Thursday Morning Reads

The Kimbell Art Museum will return a painting once looted by the Nazis.

The New York Philharmonic is heading to Italy this week for the first time in 21 years.

When will the Detroit Symphony Orchestra hire a new music director? Mark Stryker wants to know.

Speak freely and with candor - unless, that is, you work for Ballet West.

And did you hear the Bar Harbor Whale Museum is planning to display the skeleton of a 46-foot sperm whale that was found floating in the Gulf of Maine? Wait 'til the scalpers hear about this.