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Italy’s Largest Set Of Medieval Mosaics Is Restored
The 12th-century Byzantine-style mosaics in the cathedral of Monreale, on a hill overlooking the Sicilian capital, Palermo, are exceeded only by those in Hagia...
Salman Rushdie’s “Satanic Verses” Is Back In India’s Bookstores After 38-Year Ban
Then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi blocked publication and import of the novel not long after it was released in 1988. Last month, when the government...
Syracuse Opera Files For Liquidation Bankruptcy
The company, which canceled all performances and laid off staff last last year, filed earlier this month for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the legal step...
That Time William S. Burroughs Made A Claymation Christmas Movie
Yep, it's true. The 21-minute film, The Junky's Christmas (1993), was written and narrated by Burroughs and produced by no less than Francis Ford...
When Thieves Made Off With The Corpse Of St. Nicholas
In 1087, a group of three grain ships from Bari, the port on the heel of the Italian boot, decided to steal the relics...
Why We Keep Returning To The Same Pieces Of Christmas Pop Culture, Even When...
Nostalgia is a powerful lure, even when it comes to songs like "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" and movies like "Santa Claus Conquers the...
A New York Times Editor On What 2024’s Broadway Plays Got Wrong And Right...
Sarah Bahr: "For me, watching fictional journalists scheme their way to scoops is akin to what I imagine it must feel like for doctors...
Super-Splashy “Turandot” In Seoul Nearly Collapses In Chaos On Opening Night
The venue is in the city's top conference center/shopping mall; the cast includes Asmik Grigorian and Brian Jagde; José Cura is conducting; top tickets...
The Birth Of The Christmas Card
As with so many innovations, the first Christmas card, sent out in 1843, was devised by a guy trying to avoid a big, tedious...
A Christmas Ballet In The Streets Of One Of Africa’s Largest Slums
Dozens of students from Nairobi's Kibera Ballet School, which provides free instruction to impoverished children and teens, donned Santa hats and sequined outfits to...
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” Almost Never Made It To The Airwaves
"CBS executives thought the 25-minute program was too slow, too serious and too different from the upbeat spectacles they imagined audiences wanted. A cartoon...
Why Some Of The Crown Jewels Of France Are Kept In A New Jersey...
The ultimate reason is the wave of anti-monarchism that swept the country after Napoleon III's fall and the foundation of the Third Republic. Why...
Prosecutors End “Rust” Shooting Case Against Alec Baldwin For Good
"Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the appeal of a July decision at trial to dismiss the (involuntary manslaughter) charge against Baldwin in the death...
Berlin Goes Through With It: €130 Million Is Officially Cut From City’s Arts Funding...
Well, Merry Christmas. (Even with the cuts, the city's arts and culture budget for 2025 is well over €1 billion.) - ARTnews
Hilma af Klint’s Family Tries To Stop Proposed Deal With David Zwirner Gallery
"Klint family members say that a proposed deal between Zwirner, who is one of the biggest gallerists in the world, and the foundation’s board...
The Top Ten Book-Business News Stories Of 2024
"PW looks back at the major contractions in the independent book distribution space, an explosion of artificial intelligence tools and businesses, turmoil over freedom...
Glasgow’s Leading Theatre Company Is Finally Coming Back Home
The Citizens Theatre is returning to its historic playhouse next September after a seven-year renovation, the first overhaul the facility has had since it...
How “Sesame Street” Is Trying To Save Itself — And Why It Needs To
In the show's 55th season. producers are trying to re-orient it to keep it alive. Its core audience of toddlers and pre-schoolers is different...
Airports Have Started Putting Real Thought Into Their Background Music
Some — London Heathrow, Nashville, Phoenix, Seattle-Tacoma, both Chicago airports — have stages with live musicians. Others — Detroit, Austin — have specially curated...
How To Choose A Good In-Flight Movie
Obviously everyone is different, but Alissa Wlkinson does have some general guidelines to offer. Among them: remember that people are more susceptible to tears...
Five Takeaways From SMU DataArts’ 2024 Research
"From financial challenges and workforce dynamics to measures of arts vibrancy, these findings capture the trends and key shifts shaping the field today. For...
Culture Minister Threatens To Cut Off Batsheva Dance Company’s Funding
"Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar asked Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich to examine whether the Batsheva Dance Company is in violation of its state funding...
The World’s Oldest Children’s Museum Marks 125 Years. And Where Is It? Brooklyn.
"Situated on a leafy corner of the Crown Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum commemorated its 125th anniversary last weekend with a daylong celebration....
Producer Woody Fraser, Who Created Some Of 20th-Century America’s Most Influential TV Shows, Is...
He has remained one of the most successful TV producers in entertainment history, specifically in the talk, news and variety programming genres, over a...
So What Happens To Dallas Black Dance Theatre Now?
The dancers fired this summer won their case, but they've chosen to take severance pay rather than return to the company. The current dancers...
