Thursday, March 17, 2011
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Riccardo Muti, the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has won the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize for his "extraordinary contributions" to the music world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PM[SHARE]The McCarter Theater's 2011-2012 season will include world premieres by John Guare, Danai Gurira ("Eclipsed"), and the Irish playwright Marina Carr, along with productions of Tom Stoppard'…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PM[SHARE]The McCarter Theater's 2011-2012 season will include world premieres by John Guare, Danai Gurira ("Eclipsed"), and the Irish playwright Marina Carr, along with productions of Tom Stoppard'…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PM[SHARE]The 60 short films in the 2011 festival were chosen out of 2,862 submissions. They represent 20 countries and include 22 world premieres.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2011
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Dallas on March 11, the Dallas Observer reported, Arnold Leon Schroeder, Jr., Mrs. Reves's son from a previous marriage, has sued the museum claiming t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2011
The controversial National Portrait Gallery exhibition "Hide/Seek," which examined gay and lesbian themes in American portraiture, may come to the Brooklyn Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum, …
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Egypt's minister of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, said on Tuesday that his department was unable to protect Egypt's historic sites and artifacts and that he was considering resigning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]Monday, February 28, 2011
German scientists said on Friday that it may be possible to reconstruct the smaller of the two Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 24, 2011
The founding president of the Seaport Museum New York, which in recent weeks lost a third of its trustees and furloughed half its staff, has called for the resignation of the museum's curren…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PM[SHARE]Two thieves were arrested last week trying to break apart a 20-foot-tall statue of the pharaoh Ramses II embedded in a quarry in the southern city of Aswan, said Egypt's antiquities minister…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A lecture by the Nigerian author and Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka, readings by Wallace Shawn and Malcolm Gladwell, a debate on the prison industry, and an evening on the topic of sex led …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 22, 2011
A set of important murals depicting events in African-American history will be restored and sent on tour for the first time through a collaboration of Talladega College in Alabama, which own…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PM[SHARE]The American Folk Art Museum, which is facing serious financial problems, is nonetheless embarking an ambitious project: an exhibition of African-American self-taught and graffiti artists to…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:15PM[SHARE]Friday, February 18, 2011
Important archeological sites in Egypt were looted during the anti-government protests, Egypt's antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, said on his blog on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 17, 2011
Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities minister, said on Wednesday that a limestone statue of Akhenaten holding an offering table, among the most valuable of the objects revealed earlier this week…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Interboro Partners, a nine-year-old New York architecture firm, has won the annual Young Architects Program competition to transform MoMA P.S. 1's courtyard for its summer outdoor music prog…
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Monday, February 14, 2011
A full inventory of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo found 18 valuable artifacts missing after a break-in on January 28, Egypt's antiquities minister, Zahi Hawass, wrote on his blog on Sunday.
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