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Notable Literary Leaders Who Passed In 2023
Fay Weldon, Russell Banks, Charles Simic, Kenzaburo Oe, Dubravka Ugresic, D.M. Thomas, Martin Amis, Cormac McCarthy, Robert Gottlieb, Milan Kundera, Edith Grossman, Louise Glück,...
The Royal Tapestry Factory That Worked With Francisco Goya Is Still Weaving Today
"The factory was opened in 1721 by Spain’s King Felipe V. He brought in Catholic craftsmen from Flanders, which had been part of Spain’s...
“I’m Under No Delusions That I’m Suddenly A Broadway Playwright,” Says Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
"This is really fun, and I'm super honored. But I feel like I'm under no delusions that my life is different. I'm still going...
Meet Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” For 2024
"Electric performances, thought-provoking choreography, buzzy bodies of work — the artists on our annual list of dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies poised for a...
This Village Girl From A Distant Russian Republic Could Be The Met’s Next Superstar...
"It hasn’t been an easy journey from (Bashkortostan) to New York. Along the way, (Aigul) Akhmetshina had to overcome multiple setbacks, including failures in...
With Superhero Movies Now Losing Big Money, Where Can Hollywood Turn For Big Box...
"The rosiest spin you can put on this sudden collapse is that it’s the equivalent of a stock-market correction. … But it’s not clear...
I Tried To Be A North Korean Novelist. I Failed. Repeatedly.
One of the Japan-born ethnic Koreans who emigrated to North Korea in the 1970s, Kim Ju-sŏng lived there for 28 years, working as a...
With This Year’s Muddy Debacle, Was Burning Man Defeated By Its Own Success?
Having grown from about 4,000 attendees in 1991, the festival now caps attendance at 80,000, many of whom are just too damn rich. Having...
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....
