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Does Studying A New Language Interfere With The Foreign Languages You’ve Already Learned?
"This is a frequent observation among multilinguals, that 'Languages can co-exist, but they tussle, as do siblings, over mental resources and attention,' as (language...
1948, The Worst Year Of John Steinbeck’s Life
"His best friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, had died in a train crash, before his second wife, Gwyn, left him and took their...
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing...
"'Tragedy,' in drama, is concerned with suffering, but there's more to it than that. ... Individuals inherit fallout from events in the remote past,...
Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting...
"Barrymore was initially announced as host of the Nov. 15 (National Book Awards) in late July. Now, just days after some protested her decision...
The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave...
The purloined painting, says the art detective to whom it was returned, "was a little bit cursed." - The Guardian
The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille
"They may only be three but they are a horde. They are (La)Horde. … How did the threesome end up as artistic directors of...
Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia
"In one of the most significant repatriations of art to Cambodia from a private collection, the family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to...
Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director
"An ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company," Tarell Alvin McCraney "is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale...
Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of...
"(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably —...
The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s...
"The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he...
Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens
"The prestigious award for books, drama and music, which had previously been open to just US citizens, will now consider permanent residents of the...
The US Military’s Long History With Drag (Which The Pentagon Has Now Banned)
While soldier-led cross-dressing shows go as far back as the late 19th century, "drag in the military really took off during World War I...
The Real-Life Man Who Was, And Was Not, Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote that the autobiography of Josiah Henson was one of her...
What The Upcoming Broadway Revival Of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” Has Done To...
Though the musical recounts, in reverse, the dissolution of a close personal and professional friendship, the work of re-creating the central characters has brought...
A Stolen Van Gogh Is Returned, Hidden In A Pillowcase Inside An Ikea Bag
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) was taken from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam in March 2020. A culprit was convicted...
The Last Remnant Of Radio Disney Is Sold Off
"The last Walt Disney Co.-owned radio station is officially in the hands of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which has closed on the $5...
Metropolitan Opera Commissions A New Work About Ukrainian Children Abducted To Russia
"The (opera), which will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by the American playwright George Brant, tells the story...
Earthquake Leaves Much Of Medieval City of Marrakech In Ruins
"The Medina district dates back centuries and is enclosed by walls built of red sandstone. ... Long sections are showing deep cracks and parts...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Franz Welser-Möst Has Had A Cancerous Tumor Removed
While he's still scheduled to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28, he has cancelled all performances from late October through the end...
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Hwang Sue OpenAI For Copyright Violation
"A group of authors… have filed suit in federal court against OpenAI, alleging the company unfairly used their copyrighted works to teach its chatbots...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Are Without A Contract As Management’s Offer Is Rejected
"The orchestra members voted definitively Sunday to reject the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.'s 'best and final offer,' which came after three full...
“Swan Song” — Filming The Tumultuous Gestation Of “Swan Lake”, Karen Kain’s Farewell To...
"'Nothing was going well!' (director Chelsea) McMullan recalls. 'Sean (O'Neill, the writer and producer) and I were terrified: 'We're filming Karen Kain's production as...
Queen Anastasia Alexander Leads Us Behind the Scenes At A Chattanooga Drag Show
A young Knoxville man named John takes a reporter through his preparations to perform — as Anastasia, his drag persona — in a sort...
Afghan Musicians Keeping Their Art Form Alive In Exile
"The stories of repression, resistance, and activism that follow are those of three young Afghan musicians who now live abroad and who continue to...
The Art World Frets About New York’s Armory Show Now That It’s Been Bought...
"(The acquisition) raised one uncomfortable question that remains unanswered: how Frieze would juggle both the Armory Show and Frieze Seoul, which run concurrently, in...
