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The Big US Publishers Have Raised Starting Salaries by 23%
"As of April 1, the average entry-level salary for publishing employees located in New York City at the Big Five trade publishers and Scholastic...
Somerset Maugham Said His Plays Were For Light Entertainment Only. Don’t Believe It.
"Maugham is a deeply deceptive dramatist. His plays look as if they are dated old crowdpleasers, yet often challenge conventional ideas. … This is...
When Radio Was A Tool For Long-Distance Education
"Today's Tedium tries its best to capture the excitement of educational radio in the 1920s and 1930s. … (It was) the first truly real-time...
ProPublica Investigates The Met Museum’s Holdings Of Native American Art
Over nearly five decades, Charles and Valerie Diker have amassed one of the country's biggest private collections of Native American art, and they've been...
Ronald Perelman Donates $25 Million For A New Arts District At Brown University
"The Perelman Family Foundation, headed by cosmetics mogul and art collector Ronald Perelman, has pledged $25 million to Brown University to build an arts...
A Cache Of Unknown Songs By Donizetti Has Been Discovered
Musicologist Roger Parker found the works — some of which were published in the 19th century and faded from view, others only in manuscript...
Harry Belafonte, 96
"(He) was born to Jamaican immigrants, grew up in poverty in Depression-era Harlem and became a major Black crossover success in popular music. He...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Abruptly Resigns After One Year
"Neither Danielle St.Germain nor the Ballet gave any reason for the move. … If there's a sense of déjà vu about this, that's because...
Book Ban Attempts Are At The Highest Level We’ve Ever Seen, Says American Library...
"The ALA ... said in 2022 it had seen the highest number of reports of calls to remove or restrict books since it began...
The Frick Collection Announces Its Return To Its Fifth Avenue Mansion
"After two-plus years of occupying a temporary home on Madison Avenue at the historic Breuer building, Manhattan's beloved Frick Museum has announced it will...
France’s Electricians’ Union Threatens To Unplug Cannes Film Festival To Protest Macron’s Pension Reforms
"Members of the National Federation of Mines and Energy – a branch of the powerful CGT union – have announced '100 days of action...
“We Are Facing A Long-Term Fight For Existence”: Read Simon Rattle’s Speech On Britain’s...
"There is nobody here tonight, even musicians, who does not recognise the enormous challenges faced by the world at present and this country in...
A Pair Of Amateur Investigators Tracks Down Art Treasures Looted From India
"These sleuths, with the help of a small, anonymous global team of volunteers from various fields – who communicate mostly online – have brought...
An Architect Uses Traditional Oaxacan Materials And Techniques To Create Beautiful Modern Buildings
"Juan José Santibañez has almost single-handedly revived ancient construction techniques in the area, created a market for artisanal brickmakers from miles around, and proven...
Publisher Michael Denneny, A Central Figure In Gay Literature, Has Died At 80
His Stonewall Inn Editions was the first gay imprint at a major publisher (St. Martin's Press), where "(he) released canonical titles by ... Larry...
Streaming Studios Find That A Theatrical Release Is Great Marketing
"Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes. … (Yet) companies like...
The San Francisco Ballet Company That’s Really Putting Gender Equity Into Practice
Smuin Contemporary Ballet may be named after a male (its founder, who died in 2007), but it now has women as artistic director, associate...
How Do Actors Find Places To Live When They’re On Gigs Away From Home?
"The ease of the task depends on where they are on the call sheet. Big names get the red carpet treatment. … Somewhat lesser...
French Publishing Exec Arrested And Interrogated On His Politics While Traveling To London Book...
"Ernest Moret, a French foreign rights manager with Editions La Fabrique was stopped as he attempted to enter the UK at St. Pancras train...
Lee Strasberg Institute Sued By Former Student Alleging Sexual Assault
"A former student alleges that then–artistic director Mitchell Nestor 'raped and sexually assaulted' her in the early 1970s. The lawsuit … names the school...
Prosecutors Drop Manslaughter Charges Against Alec Baldwin In “Rust” On-Set Shooting
After making several previous missteps, prosecutors in New Mexico decided to withdraw the involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor upon the discovery of new...
Amid US-China Tensions, New York Philharmonic Will Tour To Hong Kong And Taiwan
"The New York Philharmonic, saying it hoped to use culture to help ease political tensions, announced plans on Thursday for a summer tour in...
BuzzFeed News Is Being Shut Down
"Going forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate its news efforts in a single profitable news organization — HuffPost, which it acquired from Verizon in 2020, per...
Our Brains Aren’t Just Gray Matter, They’re White Matter, Too — And Its Shape...
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are —...
Could We Learn To Move Through Time As An Octopus Moves Through Space?
Human bodies are basically built to see and move forward; human brains tend to conceive of time in that forward way. Octopuses can move...
