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OPERA NEWS: The Metropolitan Opera, one of the world’s most renowned performing arts companies, is turning to Saudi Arabia to help it solve some of the most severe financial problems in its 142-year history.
The Smithsonian put up new text on Friday that changed its description of President Trump’s impeachment following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Monticello is asking a question: Can leaning into the messy, complicated, nasty, origins of our partisan political system save us?
“Making his way in the world today, Wendt’s performance suggested, took everything Norm had got.” — @poniewozik.bsky.social
The new “Salome” at the Met has a fascinating new take on the scandalous Dance of the Seven Veils. Watch how it has evolved over the years…
“Broadway’s box office has finally surpassed its prepandemic peak, fueled by three starry dramas and one green witch.”
A House committee approved a budget proposal last week that called for allocating $257 million to the Kennedy Center for capital repairs and other expenses, roughly six times the amount it usually receives from the government.
For nearly four decades the prop house History for Hire has helped filmmakers recreate the past. But with fewer films shot in Los Angeles, they are not sure about their future.
President Trump proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in the budget he released Friday, taking aim once again at two agencies that he had tried and failed to get rid of during his first term.
Some said the overlap between mega-galleries and museums is to be expected, since both spotlight the field’s most influential figures. Others warn that it can raise questions of conflicts of interest, since museum shows typically lift the reputations of artists and the prices of their work.
Zoom in on the pope's favorite painting, by an artist you might not expect. This is well worth a moment of your time:
Scroll down for the full list of President Trump’s “American Heroes”
“This sucks for academy members. But the upside for moviegoers? Maybe award-bait movies will start clocking in at a more reasonable 88 minutes. If they implemented the rule this year, ‘The Brutalist’ would have won squat.”
If you've taken the train to the plane or the island, you've probably seen them....
The Times wrote about the accused art dealer in 1986, in a story headlined "Whiz-Kid Broker's Downfall." He did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the new charges, but said in an interview in August that “I don’t believe anything was a forgery — everything looked good to me.”
The National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of its funding to build President Trump’s proposed National Garden of American Heroes, according to three people who attended a meeting on Wednesday where the plans were discussed.
The scope of N.E.H. cuts is becoming clearer: at a meeting Thursday staffers were told that upward of 85 percent of the agency’s hundreds of current grants were to be canceled. Cancelations letters said the money would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”
