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The Best Design For Public Housing Projects Was Developed In Vienna A Century Ago
The success of the Austrian capital's well-known Gemeindebauten is due not only to government funding and conscientious management. The popularity of the enormous apartment...
Nepal Bans TikTok To Protect “Social Harmony”
Communications and IT Minister Rekha Sharma said the decision was made because some content shared on the app "disturbs social harmony and disrupts family...
Read A New Play By Anna Deavere Smith: “This Ghost Of Slavery”
"For this work, Smith’s decision to blend her contemporary interviews with historical accounts of Maryland in the mid-1860s is apt. The echoes of history...
America’s (Unnecessary) Fear Of Black History: Lonnie Bunch
"In all my years doing research at the National Archives, I had never cried. …" The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and co-founder of...
The Fisk Jubilee Singers And The Birth Of The Spiritual
Vann R. Newkirk II, based on the diaries of Ella Sheppard, the group's first pianist and composer, and on materials in the historically black...
Kevin Wynn, Choreographer And Beloved Teacher, Is Dead At 67
"A choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers," He impressed critics and...
Boring? Nobody Calls Our Public Radio Station Boring!
"Leading WPLN's mission to stamp out boring public radio is its midday news show This Is Nashville. 'We loosened it up to give it...
At Newfields/Indianapolis Museum Of Art, CEO Is Out After Only 15 Months
Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette came to Newfields in August 2022, in the wake of an outcry over a racially fraught job description for director...
How Three Black American Dance Artists Make Careers In Europe
Trajal Harrell (Zurich and Athens), Esther Cowens (Berlin), and Wanjiru Kamuyu (Paris) tell a reporter how they found themselves working across the Atlantic, the...
Swathed In 10,000 White Marble Sculptures, An Enormous New Hindu Temple Rises Deep In...
"The path to God runs down the New Jersey Turnpike. About an hour from the Holland Tunnel, … a mirage appears: swirls of stone...
The Craft And Art Of Wigmaking For Theatre
"Some hairpieces are bobby-dazzlers: towers of Restoration foppery, ravishingly long Rapunzels. Others slink by unnoticed, disguised in realism. Who makes them? Who pins them...
A Grand Old Master Of Classic Afghan Song Returns To The Stage At Age...
Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, one of the last living stars of a golden era for Afghan music, fled the Taliban in 1991, settled in London...
The Ukrainian Filmmakers Who’ve Become Experts At Drone Warfare
Cinematographer Yaroslav Pilunskiy uses his skills to give the best possible sense of depth and scale to, say, trenches hidden in forests. Film editor...
Jackson Pollock Didn’t Invent Drip Painting. A Ukrainian Immigrant Grandma Did.
"Janet Sobel experimented. She would squirt paint directly out of a tube, drip it with an eyedropper, even pull wet paint across the canvas...
The Agent Who Turned Serious Literature Into A Serious Moneymaker
"Over the past four decades, Andrew Wylie has reshaped publishing in profound and, some say, insalubrious ways. He has been a champion of highbrow...
Can Small-Scale Arts Events Rebuild Community In Atomized American Society? This Project In Boston...
"'If you want to see a diverse and vibrant cultural community come to fruition, you have to build it," said Guy Ben-Aharon, founder of...
Robert De Niro’s Ex-Assistant Awarded $1.2 Million For Gender Discrimination And Retaliation
The actor was not found personally liable, but his Canal Productions was found liable for former staffer Graham Chase Robinson's "emotional distress and reputational...
Fistfights Outside The Museum Of Tolerance In L.A.
"Street fights erupted between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance after a private screening of video showing the Oct. 7...
Mike Shuster, Longtime Foreign Correspondent For NPR, Is Dead At 76
"He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories. … During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his...
Why This School District In Far North Texas Interfered With A High School Production...
Well, the stated reason was this: "It was brought to the District’s attention that the current production contained mature adult themes, profane language, and...
One Out Of Every Five Jobs In London Is In The “Creative Economy”: Municipal...
"More than 1.1 million jobs in the capital (21.1%) in 2021 were held by people employed in the creative economy, up from 882,000 (16.9%)...
What Value Does (And Doesn’t) The American Public See In Higher Ed Today? Here’s...
"Opinions vary markedly — by subgroup and by which aspects of colleges people are considering. Find out who said what about how degrees help...
A Dance Team — And A Sisterhood — For Women Who Use Wheelchairs
"Chelsie Hill, 27, is the founder of the Rollettes, a dance team … formed in 2012 (which) performs all over the country. … More...
The Prado Is Showing Viewers The Back Side Of Some Of Its Greatest Paintings
"The idea of the new show, called 'Reversos' (On the Reverse), is to take the viewer beyond the surface of an artistic image and...
The Hot New Platform For News Publishers? Messaging On WhatsApp
"We talked to 13 major publishers around the world about how they’re using Channels. They stressed it’s too soon to define an official Channels...
