The Woman Who Helped Track Down Art The Nazis Stole
By the end of the war, 26,984 freight cars of artworks from French collections had left Paris, their contents destined for temporary storage in...
New Jersey Governor Signs Law Curbing Book Bans In Schools And Protecting Librarians
"Taking a stand in the national debate on banning sexually explicit books from school libraries, Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday signed a law that...
The Tomb Of The Actual Saint Nicholas Has Been Uncovered
"Archeologists have discovered what they believe to be the tomb of Saint Nicholas, the (third-century) philanthropic Greek bishop and inspiration behind Santa Claus. The...
Notre-Dame’s Isn’t The Only Famous Pipe Organ This Week To Return To Life After...
Just a day before the catastrophic 2017 blaze that nearly destroyed Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a smaller fire broke out in the Cathedral of...
America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Communities In 2024
As usual, the annual index lists the top 20 large cities, top 10 medium-sized and top 10 small communities. Because the numbers crunched are...
MFA Boston Is Auctioning Off 17 Old Dutch And Flemish Masters Paintings
Just seven years after two major donations doubled the size of the museum's Old Dutch/Flemish holdings, a group of works is headed to Christie's....
The One Place And Time That Opera Is Always A Major News Event
That's the annual gala opening the season at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, which (by long tradition) happens on December 7. And there...
One Of London’s Top Drama Schools Is Opening A New York Outpost
Next month, LAMDA (London Academy of Musical and Dramatic Art) will open a location in midtown Manhattan with both office and flexible studio space....
The Artist Who Recreated The Lost Recipe For The Ancient Maya Blue Pigment
Luis May Ku, a native Mayan artist and teacher in the Yucatán Peninsula, spent years researching Spanish colonial documents, interviewing village elders about their...
Children Of Famous Architects Ask “Why?”
Stardust is the latest in a niche genre of films about architects made by their children. The punishing profession is clearly something that inspires both...
Reimagining The Songs That Alvin Ailey Cut From “Revelations”
The version we see today is about half the length of Ailey's 1960 original; nine songs were removed for an overseas tour in 1962,...
Viewers Streamed 1Billion Hours Of YouTube On Their TVs This Year
This year, the biggest categories for YouTube were sports and children’s entertainment. Watch time for sports content grew 30% year-over-year, according to the company,...
Italy’s Public Broadcaster Has Been Turned Into Propaganda Machine
The broadcaster has undergone a series of radical transformations, often referred to using the shorthand TeleMeloni. A monologue in which the writer Antonio Scurati was set...
Data: Venice’s Tourist Visitor Tax Didn’t Reduce Crowds
Data found that during the 29 dates the initial €5 access fee was in force in 2024, Venice received on average 7,000 more visitors...
Does This Skating Company Do Contemporary Dance On Ice? Well, No … But Also...
The artistic director of the Montreal-based troupe Le Patin Libre ("free skate") stresses that audiences shouldn't expect anything like Merce Cunningham or Pina Bausch...
Paris Opera Dancers On Strike
The strike, following unsuccessful negotiations, concerns the remuneration of preparation time before performances. According to the union, only six hours of monthly preparation are...
Warner Restructures Its Networks Into Streaming And Not
The company's new global linear networks division will house its networks of news, sports, scripted and unscripted programming like CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV and...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Dividing Itself In Two
"(The giant media conglomerate) said it is restructuring into two operating divisions, one focused on the legacy cable TV business and the other on...
Seattle Art Museum Guards Agree To New Contract
“While we did not secure all the improvements we had hoped for, the union was able to secure a number of wage and benefit...
Harper Collins’ CEO Has Some Ideas About AI In Publishing…
“A book sits atop a large language model, allowing readers to converse with an A.I. facsimile of its author.” At last: No more having...
Makin’ The Bacon For Broadway’s “Our Town” (Yes, We Mean Real Bacon)
To add sense memory to the penultimate scene, the prop crew cooks two pounds of bacon during every performance, using a box fan to...
Editor Who Published Hacked Sony Emails 10 Years Ago Now Confesses His Regret
Andrew Wallenstein, then-co-editor-in-chief of Variety: "I’m not going to say if I had to do it all over again I would do it differently...
YouTube Viewership On Real Television Sets Is Soaring, And The Company Is Finally Leaning...
"YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous. … The trend...
These Replicas Could Solve The Problem Of The Parthenon Marbles
"If the Marbles return to the Acropolis, the hole they will leave in the British Museum may be filled by perfect replicas. The Oxford-based...
Can Literary Prizes Survive If Writers Keep Protesting Against The Sponsors?
"Might these events deter future winners of prizes with controversial sponsors" — the Baillie Gifford prize in the UK, the Scotiabank Giller Prize in...
