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The Critics’ Poll Has A New Greatest Movie Of All Time — And It’s...
The once-a-decade list of the top 100 films from Sight and Sound magazine has nudged 2012's champion, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, down to runner-up status...
Money Troubles At NPR Bring A Hiring Freeze And $10 Million In Budget Cuts
"The cuts, CEO John Lansing says, are due to a sharp drop in sponsor revenue and represent approximately 3% of NPR's current annual budget." ...
The Washington Post Lays Off Dance Critic Sarah L. Kaufman
The Pulitzer Prize winner, who has been at the newspaper for 25 years and was one of only two full-time dance critics in the...
What Exactly Is Geopolitics, And Who Invented It? (Losers, That’s Who)
"Do the politicians and pundits who speak of geopolitics really know what they are talking about? Geopolitics is a classically ambiguous or nebulous term,...
For Her Final Full-Length Work, Choreographer Sally Silvers Is Reworking Her First One
For her 40th anniversary season, the 70-year-old dancemaker returned to Pandora's Cake Stain, which premiered in 1996. Pandora's New Cake Stain features 12 dancers...
How Do You Put A 1957 Radio Documentary About Gay Men On The Stage?
The Homosexual Condition, the BBC's first-ever documentary about the lives of gay males, was believed lost until the script and other documents were located...
A Brief History Of “Y’all”
Some linguists suggest that the word comes from Scots-Irish; others think it originated among enslaved Igbo-speakers. In any case, the OED says "y'all" was...
What Brendan Fraser’s Comeback Says About Hollywood, Him, And Us
"Everyone seems happy to have Brendan Fraser back. Which prompts a question: Why? He never actually went away. The truth is that we've come...
American Bookstores Are Offering More Spanish-Language Books
"Driven by language-immersion schools and bilingual families, many stores are now specializing in bilingual books for young readers. Others serve heritage-language customers who want...
Funding Cuts To Two Small London Theatres Could Have Big Effects
Not only do the Donmar Warehouse and Hampstead Theatre regularly send productions out into the commercial theatre world (including the West End and Broadway),...
Director Todd Field Explains Some Of The Strange Things In “Tár”
"I hate explaining this stuff." Yet explain he does — why the end credits are at the beginning, and what he was up to...
Piano Lessons Can Provide Real Benefits To People On The Autism Spectrum: Study
"While the authors noted the limits of their single study, they were unequivocal. Those who completed music training were the only group to show...
The Guy Who Smashed Stuff At The Dallas Museum Of Art Called 911 On...
"'Hey, I'm in the Dallas Museum of Art,' he told a dispatcher nearly 15 minutes after police say he entered. 'Come get me.' The...
St. Mark’s In Venice Has New Glass Barriers To Protect It From Flooding
The big floodgates out in the lagoon aren't enough: the Piazza San Marco is the lowest point in the city. What's more, the heavy...
The Rockettes Get Their Own Hallmark Christmas Movie
Julie Branam, who directs and choreographs the beloved Radio City Music Hall dance troupe, talks about the dance in the film, titled (what else?)...
India Wouldn’t Nominate This Year’s Biggest Blockbuster For The International Film Oscar — So...
After seeing the raucously rapturous reactions that audiences, even in L.A., are having to RRR, producer-director S.S. Rajamouli and US distributor Dylan Marchetti (Drive...
How Do We Reconcile The Journey Anthony Bourdain Took Us On With The Sad...
"The tragic irony of Bourdain's life and death is that the same interior darkness he succumbed to enabled the alchemy that he performed, again...
English National Opera Was Doomed: Norman Lebrecht
"The cause of death, in this coroner's verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. ... The decline and fall of England's national opera...
After Five Centuries, The Holy Roman Emperor’s Secret Code Has Been Deciphered
"Sent by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to his ambassador at the French royal court — a man called Jean de Saint-Mauris —...
The Real Secret Of The L.A. Comedy Scene’s Success? Gigs In People’s Backyards
"No matter how cobbled together the entire operation might be, some of the very best comedy shows in L.A., for more than two decades,...
“You Can’t Eat Prestige”: Culture Workers Have Started Organizing and Striking For A Living...
"Professors of art, workers at museums, and assistants at a publishing house have all gone on strike or staged public protests during contract negotiations....
The Academy Agrees To Put All Oscar Categories Back In The TV Broadcast This...
"The news comes after eight different Oscar categories — original score, makeup and hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live action...
The Rijksmuseum Declares Three More Vermeers Authentic. But Is That A Self-Interested Decision?
Amsterdam's flagship museum is, after all, about to present the largest Vermeer exhibition in history, so increasing the artist's slim corpus could very much...
Athens Now Faces The Dangers Of Amsterdam-Barcelona-Venice-Style Overtourism
Leisure travel has roared back since the pandemic, with the Greek capital a destination rather than a transit point to the islands; the Acropolis...
BBC Philharmonic Gives Its Chief Guest Conductor The Big Job
John Storgårds, a Finnish violinist-turned conductor who is also artistic director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, was named the BBC Phil's Principal Guest Conductor...
