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Meet The Woman Who Brought Helvetica To America
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon brought the now-standard sans-serif font back from her studies in Basel in the early 1960s, when Americans were completely accustomed to...
The Aztec Dancers Of Silicon Valley
“Calpulli Ocelocihuatl (is) one of roughly half-a-dozen Aztec dance groups active in San Jose. Other Aztec dance groups – some whose histories stretch back...
The British Museum Employee Who Stole More Than 300 Prints
“Nigel Peverett, who worked at the museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings in the early 1970s, had remained a ‘frequent visitor’ until one day...
How A Scholar Stumbled On Handwritten Notes By Galileo
Historian Ivan Malara spotted notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by the young Galileo circa 1590 in an early printed copy of the Almagest, the second-century C.E....
How Jonathan Groff Became A Now-Rare Thing: A Male Musical-Theater Superstar
Says director Michael Mayer, “He’s now established himself as someone who can open and sustain a show. And this at a time when star...
60 Years After Hollywood Abandoned It, VistaVision Is Back
While the format was quite popular in the 1950s (Vertigo and The Ten Commandments were filmed in it), the industry moved on in the...
Dalí Museum In Florida Announces $65 Million Expansion
The 35,000-square-foot addition to the St. Petersburg institution, expected to begin construction this year and open in 2028, will increase exhibition space, add a...
Is This Bust Of Jesus A Michelangelo? Independent Researcher Says Yes, Scholars Are Skeptical
Valentina Salerno, an actress and novelist with no formal training in art history, says she has reviewed numerous documents indicating that the sculpture, located...
Trump’s “Freedom Truck” Mobile Exhibitions Are Now On The Road
“As the U.S. gears up for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump has dispatched six roving Freedom Truck exhibitions to...
Belarus Free Theatre To Appear At Venice Biennale
“The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition ‘Official. Unofficial. Belarus.’ as an official...
Where Stradivarius Found Just The Right Wood
“A study of the tree rings in Stradivarius violins, published in January in the journal Dendrochronologia, has revealed the most likely origin of some of...
Meet The Last Of The Signpainters For The Markets Of Naples
“Announcing the clementines, artichokes and other goods on offer are cheerful, hand-painted signs in sun-bright lettering. Quotidian but also quintessential, the signs have become...
Ballerinas Learn To Partner Each Other For Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s New Piece
Gentleman Jack, premiering this weekend at England’s Northern Ballet in Leeds, is Lopez Ochoa’s adaptation of a 2019 television series about Anne Lister, a...
Barbara Hannigan On The New Work She’s Premiering: “It’s Like Turning Your Soul Inside...
Composer Laura Bowler wrote the piece, which sets excerpts from Nobel laureate Han Kang’s The White Book, following her mother’s death in an accident...
The Artist Who Copied Out The Complete “Moby-Dick” By Hand
Bethany Collins spent four months transcribing the 900-odd-page text. She finds many of Melville’s concerns relevant today: “following the lone madman who will take...
Follow One Of Broadway’s Top Electricians Through His Workday
Jimmy Fedigan has worked on 125 shows, working up from substitute spotlight guy to overseeing the entire technical production of the musical Chicago. In...
Niche-Casting: Live Online Talk Shows About Specialized Topics Are On The Rise
Many of these productions function as modern-day trade magazines. One show targets car dealership owners. Another, TBPN (Technology Business Programming Network), focuses on tech overlords. Malcolm Harris,...
This Fast-Rising Standup Comedian Makes Dance An Integral Part Of His Show
“Chris Fleming … marries the idiosyncrasies of his writing — one bit has him pretending to be a dirty cast-iron skillet — with a...
Buckminster Fuller Sculpture Collapses Following Snowstorm
The piece, installed outdoors at the LongHouse Reserve on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, is one of only five existing versions of Fuller’s Fly’s Eye...
Downtown L.A.’s Latest, And Smallest, Performance Venue Looks Like An Electrical Box
Indeed, when artist S.C. Mero was installing it in the Arts District, police stopped her, concerned she was ripping out copper wire. Inside, the Electrical Box...
Buffalo’s Public Radio Stations To Rearrange Programming
“Buffalo Toronto Public Media (BTPM) plans to move programming currently on news/talk WBFO (88.7) and BTPM Classical WNED (94.5) in Buffalo, NY, resulting from...
Site Of Cancelled Pompidou Center Jersey City May Become Affordable Housing
“Jersey City Mayor James Solomon, who took office in January” and killed the project shortly afterward, “announced Monday that the city would work with...
Post-Assad, Syria’s Powerhouse TV Industry Has New Freedoms And New Challenges
“While Egypt is known for its movies and Lebanon for its pop singers and composers, Syria’s TV series” — especially the high-profile dramas aired...
Britain’s Ballet Black At 25
Founding Artistic Director Cassa Pancho: “There was nowhere in this country for Black classical dancers to be hired. It was suggested to me that...
This Little Company Brings The Ephemerality Of Theater To A Whole New Level
Every month, in an American Legion hall or women’s center (anywhere but a theater) in Los Angeles, Public Assembly presents three 12-minute plays that...
