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Granny-Dancing In Japan Is Done To Hip-Hop
"Senior breaking is one of a growing category of sports tailored to Japan’s large population of older people who, thanks to the country’s extraordinary...
The Slow Strangling Of Welsh National Opera
"The company is liable for few of the major criticisms levied at the opera world, with varying degrees of justification, by politicians and their...
Brazil Has Restored Nearly All The Art Damaged In Bolsonaro’s 2023 Insurrection
"The collection, which includes contemporary and historical artworks, design objects, and artifacts, was targeted on January 8, 2023, when riots erupted in Brasília following...
Jeremy O. Harris Says He’s A “Theater Supremacist,” But …
"… more fitting might be a theater proselytizer. ... In his eyes, theater should be as much a part of the American story as...
A Brief History Of Olympic Villages — And What They Left Behind In Their...
Have the buildings created as lodging for thousands of athletes really provided housing and other benefits for their neighborhoods after the Games are over?...
What’s The Real Innovation Of The Paris Olympics? Temporary, Recyclable Venues
"Erector-set arenas have sprung up like crystals in the city’s traffic circles and parks, often with Parisian landmarks as backdrops. There are temporary pools,...
Conglomerate That Owns Publisher Hachette Plans To Spin It Off
"Vivendi has updated its plans to separate into … three new companies. One of these would be newly named company, Louis Hachette Group, which...
Ordinary Tweet Leads To Discovery Of 16th-Century Portrait Of Henry VIII
In the background of a tweet from the regional government in the English county of Warwickshire, an art historian recognized what turned out to...
“At My High School, The Library Is For Everything But Books”
"According to school records, only about 50 books were checked out by students during the 2023 fall semester. In response, the administration has decided...
SAG-AFTRA Actors On Strike Against Video Game Makers
"Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a...
Detroit Opera Keeps Yuval Sharon For Three More Years
"Further, with the news of Sharon’s extended stay (as artistic director) in Detroit (through 2028), the company announced overarching themes for its next three...
Some Old Books Can Be Literally, Physically Toxic. Some Collectors Think That’s Exciting.
The pigments used in bookbinding cloth in the 19th century gave book covers some vibrant colors — hues attained with lead (blue), chromium (yellow),...
India’s Indie Films Are Getting Awards All Over The World But Can’t Get Onto...
These movies, made outside the the big studio systems, usually in languages other than Hindi, forgo Bollywood's song-dance-melodrama formula in favor of stories about...
Toumani Diabaté, Great Master Of The West African Kora, Has Died At 58
"His exquisite, relaxed playing (of the 21-stringed hard) mixed the ancient and modern, as he switched from pieces that dated back hundreds of years...
The Market For Romance Novels Is Booming. The Professional Organization For Romance Novelists Is...
The Romance Writers of America has seen its membership, once more than 10,000, fall by 80% over the past five years, and the organization...
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Is Getting A Real Theater — Designed By A MacArthur...
The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as...
Metropolitan Museum’s Attendance Numbers Are Getting Back To Normal — With One Exception
For the fiscal year just ended, US visitors totaled 5.5 million, slightly above the (pre-pandemic) figure for 2019. What's more, just over half of...
Barnes Foundation Lays Off 12 Staffers, Including Senior Execs
The Philadelphia museum has eliminated a dozen positions, about 6% of its staff, over six months, despite the fact that it has a budget...
Disneyland Avoids What Would Have Been Its First Workers’ Strike In 40 Years
"Disney has reached a tentative agreement with four unions representing thousands of workers at its California theme parks, including ride operators, candy makers and...
Alleged Victim At Center of New York Philharmonic Rape Scandal Reveals New Details
Cara Kizer, the horn player who was denied tenure after reporting an alleged rape by associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey, says now-former CEO Gary...
Dancers In Olympics Opening Ceremony Call Off Strike Threat
"After negotiations between the SFA-CGT union representing performers, Paris 2024 organizers and Panam 24 (the producers of the opening ceremony) ended in a stalemate...
John Eliot Gardiner Fired By The Board Of The Choir And Orchestra He Founded
While the conductor issued a subsequent statement maintaining that he had resigned, the announcement by the board said it had "made the decision that...
Lewis H. Lapham, Editor Who Resurrected Harper’s Magazine Twice, Is Dead At 89
Born into a very old and eminent family (though one no longer, by his day, very rich), he wrote about the American aristocracy with...
More Than Half A Million Britons Stopped Paying BBC License Fee Last Year
The annual tax, currently £169.50 ($219) and mandatory for any household with a television or using BBC's iPlayer online, is the national broadcaster's primary...
A Theatre Tries To Bridge The Divide At The Italy-Slovenia Border
The city of Gorizia/Nova Gorica was divided as the Iron Curtain arose after World War II, with an actual wall in place until 1994....