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How The Temple Dancers Of South India Fought Back Against “Moral Reform”
In the 19th century, prompted by the disapproval of Protestant missionaries who wanted Hindu temple dancing banned, some Tamil reformers campaigned for the performers,...
Using Medieval Mystery Plays To Revive The Cornish Language
This year was the third full production in modern times of the Ordinalia, a cycle of three 14th-century mystery plays originally written in the...
The Problem With Piling Prosthetics On Actors To Make Them Look Like The Famous...
"These inspired-by-real-life prosthetics are meant to bring authenticity, but they have a perverse way of achieving the opposite. … Playing people as heavily televised...
Anderson Cooper Visits Caligula’s Pleasure Garden
A gay silver-fox fantasy come to life? Nope, sorry. In 2006, workers excavating for an underground parking garage found what archaeologists determined was a...
Japan’s Grand Old Man Of Anime Is Making One Last Film
Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli said in 2013 that he was retiring. Now, aged 80, he's back at work, the film titled How Do...
He Was A Child Laborer, Then A Homeless Migrant. Now He’s A Prizewinning Filmmaker...
P.S. Vinothraj worked in a flower market at age nine and a sweatshop at 14. At 19 he ran to the big city (Chennai)...
How Right-Wingers Tried To Turn Thanksgiving Into A Celebration Of Free Enterprise And Rejection...
This was not some scheme dreamed up by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or even the Cato Institute: this particular intellectual endeavor goes all...
This AI Algorithm Could Help Us Figure Out Shakespeare
No, not his actual identity, we're afraid. But, if not the definitively correct version of the text of a play or poem, at least...
Italy’s “Netflix For The Arts” Is Now Open Across Europe
"ITsART … was rolled out across 26 European countries on Tuesday, with plans to expand into the U.S. and China next year. … Prices...
Britain’s Collins Dictionary Declares “NFT” Word Of The Year 2021
It's hard to believe now, but it was only this March that Beeple sold his original non-fungible token artwork for $69 million, setting off...
After George Floyd And Breanna Taylor, Do We Need TV Cop Shows To Change?
"The ways in which Brooklyn Nine-Nine and NCIS: New Orleans reacted to a changing cultural and political environment were rudimentary: some timely references inserted...
How A Lifetime Of Cross-Dressing Helped Aurore Dupin Dudevant Become George Sand
When she was a child, her officer father dressed her up as a mini-me in full uniform. As a young woman, she moved freely...
The Biblioburro, A Four-Hooved Bookmobile For Rural Colombia
When LuÃs Soriano began teaching, he saw that his students made little progress — and ultimately realized that, in their isolated homes, they had...
Africa’s Cultural Institutions Can Teach Us A Few Things About Audience Development
A museum in Benin offers free bus rides to students and recruits popular musicians to help with publicity. MACAAL in Marrakech invited taxi drivers...
Is The Problem With Culture That There’s Too Damn Much Of It? Actually, No.
"Wading through the streaming menus felt akin to babysitting hundreds of small children, all of them clawing at me, desperate for my attention. …...
Ballet Dancers Get Injured All The Time. This Company Has Figured Out How To...
Drawing on its sports-mad nation's expertise in sports medicine, the Australian Ballet has developed physical therapy techniques to help dancers heal without surgery. In...
Roger Norrington, Period Practice Pioneer, Has Conducted His Last Concert
"The 87-year-old's farewell took place in Sage Gateshead, directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in an all-Haydn concert that effortlessly rolled back the years. It...
Zaha Hadid’s Final Buildings Are Opening Across The Arab World
More than five years after her fatal heart attack at age 65, she has a theater in Rabat, a petroleum research center and a...
Kevin Spacey Ordered To Pay ‘House Of Cards’ Producers $31 Million
At the end of a confidential two-year process, an arbitrator ruled, and an appeals panel confirmed, that Spacey is liable for breach of contract...
Broadway’s Open Again. Even So, This Production Will Be Streaming Performances
The nonprofit company producing Lynn Nottage's new Clyde's, which opens this week and closes in January, will offer viewers the opportunity to watch a...
This French Town Has An Art Library That Lends To Residents. Turns Out It...
For decades now, the town of Saint-Priest (in metro Lyon) has been acquiring works for its residents and businesses to borrow from the artothèque....
Will This Movie Be The Last Of Its Kind, The Big-Budget World War II...
"Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a $100 million historical drama about … the creation of the atomic bomb, could be considered one of an endangered species....
Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, And Clare Boothe Luce Dropping Acid Together: The Musical (We’re...
Yes, the actor, the writer, and the playwright/politician/doyenne all experimented with LSD in the 1950s, when it was legal. They never did it together,...
Patrick Reyntiens, Who Worked Miracles With Stained Glass In Britain’s Bombed-Out Cathedrals, Dead At...
While he did a great deal of high-quality work, his most admired projects were in two modern monuments which replaced medieval landmarks destroyed in...
New York Times Declares, “Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Now New York’s Conductor”
Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor: "Omnipresent and energetic, he has been one of the central figures in New York's cultural re-emergence, and certainly the...