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The Smithsonian Has A Cultural “Rapid-Response Task Force”
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative began in 2010, initially to help mitigate the damages to museums, churches, and archives in Haiti due to that...
The New Yorker And The Archivist It Just Fired Are Trading Insults On Twitter
The magazine's archive editor, Erin Overbey, was fired last Friday for (per the termination letter) "a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the...
The Golden Globes And Its Sponsor Sell Themselves To A Private Investment Company
"Eldridge Industries is taking over the Golden Globe Awards, which will be turned into a private entity separate from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's...
Minnesota Orchestra Goes Nordic (Again) For Its Next Music Director
"The 52-year-old Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård succeeds — and bears some resemblance to — Osmo Vänskä, a Finnish conductor who, at age 48, arrived...
Casting Shakespeare’s Richard III Amid Today’s Questions About Opportunity And Representation
The ways three major productions this summer have cast the role — a disabled white actor (England's Royal Shakespeare Co.), an able-bodied Black actress...
Miami Beach Voters Asked To Approve $159 Million Bond Measure For The Arts
The money from the bonds, to be paid back over 30 years from a property tax increase, would go toward capital projects, including artist...
One of the Most Controversial Movies Of The 1970s,”Deliverance”, At 50
"(It's) a powerful exploration of the harshness of the rural landscape, with an ecological message that still resonates. ... In many ways, it defined...
“Prophet Of Doom” Mike Davis Has Terminal Cancer. Does He Have Any Parting Words...
"Uh, no. I've resisted various things, one of which is the writerly idea that you have to write something profound about your termination. I...
Melissa Errico Writes About Being Back On The Road As A Touring “Girl Singer”
"There are others out there, too, crisscrossing the country, living on the lower slopes, and sometimes on the summits, of show business. We are...
Competitive Ballroom Dance Has Some Weird Rules About Tanning, And TikTokers Are Calling Them...
A user screennamed @sibusheva posted a images of her skin before and after tanning, wrote that "fair skin in (ballroom) competitions is bad form",...
Archaeologists May Have Just Found The Palace Of Hulagu Khan, Genghis’s Fearsome Grandson
Hulagu, who led the notorious sack of Baghdad in 1258, conquered Damascus and Persia, and founded the Ilkhanid Empire, built himself a fabled summer...
After Nearly 40 Years, One Of The Most Beloved Soap Operas In The English...
"The final episode (of Neighbours) airs in Australia on Thursday and in Britain on Friday. It will be the swan song for a show...
Can Venice Be Saved From Flooding Without Wrecking The Ecosystem Around It?
Ecologists worry that, if not deployed very carefully, the inventive (and expensive) set of barriers called MOSE (as in Moses parting the sea), built...
Seoul’s Airport Abandons Plans For A Branch Of A Global Museum
"Incheon Airport is considering building a 300-square-meter exhibition space within the airport, after a recent study found that plans to establish a satellite museum...
In Search Of The Giant Boot From The Original Broadway “Into The Woods”
The enormous footwear, attached to an enormous leg, appeared to be slung over the roof of the theater where Sondheim's musical opened. The inflatable...
The Non-Binary Couple Who’s Queering Salsa Dancing
"Part of a new generation of dancers embracing fluidity of gender roles in salsa dancing, (Audrey Guerrero and Angie Egea) perform and teach classes...
For Folks Across The Pond, Maeve Higgins Explains The American Right’s Attacks On Public...
"I think the right wing is really afraid of libraries not because libraries promote any one type of information but because libraries promote information...
Disabled People Are Also Underrepresented On US Screens, Nielsen Study Finds
"Relative to the approximately 26% of adults in the US who have a physical or psychological disability, representation continue(s) to lag behind, a new...
France Dumps The Old-Line Bigwigs From Its Oscar Selection Committee
The overhaul, which removes permanent members such as the heads of the Cannes Film Festival and the César Académie, comes out of criticism that...
An Australian University Threatens To Sue Its Own Faculty And Staff
RMIT University in Melbourne let the employment contract with its faculty/staff union expire last year and refuses to start negotiations until 2023. To get...
How Much Is Rome’s Colosseum Really Worth? €77 Billion, Declare The Accountants At Deloitte
The calculations that determined the figure (currently US$79 billion), described as the Colosseum's "value as a social asset," included both the estimated €1.4 billion...
Peter Brook And Richard Taruskin Had A Lot More In Common Than You Could...
Mark Swed, who had dealings (not always pleasant) with both men, considers how, despite their antithetical demeanors, "while neither was quite what he seemed...
Damien Hirst Is About To Literally Burn More Than 5,000 Of His Dot Paintings
Hirst attached NFTs to 10,000 of those works and sold them for $2,000 each; a buyer could keep the NFT or get the real-life...
Iraqi Court Frees Tourist Sentenced To 15 Years For Taking Pottery Shards As Souvenirs
"Last month, ... a British tourist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iraqi prison for taking a dozen pottery shards from an unguarded...
London-Based Touring Theatre Companies Say They’re Facing A “Russian Roulette” Choice In Relocating
Arts Council England's Transfer Programme is pushing companies to move away from the capital into the underserved rest of England. But those whose work...
