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Conductor Yuri Temirkanov, 84
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired...
“She’s Very Lighthearted. There’s No Hollywood Behavior”: The Once-Tempestuous Sean Young Is Acting Again
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play...
Floating On The Seine, A Day Center Where Patients With Mental Illness Make Art,...
"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they...
Why Is This Man Reviving A Ballet Company That Closed 27 Years Ago?
Christopher Marney: "My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we'd see London City Ballet at...
The Musical That Acquired Millions Of Online Fans Before It Ever Took The Stage
"Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success...
WordTheatre, Where Big-Name Actors Read Little-Known Literature Aloud
"The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded...
The Malcolm X Opera Opening At The Met On Friday Is A Family Matter....
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market...
Why Was Tucker Carlson Really Fired From Fox News? Basically, Because He Had It...
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think,...
How Is The Philadelphia Inquirer Getting Millennials To Buy Subscriptions? Inside Jokes.
"The ads lean into the city’s quirky culture across sports, food, and the arts, and evolve quickly to respond to news events so the...
Emory University’s Art Museum Admits — Reluctantly — That Some Of Its Antiquities Were...
"Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some...
Disney Is Buying The One-Third Of Hulu That It Doesn’t Already Own
"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the...
An Elderly Couple, A Bric-A-Brac Dealer, And Gabonese In France Are Fighting Over A...
"A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of...
It Comes As No Surprise That Henry Winkler’s Charming, …
"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap,...
The Stone Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Once Collectors’ Favorites, Now Struggle To Keep Their Work...
Stonecarving is a centuries-old craft among the Shona people, and it thrived until the start of this century, when the violent turmoil caused by...
Are OpenAI-Written Broadway Musicals Coming? No — They’re Already Here.
Peter Marks: "How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge...
Great Contemporary Novels Are Being Turned Into Story Ballets
"Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet...
Hollywood Studios Are Deciding That Filming In L.A. Is Just Too Much Trouble
The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of...
Lin-Manuel Miranda Is Building A New Arts Center At The Far Northern End Of...
Okay, he's not building it, or even funding it, entirely by himself, but the foundation run by the actor-playwright and his father is the...
A Visit To The Real-World Inspiration For Brian Friel’s Village Of Ballybeg
Laura Collins-Hughes travels to Donegal, in the northwestern corner of Ireland, to visit Glenties — not Friel's own hometown, but that of his mother...
Salman Rushdie Asks: “What Does The World Of Fable Have To Tell Us About...
"The news is not very good," goes part of his answer, given last month in his acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the...
French Authorities Arrest Alleged Leader Of Major Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Operation
"Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of a suspected Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, was arrested in Germany and transferred to France. … The 80-year-old dealer...
A Look Inside The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
"A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but...
How Did Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor For Organ Become The Emblematic...
After all, Bach knew nothing of Halloween, and to him the organ was an instrument for church worship. (Never mind the fact that some...
The Founding Novel Of The Regency Romance Genre Features Some Ugly Stereotypes. Is It...
Georgette Heyer's 1950 novel The Grand Sophy isn't exactly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it definitely includes antisemitic language. That's been...
What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads
"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re...
