"Keeping a large collection of books in a canal city prone to flooding was always a dangerous idea, which is why Venice's Libreria Acqua Alta (High Water Bookshop) had decided to store its b…
"The Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, a branch of the Italian carabinieri responsible for combatting art and antiquities crimes, believe the suspects are members of an crimin…
Lorna Fulton, head of Middlesbrough Town Hall, declined to book comedian Roy Chubby Brown because she thought local audiences might find his act offensive and his 2015 performance sold poorl…
"Last November, French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned a report recommending the repatriation of looted African cultural objects from France's public collections, spurring a national …
"E. Loren Meeker was announced Friday as the company's general and artistic director, and Francesco Milioto will become music director. Meeker replaces both Adam Diegel, who departed as arti…
"The [London] museum exists thanks to a public fundraising drive, with more than 1,000 people collectively donating almost £50,000. The director, Florence Schechter, says her motivation b…
From 2006: I set my iBook on shuffle play the other night and sat down at the kitchen table to fill up my seven-day pillbox. (Don't let anybody tell you that the life of a Manhattan drama cr…
"One of the main horrors of journalism is having to produce appropriate emotions for every public event." Auberon Waugh, diary entry, October 26, 1973
David Friesen Circle 3 Trio: Interaction (Origin)"From the Portland, Oregon, sinecure in which he thrives when he's not touring the world, bassist Friesen has been performing at home and abr…
Dozens of records, stacked and ready for selection. Before the walkman, spotify and sodcasting, they let you decide your own mood music. Public yet personal, sweetly selfish " the jukebox fl…
After skipping 2017 and 2018, the White House announced that Trump has chosen actor Jon Voight, novelist James Patterson, president and chief executive officer of WETA (a Washington, D.C. pu…
MoMA's endorsement of unending growth is central to the advancement of corporate values that lie at the heart of the existential crisis facing not just it and countless other cultural instit…
Not when it's in the hands of artists of color, especially Black women. The chief curator at Whitechapel Gallery says that, for many artists, "painting minority ethnic subjects was a way to …
Both Constance Wu and Mindi Kaling say their most recent films " Hustlers for Wu and Late Night for Kaling " benefited from having women as directors. Kaling about Wu's Hustlers: "Nothing fe…
Even when it's the Royal Air Force Museum, a lot of parents are saying that's a no. " The Observer (UK)
Streaming services " Netflix, Amazon, etc. etc. etc. " have been challenging Hollywood for years, but before now, the three biggest old companies weren't involved. Now they're "all in," as e…
Though the Met is still perilously close to the percentage that so angered the Guerrilla Girls in 1985, things may be slowly changing " and they may be accelerated just before the U.S.'s pre…
How is each of us our own center of experience, receiving information about the rest of the world out there? Why are some things conscious and others apparently not? " The Conversation
Of course, people with dementia experience significant changes in their self-concept, self-knowledge, social relationships, perception of their own capacity, and even their physical appearan…
He was a clarinetist who jammed with Bernstein and Duke Ellington, played with the Cincinnati Symphony for 35 years, then gave it up to open an art gallery. Oh, and he founded a chamber musi…
"Issues-based theatre when it happens falls into two categories at the moment. Moscow's Teatr.doc embodies the company that produces grimy work to challenge society " and gets targeted and c…
The government is apparently seeing to silence protestors and quell unrest. So how does a country like Iran switch off internet to a population of more than 80 million? It's not an easy thin…
When a play lands can be as crucial as the quality of the writing and the rigour of the dramaturgy. In a 'new play culture', always seeking ever newer writers, a play whose timing is just a …
"Swift's initial post alleges that Scooter Braun and Scott Borchetta were essentially holding access to her older music hostage, telling her that if she wants to be able to perform the music…
This year, the program received more than 11,000 submissions for just 17 spots in its third class. The Impact application consists of 70 questions, what Mitchell describes as a "thesis-like …