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Just How Did Buffalo’s Albright Knox Museum Raise $100 Million In Three Months?

With Jeffrey Gundlach’s help, the Albright-Knox has completed what may be the fastest capital-raising campaign in US museum history. In less than three months, it amassed more than $100m—a rate of more than $1m a day.

French President Says Louvre Must Protect Artifacts In War Zones

Last year, President Hollande asked the president of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, to prepare a report for protecting heritage in areas of conflict after the destruction of the ancient site of Palmyra in Syria by Isis last year. Martinez subsequently devised a 50-point plan, including establishing a single European database of seized or stolen cultural property. In 2018, Louvre is due to start moving more than 250,000 works of art and artefacts from Paris to the 23,500 sq. m, €60m store in Liévin, a move which has enflamed some of the museum’s curatorial staff.

Here’s A First: A Pre-Broadway Tryout In Newfoundland – And In This Case, It Make Sense

After all, the new musical, Come From Away, is set there – at Gander airport, to which 38 flights were diverted on 9-11-01, leaving an out-of-the-way little town to host several thousand confused and scared passengers for five days.

‘A Subsidised Critic Is The Thin End Of A Dangerous Wedge’

“The danger, in such a situation, is not that the critic will give a soft ride to her fellow beneficiaries.” Longtime Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington explains where he feels the dangers do lie.

Natalie Babbitt, 84, Author Of Young-Adult Classic ‘Tuck Everlasting’

“Mrs. Babbitt wrote or illustrated more than two dozen books, among them Kneeknock Rise (1970), a recipient of the Newbery Honor. But she was best known for Tuck Everlasting, a volume that became required reading in many schools and a favorite of children and parents alike. Novelist Anne Tyler once described it as ‘one of the best books ever written – for any age.'”

Ex UK Culture Minister: The Arts Suffer From Too Much Lefty Politics

Ed Vaizey, who was removed from his position as arts minister by prime minister Theresa May in July, said: “Let’s not beat about the bush: the arts are relentlessly left wing. As the former [London] mayor’s head of culture once said: there is no pro-fox hunting play. Indeed, there are no plays about over-powerful trade unions letting down their members. As a Remainer [myself], there is no pro-Brexit play attacking unaccountable Brussel’s bureaucrats building a European superstate. There’s no play exposing the corruption and abuse in a country like Venezuela – why not?”

Why Is The Quality Of Canadian TV So Bad?

“What’s exceptionally frustrating, especially in the matter of television in Canadian culture, is the lack of emphasis on quality. Said it before and saying it again: We make an awful lot of TV in this country and we are, frankly, accepting of a great deal of mediocrity. Money is thrown at all manner of drivel.”

How/Why Music Can Help You Work

People’s minds tend to wander, “and we know that a wandering mind is unhappy,” Dr. Sood said. “Most of that time, we are focusing on the imperfections of life.” Music can bring us back to the present moment. “It breaks you out of just thinking one way,” said Teresa Lesiuk, an assistant professor in the music therapy program at the University of Miami.

Producers Of Broadway’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet Of 1812′ Offer To Settle Lawsuit Over Credit

Five little words – “the Ars Nova Production of” – ahead of the show’s title in the Playbill led to an ugly dispute that got into both the press and the legal system, and now the show’s producers want to make it go away.

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