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How Does This Professor Get Students To Read Complete Books? With A Class Called...
The professor is Justin McDaniel, chair of the religious studies department at Penn. The class meets once a week for seven-to-eight hours, reading one...
Could Japan’s Highest-Grossing-Ever Live-Action Film Revive Interest In Kabuki?
In the movie Kokuho, a epic covering five decades in the life of a fictional kabuki actor, we see the traditional theater slowly fade...
First Designs Released For 2032 Olympic Stadium In Brisbane
The design, by the Australian firms Cox Architecture and Hassell in collaboration with the Japanese practice Azusa Sekkei, is inspired by the wraparound verandas...
One Of America’s Top Luthiers Is Still Picking Up The Pieces After Last Year’s...
Mario Miralles has made violins and cellos for everyone from Yo-Yo Ma and Anne Akiko Myers to principals in the Los Angeles Philharmonic to...
San Diego Museum Of Art At 100
“After starting out with ... mostly borrowed and donated items a century ago, the museum today boasts a collection of more than 39,000 items,...
Dance Theatre Of Harlem In Court Battle With Its Former Archivist
“The court conflict involves Dance Theatre of Harlem; its former archivist, Judy Tyrus; and ChromaDiverse, a nonprofit Tyrus founded to preserve the records of...
Ron Protas, Martha Graham’s Heir And Controversial Custodian Of Her Work, Has Died At...
"Graham … died in 1991 at 96. Tensions between her company and Protas then simmered for a decade before boiling over in a court fight starting...
“A Cold Dose Of Reality”: Atlanta’s Public Radio And TV Face A Future With...
With Congress’s defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its subsequent dissolution this week, WABE in Atlanta and jazz station WCLK-FM have seen...
Frank Gehry-Designed Concert Hall For Wimbledon Will Go Ahead
The local council governing the London suburb, along with the trust created for building the venue, have confirmed that planning and construction of the...
An “Existential Question” For Scotland’s National Orchestra?
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra's chief executive says that government funding of the group is the same amount as in 2009 — amounting to,...
Most Arts-Vibrant Communities In The US 2025
“This year marks a decade of measurement. In celebration, we’re releasing our most comprehensive analysis yet: rankings for the top 100 communities nationwide and all 50 states.” -...
How To Assemble A Film Cast And Crew While Hiding The Entire Project From...
And this project — Jafar Panahi’s Cannes-winning It Was Just an Accident — was extra-sensitive, since it’s about torture victims hunting down a man...
At Florence’s Uffizi Galleries, Temp Workers Protest: “No More Precarious Lives”
“Some temporary workers at the museum — assigned to roles in security, reception, ticketing, the bookshop, and the coatroom — lost their jobs following...
Kurt Vonnegut Estate Joins Lawsuit Against Utah For Banning Books In Schools
The estate of the author of Slaughterhouse-Five (one of the banned books) joins three (living) novelists and two anonymous high school students as plaintiffs,...
French Researchers Have Used AI To Write A Molière Play
Mind you, this script wasn’t just spit out by a bot after one prompt. The French AI collective Obvious spent two years developing the...
Broadway Production Will Rework “The Fantasticks” As Gay Love Story
“In the re-envisioned Fantasticks, the central romantic pair – traditionally Matt and Luisa – are now Matt and Lewis, reinterpreting the story’s ‘allegory of love,...
Béla Fleck Talks About Why He Canceled His Kennedy Center Concerts
“As this thing became more and more charged, it wasn’t any longer something where I’m under the radar playing this gig. I am actually...
Bruce Crawford, Ad Exec Who Led Metropolitan Opera And Lincoln Center, Has Died At...
In his primary career, he ran agencies BBDO Worldwide and Omnicon. As the Met’s general manager, he erased the company’s big deficits and stabilized...
Did Someone Just Figure Out How To Decode The Voynich Manuscript?
Not exactly, no, but science journalist Michael Greshko may have taken a big step toward that goal. No one had yet figured out a...
What’s The Ultimate Goal Behind The Trump Administration’s Attacks On The Smithsonian? To Finally...
Charlotte Higgins: “’The goal,’ as one senior employee of the Smithsonian told me, ‘is to reframe the entire culture of the United States from...
Smithsonian Faces New Ultimatum From Trump Administration
“After a monthslong lull in tensions, the Smithsonian is facing an ultimatum from the White House to comply next week with a demand” to...
Another Former Student At Richmond Ballet Sues For Abuse
“A former Richmond Ballet student is suing the performance organization for $11.5 million, alleging sexual, emotional and psychological abuse at the hands of staff...
How Hard Is The Training To Become A Peking Opera Star? This Hard.
Zhang Wanting spent an entire semester practicing standing on one foot on a three-inch chair handle while lifting her other leg backward and leaning...
America’s Only Weather Museum May Have To Close Down
“The National Weather Museum and Science Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the only US museum dedicated to weather artifacts, said late last month that it is at risk of closing....
When Oscar Wilde’s Buddy Concocted A Massive Lesbian Literary Hoax
How, in 1894, just when literary interest in Sappho was reviving, Belgian-French author Pierre Louÿs (yes, he was a friend of Oscar’s) invented an...
