Smithsonian Turns Its Head to Change and Adopts Ethical Returns Policy

The Smithsonian Institution announced on Tuesday that it has adopted a policy that will formally authorize its founding museums to return items that have been looted or once unethically obtained from their collections. The institution’s leaders said the policy enacted Friday represents a departure from the long-held position it and other museums have taken, which …

Biden Brings Climate Back to Environmental Act, Turns Trump Over

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will announce on Tuesday that it is once again restoring parts of a core environmental law that requires climate impacts to be considered and required input from local communities before federal agencies approve highways, pipelines, and other major projects. The administration plans to revive the requirements of the 50-year-old National …

Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns Armory into a Cage

By now, Park Avenue Armory’s Recital Series concerts are a known quantity: art song and chamber music in ornate, intimate spaces. Whether the programming is classical or contemporary, the packaging is the same, with just a few surprises – like soprano Barbara Hannigan did. He translated Erik Satie’s music semi-staged monodrama. But it was not …

Review: In ‘Paradise Square’, Racial Harmony Turns into Conflict

In everything “Paradise Square” true. Nothing in “Paradise Square” is true. Yup, date shows In 1863, after Abraham Lincoln expanded the Civil War draft to include all white men between the ages of 25 and 45 – black men were excluded because they were not considered citizens – gangs of disgruntled Irish Americans revolted in …

Bruce Willis Turns Away From Acting After Diagnosed Aphasia

On Wednesday, Demi Moore announced on Instagram that her prolific action movie star ex-husband Bruce Willis had recently been diagnosed with aphasia – a disorder that affects the language center of the brain and a person’s ability to understand or express speech – and said she’ll be moving away from acting. “We wanted to share …

‘American Song Contest’ Turns A State Into Eurovision

Eight-week reality contest hosted by Kelly Clarkson and Snoop Dogg “American Song Contest” It’s all new, slated to premiere on NBC on Monday. However, its format will be familiar to millions of people across the Atlantic: The show, Eurovision Song Contest, which countries is engaged in a singing battle for pop supremacy. Eurovision catapult ABBA’s …

The Most Influential Opera of the 20th Century, ‘Wozzeck’ Turns 100 Years Old

Theodor Adorno must After the premiere of “Wozzeck” at the Berlin State Opera, offer your condolences to Alban Berg until late on the night of 14 December 1925. The problem wasn’t that Berg’s first opera was a disaster, that this unknown student of Arnold Schoenberg was ready to be sent back to his former anonymity …

Israeli Artist Turns Plastic Pollution Into ‘Earth Poetica’

JERUSALEM — When Jerusalem-based artist Beverly Barkat began creating an artwork for the lobby of a building in the new World Trade Center complex overlooking the ground zero in Lower Manhattan, she aimed to find something architecturally specific and impressive, big enough to connect. with space but not big enough to break from the observer. …