Art and Culture

Police are still looking for the Louvre’s stolen trove of 19th-century jewelry, though French authorities arrested eight people in connection with the crime last October. But the subsequent heists across Europe suggest the Louvre heist…
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Comedians now routinely give their audiences hours of new material every week, in exchange for subscription and advertising revenue that, while amounting to much less than what box offices and network sales departments once commanded,…
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Since April 2025, two months after Trump’s takeover, Rick Canny has been a senior adviser to the Center, which has now amended his consulting contract to appoint him artistic director “in a designated executive consulting capacity.”…
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Sir Ian McKellen is set to star in the European premier of a play in which he appears as a hologram. – BBC Source link
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The story of New College of Florida “merits attention . . . if only to record the perseverance of those who, for more than three decades, struggled to overcome numerous and daunting difficulties to help keep the institution alive.” So…
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For Chinese opera fans, 2026 will surely be remembered for one thing: Mao Weitao’s triumphant return to the stage.Few outside China may have heard of her, but the 63-year-old is a titanic figure in her chosen discipline, Yue opera, and…
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CNN and Google have struck a multiyear partnership to help figure out how Google’s generative AI products can help boost engagement with its journalism, becoming the latest news organization to monetize its content to help a tech…
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Good Morning, Ian McKellen, 87, will appear as a hologram in Simon Stephens’s play An Ark, filmed by 52 cameras, at Manchester’s Factory International from March 27 (BBC). Mary Duggan was asked to design 80 council homes on a…
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These words came over the transom from the author Udo Breger: Brion Gysin is one of those dazzling figures of the 20th century whose life defies simple categorization. Born in England in 1916 as a Canadian and died in Paris in 1986…
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