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Odesans Have Pulled Down The Statue Of Catherine The Great
No matter that she founded the city of Odesa. She was a Russian empress, one who conquered large parts of modern Ukraine — and...
Here Are Some Of The Goodies Going Into The Public Domain In 2023
Among the intellectual property copyrighted in 1927 and available for you to have your way with as of Sunday are the last Sherlock Holmes...
Why Do The Principal Players In An Orchestra Get Paid So Much More When...
"At the top levels, where base salary is over $100,000, it takes years of training and experience and an intense audition process to get...
Statues Of Greek Gods From 2,000 Years Ago Unearthed In Central Turkey
"Stone heads of Eros, Dionysus, Herakles, and others were uncovered, as well as a full statue of an unidentified hero of Azanoi, of which...
The Ten Highest-Priced Artworks Of 2022
Collectively, two Warhols cost more than a van Gogh and a Cézanne, and the total price of the entire list is over $1 billion....
Arata Isozaki, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect, Is Dead At 91
"His prolific career spanned more than six decades, with over 100 completed buildings erected. ... The bold, helical Art Tower Mito in Japan, the...
“Immersive Experiences,” Handel’s “Messiah,” And The Quest To Make Classical Music “Relevant”
Despite a highly misleading headline, Ivan Hewitt uses a West End show called "Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience" to consider the various things that...
“Die Hard” As A Low-Budget, One-Man Stage Play (It Works!)
In Yippee Ki Yay, running through this week in London and then touring Britain, poet/playwright Richard Marsh uses just a few props and 75...
The Pandemic Had A Surprising (In A Good Way) Effect On The Arts n...
"The triggering effect of the pandemic, and its impact on artists' livelihoods and careers, resulted in what had been previously been unimaginable: an almost...
Telling And Retelling The Stories of The India-Pakistan Partition
"This past year has marked seventy-five years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory. Each generation has...
This Year’s Television Focused On The Price Of The American Dream
"On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen,...
Pointe Magazine’s Favorite Ballet Performances of 2022
"Here are 12 standout onstage moments from 2022, in chronological order, from large ensemble works to surprise star turns." - Pointe Magazine
In San Francisco, A First-Ever Sensory-Friendly “Nutcracker” For Kids
"The idea is for the show to be a relaxed, shush-free, shame-free environment. ... House lights will be kept on (and) guests will also...
Dorothy Iannone, Whose Erotic Artworks Drove Censors Nuts, Is Dead At 89
"Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions."...
The Biggest Art-History Discoveries Of 2022
"A long-lost Renaissance painting languishing in a nursing home — check. A 200-year-old marble statue by an Italian master forgotten in a garden —...
Remains Of A Huge, 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
"This long-lost urban web encompassed nearly 1,000 settlements across 650 square miles, linked by an immense causeway system, which was mapped out with airborne...
“Avatar: The Way of Water” Has Grossed $1 Billion In Less Than Two Weeks
Believe it or not, the movie still hasn't made a profit: it will need to gross between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to recoup...
The Ever-Malleable Figure Of Santa Claus
"Today's Tedium talks about Santa Claus as a visual and cultural icon who has had more changes in style than Madonna, a figure that...
Art Spiegelman Is Worn Out By 2022’s Culture-War Battles Over “Maus”
"Ironically, the ban has brought droves of new readers to his work, ... (and Maus) sold 665,000 copies this year, more than triple its...
Artist Vanessa Beecroft Places A Tribute To A Stolen Caravaggio Painting In The Sicilian...
In 1969, thieves cut Caravaggio's Nativity With Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi from its frame at the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo....
Building The Instrument That’s At The Heart Of Broadway’s “The Piano Lesson”
"That piano is so central ... that (August) Wilson's script dedicates half of its mandate for the play's setting to a description of the...
It’s Been Quite The Year Of Drama On BookTok
"With more than 77 billion views globally to date, TikTok's collection of literary-minded creators and clips, ... (has) (a lot of) drama, much of...
The Days Of TikTok Dance Videos Becoming Viral Megahits Are Ending
Unless, that is, you're already famous; Lizzo's dance videos easily draw a million viewers. Earlier in TikTok's history, before there were mountains of content,...
Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Matters Quite A Lot (Which Is Why Russia’s...
"Language, religion, historical memory: These, as much as territory, are the war's battlefields. Against its appalling human cost, its cultural toll may feel insignificant...
The Defense Of Ukraine Has Developed Its Own Slang
"The conflict is spawning a new lexicon. Some of the words and phrases that have entered wider usage in Ukrainian society date back to...
