Art and Culture

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, announced that the appointment of Courtenay Finn as the next chief curator of both institutions. Finn will start in her role on August 24. She will…
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The Emmy Award-winning drama has also become an urgently needed Hollywood success story at a time when much of the local film and TV industry has left California for other states and countries. – Los Angeles Times (MSN) Source…
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Professor Bettina Varwig wants to get us moving – and feeling, and listening, but primarily moving. The University of Cambridge academic says classical audiences today are “asked to leave our breathing, pulsing, feeling bodies at the…
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Today’s press conference in the Sala della Musica M. Tremaglia of the Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo A previously unpublished work by Gaetano Donizetti, consisting of four pages, sets to music the text of Psalm 110, ‘Dixit’ or ‘Dixit…
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From the late 1970s, she had a glittering 25-year career as a coloratura, from the Met to La Scala to Santa Fe and beyond, then became an admired teacher and diction coach. From 2016, she was artistic director of the Livermore Valley…
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(Photograph by James Bellorini) The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) will cut 64 roles as the Covent Garden institution moves to…
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“A landscaped median under construction for months in front of the Kimmel Center has reached completion — the down payment on a promised major redo of the Avenue of the Arts streetscape. The leafy ribbon down the middle of Broad Street…
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StoReel, a Chinese AI-native microdrama platform, on Tuesday unveiled a new tool called Canvas that lets anyone create their own show. TheWrap got early access to the tool and decided to make a microseries, authored by an entertainment…
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — One of the most intricately decorated parts of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, a passageway walked by popes and presidents and attributed to Renaissance master Raphael, is…
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 The Observer says Colin Asher’s The Midnight Special will “transform” the way you see art. Booklist calls it “mesmerizing.” Publisher’s Weekly likes it, and so does The Houston Press; also Alex Gershman dives deep into the book on his…
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