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Send In The Clowns: This City Reduced Traffic-Related Deaths By Putting Mimes Amidst The...
In the 1990s, Bogotá mayor Antanas Mockus replaced hundreds of corrupt traffic cops with a few dozen mimes. Armed with nothing but signs that...
Forget 1215 And “Bad King John” — Here’s The Real Magna Carta
The “Great Charter” signed by John of England and his barons lasted less than three months before they were back at war with each...
Steven McRae On Coming Back From A Ballet Star’s Worst Nightmare
The Royal Ballet principal was performing at Covent Garden one evening in 2019 when — alone onstage in front of over 2,000 people —...
How And Why Did Trauma Narratives Become Ubiquitous?
“You need only look at some of the biggest stories of the past decade to realise popular culture from the late 2010s had a...
The Persian National Epic Becomes An Extravaganza Of Shadow Puppetry
“The show” — Song of the North, adapted from the medieval Persian epic poem Shahnameh — “is mind-dizzyingly complex, involving 483 puppets, 208 animated...
The Market And The Rise Of “Red-Chip” Art
“What is red-chip art? … (It) comes in many guises, but certain visual patterns predominate: super-flat cartoons, a street art/graffiti aesthetic, and multi-colored chrome....
Miami Beach Mayor Threatens To Evict Cinema For Showing Best Documentary Oscar Winner
Mayor Steven Meiner has asked the City Council to terminate the lease of, and end a $40,000 grant to, nonprofit movie theater O Cinema...
South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Gov. Noem’s Bid To Cut State’s Public Radio & TV
The Legislature’s appropriations committee voted unanimously to reject the line in the Governor’s budget cutting $3.61 million — 65% of the network’s total general...
Eugene (Oregon) Symphony Appoints Alex Prior Music Director
A 32-year-old Briton (and a direct descendant of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Prior became assistant conductor of the Seattle Symphony at age 17 and music director...
What’s This About A New Frank Lloyd Wright House?
A house called RiverRock, based on the design plans that were on Wright’s drawing board when he died, was completed early this year in...
John Feinstein, Star Sports Commentator And Bestselling Author, Dead At 69
A full-time sportswriter for The Washington Post for 14 years and steady contributor thereafter, he became known to national audiences through regular appearances on...
Playlists For Your Plants (Yes, Really)
While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far...
At Angkor Wat, A Buddha’s Head Gets Its Torso Back
“Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head...
No American Play Is More Affected By The Shadows Of Its Previous Actors Than...
And that doesn’t mean only Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, though their shadows are the longest. Ben Brantley revisits some of the other prominent...
Despite A False Start, Philadelphia Ballet’s New HQ Is Getting Built
Wednesday saw the troupe visiting the construction site for a topping-out ceremony, at which the highest steel beam for the building’s roof was hoisted...
French Authors And Publishers Sue Meta Over Its Use Of Their Material In Training...
“Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s ‘massive use...
They Thought It Was A Canaletto. Turns Out It Was Painted By His Teenaged...
The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (1737), housed at the Wallace Collection in London, has been reattributed to Bernardo Bellotto, who studied in his...
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, 93
“(She) believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of...
At The Rehab Center With Puzzlemaster Will Shortz
The New York Times crossword editor and Sunday-morning NPR stalwart suffered two strokes a year ago. He came home from the hospital last April...
Unpublished Ravel Work Gets Premiere From Dudamel And New York Phil
“On Thursday, Dudamel and the Philharmonic will give the world premiere of the five-minute piece as part of a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Ravel....
Trump Forces Out Chair Of NEH
“Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President...
A Fully-Funded BBC World Service Is The Only Way To Counter Disinformation, Argue BBC...
“Amid concerns about the scale of state-backed content after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, senior BBC figures believe it is ‘undeniable’ that the government should shoulder the...
16th-Century Painting Stolen From Italy Is Discovered In England. Its Current Owner Intends To...
“Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario was taken in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno in northern Italy. Sometime later it was bought...
Meet The 21st-Century Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Porky Pig
Nope, no studio is using AI to re-create Blanc’s rendition of the wascally wabbit, dastardly duck, put-upon pig and their Looney Tunes confrères. Why...
TV Actors’ Secrets For Convincingly Pretending To Be Drunk And/Or Drugged
Yes, there have certainly been cases of what one might describe as method acting, but being intoxicated on set is never good for actors...
