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He Went From Hip-Hop Moves In Iraqi Kurdistan To New York’s Hotbed Of Contemporary...
Hussein Smko learned his first hip-hop at age 9, from an American soldier in Erbil, and founded a street dance troupe there when he...
Just How Did South Korea Get To Be A Cultural Powerhouse?
"Some have framed South Korea’s cultural advance as a government-led mission. The Korean state has been instrumental in turning cultural identity into an exportable...
The Academy Awards And U.S. Elections Need The Same Voting Reform
In fact, this reform is already in place in Maine, Alaska, New York City, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities — and in the...
A Perennial Question Arises Again: Why Won’t More Major American Orchestras Hire American Music...
Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors...
Playwright Edward Bond, Who Helped End Censorship Of Theatre In Britain, Is Dead At...
"The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fought primarily at the Royal Court Theatre in London during the mid-1960s. The plays...
Chicago’s New Mayor Fired The City’s Cultural Affairs Commissioner, And The City’s Arts Community...
Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took office last May, dismissed Commissioner Erin Harkey in February, and nobody knows why (other than wanting to replace his...
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez’s Final Book Is Being Published. Should It Be?
During the '00s, Gabo went through several drafts of Until August and planned to publish it. But by 2012, afflicted with dementia and unable...
The World’s Largest International Comedy Festival, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Is Cancelled For 2024
"Groupe Juste pour rire Inc. said that it is seeking protection from its creditors as it begins formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency...
As Kronos Quartet Celebrates Its 50th Season, Two Longtime Members Are Retiring
Violist Hank Dutt, 71, who's been with the group for 46 years, and violinist John Sherba, 69, who joined one year after Dutt, will...
With The Olympics Coming, Paris’s Museums Have Jacked Up Admission Prices
The Louvre is seen as the worst offender (tickets up from €17 to €22), though most other state museums have raised prices as well....
The Secret To Preserving Ancient Papyrus Can Be Found At Your Favorite Sushi Bar
"Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively treat fungal infections on both painted and unpainted samples of mock ancient Egyptian papyrus, and to do...
From The Creator Of “A Strange Loop,” A Musical About A Vagina Dentata
"If you’re going to musicalize a horror movie, Teeth is a doozy, and a gamble. Darkly comic and at times stomach-churningly gory, it’s a...
Pritzker Prize For 2024 Goes To Riken Yamamoto, Known For Innovative Housing Projects
"Across a five-decade career, Yamamoto has dedicated himself to fostering community in Japan’s rapidly expanding cities. From housing projects that coax residents into spontaneous...
Archaeologists Discover An Ancient Factory For Making The Legendary Pigment Tyrian Purple
"A new study ... suggests that through most of the Iron Age biblical era, from roughly 1150 B.C. to 600 B.C., a small promontory...
New Zealand Loses Its Last Private-Sector TV News Outlet
"Warner Bros Discovery plans to shut down Newshub, a rebranded version of what most of us grew up knowing as '3 News' – leaving...
Can Buskers Revive Downtown San Francisco?
"The latest effort to breathe life into San Francisco’s struggling Mid-Market neighborhood involves bringing amateur musicians to the streets. The nonprofit Mid-Market Business Association...
Carlos Acosta Is Creating A Cuban-Style “Nutcracker”
Nutcracker in Havana, performed by Acosta's Cuba-based company, Acosta Danza, "will weave traditional Cuban rhythms and dances together with classical ballet, all set to...
This Israel-Hamas War’s Spillover Into Cultural Life
"How is what's happening in the Middle East - and the tensions being driven here by war and violence there — impacting the UK's...
RuPaul Is Sending A Rainbow Book Bus Across America To Give Away Banned Books
"The country’s most famous drag star … (is) one of three business partners behind Allstora, which will ... provide writers with a greater share...
Canada’s First Lady Of Jazz, Eleanor Collins, Has Died At 104
"A luminous singer who performed with jazz legends including Dizzy Gillespie and Oscar Peterson, Ms. Collins spent her entire career in Canada. … (Said...
These Art Vandals Were Protesting Something Besides Climate Change (So They Attacked Queen Victoria)
Activists from the group This Is Rigged poured porridge and jam on a bust of Victoria at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow on...
When Ballet Rocked Austin’s Favorite Hippie Hangout (Hey, It Was The ’70s)
"In 1972, hundreds of locals clambered to their seats at Armadillo World Headquarters for one thing only: Sunday night ballet. ... Guests settled in...
Air India Brings Indian Classical Dance Into Its Passenger Safety Video
"Highlights of the video include the Bharatnatyam dance form becoming 'the living canvas for seat belt and cabin baggage instructions', with Kathakali and Mohiniyattam...
How The Criterion Collection Became Cinema’s Ultimate Seal Of Approval
"(It's) a catalog so synonymous with cinematic achievement that ..., over four decades, through a combination of luck, obsession and good taste, this 55-person...
A Chinese Emperor’s Robe, In Near-Mint Condition, Turns Up In A British Earl’s Dresser...
The gold-thread-and-royal-blue-silk garment, purchased in Beijing in 1913 and left sitting untouched in a cardboard box for over a century, would have been worn...
