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The Artist Who Recreated The Lost Recipe For The Ancient Maya Blue Pigment
Luis May Ku, a native Mayan artist and teacher in the Yucatán Peninsula, spent years researching Spanish colonial documents, interviewing village elders about their...
Reimagining The Songs That Alvin Ailey Cut From “Revelations”
The version we see today is about half the length of Ailey's 1960 original; nine songs were removed for an overseas tour in 1962,...
Does This Skating Company Do Contemporary Dance On Ice? Well, No … But Also...
The artistic director of the Montreal-based troupe Le Patin Libre ("free skate") stresses that audiences shouldn't expect anything like Merce Cunningham or Pina Bausch...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Dividing Itself In Two
"(The giant media conglomerate) said it is restructuring into two operating divisions, one focused on the legacy cable TV business and the other on...
Makin’ The Bacon For Broadway’s “Our Town” (Yes, We Mean Real Bacon)
To add sense memory to the penultimate scene, the prop crew cooks two pounds of bacon during every performance, using a box fan to...
Editor Who Published Hacked Sony Emails 10 Years Ago Now Confesses His Regret
Andrew Wallenstein, then-co-editor-in-chief of Variety: "I’m not going to say if I had to do it all over again I would do it differently...
YouTube Viewership On Real Television Sets Is Soaring, And The Company Is Finally Leaning...
"YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous. … The trend...
These Replicas Could Solve The Problem Of The Parthenon Marbles
"If the Marbles return to the Acropolis, the hole they will leave in the British Museum may be filled by perfect replicas. The Oxford-based...
Can Literary Prizes Survive If Writers Keep Protesting Against The Sponsors?
"Might these events deter future winners of prizes with controversial sponsors" — the Baillie Gifford prize in the UK, the Scotiabank Giller Prize in...
San Francisco Symphony Chorus Gets New Contract, Thanks To $4 Million Gift
"The deal … promises to maintain the current compensation and performance levels for the 32 paid choristers during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. …...
London’s Barbican Centre Gets $243 Million In City Funding For Major Overhaul
"A £191 million funding package to support critical repairs and upgrades at (the arts complex) were approved on Thursday … (by) the City of...
Raygun, The Australian Olympic Breakdancer, Had Lawyers Shut Down A Musical About Her. Is...
Attorneys for Rachael Gunn, who gained global notoriety with her last-place performance at the Paris Olympics, put the kibosh on Raygun: The Musical, arguing...
Women-Only-No-Men-Allowed Art Installation In Australia Returns For Final Victory Lap
The "Ladies' Lounge" at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania reopens through January 13 after an appeals court voided a ruling...
Danai Gurira Returns Home To Offer Training To Zimbabwean Playwrights
"Gurira set up Almasi (Collaborative Arts) with film and theatre producer Patience Tawengwa to give Zimbabwean creatives access to the sort of training and...
Huge New Music Soundstage And Production Center Planned For Former Chicago Stockyards
The nonprofit Third Coast Music has won the city's request for proposals to develop the site. Its plan is for an $80 million facility...
Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Finally Settles On A Grants Plan For This Fiscal Year
"The city agency (Metro Arts) is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle. … This year, (there's) a much...
Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing
Justin Davidson: "A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar...
Congressional Support Grows For Requiring All New Cars To Have AM Radios
"In the lame-duck session …, support continues to build for a bill that would require AM receivers to be included in vehicle dashboards. Three...
Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The...
"In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished...
Chicago Symphony Receives Largest-Ever Donation: $50 Million
The gift from the family foundation of real estate magnate and former Chicago Tribune owner Sam Zell provides "vital" capital to reduce debt, fund...
Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore Ends With Tentative Agreement On New Contract
"The Strand Book Store has reached a tentative contract agreement with its staff union, which is represented by United Auto Workers Local 2179, putting...
Judge Blocks The Onion’s Purchase Of Alex Jones’s Infowars
"A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the...
The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has...
The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after...
TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan
The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi...
The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken
The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms's Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby's is estimating...
