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Only Months After The Knife Attack, Salman Rushdie Has A New Novel Out
Despite his ongoing recovery from last August's stabbing, which cost him an eye, he's lively and quick-witted, friends say, and is planning future projects....
Odesa’s Old City Is Now A UNESCO World Heritage Site
"The United Nations' cultural agency decided Wednesday to add the historic center of Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of...
B.V. Doshi, India’s Most Prominent Architect And First Pritzker Winner, is Dead At 95
After working as the lead local partner on Le Corbusier's and Louis Kahn's Indian projects, he designed some of India's most renowned works of...
All Robots Should Dance — Just Like M3GAN Does
Choreoroboticist Kate Sicchio: "It's really interesting to have this unfamiliar device do this uncanny human thing. It’s similar to why we love putting googly...
Books As Home Decor, With Professional Designers To Select Them And Lay Them Out
"More often than not, these books come across as props intended to be on camera — signifiers much like a Birkin bag or expensive...
How The Arts Fared In New Zealand Under Jacinda Ardern
"Ardern (who kept the culture ministry herself) had a lot going on as Prime Minister — the Christchurch Mosque attacks, the eruption of White...
For John Adams, Revising “Girls Of The Golden West” Was Harder Than Composing It
"It was not well received, and I was devastated by the reaction. ... It was way too long in San Francisco and Amsterdam. The...
DC’s Theater J, One Of America’s Leading Jewish Theater Companies, Appoints A New Artistic...
Hayley Finn, 48, is a career-long specialist in new plays and has conducted workshops for nearly 1,000 scripts. She's currently associate artistic director of...
Justin Peck Has Created New York City Ballet’s First Evening-Length Abstract Ballet In 55...
Which is to say, not since George Balanchine's Jewels (1967). Premiering this week, Peck's Copland: Dance Episodes is also City Ballet's first use of...
Rupert Murdoch Calls Off The Reunification Of News Corp. And Fox
"Rupert Murdoch sent letters to the board of directors of News Corp. and Fox Corp. on Tuesday, informing both groups he had decided to...
India Bans BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi And Deadly 2002 Riots
The Modi Question examines the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state in 2002 and the role in it played by Modi, who was then the...
Everett Quinton, Who Kept The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. Alive, Is Dead At 71
A seminal presence in both Off-Off-Broadway and queer theater, Ridiculous was founded by playwright/director/actor Charles Ludlam in the late 1960s. Quinton became Ludlam's partner...
John Williams Is, Again, The Most Oscar-Nominated Person Alive
With the Academy's nod for his score for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, the 90-year-old composer has tallied 53 nominations (and counting), trailing only Walt...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Appoints Chief Curator Asma Naeem Director
"After its last leader departed to head the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art has named a new director:...
Little Free Library Expands Its Work Into Indian Country
"Little Free Library's ... latest initiative, the Indigenous Library Program, which launches this spring, will provide book-sharing boxes for installation on tribal lands, as...
Dick Polich, Fabricator To The Stars Of Modern American Sculpture, Is Dead At 90
"Louise Bourgeois, ... Nancy Graves, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella all relied on Mr. Polich and his team of some 100 artisans...
One Of Edinburgh’s Leading Theatres Could Close After Money To Complete Renovation Runs Out
Funding for the King's Theatre rehab had been secured at the project's original budget of £25.7 million, but COVID-related delays, supply chain issues and...
Who Was The Elise That Beethoven Wrote His Piano Piece Für? She Didn’t Exist,...
"In a forthcoming book, Why Beethoven, Norman Lebrecht presents evidence that the Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor has been known as Für Elise...
TikTok Is Experimenting With Podcasting (Well, That’s What They’re Calling It)
"The test allows users to listen to the audio featured in TikTok videos in the background. Until now, putting TikTok into the background paused...
Carlos Acosta And Birmingham Royal Ballet Launch A Second Company
As with ABT Studio, Ailey II, and other companies (largely in the US), BRB2 will offer limited-term contracts (in this case, two years) to...
Maybe Ticketmaster Doesn’t Deserve All The Rage Directed At It. (Some, But Not All.)
"Over a dozen interviews with former Ticketmaster executives, managers, economists, lawmakers, antitrust experts, fans and industry insiders, many agreed that Ticketmaster is enormous and...
They’re Not “Mummies,” They’re “Mummified Persons”
Some, though not all, museums in the UK have started moving away from the term "mummy" to describe deliberately preserved human remains from ancient...
Orlando Museum Of Art’s Accreditation Is Now At Risk Over The Basquiat Show Fiasco
"Still recovering its credibility after the headline-making FBI raid of its blockbuster Basquiat exhibition last year, the Orlando Museum of Art has been placed...
“Rust” Is Resuming Its Filming Despite Alec Baldwin’s Indictment For Involuntary Manslaughter On Set
"A person with knowledge of the project who was granted anonymity ... said that as of Thursday, the movie was still on track to...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Strike Again, And This Time It Sort Of Makes Sense (A...
At the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, two protestors spray-painted the logo of the company Woodside Energy on the perspex shield covering...
