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Western Art Masterworks Unseen For Decades Are Now On View In Tehran
A very popular exhibition of minimalist and conceptual art this summer at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art features major pieces by Marcel Duchamp,...
One Broadway Show Has Reintroduced Mask-Only Nights
"The Broadway production of The Kite Runner announced a policy Tuesday requiring masks for audience members at Friday evening performances only. The new hybrid...
Climate Change Has Started Causing Serious Problems For Outdoor Performance
Extreme heat, flash floods, and, especially, smoke from wildfires — which can affect venues hundreds of miles away — have been the cause of...
The Staff (What’s Left Of It) At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Unionizes
"The group of 16 employees — which includes front-of-house staff, stagehands and arts administrators — filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board...
How To Fight Back Against Library And School Book Bans
Margaret Sullivan: "Local residents should show up at school board meetings to express dissent publicly, get in touch directly with school administrators to insist...
Is There An Objective Way To Rank The Most Beautiful Cities? No, But This...
"Analysts ... first mined Google Street View footage in cities around the world for images of hundreds of residential streets and some 2400 iconic...
The Secrets Of Stage Blood
"Are there more types of fake blood than there are of real blood? Oh, positively. ... As a prop master for the last 30-odd...
Why Do The Ranks Of Crossword Puzzle Constructors Remain So Un-Diverse? Simple: The Pay’s...
"It turns out the crossword industry really does consist of earnest wordplay lovers donating their time to unpaid mentorships, generally as part of an...
Qatar Is Basically Setting Up A Giant Open-Air Museum In Doha. Have A Look.
"A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, Rashid Johnson mosaic, and a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture — in the likeness of an endangered marine mammal — are...
Orchestras Are Chafing, And Sometimes Buckling, Under Their Post-Shutdown Workloads
New programming initiatives mean musicians are rehearsing more unfamiliar works, and, come curtain time, standard repertoire sometimes ends up underrehearsed. Shutdown-induced layoffs mean remaining...
A New Factor In Writing TV Scripts: The Online Superfans Scrutinizing Every Line Of...
"Storytellers have to do more than spin a satisfying yarn; they must contend with fans who are so involved, they're practically racing them to...
A Conservative Version Of Prestige TV? Considering “Yellowstone”
"It is too easy to call it a conservative show. Like its audience counterpart, Yellowstone thinks it is at war with progress when it...
Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Diagnosed With Parkinson’s Disease
"His production company, Zentropa, ... said it released the information in order to avoid speculation about his health leading up to the premiere of...
After More Than A Century, Britain’s Dancing Times Magazine Is Shutting Down
"Dancing Times was established in October 1910 ... and has been published continuously every month for 112 years. ... The economic impact of the...
Meanwhile, Anthony Gormley’s Memorial To Alan Turing In Cambridge Has Been Approved With Little...
The as-yet-untitled sculpture, to be placed near the library at King's College, is, like the one planned for Imperial College, London, made of stacked...
Too Phallic: London Students Are Loudly Objecting To Anthony Gormley’s Planned Sculpture Honoring Alan...
The 20-foot-tall memorial, titled ALERT and planned for the South Kensington campus of Imperial College, London, is a stack of rectangular volumes intended by...
Behind The Scenes At Bayreuth’s Other Opera Festival
The Bavarian town has, in fact, two opera houses: Richard Wagner's famous custom-built theater and the Margravial Opera House, an opulent 18th-century venue seating...
A New Record Label Devoted Solely To Women Composers
"The label, called La Boîte à Pépites (the jewel box), will record compositions that have rarely, if ever, been heard before, yet deserve 'a...
How An Indian Film From Beyond Bollywood Became A Hit On U.S. Screens
"The Telugu-language Indian action spectacular RRR, or Rise, Roar, Revolt, ... (is) the rare Indian hit to catch on with American viewers outside the...
To Make Fun Of Politicians Or Not? At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Believe It...
"Performers are split on how to respond to turbulent times in a way that entertains audiences. After the BBC's cancellation of (a) long-running satirical...
Mass-Market Paperbacks Are In Trouble
Over the last five years, sales in the category are down 32% by units sold and 43% by revenue. Some authors and titles, especially...
Pulitzer-Winning Historian David McCullough Is Dead At 89
"(His) lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular...
These Ukrainian Ballet Dancers Will Be Returning To The Army In A Month
The male members of the Ukrainian Freedom Ballet, which is currently performing in the Edinburgh Fringe, had to get special permission from their government...
The Enormous Effort To Protect And Rescue Ukraine’s Art And Monuments, Organized More Or...
Institutions in Ukraine hadn't been prepared to pack up and evacuate their collections, certainly not on a large scale. But (as Putin himself has...
Actors’ Equity UK Adopts “Comedian’s Charter” Governing Safety And Employment Conditions
The measures included "will ensure pay transparency, a safe working environment, late-night safety, and anti-harassment and discrimination policies. ... In the months ahead, we'll...
