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Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig Given Suspended Prison Sentence For Attempting To Solicit Sex From A…
“(He) had admitted arranging sex acts with someone he thought was a teenager, but was in fact an undercover police officer. … On Tuesday, the 70-year-old was given a 14-month prison sentence, suspended for two years.”…
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US returns $80 million-worth of stolen artifacts to Italy
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It looked more like a museum exhibition of Italian art than a crime scene, but in the Central Institute for Restoration’s offices, located inside a…
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TikTok limits state-affiliated media
TikTok announced Thursday that it would be further limiting the reach of state-affiliated media accounts outside of their home countries. The platform labels the accounts of state-affiliated media, or media organizations that are subject…
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Why Financial Transparency is Vital for the Dance Field’s Health
Information is the most powerful currency in the modern age. Yet, with the dance world struggling to recover cultural relevance and fiscal health post-pandemic shutdowns, most dance workers, critics, and donors have little concrete…
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Handling Bad Reviews — The Nightingale’s Sonata
In the end, the joke was on me. Here I was almost a century after the review had been written, obsessing about it. As Benko wrote me after learning my response, “The fact that you at first were fooled into thinking this was a…
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The Arts In Toronto Are Contracting. What To Do?
The closure and diminishment of so many arts institutions in our city should concern us all. The significant economic threat aside, it makes life here smaller and duller. – Toronto Star
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The Paris Review – Inside Alice Munro’s Notebooks
All images courtesy Alice Munro fonds, University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections”
For her twenty-first birthday, in July 1952, Alice Munro’s husband gave her a typewriter. The present was as much a symbolic offering as a…
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A Banksy Museum opens in NYC, but without Banksy’s blessings : NPR
The Banksy Museum in New York City features replicas of 160 original Banksys. This one is called "Good…
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The Guardian view on discord in the arts world: a distraction from the real crisis | Editorial
July’s election has sent Britain into a spin, but for Mary Archer, charged with reporting on the fitness for purpose of Arts Council England (ACE), it is particularly tricky. For that is the month when her report was expected to be…
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British Museum Recovers Nearly Half of Its 1,500 Missing Objects
As the British Museum continues its global search to find some 1,500 items that were found to be lost or stolen from its collections, it has announced the recovery of a further 268 pieces. So…
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