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Can We Just Do Away With The Genre of Literary Fiction?
"Genre is a confining madness; it says nothing about how writers write or readers read, and everything about how publishers, retailers and commentators would...
Who Says We Can’t Write New Music In A Thoroughly Baroque Style?
"Nuova Pratica, a group of up-and-coming performer-composers who aim to re-open the book on Baroque composition, … reject the idea that what they do...
This Public Radio Sleep Podcast Is Guaranteed To Send You Into Dazed Oblivion
"Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep, a pledge-drive special released in October, features station staffers reading snooze-worthy documents related to public broadcasting and...
Robert Battle Brought The Alvin Ailey Company Into The 21st Century
Gia Kourlas: "He updated Ailey’s repertory without hogging the choreographic spotlight for himself. And his taste in choreography was mercifully broad. After years of...
The Ukrainian History Global Initiative: 90 Scholars Come Together To Reclaim The Nation’s Story...
"The historians want Ukraine’s history to take its place among a wealth of global stories – from the part it played in the history...
How The Borders Brothers Transformed The Bookstore Business
"By adding to the (original) store space piecemeal, the brothers drifted into the 'superstore' concept by accident. Mathematically, the formula they discovered was astounding...
Italy’s Last Government Appointed Foreign Directors To Run Some Leading Museums. The Current Government...
"The then-culture minister, Dario Franceschini, sought applications from foreigners to shake up the museum sector, … appoint(ing) seven foreigners and several Italians with experience...
The Guardian Signs A Movie/TV Deal With Sony Pictures Entertainment
"The deal will give SPE’s film and television production groups, which include Columbia Pictures, TriStar, Screen Gems and 3000 Pictures as well as TV...
Tim Dorsey, Who Put Florida’s Weirdness Into Dark Comic Novels, Is Dead At 62
One of a trio (along with Carl Hiaasen and Dave Barry) of erstwhile newspaper reporters who became famous for satirizing their home state in...
New York City Ballet Finally Settles On A Contract With Its Orchestra
"The three-year contract, … (coming) after months of wrangling, … includes an increase in compensation of about 22 percent over three years, a central...
Ex-CNN Boss Jeff Zucker May Well End Up Running Britain’s Telegraph And Spectator
He's the media executive fronting the bid by RedBird IMI, a joint venture between two investment funds, based in New York and Abu Dhabi,...
He Holds Modern Dance History In His Hands: Meet The Chief Archivist At Jacob’s...
"In 1990, then-director Sam Miller named (Norton Owen) director of preservation, where he now oversees the scholar-in-residence program, PillowTalks, pre- and post-show talks, and...
Architect Rafael Viñoly’s Curved-Keyboard Piano Makes Its Carnegie Hall Debut
“It looks like you’re looking at a normal piano through funny mirrors,” says Jonathan Biss, who will play Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto" on it with...
Ancient Treasures From Crimea, Stuck In Limbo For Years In The Netherlands, Have Been...
"The collection, mostly from Crimean museums, was on loan to Amsterdam's Allard Pierson Museum when Russia annexed Ukraine's peninsula in 2014. Both Ukraine and...
Chicago’s Arts Institutions Are Still Struggling Post-COVID
"A decline in subscription rates, shockingly higher costs, and donations that haven't kept pace with inflation have thrown some arts organizations off-balance and spiraled...
Chicago Symphony Is Bouncing Back From COVID Better Than Many Of Its Neighbors
Paid attendance and box office income are both nearing pre-pandemic levels, though they're still slightly below those of 2019. Says CEO Jeff Alexander, "We're...
Chicago’s Cultural Attractions Could Draw More Visitors Even From Cook County — If Those...
"Even residents are wary of the city’s ongoing crime surge. Barely half (53%) of Cook County residents feel safe spending time in downtown Chicago...
Many Of Chicago’s Minority-Led Small Theater Companies Are Growing — For Now
"Although the pandemic was devastating for all arts organizations, non-majority-run organizations received a lifeline (via) government funding. … These theater companies, many of them...
Is Cookie Monster On “Sesame Street” Eating Real Cookies?
Well, yes … more or less. They are home-baked by Muppet wrangler Lara MacLean and contain entirely edible ingredients. Mind you, that doesn't mean...
“Authentic” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year 2023
"Authentic cuisine. Authentic voice. Authentic self. Authenticity as artifice. Lookups for the word are routinely heavy on the dictionary company’s site but were boosted...
Marty Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
"Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures became a household name in the 1970s, helping launch them into creating and producing family and kids shows for...
Architect Yasmeen Lari Vowed To Build One Million Flood-Resilient Homes For Poor Pakistani Villagers....
"The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for...
At Last, Native American Playwrights Are Getting The Chance To Tell Their Peoples’ Own...
Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play), Mary Katheryn Nagle (Manahatta), and Madeline Sayet (Where We Belong) are three writers at the center of what they...
How Public Radio’s Podcasts Are Like The Oakland A’s In “Moneyball”
Ben Brock Johnson, the executive producer of podcasts at Boston's WBUR, says his station "isn’t alone in the discovery that swinging for the fences...
Argentina’s New President Wants To Privatize All State-Owned Media Outlets
"Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and self-described "anarcho-capitalist," … described the public media outlets he wants to make private as amounting to 'a covert...