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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, One Of Africa’s Leading Authors, Has Died At 89
“In dozens of fiction and nonfiction books,” the Kenyan writer “traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only...
Local History Museums Are Overlooked Casualties In GOP War On Cultural Funding
“While organizations of all kinds were impacted, it is the small and midsized institutions that lack endowments, prominent donors, and broad outreach whose futures...
New Hampshire Senate Wants To Gut State’s Public Art Program
The State Senate’s Finance Committee decided against eliminating the NH State Council for the Arts. Instead, by a 5-3 vote, the committee gave the...
How The Rebuilt Doris Duke Theater At Jacob’s Pillow Differs From The Original
Says executive director Pamela Tatge of the original: “It didn’t have a lot of modern amenities. It was not handicapped accessible, and it did...
France’s Most Argued-Over Feminist Author Pivots Into Theatre
Virginie Despentes: “I attend a lot of plays, and I realized that theater audiences are very curious. They really show up, even for demanding...
“The Handmaid’s Tale”: An Oral History Of The Novel-To-TV Cultural Landmark
“More than 20 key stakeholders behind its success — from author Margaret Atwood and adapter Bruce Miller to producers, executives and the cast led...
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, The Great Lieder Singer, Remembered By His Last Student
The teenaged Benjamin Appl was Fischer-Dieskau’s last private student, working with the baritone for three years until his death in 2012. Here Appl recalls...
For 50 Years This L.A. Theater Company Has Kept The Flame Of Audio Drama...
Charles McNulty looks at the history of L.A. Theatre Works, which has drawn on Hollywood’s extraordinary talent pool to perform and record audio drama,...
V&A Museum In London Opens Its Storehouse To The Public
“Striking juxtapositions, and the often contentious stories behind them, lie at the heart of the (Victoria & Albert Museum’s) new £65m facility, which provides...
Federal Appeals Court Removes Injunction Against Texas Book Bans
“United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano...
Robert Campbell, Former Pulitzer-Winning Architecture Critic For The Boston Globe, Is Dead At 88
For more than 40 years (he) wrote with clarity, wit and love about a city in transition from the era of “urban renewal” slum...
Getty Villa, Which Narrowly Escaped L.A. Fires, Sets Reopening Date
The museum of ancient Greco-Roman art and its collections survived the January fires, but 1,300 damaged trees have been removed from the grounds. The...
Untangling The Meaning Of Khipu, The Mysterious Knotted Strings Of The Incas
There’s no other system of encoding information quite like khipu, the knotted strings and cords used to keep records in the Inca Empire. For...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
“The big leap that the OSS made was book knowledge: the accumulation of a vast amount of seemingly trivial information, if analyzed intelligently, …...
Storm King, The Sculpture Park In New York’s Hudson Valley, Reopens After A $53...
“Storm King now boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has...
Sweden Tries To Decide What Should Be In Its Cultural Canon (Or If It...
“In 2023, the government began an initiative called the Culture Canon, with two streams: an ‘experts’’ canon and a ‘people’s canon,’ (each with) 100...
Documenting And Archiving: How Should Choreographers Preserve Their Work?
“Even if you don’t think of yourself as a prominent entity, you never know what’s going to happen,” points out Hallie Chametzky, director of...
What It’s Like To Play The World’s Most Expensive Musical Instrument (Which Is Probably...
You probably expect that this $30 million instrument is either a huge pipe organ or a Stradivarius violin or (perhaps) cello. It is indeed...
Kennedy Center Counts On Touring Broadway Shows To Make Ends Meet. Will Those Tours...
“As the center continues under Trump’s leadership, more productions may choose to steer clear, either out of principle or to avoid uproar from artists...
A New Frida Kahlo Museum In Mexico City, Right Next To The Casa Azul
The museum will be set in the Casa Roja, a private residence purchased by Kahlo’s parents and passed down through the family. While the...
Marcel Ophuls, Who Made The Documentary “The Sorrow And The Pity,” Has Died At...
“The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), his documentary on the behaviour of the citizens of the French city of Clermont-Ferrand during the Second World War,...
Photographer Sebastião Salgado, 81
“For decades, Mr. Salgado was on hand for many of the world’s major crises. ... He described his mission as seeking to convey a...
Golden Palm At Cannes Goes To Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just An Accident”
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value won the Grand Prize; The Secret Agent took honors for best director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and best actor (Wagner Moura);...
6,500 Years Ago, Maybe 100 People Spoke This Language. Now It’s The Source For...
“Although the tongue called Proto-Indo-European hasn’t been used in 4,000 years, about half Earth’s inhabitants speak its more than 400 descendant languages. … The...
How “Stereophonic” Stopped Playwright David Adjmi From Giving Up Writing Plays
“I’d had a terrible, scarring artistic collaboration a couple of years prior, and it broke me. And on top of that, I was actually broke, financially....
