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For The First Time, NPR Will Let Individuals Donate Directly To The Network
In the past, member stations have pushed back hard against any move by the network to raise funds directly from listeners rather than via...
Did She Introduce Eastern Spirituality To America Or Merely Hoodwink People? The Tale Of...
The answer to that question is "yes." - Mental Floss
A New Director For The Restive Paris Opera Ballet
Taking the helm of an unhappy company is José Carlos Martinez, a 53-year-old Spaniard, who spent 23 years dancing therey, 14 of them as...
Has History Finally Moved Ahead Of The Manchurian Candidate As It Turns 60 Years...
"John Frankenheimer's thriller ... managed the neat, eerie trick of looking prescient for multiple decades following its 1962 release. ... Watching the movie now,...
Schirmer To Publish Hundreds Of Scores By Jewish Composers Silenced By The Nazis
"The list of music to be published includes more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music pieces, 50 orchestral works and other pieces, in genres...
The Power Of Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Fiction
"His novels alternate restlessly from an East Africa of the past to the Britain of the present, as if they comprise two parts of...
The Climate-Activist Stunts In Museums Aren’t Just Badly Targeted, They’re Downright Embarrassing
"We don't know the protests are effective, and we do know they're likely to cause financial problems for many museums. Here I'll add my...
France’s National Railroad Refuses To Allow Double-Bass Players To Travel With Their Instruments
Says one musician: "We are afraid of not being able to arrive at the place of the concert, of losing our (paid) commitments. Traveling...
Parenthood Is Treacherous Territory For Stand-Up Comedy
"Jokes about raising children make an easy connection with certain sleepy-eyed audiences, but that can be its own parent trap. This is well-trod ground....
UN Agencies Are Doing Satellite-Based Tracking Of Russia’s Damage To Ukraine’s Culture And Heritage
"Geneva-based UNOSAT and UNESCO, the Paris-based educational, scientific and cultural agency, announced Wednesday that they are finalizing a database of cultural sites that compares...
The Smithsonian Selects Sites For The Proposed National Latino And Women’s History Museums
The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the...
The Latest Target Of The Self-Gluing Climate Protesters Is Vermeer
At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in "Just Stop Oil" t-shirts walked up to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; one...
Shadow Puppetry: A Disappearing Art?
"The craft of shadow puppetry had historically been passed down, master-apprentice style, through the generations. With varied technologies and media dominating contemporary performance, practitioners...
After Almost 20 Years, Baghdad Has Modern Artworks On View
"In a refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria (at the Ministry of Culture), 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq's foremost artists...
Britain’s NHS Tries Another Experiment Prescribing Arts And Sports As Mental Health Treatment
"NHS mental health trusts will use the activities to help 600 young people on their waiting lists for care as part of a study...
A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover
"The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the...
This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet...
Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn't stay in a Russia...
George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack
"The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily ... with the writer's memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. ... Subscribers to...
Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents
"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy...
Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?
"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the...
Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102
"In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black...
After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business
"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media....
John Neumeier Marks 50 Years At The Helm Of Hamburg Ballet
The American-born and -trained choreographer, now 83, became artistic director of the then-under-resourced company in 1973 and led it to world-class status, creating over...
And Who Is John Neumeier’s Successor At Hamburg Ballet?
Demis Volpi, a 35-year-old Argentine-German choreographer who trained in Buenos Aires, Toronto, and Stuttgart, has been artistic director of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg...
Alicia Alonso’s Successor At Cuba’s National Ballet Has A Very, Very Difficult Job
"Viengsay Valdés ... has the task of renewing the ballet's reputation when Cuba finds itself in a deep economic crisis. It will not only...
