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This Art-Dealing Dynasty Is Even More Filthy Rich Than Anyone Knew — For Now
The Wildensteins' business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by...
Yes, Indie Bookstores Can Help Change The World, Especially Now
Josh Cook: "People use books to develop their morals, support and test their belief structures, come to conclusions about the state of the world,...
“We Are Smack Dab In The Middle Of A Neofascist Revival”: Is The Directorship...
Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government is replacing the directors at the country's landmark museums — a number of which, such as the Uffizi, have highly...
Remember Choreographer Yvonne Rainer’s “No Manifesto”? She Didn’t Really Mean It.
The 1965 declaration was absolutist: "No to spectacle. No to virtuosity. No to transformations and magic and make-believe ... no to moving or being...
Belfast’s Arts Center Could Be Shut Down Due To Financial And Management Troubles
Northern Ireland's state arts funding body is reportedly reconsidering its support of the Metropolitan Arts Centre in the province's capital. MAC — which includes...
“Fleabag” Has Been Casting A Long Shadow — Too Long — Over Women At...
"For a long time critics couldn't stop talking about the 'next Fleabag' in a way that may have been constraining for other women writing...
How Do You Translate A Musical Like “Chicago” Into Arabic?
You transpose it to Beirut. It was a complicated endeavor, especially (given the huge differences between Arabic and English) for the songs. But it...
Should We Just Drop The NC-17 Rating Altogether?
"(The film) Passages and its battle with the ratings system (are) another flash point in a long-running argument. ... Many question the value of...
Pew Research Center Runs The Numbers On US Radio Listenership
"First and foremost, the firm notes that approximately eight-in-ten Americans (12+) listen to broadcast radio weekly. Weekly listening to radio has remained relatively steady...
They’re Called Haptic Suits, And They Let Deaf People (And Others) Experience Music As...
"Developed by the Philadelphia-based company Music: Not Impossible, the device consists of two ankle bands, two wrist bands and a backpack that fastens with...
Is The Market Power Of BookTok Starting To Fade?
"But a new analysis by BookScan shows that BookTok's effect on sales is diminishing. The most notable sign of that softening came in July,...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin Does CBS’s “60 Minutes” (And Vice Versa)
"The truth is I'm not necessarily concerned about not upsetting traditionalists. I think people who love our art form are still gonna love it...
“A Leading Figure In Postmodern Dance,” Choreographer Gus Solomons Jr., Is Dead At 84
One of a very few Black men present from the beginning of the downtown postmodern dance scene, he danced with Merce Cunningham and reviewed...
The Long Quest To Decipher The Rapa Nui Glyphs Of Easter Island
"What makes rongorongo so difficult is that ... no one is quite sure whether it is a form of proto-writing or a fully fledged...
“TikTok In A Parallel Dimension”: Europe Is About To Let Users Turn Off The...
"The change opens the door to a strange social experiment. … 'So much of the experience of TikTok is that weird sense that you're...
There Goes Another: Public Theater Of San Antonio “Pauses” Its 2023-24 Season
As with so many other US regional theaters, a post-pandemic cash crunch to put on hold all five of its scheduled productions for the...
Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” Is Still A Hit After 20 Years, But She Herself Is...
"The problem with comics is … it's not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not...
A Double-Amputee Soldier Has Become A Star Of The Ukrainian Ballet
"Oleksandr Budko, 27, has been touring the US with the United Ukrainian Ballet, dancing before audiences of up to 3,000 people with, and without,...
Why The Dialogue On Streaming TV Is So Hard To Understand
No, you're not the only hearing person who turns on the closed captions in order to make out what's being said. It's a particular...
An Austin Theater Company Joins A Freedom-Of-Expression Lawsuit Against Texas’s New Anti-Drag Law
"(The troupe) is part of a second lawsuit challenging a Texas law that some argue would amount to a ban on public drag performances....
Israel Wants To Lend An 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Floor To The Museum Of The Bible....
Called The Megiddo Mosaic, the 3rd-century work comes from the oldest surviving Christian place of worship, located near what's believed to be the site...
We Live In A Visual World: So More Classical Concerts Are Going Multimedia
"Organizations have been presenting more concerts that integrate other disciplines, use multimedia elements and special lighting, feature music by living composers, touch on social...
Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Is Getting A New Three-Acre Sculpture Garden
Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others)...
Belarus Labels Two 19th-Century Poems By One Of The Nation’s Great Authors As “Extremist...
The two pieces, written during an 1863 rebellion by Belarusians and Poles against the Russian Empire, are by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, whose books are taught...
In Popular Culture, An Explosion Of Out-And-Proud White Gay Male Villainy (And That’s A...
"As members of two dominant cultures in a world in which everyone's hyperconscious of identity, we have enough clout to be labeled part of...
