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MFA director Matthew Teitelbaum announces retirement after decade-long tenure amid social and...
The Boston Globe· 23 hours agoTeitelbaum, 68, became director in August 2015. Two large Rembrandt oil portraits dominate the main...
A Succession Battle Over America’s Largest Ren Faire
The New Yorker· 6 days agoThe subject of Oppenheim’s newest project, an HBO docuseries called “Ren Faire,” is George Coulam, the eighty-six-year-old overlord of the Texas ...
Mark Bennett column: Harriet McNeal inspired many, 'never stopped loving Terre Haute'
Kokomo Tribune, Ind. via Yahoo News· 7 days agoThe Italian city of Florence conjures images of cultural, architectural and artistic icons. Michelangelo’s David. Its town hall, Palazzo Vecchio. Wines from the Chianti region ...
Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson fuse jazz, protest, and justice on Juneteenth album
The Christian Science Monitor· 3 days agoBlack music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights...
‘We Need to Unite’: Protests Against the Far Right Are Held Across France
New York Times· 6 days agoThe mostly peaceful protests, organized by the country’s five biggest labor unions, were widely...
James Nicolson, who brought late-blooming virtuosity to harpsichord and early music, dies at 90 -...
The Boston Globe· 22 hours agoAt 31, he enrolled as a New England Conservatory student. “Jim was a remarkable individual,...
Massive tapestries at the Kimbell depict 1525 Battle of Pavia in impressive detail
Dallas Morning News· 1 day agoAlmost 500 years after the firearm- and pike-wielding Habsburg infantry decimated the heavily...
Vermont Italian Cultural Association (VICA) announces 2024 grant recipients
Bennington Banner· 2 days agoPuccini workshops at Vermont public schools; a concert of Italian arias and songs; and a first-hand...
The war-games that taught Reagan to fear nuclear apocalypse
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoLast month, the Government proposed making it possible for Britons to feed slot machines by means of...
‘White, male and heteronormative’: The cancelled philosophers you shouldn’t quote in 2024
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoAnother philosopher on the list, Kwasi Wiredu, who only died in 2022, was also heavily inspired by Western philosophy. After university in Ghana, he completed a masters at University College ...