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Kennedy Center Officials Extend Closure For Another Week, Citing Safety Issues
“Executive Director Matt Floca cited recent studies of roofing damage he says could harm pedestrians in a status report filed Wednesday evening. … Floca has said the current shutdown is separate from the board’s decision” to…
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Dolly Parton Manager Asks Court to Halt Fired Nephew’s ‘Terrorizing’ Conduct
Dolly Parton‘s longtime manager has filed for a restraining order against her nephew, who until being fired a week ago was her head of security, alleging that the family member is engaged in a campaign of coercion, extortion and…
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Trump’s NPR-PBS Funding Fight Quietly Comes To An End. | Story
The court battle over President Trump’s attempt to cut off federal funding to NPR and PBS has quietly…
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What Exactly Does An Orchestra’s Artistic Planner Do?
“Artistic planning involves putting together an organization’s programming, both in the near term and the long term. Members of the artistic planning staff work with the organization’s music director, guest conductors,…
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Budapest’s House of Terror Museum Temporarily Shuttered
The House of Terror Museum in Budapest has been closed temporarily by Hungary’s culture minister, Zoltán Tarr, who has also fired the museum’s director, Mária Schmidt. In a Facebook post, Tarr said that the museum would reopen later…
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National Trust For Historic Preservation Announces $10M Fund To Push Back Against Trump
The fund “will provide resources for legal defense, public advocacy, and community action when historic places and the laws that protect them are under threat,” Brent Leggs, the trust’s president, said in an interview on Tuesday. …
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Looking Back On What The Literary Theory Generation Wrought
A half-century after poststructuralism broke out of Parisian lecture halls and stumbled into unexpected acclaim and vitriol in the English-speaking world, we now have enough distance from the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s to look…
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Six Artists Who Shaped Modern American Design — And The Bitter WWII Experience Which United Them All
“The (Barnes Foundation) exhibit ‘Noguchi to Asawa: Designing Postwar America’ examines six renowned Japanese-American artists whose work defined modern American art and design in the mid-to-late 20th century — all of whom were severely…
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The “Extraordinary” Bolivian Painter Whose Work Was Discovered In The Trash
“Alejandro Mario Yllanes was a protégé of Diego Rivera, who championed the bravery with which Yllanes made searingly political works. Yllanes … left little trace of his life after 1950, leaving a cache of paintings, engravings and…
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