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In Bali, Sacred Dance Lives On
A photo journal of more than 30 teenage girls performing the Rejang dance for the Kuningan holiday, the close of a ten-day Balinese Hindu...
Paris Has Become Europe’s Nexus For Black Culture
“Paris draws together communities from west, central and north Africa, as well as the Caribbean, and its density creates the conditions for encounters that aren’t...
Sydney’s Second-Largest Nonprofit Theatre Loses Its Set-Building Workshop To Fire
The blaze broke out at the Belvoir St Theatre’s scenery shop on Monday, June 22 and burned well into the next day; at one...
Mezzo Mignon Dunn, For Decades A Met Opera Stalwart, Has Died At 98
“Dunn appeared in more than 650 performances at the Metropolitan Opera, where she became one of the company’s leading dramatic mezzos. Although she portrayed...
Short Story Critics Thought Was Written By AI Wins Overall Commonwealth Prize
“Jamir Nazir’s story ‘The Serpent in the Grove’ went viral after being named as a regional winner in mid-May, with critics on X and Bluesky claiming it showed...
International Booker Prize Doubles Its Award Money And Changes Its Name
“The prize, which honors translated fiction and this year celebrates its 10th anniversary, will be renamed the Bukhman International Booker Prize,” with the top...
Paris Opera’s Musicians Form Self-Governing Concert Orchestra
The independent ensemble, called Philopéra, will be a collective run by the members, along the lines of the Vienna Philharmonic (all members of the...
Nine-Hour Online Queues For Bayeux Tapestry Tickets At British Museum
“When tickets went on sale for the first time on Wednesday morning, … there were reports of 40,000 people queueing by mid-morning, with that...
Former Facebook Exec Sues Meta For Trying To Suppress Her Memoir
Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was director of global public policy at Facebook from 2011 until her firing in 2017, argues in her suit that the...
Philadelphia Orchestra Appoints New Assistant Conductor: Sara Aldana
A native of Colombia and a student of Marin Alsop, the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal guest conductor, Aldana was most recently cover conductor at the...
David Sedaris Confesses His Duolingo Addiction
“My problem arose when I discovered Duolingo’s competitive aspect, when I learned that it is essentially a game. ... This means forgoing any real...
Ballet Costumes Are Shockingly Labor-Intensive
“Beading and sequins, silk bodices and boning, plus 10 layers of pleated net, all painstakingly cut and dyed by hand before being sewn together....
Zelenskyy Suggests A Replacement For The Long-Toppled Lenin Monument In Kyiv
The statue of the father of the USSR was pulled down by demonstrators during the Euromaidan demonstrations in 2013; the pedestal has stood empty...
As Many Traditional Museums Struggle, The Museum Of Ice Cream And Museum Of Balloons...
“When audience levels have plateaued at many traditional museums, the ability of entertainment companies styled as arts institutions to siphon away visitors poses a...
Tween Girls Read A Variety Of Books While Tween Boys Stick With Grade-School-Age Fiction:...
“Among the boys aged 11 to 14 who were surveyed, eight of the 10 most read books were from Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a...
It’s Official: Canada Will Take Part In The Eurovision Song Contest
Now the next Céline Dion won’t have to pretend to be Swiss. - BBC
Ten Definitive Movies About America (As Per The New York Times)
“I asked 10 writers what films they would pick to define America and why. Their choices ranged from blockbusters to indies, homegrown comedies to...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Staging Will Make Othello A Black Lesbian
The production, set in a dystopian future plagued by climate change, will star noted Black lesbian and three-time Olivier-winner Sharon D Clarke and will...
Amazon Dropped The OpenAI/Sam Altman Movie. Now Another Distributor Has Picked It Up.
“Neon said Tuesday that it bought the film following a bidding process. Amazon dropped the nearly complete $40 million film, starring Andrew Garfield as...
Trump Administration Wiped All Mention Of Slavery From Two More Historic Sites In Philadelphia
In addition to the much-litigated case of the George Washington house site, all references to enslaved people were quietly removed from Independence Hall and...
EU Is Finally Clarifying Rules For Carrying Musical Instruments On Planes
“Following nearly 15 years of lobbying by the International Federation of Musicians and Pearle* Live Performance Europe, the European Parliament and the Council have...
Despite “Billy Elliot,” Boys Studying Ballet In Britain Mostly Still Keep It Secret
The movie certainly helped over the 26 years since it was released: there are noticeably more boys in ballet classes than there used to...
Did Malta’s National Orchestra Receive Millions In Laundered Money?
The European Foundation for Support of Culture, set up in 2015 and based for several years at the Russian Cultural Centre in Valletta, gave...
For The First Time, The Complete Text Of A Vesuvius Scroll Has Been Deciphered
These 1,800 papyrus scrolls from Herculaneum, the only such library collection from ancient Rome to survive, were carbonized by the Vesuvius eruption; the scrolls...
Nicholas Hytner’s Bridge Theatre Bought By Major Commercial Theatre Owner
“The Bridge Teatre in London, opened in 2017 by the former National Theatre duo Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr, has been acquired by Trafalgar Entertainment,” which...
