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The Legacy Of “Monty Python And The Holy Grail” At 50
“Despite the small budget, the film went on to become a comedy classic that influenced Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons and countless other comedies. Now 50 years...
Why “The Crucible” Remains Compelling In The 21st Century
Michael Billington: “There is more to (Arthur Miller’s play) than a single political parallel and, whenever I see the play, I am struck by...
An “Epidemic” Of Mold Strikes Denmark’s Museums
“The highly resistant mold covers objects in a white coating and has been detected in 12 museums, including the National Museum of Denmark and...
“The Fyre Festival Of The Book World”: Inside A Romantasy Fiasco
“Some authors say they're out thousands of dollars after carting books and merchandise to Baltimore for the event” — A Million Lives Book Festival...
Disney Will Open A New High-Tech Theme Park In Abu Dhabi
“The new theme park … features a different sort of business model for Disney: The destination will be developed, built, and operated by the...
Star Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason On Being The Only Black Music Student In The Room
“At times, it made him ‘very determined to therefore be on that stage’; at other times it made him feel that he wasn’t sure...
“Having A Choice Didn’t Come Into It”: An Excerpt From Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s New Book
“Having a choice didn’t come into it as there was none and never had been. I couldn’t pretend to be anyone I wasn’t but...
Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Conductor Boris Brott Gets Prison Sentence Reduced
“Arsenije Lojovic will serve eight years instead of 10 for dangerous driving causing death, failing to remain at the scene and breach of probation,...
In Its 25 Years, Tate Modern Has Changed Museums Far Beyond Its London Home
“It transformed, for better and worse, audience expectations at museums worldwide. … It taught curators to propound a global view of art — or...
Seven Convicted For Harassing Choreographer Of Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony
“The seven accused, of whom only one was present in court, were found guilty of sending hate messages, and even a death threat, to...
With No Warning, SF-MOMA Lays Off 29 Staffers
“The cuts will affect 20 full-time and nine part-time workers, and eliminate another 13 positions that were either vacant or would not be backfilled...
Famous Actors Keep Signing Up To Do This Play. They Don’t See The Script...
Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree, written to be performed by Crouch and a new actor each night, depicts a meeting between a father (the actor)...
Auction Of Buddha Relic Gems Suspended After India Threatens Legal Action
The Piprahwa gems were discovered on the estate of an English landowner in India in 1898; they were inside reliquaries labeled as containing the...
Bewildered And Frustrated, Hollywood Doesn’t Know How Trump’s Tariffs Will Work (Or Even if...
How would tariffs on overseas film production work when the industry's so internationalized? Whom would be charged, at what point? Are such tariffs even...
George Clooney’s “Good Night, And Good Luck” Breaks Another Broadway Record
“(The show) brought in $4,003,481.50 last week, becoming the first Broadway play to surpass $4 million in a single week. The play also broke its own...
Reckless Tourist At Colosseum In Rome Survives Getting Impaled On Metal Fence
Last Friday, a 47-year-old man scaled a metal fence at an entrance to the ancient landmark, then fell and was impaled on one of...
The Louvre’s Leaky Roof Nearly Damaged A 13th-Century Painting
“A powerful hailstorm breached the Louvre’s roof (on Saturday) afternoon, causing water to drip into the Salle Rosa room hosting its headline exhibition, ‘A...
House Republicans Propose Giving Kennedy Center $257 Million For Repairs
“A House committee approved a budget proposal last week that called for allocating $257 million to the Kennedy Center for capital repairs and other...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper is Sold, Ending Legal Struggle
“On April 28, a bankruptcy court ruled that the (Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) will be sold for $1.4 million to McFarlin Building LLC....
Soprano Patricia Racette Is Next Artistic Director Of Opera Theatre Of St. Louis
Racette has a long history with the company: she first performed there in 1993 and has returned numerous times since; she made her debut...
Percival Everett’s “James” Was Not Initially One Of The Pulitzer Fiction Finalists
Here’s what happens when the Pulitzer board either (a) considers none of the three finalists submitted by the jury in a category a worthy...
Houston Ballet Selects A Baryshnikov Protégée As Its New Executive Director
Sonja Kostich studied at Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and was 17 when he invited her to join ABT. She went on to dance...
Trying Out A New Finale For “Don Giovanni” — Mozart’s Requiem
At Berlin's Komische Oper, stage director Kirill Serebrennikov has replaced the opera’s moralizing final sextet with an epilogue: a solo dancer represents the dead...
Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Subverted Media Messages, Is Dead At 78
“Hosts of video artists … owe a debt to Birnbaum, who found clever ways of upending the one-way stream of information that pours forth...
Juilliard Dance Division Names A New Director
“Melissa Toogood, a Bessie Award-winning dancer who was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its final years, succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who...
