonian Removes Trump’s Name From Exhibit On Impeached Presidents
“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. … After this...
Man Leaps To His Death From Roof Of Whitney Museum
“An unidentified 34-year-old man died after jumping from the Whitney Museum on Wednesday evening, shortly before the museum closed, according to a source with...
Gems Revered As Relics Of Buddha Returned From Sotheby’s To India
The gems were originally, circa 240 BC, buried in a stupa in Piprahwa, India, where they were mixed with some cremated remains of the Buddha. The...
Surprising Facts About Caligula, Everybody’s Favorite Horrible Roman Emperor
“Despite his character, and questionable sanity, Caligula was also man of great intellect and learning with a particularly keen knowledge of pharmacology. … Caligula was...
Are Spoof Movies Making A Comeback?
Their heyday was the 1980s and ‘90s, from Airplane! through the National Lampoon and Austin Powers franchises, Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, and Scary Movie, but...
Another Leader Of Theater In DC Is Stepping Down
“The early announcement of David Muse’s 2027 departure as artistic director of Studio Theatre … allows the institution ample time to search for a...
US Nonfiction Book Sales Are Down — Except For Titles About Tyranny
“While sales of such seemingly prescient novels as 1984 by George Orwell (1949) and Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler (1993) (have) surged …, backlist nonfiction titles...
At Versailles Palace, Visitors Converse With The Statuary (Via Chatbot)
Farah Nayeri: “Powered by the tech giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an audio tool lets visitors (on or off site) converse with 20...
In Los Angeles, Dance Groups Large And Small Face Money Struggles
“With the stress of federal and local funding cuts, as well as the January fires, many L.A. dance organizations are scaling back their programming...
Regional Newspapers Are Bundling New York Times Content Into Their Own Subscription Packages
For instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer includes access to the NYT Cooking app with its premium subscription, while The Minnesota Star Tribune does something similar...
City Of Chicago Will Replace Some Grant Money Cancelled By NEA
The city’s Arts Relief Fund will offer grants between $10,000 and $25,000 to Chicago arts organizations who had their announced NEA grants withdrawn by...
Even More Layoffs At A PBS/NPR Station, This Time At Pittsburgh’s WQED
Due to the recission of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds by the Trump administration and Congress, WQED is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall...
Shakeup At L.A. MOCA As Outgoing Director Leaves Early
When director Joanna Burton revealed last week that she’s going to ICA in Philadelphia, she said she’d stay at MOCA through late October. On...
Anna Netrebko’s Lawsuit Against Metropolitan Opera Will Proceed
“A federal judge says Russian soprano Anna Netrebko can move forward with her case claiming national origin discrimination by the Metropolitan Opera, which dropped...
U.S. Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Intervened To Stop Trump’s Firing of National Portrait Gallery...
Chief Justice John Roberts is, ex officio, the Smithsonian Institution’s chancellor (the equivalent of board chairman). When Trump up and decided to fire National...
The Choreographer Who Thrills Audiences With A Trampoline And A Staircase
“What (Yoann) Bourgeois plays with are the invisible physical forces that surround us – gravity, tension, suspension – and the interaction between those forces,...
A Professor Tries Using Chat-GPT To Do His Job
“I decided to put the central, existential question to (my students) directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice...
There’s Been A Surge Of Movies About Metrics And Math Lately. Why is That?
Because, writes Bilge Ebiri, “everywhere we look, numbers reign supreme. Metrics determine our life and work in ways that were inconceivable ten or 15...
It’s Fine, Go Ahead And Let Your Kids Watch TV, Argues TV Critic
New York magazine’s Kathryn VanArendonk knows it’s not tenable to prevent her kids from doing what she does all day. “But my (policy is)...
Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” Was Not, In Fact, Inspired By African Art, Says Researcher
The art world’s consensus has been that the painting was inspired by the African masks Picasso saw on a visit to Paris’s first ethnographic...
This Man Was One Of New York’s Biggest Young Arts Philanthropists. The Money He...
Remember Alberto Vilar? What Matthew Christopher Pietras did might have been worse. Or it might not, since the victims of the theft may not...
This Fall The Wanamaker Organ Will Be Heard Again, Thanks To Opera Philadelphia
The future of the world’s largest fully-functional musical instrument was in doubt when Macy’s vacated the Wanamaker space earlier this year. Now the building’s...
This Dalí Painting Was Bought For $200. It’s About To Sell For $40,000.
The 1966 watercolor-and-felt-tip painting was meant to be part of a series of illustrations for The Arabian Nights; Dalí never finished the project. When...
Can They Really Rename The Kennedy Center After The Trumps?
That depends on who’s doing the renaming. - The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
Dallas Morning News Fends Off Private Equity Firm That Eviscerates Newspapers
A favorite tactic of Alden Global Capital is, when someone else is about to buy a newspaper, to jump in with a higher bid...
