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Pulitzer Prize For Criticism Goes To Justin Chang For His Los Angeles Times Film...
Cited for his "richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary moviegoing experience," Chang worked at the L.A. Times for nearly...
Tyshawn Sorey Wins Pulitzer Prize For Music For “Adagio (For Wadada Leo Smith)”
Sorey takes honors this year after having been a finalist last year for his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife). Adagio, which "moves at a glacial pace,...
“Primary Trust” By Eboni Booth Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama
The story of a middle-aged man suddenly laid off from his job at a bookstore, Primary Trust premiered last summer at New York's Roundabout...
Jayne Anne Phillips’s “Night Watch”, Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life” Among Winners Of 2024...
Night Watch took honors for fiction, Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama for general nonfiction, Cristina Rivera Garza's Liliana’s Invincible...
Salman Rushdie Describes What He Experienced During The 27 Seconds He Was Attacked With...
"What I didn’t do was lose consciousness. People who were there have said that I was ... screaming with pain. Inside my head, I...
The Vesuvius Challenge: How Three Young Researchers Figured Out How To Use AI To...
This episode of the podcast There's More to That tells the whole story, from how these papyruses buried by the Vesuvius eruption of 79...
Will This New Play About Jesus Of Nazareth’s Family Cause Believers To Freak Out?...
Playwright Eleanor Burgess's "Galilee, 34" at SoCal's South Coast Rep depicts Jesus's family and followers months after the Crucifixion as they try to figure...
Does The Life Of Broadway Dancers Depicted In “A Chorus Line” Still Ring True...
There aren't many open calls anymore; the first audition today is usually a self-shot video. Otherwise? "Please, God, I need this job" is as...
Why Are So Many Mid-Century Modern Houses Being Torn Down? Blame Americans’ Lust For...
"Historic houses across the United States are targeted for teardowns every week, often under cover of night with little to no warning. Increasingly, preservationists...
Why The Twin Cities’ Leading Dance Venue Closed Down
"Reasons for the closure (of the Cowles Center) … include the lingering financial effects of the pandemic shutdown, lower ticket sales since 2020, and...
Gustavo Dudamel Talks About Why He Resigned From The Paris Opera
"I had reached a point where I didn't have the physical time to digest everything that was going on in my professional and personal...
A Bigger, Better Light Show Is Coming Back To San Francisco’s Bay Bridge
"The team responsible for the beloved Bay Lights art installation, which dimmed 14 months ago, announced on Thursday that it secured over $10 million...
Once Upon A Time The Olympics Awarded Medals For The Arts, Too
"For decades, beginning with the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, the Olympics included competitions in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature — a 'pentathlon of...
The Entire Country’s Different Styles Of Roller Skating Have Descended Upon Atlanta
"That commingling has Atlanta’s stalwart skaters concerned about keeping their distinctly energetic and percussive style alive. They say Atlanta’s newer skaters, who have wide...
The Most Revealing Bits From Franz Kafka’s Uncensored Diaries
Max Brod, the friend who disregarded Kafka's dying request to burn all of his writings, heavily bowdlerized the author's personal journals before he published...
The Beloved Walk-Through Heart At Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Is Closing For Six Months
"Don’t worry, this sudden cardiac arrest is not in vein. The Giant Heart will reopen in November as the centerpiece of a new, permanent...
A Week With A Youth Orchestra And Gustavo Dudamel
The superstar conductor, currently of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soon to be of the New York one, spent spring break week with a...
The Resurrection Of “Death, Sex And Money”
Last year WNYC cancelled the popular podcast and laid off its staff, which actually planned out a sort of funeral. But Slate picked up...
Someone Is Stealing Rare Editions Of Pushkin From Libraries And Replacing Them With Copies
"Since 2022, more than 170 books valued at more than $2.6 million ... have vanished from (national and university libraries across Europe). The books...
Biden Cancels Billions In Student Debt To Bankrupt Art Institute Chain
"President Joe Biden has cancelled $6.1 billion in loans taken out by students at the Art Institutes, the network of for-profit colleges that shuttered...
EU Court Approves Italy’s Attempt To Seize Looted Greek Statue From Getty Museum
"'Victorious Youth,' a life-sized bronze dating from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., … was pulled from the sea in 1964 by Italian fishermen and...
Texas School Superintendent Who Tried To Cancel Production Of “Oklahoma!” Is Ousted
The Sherman, Texas school board finalized a separation agreement with former superintendent Tyson Bennett, who had forbidden a high school production of Oklahoma! that...
House Republicans Launch Investigation Of NPR For Alleged Political Bias
"Funding of public radio has long had critics in conservative circles, but the recent controversy involving allegations of political bias at NPR is giving...
New York Philharmonic Musicians Suspended Over Sexual Assault Allegations Sue Orchestra And Union
"The orchestra’s associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang, are each suing the Philharmonic and the musicians’ union Local 802...
So What’s The Deal With Actors’ Superstition About Saying “Macbeth” Inside A Theater?
Well, turns out there's a history of very bad things happening during productions of "the Scottish play" going all the way back to Shakespeare's...
