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Ruins Of Mohenjo Daro, One Of World’s First Big Cities, Endangered By Pakistan’s Heavy...
The torrential monsoon that has swamped the country has damaged the 4,500-year-old ruins, which were once the largest city in the Indus Valley civilization. ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution To Stop Publishing In Hard Copy On Weekdays: Report
"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will discontinue its daily print edition and go to a weekend print edition, but it will continue its digital news operation...
Two States Declare NFTs Subject To Sales Tax
"In June and July, Pennsylvania and Washington quietly became the first two states in the nation to explicitly list non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as digital...
After Leaving New York, Jaap van Zweden’s Next Philharmonic Will Be Seoul’s
The Dutch maestro is also music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; he leaves both positions in 2024, as he starts on a five-year...
Britain’s New Culture Secretary Used To Work For WWE
"Michelle Donelan, a former WWE marketing manager who was Boris Johnson's Education Secretary for just 48 hours, is to replace Nadine Dorries as Culture...
Here Are This Year’s Six Finalists For The Booker Prize
"Alan Garner (at 87) has become the oldest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and is the only British writer on this...
Pianist And Conductor Lars Vogt Dead At 51
After taking second prize at the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition, he performed concertos, recitals, and chamber music at leading venues for years. In...
The First Artist Management Agency Specializing In Classical Ballet Dancers
Rebecca Haw had a bumpy ride before landing her permanent position in the ballet company at Dresden's Semperoper. Hoping to spare other dancers some...
This Senegalese Monastery Brought An African Harp Into Church And Transformed Sacred Music
In response to the Second Vatican Council's reforms, the monks of the Abbey of Keur Moussa set about Africanizing their worship, researching traditional music...
The Great American Composer You’ve Half-Heard-Of: Marc Blitzstein
"(He) was the influential missing piece in American music, (with) a profound impact on Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, and Broadway from the 1930s to...
Is The Internet Why The Culture Today Seems Boring And Flat? Maybe, But Not...
In her New York Times Op-Ed column last week, Goldberg, drawing on a new book by W. David Marx, seems to argue that the...
In Odesa, A Renaissance Of Standup Comedy
The port city is as famous for its particular sense of humor as New Orleans is for jazz. Says one local comic, "The war...
Almost A Fifth Of Primary Schoolers In England Have No Books At Home
"According to a report by the National Literacy Trust, the percentage of children (aged five through eight) who do not have a book of...
1,000-Year-Old Byzantine Frescoes In Sudan Uncovered And Restored
"The paintings ... were initially found by Sudanese archaeologists in 2021 while excavating the remains of the El Lagia church at el-Ga’ab depression on...
The Movement For Gender-Neutral Acting Awards Is Picking Up Steam. Will The Big Flagship...
"Two more awards shows went gender neutral last week, fueling further speculation about the day when major awards shows — think Oscars, Emmys and...
The Taliban Used To Smash Up Afghanistan’s Ancient Art And Artifacts. Now It’s Guarding...
"When (the Islamists) returned to power a year ago, many cultural heritage advocates worried about the fate of the National Museum and its irreplaceable...
Author Barbara Ehrenreich Has Died At 81
"In more than 20 books, (she) explored a sweep of topics that echoed her varied background as a feminist political activist and scientist with...
Now AI Is Learning To Reconstruct Lost Paintings
A London-based project called Oxia Palus has already produced speculative versions of works by van Gogh, Modigliani, and Picasso which the artists later painted...
William Christie Looks At America’s Baroque Music Scene — And Likes What He Sees
"Indiana University for the last 40 years has been trumpeting early performance practice. Now there are maybe 20 or so extraordinary pockets of incredible...
Still Fabulous Into Their 70s And 80s: Meet The Drag Queens Who Haven’t Retired...
"The art of drag has firmly entered the mainstream, turning some performers into global celebrities. But go back half a century and the picture...
Fears That Climate Change Could Wipe Out French-Speaking Louisiana
"People in bayou country have long learned to live under adverse weather conditions. But things have gotten much worse in recent years. Rising sea...
Qatar’s Museum Of Islamic Art Reopens Next Month, With A Redesign And Over 1,000...
Known at its 2008 opening mainly for its building, one of the last major designs by I.M. Pei, the MIA has completed an 18-month...
The Leader Of Hollywood’s New Choreographers Guild Explains Why The Union Is Necessary
"Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital...
Is “Devolution” The Right Word? How Unboxed (aka The Festival Of Brexit) Came, Er,...
Theresa May first proposed the festival in 2018 to showcase the liberated UK as a creative powerhouse. Yet, by 2022, nobody was in a...
Meet The Longest-Working Black Director In History
After starting out in New York theater, Michael Schultz directed the classic PBS documentary To Be Young, Gifted and Black and made over a...
