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Greece Will “Fill The Void” If Britain Returns The Parthenon Marbles, Says Culture Minister
"Lina Mendoni promised that the London institution’s revered Greek galleries would never go empty. 'Our position is clear,' she said. 'Should the sculptures be...
Poland’s New Government Puts State TV And Radio Into Liquidation
This doesn't mean the outlets will stop operating, as the term "liquidation" would mean in English-speaking countries. The move is one of the few...
Artist Pope.L Has Died At 67
"Across the past four decades, (his works) alluded to the condition of Black Americans without outright stating what they were trying to communicate. (His)...
The Tribune Names Its Chicagoans Of The Year In The Arts For 2023
Among the honorees are the founder-director of what's now the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence, the 24-year-old jazz pianist who...
Where The Science Of Neuroaesthetics Meets The Art Of Dance
"With its unique brain–body connection, dance is at the very center of neuroaesthetics, the science of how the arts affect our brains, and therefore...
People Have Been Arguing Over The Lesbian Love Story In “The Color Purple” For...
"Not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been frank about Celie's sexual orientation. And (the) new movie musical version of the...
A Visit To The Hallmark-Christmas-Movie Theme Park (Oh Yes, There Is One)
In countryside near Vancouver, on the studio backlots where many of the holiday romances are filmed, a Christmas-skeptical journalist went to the cable channel's...
Why We Need The Arts, Especially In Times Like These
"In a world that grows increasingly dark, the ability to slip free of its grim logic and into a realm of uncharted delight, even...
Author Hanif Kureishi On Life One Year After The Accident That Rendered Him Quadriplegic
"Left without the use of his arms and legs, the award-winning writer of The Buddha of Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette has charted his...
A Forger, A Thief, The Great Villain Of The Antiquarian Book Trade
"Certain names carry with them the whiff of brimstone. In the world of bibliophiles and booksellers, perhaps no name is more sulphurous than that...
“It’s Almost A Clone”: 3D-Printing Company Can Produce Almost Exact Replicas Of History’s Great...
"Lito Masters has partnered with several major museums to carry out detailed scans of paintings by artists including Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and...
Macron And The Archbishop Want To Install Six Newly-Designed Stained-Glass Windows At Notre-Dame. 120,000...
The old windows in six side-chapels were designed by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc for the cathedral's 19th-century renovation and were undamaged by the 2019 fire. The...
Ruth Seymour, Who Remade SoCal’s KCRW Into One Of America’s Leading Public Radio Stations,...
When she started there in 1977, it was in a little bungalow in Santa Monica with the oldest radio transmitter west of the Mississippi....
In Dallas-Fort Worth, You’re Not Really A Serious Theater Company Until You Have Your...
"There’s a legitimacy that comes with having a space in Dallas," says the managing director of one company currently remodeling an old warehouse into...
Music Director Fired By Orchestra Management For Refusing COVID Vaccine Settles Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
Conductor David Lockington, a Christian Scientist, had been music director of the Pasadena Symphony in Los Angeles County since 2013; he was forced out...
“Nutcracker” Problems: How To Get 150 Pounds Of Snow Onto The Stage In Under...
At San Francisco Ballet, the snow is made of thousands of pieces of thin paper soaked in a flame-retardant salt solution, stored in 400-pound...
The Moscow Librarian Who Defied The Government’s Order To Purge LGBTQ Books
"When Vladimir Kosarevsky received orders late last year to destroy books referencing same-sex relationships, … (he) knew it was a line he wouldn’t cross....
This Indian State Is Home To The Thinking Person’s Bollywood
In recent years, the Malayalam-language cinema industry of Kerala — the state with the country's highest literacy rate and standard of living — has...
1,600 Years Of Nativity Scenes
The oldest surviving depictions of the baby Jesus in a manger, surrounded by animals and shepherds and parents and such, go back to 5th-century...
Where Will You Find The World’s Largest Dickens Festival? The Netherlands.
"Despite no known historical connection with the author, Deventer, in the eastern province of Overijssel, now plays host to … 950 volunteers … performing...
Mongolia’s Dilapidated Circus School Is Training Star Acrobats For The World (But Not For...
"'We are wanted all over the world, but we can’t even properly train in our own country,' said Gerelbaatar Yunden, a former acrobat and...
Post-COVID, Two New York City Performance Venues Use Design To Bring People Together
Los Angeles Times design columnist Carolina A. Miranda looks at how, despite exteriors that can seem intimidating, the new Perelman Performing Arts Center near...
The World’s Arts And Culture Agencies Give A Report On 2023
Based in Australia, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies represents public institutions from around the world whose mandate is to support...
2023 Was Disney’s Centennial Year. Why Was It Such A Flop?
"Pundits have been puzzling over the Mouse House’s annus horribilis for weeks, identifying several factors. A key one being that the COVID-19 pandemic got...
Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller, One Of The Met’s Great Interpreters Of “Trouser Roles,” Is Dead...
One of the Met's stalwarts of the 1950s and '60s (especially as Cherubino and Octavian), she performed so many male mezzo parts that her...
