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Jacques Rozier, Last Surviving Filmmaker Of The French New Wave, Is Dead At 96
"Such luminaries (as Godard and Truffaut) acknowledged him as a member in good standing in what amounted to one of cinema history's most exclusive...
“We Do Not Read The Bible As It Is Meant To Be Read” —...
Certain books (Psalms, Song of Songs, Lamentations) are generally understood as poetry, but the historical books, Gospels, and letters all include a great deal...
Iraqi Christians Work To Save Syriac, Their 2,000-Year-Old Language
A dialect of Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, Syriac has been used for centuries for Bibles, church services, and literature as well as...
A New Generation Of US Army “Monuments Men” Are Learning About Ukrainian Artworks
"The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative and the Met Museum have teamed up with the Army to help soldiers understand the role that art plays...
Court Throws Out The Lawsuit Against Maurizio Cattelan Over The Banana On The Wall
"A Miami federal judge ruled this week in favor of the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who, for a few weeks in 2019, was the...
Fewer People Are Following The News — Because It’s Depressing: Global Study
"A report by Oxford University's Reuters Institute says 48% of people around the world are very or extremely interested in the news — down...
A New Dance Festival Begins In New York This Fall
"Van Cleef & Arpels, the French luxury jeweler, announced on Tuesday that it would sponsor a 16-day event partly aimed at bringing more international...
Recording Academy Adds Three New Grammy Categories
"The Recording Academy has added three new categories for the 66th Annual Grammy Awards, it announced today: Best African Music Performance, Best Alternative Jazz...
Author Cormac McCarthy, 89
"(His) lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair and...
Ethiopians Are Making New Copies Of Sacred Medieval Manuscripts The Old-Fashioned Way, On Parchment
"Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, … at the Hamere Berhan Institute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Orthodox priests and lay...
Yo-Yo Ma Busks On The Streets Of Nairobi
"Nairobi's bustling Kenyatta market is an unlikely place to hear classical music. Yet playing today in front of stalls where butchers roast meat and...
How CEO Jonelle Procope Saved Harlem’s Apollo Theater
"Jonelle Procope's 20-year tenure as president and CEO of The Apollo Theater evolved into an era of prosperity and expansion, markedly different from the...
How Karla Puno Garcia Found Herself Choreographing This Year’s Scriptless Tony Awards
"Ariana DeBose called me and asked if I was interested and available. I said yes and yes!" - Dance Magazine
After Ten-Year Legal Battle In The Netherlands, Art And Artifacts From Crimea Will Be...
The 300 items were assembled for a 2013 exhibition by the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam; the show was at a German museum when...
They’ve Found Thomas Cromwell’s Own Prayer Book, The One In The Holbein Portrait
"Curators at Hever Castle were conducting research ahead of an exhibition comparing Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn when they realized Cromwell owned a...
Chevron Admits It Destroyed The Public Art Work Erected Near Its Bay Area Refinery
"'The wood was placed in our wood bin weeks ago when it was taken down. It has been processed with other wood since then,'...
US Officially Requests To Rejoin UNESCO
"U.S. officials say the decision to return was motivated by concern that China is filling the gap left by the U.S. in UNESCO policymaking...
Actor Treat Williams Killed In Motorcycle Accident
The 71-year-old star of the films Hair, Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Eagle Has Landed and the...
Golden Globe Awards Are Sold; Hollywood Foreign Press Association Will Disband
Dick Clark Productions and Eldridge Industries have purchased the awards, which will become a for-profit venture, and all 310 current voters will remain eligible...
Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann Is Dead At 77
He served as music director of the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh for two decades (1982-2003) and of the Canton Symphony in Ohio for...
Temple Grandin: We Should Think Of AI In Concrete Terms
"To most people, A.I. is an abstraction, something akin to magic. That's dangerous. We would do better to think about it as we do...
Figuring Out What Komar And Melamid Were (And Weren’t) Really Up To
Ben Davis: "For me, getting an overview of the twists and turns of the Komar & Melamid corpus here … is something like a...
The Strange Sepia Beauty Of Photographs Of The Smoke-Filled Skies
Philip Kennicott: "They are accidentally beautiful, rather like an 80-degree day in January is accidentally pleasurable. To some, they may suggest the science-fiction scenography...
Joan Rivers And Her Carefully Cross-Indexed Card Catalog Of 65,000 Jokes
"Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like 'Parents...
At Philadelphia’s Oddest Museum, Changes By New Leadership To Make It Less Odd Are...
The institution in question is the Mütter Museum, which is focused on anatomy. The actions by new leaders, "mostly centered on concerns about displaying...
