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At Henry Louis Gates’s “Finding Your Roots,” How They Handle Finding A Bombshell Piece...
Gates: “If ... we found out that, let’s say, your daddy wasn’t your daddy but your daddy didn’t know, I have an ethics protocol;...
After 25 Years, Choreographer Lucy Guerin Leaving Her Dance Company
She is creating a final solo work for herself — her first time onstage in 13 years — as a farewell, and she officially...
Next-Generation Tech Lets Producers Of Musicals Shrink Pit Bands Even More
“Orchestral software from the German company KeyComp threatens to inflict the deepest cuts yet on what has traditionally been a steady gig for professional...
Laurie Anderson Awarded $600,000 Kyoto Prize For Arts And Philosophy
The multimedia artist will receive the ¥100 million prize — given annually by the Inamori Foundation in three fields: advanced technology, basic science, and...
Benjamin Franklin’s Library Given 1,500 Rare Books About Sex
The collection is the latest donation to the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Franklin in 1731, by Charles Rosenberg, a now-retired historian of...
With Book Reviews Disappearing From Newspapers, This Bookstore Decided To Start Doing Its Own
“The Porter Square Review of Books launched this month. The (Cambridge, Mass.) store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly(ish) book reviews on its website, on...
New Chief Conductor At BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Antony Hermus, a 53-year-old Dutchman who is just finishing his tenure as chief conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra, will succeed Ryan Wigglesworth at...
Google Invests $75 Million In A24 Studios To Develop AI Filmmaking Tools
“Google’s DeepMind AI unit and A24 are aiming to create new tools for movie production and distribution. … Though Alphabet unit Google is a...
Lonnie Bunch Works To Keep Smithsonian Independent And Functional Amid Trumpist Turmoil
“Bunch has been cast by many of his admirers as something of a resistance figure — one of the only high-profile leaders standing up...
Stolen Picasso Discovered During Drug Trafficking Raid Near Paris
“Officers in the Brigade des Stupéfiants discovered the artwork on 15 June while carrying out a routine search of a house owned by the...
Germany And The Netherlands Will Return 2,000 Artifacts To Ghana
The repatriation was announced by Ghana’s foreign minister during a conference in Accra, but no information on the types of artifacts or the timeline...
What Might Have Been: Gaudí’s Design For A New York Skyscraper
A supertall skyscraper, no less, topping out at 360 meters/1180 feet. The great Barcelona architect did a speculative design of a hotel complex in...
Gaudí Was A Superstar. Why Didn’t He Have More Influence On Future Architects?
Architectural history and Antoni Gaudí just weren’t headed in the same direction. - Dezeen
A New Center For Playwrights On Cape Cod Bay
“Pulitzer-winning playwright Paula Vogel has teamed up with former Huntington Theatre Managing Director Michael Maso and philanthropist Grace Nordhoff on a new center for playwrights and theatrical composers that...
Joyce Carol Oates Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop
“In one day this May, for instance, she tweeted 36 times about the following subjects: boxing, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, shortened attention spans,...
So, If The Obama Presidential Center Isn’t A Library Or Archive, Then What Exactly...
The Obama Foundation opted not to have the National Archives and Records Administration, which keeps presidential archives, involved in the Center; it will make...
Iranian Star Sentenced To 74 Lashes Because She Sang Without A Hijab
And she was singing a patriotic song, no less. In a December 2024 video which went viral, Parastoo Ahmadi performed “From the Blood of...
Upheaval At DC’s Dance Place As Artistic Director Position Is Eliminated
A week after artistic director Tariq O’Meally was abruptly dismissed, an unsigned statement was released: “Dance Place has restructured its staffing model and is...
Court Says Trump Administration May Alter Slavery Exhibit At George Washngton’s Philadelphia House (And...
When the Trump administration removed from the site panels telling the history of the enslaved people who lived with the Washingtons there, the city...
Penske Media, Now The World’s Largest Digital Publisher, Buys What’s Left Of Vox Media
Last month James Murdoch bought Vox Media’s flagships: New York magazine and its verticals (Vulture, The Cut, Curbed, Grub Street), the Vox Media Podcast...
Czech Government Wants To Scrap BBC-Style License Fee — And People Are Furious (?!)
As with the BBC, Czech national TV and radio are funded by a license fee charged to every household with a television or radio....
Unknown Bartók Manuscript Discovered In Spain
“(The item was identified by) Hungarian antiquarian bookseller Ádám Bősze, who acquired the document at a Spanish auction where it had been mistakenly catalogued...
For His First Work Of Performance Art, Ai Weiwei Will Re-Enact His Imprisonment
“From 5 p.m. on July 3 (in Manchester), Ai will enter a replica of his 25.92 square-meter cell, recreated by international architecture firm HawkinsBrown. Inside,...
“The Seduction Of Certainty”: Playwright Moisés Kaufman On The Roald Dahl Bio-Play “Giant”
“Most plays about prejudice comfort the audience with clarity. They reassure us that we would have recognized it immediately. Giant offers no such reassurance.” - Observer
Why The New Obama Presidential Center Is Not Officially A Library
It isn’t a presidential library if it isn’t run by the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Obama Foundation had two big reasons...
