Art and Culture

Christophe Leribault, the Louvre’s president-director since February, addressed the French Senate Wednesday, delivering an assessment that the storied Paris museum is “à bout de souffle,” or “at the end of its rope.” Speaking…
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The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by…
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Facing more than one court case and no scheduled concerts, the struggling Texas orchestra has promoted its associate conductor, Felipe Tristán, to the music director’s podium on an interim basis. – San Antonio Express-News (MSN)…
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“Congress has made clear that the National Mall is … not a personal sandbox for each President to renovate however he likes,” argues the lawsuit. “To that end, Congress has decreed that no new ‘commemorative work’ shall be located…
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The University of Texas at Austin has dismissed Debbie Hiott as General Manager of KUT Public Media,…
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That is the ruling of the court in The Hague. The heirs wanted the masterpieces back because, in their view, the museum exhibits the valuable paintings too infrequently. Bredius (1855-1946) was director of the Mauritshuis…
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Hardcovers which for years cost around $20 are now routinely marked at $30 or more. However, both publishing executives and booksellers maintain that the price of new books has not kept up with post-2020 inflation in the economy as a…
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“We’ll still be covering, with the same rigor and integrity, fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews, author interviews, and so forth,” said Millman. “But we’re also going to include more design criticism, art criticism, and…
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“Baywatch” was a staple of low-budget, first-run syndication in the 1990s, as natural to Los Angeles as David Hasselhoff’s chest hair and as defining of the city in that era as the O.J. trial and the Sunset Strip. By the time it…
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Dame Judi Dench is to have a West End theatre renamed after her, becoming only the second non-royal woman to be honoured in such a way.The Shaftesbury theatre will be known as the Judi Dench theatre from February 2027 in celebration of…
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