Samsung Founder’s Heirs To Donate Thousands Of Art Works In Inheritance Tax
The Lee family, including his widow and three children, expects to pay more than 12 trillion won ($10.8 billion) in inheritance taxes, which is...
An Argument Against Our Meritocracy
It is obvious that “not everyone is born with the same academic gifts,” deBoer writes, but among teachers and educational officials there is a...
Police Bust Massive Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Zachary Horwitz collected $690 million from investors for movie deals authorities say were fictitious. The HBO and Netflix contracts he used to convince Russell...
Oscars Ratings Plunge 58 Percent From Last Year’s Record Low
Among adults 18 to 49, the demographic that many advertisers pay a premium to reach, the Oscars suffered an even steeper 64 percent decline,...
How A 1967 Recording By The Who Predicted Where Pop Music Would End Up
The contradictory impulses about pop’s progress and possibilities at its heart make The Who Sell Out sound like a perfect snapshot of music at...
Workers Discover Two Hidden Frescoes In The Uffizi
According to the museum, an unknown person “protected” the Cosimo II artwork before it was plastered over. “Maybe this unknown savior wanted it to...
Former English National Ballet Principal On Trial For Alleged Sexual Abuse Of Students
"Yat-Sen Chang, 49, has been charged with 12 counts of sexual assault and two counts of assault by penetration against a female aged 16...
Dallas Opera Launches Its Own Streaming Channel
“We view it as a second stage,” said Ian Derrer, the Dallas Opera’s general director and CEO. “And it has accessible on-ramps for many...
Was The Emperor Nero Really So Wicked? Probably Not
Says the curator of a new exhibit on the Roman monarch at the British Museum, "Nero's memory was contested after his death, and that...
Maureen Dowd: Has Hollywood Lost Its Inspiration?
As a Hollywood writer friend of mine said after she watched “Nomadland”: “That was not entertainment. That was Frances McDormand having explosive diarrhea in...
Is This Guy Really At The Center Of The Century’s Greatest Art-Forgery Scandal?
Over the past seven years, "this scandal — now known as 'the Ruffini affair' — has engulfed figures ranging from curators at the Louvre...
“Not The Civil Service”: Cameron Mackintosh Defends Cutting “Phantom” Orchestra In Half
"I've had a terrible year trying to keep on as many people as I can, but our job is to try to put a...
Does ‘The King And I’ Need To Be Decolonized? Yes (And It’s Largely Anna’s...
Not everything in Anna Leonowens's memoirs about her time at the Siamese court is a lie, but quite a lot is untrue, especially about...
Are We Polarized Or Suffering From Propaganda?
"Systemic polarization, as it is usually told, is a basically symmetrical story. Polarization arises from a social dynamic that afflicts almost everybody. The social...
Actors On One Of Germany’s Most Popular TV Shows Made Sarcastic Videos About The...
"A website called #allesdichtmachen ('close it all down') was launched on Thursday night, featuring 53 to-camera clips in which high-profile actors sarcastically boast...
In Venice, Building A New System To Protect St. Mark’s From Ever-Increasing Floods
The repeated, record-setting acqua alta events of late 2019 caused an estimated €300 million in damage to the Byzantine-style landmark — and floods are...
How Yahoo Went From Being The Web’s Welcoming Atrium To Its Wrecking Ball
Back in the 1990s, before search engines were much good, Yahoo was a popular and useful portal, a directory organizing the great, amorphous mass...
Authors And Publishers Are In No Rush To Restart Book Tours
"Most publishers contacted by PW said they are deferring making any concrete plans about tours until authors feel comfortable going back on the road...
Fired Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts Director Lands New Job In Paris
Last July, after a tenure that had been widely viewed (at least from outside) as a major success, Nathalie Bondil was dismissed from the...
Baltimore Symphony President To Depart, Ending Turbulent Tenure
"Peter Kjome capped a roller-coaster five years as president and CEO of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra" — a period that included a financial near-collapse,...
Italy Begins Reopening Theaters And Museums
"After six months of rotating on-again, off-again closures, restaurants, bars, museums and cinemas opened to the public in most of the country under a...
Scalpers Have Been Buying Up UK Festival Tickets And Massively Hiking Prices
A Guardian investigation found that dozens of professional touts have snapped up tickets for eagerly awaited festivals and are demanding massively inflated prices from...
I was A “Minority Intern” In The 1990s. We Need To Talk About These...
"Without long insights into the early diversity programs, our profession cannot address the structural inequities that perpetuate the need for entry-level opportunities targeted for...
China Censors News Of Chloé Zhao’s Best Director Oscar Win
The Chinese government imposed a virtual news blackout, and censors moved to tamp down or scrub out discussion of the award on social media....
How Your Movie Theatre Experience Will Likely Change
To survive beyond the pandemic, theaters must persuade moviegoers not just to come back, but to come back more frequently than they did—to start...
