Pianist Alfred Brendel, 94
“His technique was sufficient but rarely dazzling, and his tone was full and generally attractive but not especially lustrous. ... What attracted listeners was...
Reworking A Nouveau Circus Show On Short Notice After A Key Performer Gets Injured
In this case — the Montreal-based troupe The 7 Fingers, rehearsing in New York for a show opening in two days — the injury...
Report: More Than Half Of Americans Now Get Their News From Social Media
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps...
Tourists Sit On, And Break, Crystal-Coated “Van Gogh Chair” In Museum
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona was caught on closed-circuit TV sitting on artist Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski-encrusted...
In May, Streaming Viewership Beat Broadcast And Cable Viewership For The First Time Ever
Streaming accounted for 44.8% of viewership via TV screens during the month, the report said, while broadcast (20.1%) and cable (24.1%) together represented 44.2%...
The Cultural Implications Of The UK National Gallery Rehang
A rehang tends to elicit strong reactions from anyone with a stake in the collection – and in the case of a public gallery,...
How The Fake Research Publishing Game Works
The paper mills have various techniques to take advantage of desperate or lazy researchers and to trick publishers: some operate as a marketplace in...
How Did A Giant Water Pistol Get To Be The Symbol, And Preferred Weapon,...
It started as a joke, of course. The first really angry protest on the issue happened on a hot summer day in Barcelona, and...
Defining The Art Of Genius
Generally, we want geniuses to be good with their minds rather than with their hands, but we can make an exception for a surgeon...
Egypt’s Grand Egyptian Museum Opening Is Delayed Due To “Regional Developments”
“In light of the current regional developments, it has been decided to postpone the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum,” the GEM explained...
Met Opera Attendance This Spring Was Down, Probably Due To Reduced International Tourism
The company sold 72% of capacity this past season, the same as 2023-24 but below projections. General manager Peter Gelb said that attendance was...
Opera Montreal Picks A New General Director
The company announced that the Board of Directors chose Jen-Pierre Primiani, who currently serves as Chief Philanthropy Officer, for the position and will begin...
Rural Public Media Stations Will Close Or Be Greatly Reduced As Federal Support Goes...
“That would mean an almost immediate disappearance of almost half our operating budget,” David Gordon, executive director of KEET in Eureka, California, said of...
The Urge To Isolationism Isn’t New
This exaltation of self-sufficiency and the downgrading of the value of trading links amounts to a profound break from the orthodoxy of globalisation –...
Trump Administration, Having Shut Down Voice of America’s Persian Service, Races To Restart It...
“The U.S. Agency for Global Media told employees placed on administrative leave to immediately return to their roles providing counter-programming to Iranian state media...
Publisher Releases Facsimile Edition Of García Lorca’s Secret Homoerotic Sonnets
While “Sonnets of Dark Love” was once published in translation in France, it had never appeared in the poet’s homeland or native language because...
Paramount Global Is Now In “Active Settlement Discussions” Over Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit
The new was revealed in a motion by Trump’s attorneys requesting a deadline extension in his lawsuit against Paramount Global, parent company of CBS,...
Leonard Lauder, Major Philanthropist And Art Collector, Has Died At 92
The billionaire chief of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company had special relationships with the Whitney Museum (he was a former board chairman) and the...
Huge Crowds Protest Overtourism In Spain, Portugal, And Italy
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against...
Louvre Abruptly Shut Down By Workers Protesting Overcrowding And Understaffing
“The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts...
Miami City Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director, Only The Third In Its History
Following the early departure of Lourdes Lopez at the end of this past season, the company has appointed 45-yeard-old Gonzalo Garcia, a former principal...
Was The Newest Marvel Movie Always Doomed At The Box Office?
Thunderbolts* - beloved by critics and indie fans - isn’t going to break even. But was the point of this particular film to make...
Figuring Out The “Ulysses” Phenomenon
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the...
Data: Why We Still Need Women’s Writing Prizes
Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read...
Nearly Half Of Sarasota Ballet Dancers Quit, Claiming Toxic Work Environment
Nearly half the company’s dancers — including its top two female principals — are leaving after a season marked by strained relationships with leadership,...
