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With These Prefab Kits, You Can Build Yourself A Frank Lloyd Wright House (A...
Two architects, both graduates of Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin West in Arizona, have designed nine kit houses based closely on Wright's designs,...
Extensive Study Locates Characteristics That All Songs Worldwide Seem To Share
"Across cultures, (an international team of 75) researchers found, songs share certain features not found in speech, suggesting that Darwin might have been right:...
Is The Australian Ballet Fighting Back Against Body-Shaming? Or Just Being Pissy About A...
Artistic director David Hallberg and others are indignantly rebuking The Sydney Morning Herald, saying that "critique of dancers' bodies" is "not acceptable." The sentence...
The Woman Who Finally Got France To Take #MeToo Seriously
While there have been brief bursts of attention to the issue before, France had been notably resistant to the movement. In 2018, Catherine Deneuve...
Five Ways Matthew Barney Has Changed The Art World
Number Five: Macho Androgyny. "Fond of elaborate costumes that question traditional gender roles (flamboyant Freemason, tap-dancing satyr), Barney has worn skirts and dresses in...
Buyouts Weren’t Enough: Bay Area Public Radio Outlet KQED Will Have Layoffs
"In April, KQED instituted a voluntary buyout program. CEO Michael Islip said a small amount of buyout packages were accepted, but not enough to...
Natural History Curator Cleared Of Spider- and Scorpion-Smuggling In Turkey
Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History in New York had been detained at Istanbul's airport with 15,000 samples of (dead) endemic...
The Questions Posed By PEN America’s Meltdown Over Gaza
"What does it mean to defend writers amid a polarizing war? When should a group that promotes free expression for all take sides? And...
Barbara Hannigan Takes Her First Chief Conductor Job
The Canadian-born soprano/conductor will begin, as of August 2026, a three-year term as chief conductor and artistic director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She...
Getting Meta: A Regional Theater’s Play About A Regional Theater’s Search For An Artistic...
"Oakland playwright Jonathan Spector jokes that if his satire Best Available had a trigger warning, it would be 'realistic portrayals of working in nonprofit...
You’re In College Getting A BFA In Dance. How Much Do Good Grades Matter?
"Rather than exams and essays, the studio classes that make up the bulk of BFA programs evaluate students on less tangible benchmarks like artistry,...
When Benjamin Millepied Choreographed A Gender-Neutral “Romeo And Juliet”
You'd expect any controversy to be over his decision to have dancers leave the auditorium and perform around the building while cameras transmit their...
There Are Still Butlers Today, But They’re Not Like Downton Abbey’s Mr. Carson Anymore
Today's "executive butlers," who service the ultra-wealthy (who aren't just old-line nobility anymore) at England's grand country houses, are a cross between chief housekeeper,...
L.A. Opera Revives David Hockney’s Celebrated Sets For “Turandot”
"'We’ve been trying to program Hockney’s Turandot for 30 years,' said Rupert Hemmings, vice president of artistic planning for L.A. Opera, which … has...
These Indie Filmmakers Couldn’t Find Distributors Who’d Promise A Theatrical Release. So They’re Distributing...
"It’s a rough road, one that requires creative and focused marketing strategies and the willingness to do all the work a studio would normally...
Denver Art Museum Merges With Another Museum Just Down The Street
"The Kirkland (Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts) will become a curatorial department to the Denver Art Museum," explains DAM director Christoph Heinrich. "The...
Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Cancels Concerts By Jerusalem Quartet Over Security Concerns
The concert hall (not to be confused with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a separate organization) called off the performances in the wake of demonstrations...
Sen. Ted Cruz Comes After Corporation For Public Broadcasting, And CPB’s President Responds
"In her response, (Patricia de Stacy) Harrison cited the Public Broadcasting Act’s requirement that CPB facilitate the development of 'high-quality' programming from 'diverse sources'...
Condé Nast Staffers Approve Their First-Ever Union Contract
"On Tuesday, 97% of Condé Union members voted 'yes' on a three-year deal" settled after 18 months of negotiations. "The agreement, which averted a...
Roman Polanski Exonerated In French Defamation Case
"A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when...
The Bedazzling Bookbinders Of TikTok
"The videos often begin with … a person ripping the covers off a book. They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part...
In Search Of Two Lost Shakespeare Plays
We'll never know what scripts by the great playwright disappeared forever because they were never printed and their manuscripts didn't survive. Yet there is...
When Real Estate Developers Actually Help Dance Companies (Yes, It Can Happen!)
"It's true that developers’ motives are rarely altruistic: Many have found tax and other benefits to pairing up with dance companies. And not all...
Turkey Arrests Curator At American Museum Of Natural History For Allegedly Smuggling Dead Spiders...
"Lorenzo Prendini, an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum, was held by police at Istanbul Airport while allegedly trying to take about...
Things Are Still Dire For Hollywood Scriptwriters A Year After The Writers Guild Strike
"The Times checked in with multiple writers of varying experience levels spanning film and TV. … All said that they or their colleagues have...
