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Facial Recognition Software Helps Identify A Raphael
"Researchers from the (UK) used facial recognition technology to identify the author of a painting known as the de Brécy Tondo. ... The researchers...
Artistic Director Of London’s Donmar Warehouse Announces His Planned Departure
Michael Longhurst, who took the top job at the small and extremely successful theatre in 2019, will depart when his five-year contract ends in...
Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director of New York’s Primary Stages, Is Dead At 53
For 21 years he led Primary Stages, one of New York's most prominent Off-Broadway companies, producing works by such playwrights as Theresa Rebeck, Terrence...
On That Viral Video Brawl Starring The Michelle Yeoh Of Waffle House
"It's a miracle how she dispenses with the chair. 'Dispenses' isn't even the right word: She repels it. She parries it like an anime...
How Edith Wharton Foresaw 21st-Century America
"Undine Spragg of The Custom of the Country ... can be conceived of as (a) social media influencer conscious of her brand. For Undine...
Fighting The Good Fight Against Focal Dystonia
At USC in Los Angeles, faculty at the Thornton School of Music are working with neurologists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, physical therapists, and other health care...
Complete Roman-Era City Unearthed At Luxor, Ancient Egypt’s Capital
"On Tuesday, Egyptian archaeologists announced that they had uncovered a complete 1,800-year-old residential Roman city. … Most archaeological work in Luxor, a city that...
Rennie Harris Has Created A Curriculum To Train Dance Teachers In Hip-Hop
"Over the course of his decades-long career, Harris ... has been a guiding force, ushering hip-hop and street dance into new spaces and championing...
Israel’s New Far-Right Government Tries To Claw Back Funding For Two Documentaries About The...
"The (culture) minister, Miki Zohar, of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling Likud party, has pledged to 'revoke funding that promotes our enemy's narrative' and withhold grants...
Dallas Theater Center’s Renovation Plans Cause Sticker Shock On City Council
"Dallas Mayor pro tem Omar Narvaez brought up the issue of 'sticker shock' at the very start of the meeting early Tuesday. In 2010,...
More Fallout From Images-Of-Muhammad Controversy: Hamline University Faculty Call For President To Resign
"On Tuesday, during an all-faculty staff meeting at the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based private liberal arts college, 92 full-time professors voted in favor of officially...
Only Months After The Knife Attack, Salman Rushdie Has A New Novel Out
Despite his ongoing recovery from last August's stabbing, which cost him an eye, he's lively and quick-witted, friends say, and is planning future projects....
Odesa’s Old City Is Now A UNESCO World Heritage Site
"The United Nations' cultural agency decided Wednesday to add the historic center of Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Odesa to its list of...
B.V. Doshi, India’s Most Prominent Architect And First Pritzker Winner, is Dead At 95
After working as the lead local partner on Le Corbusier's and Louis Kahn's Indian projects, he designed some of India's most renowned works of...
All Robots Should Dance — Just Like M3GAN Does
Choreoroboticist Kate Sicchio: "It's really interesting to have this unfamiliar device do this uncanny human thing. It’s similar to why we love putting googly...
Books As Home Decor, With Professional Designers To Select Them And Lay Them Out
"More often than not, these books come across as props intended to be on camera — signifiers much like a Birkin bag or expensive...
How The Arts Fared In New Zealand Under Jacinda Ardern
"Ardern (who kept the culture ministry herself) had a lot going on as Prime Minister — the Christchurch Mosque attacks, the eruption of White...
For John Adams, Revising “Girls Of The Golden West” Was Harder Than Composing It
"It was not well received, and I was devastated by the reaction. ... It was way too long in San Francisco and Amsterdam. The...
DC’s Theater J, One Of America’s Leading Jewish Theater Companies, Appoints A New Artistic...
Hayley Finn, 48, is a career-long specialist in new plays and has conducted workshops for nearly 1,000 scripts. She's currently associate artistic director of...
Justin Peck Has Created New York City Ballet’s First Evening-Length Abstract Ballet In 55...
Which is to say, not since George Balanchine's Jewels (1967). Premiering this week, Peck's Copland: Dance Episodes is also City Ballet's first use of...
Rupert Murdoch Calls Off The Reunification Of News Corp. And Fox
"Rupert Murdoch sent letters to the board of directors of News Corp. and Fox Corp. on Tuesday, informing both groups he had decided to...
India Bans BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi And Deadly 2002 Riots
The Modi Question examines the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state in 2002 and the role in it played by Modi, who was then the...
Everett Quinton, Who Kept The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. Alive, Is Dead At 71
A seminal presence in both Off-Off-Broadway and queer theater, Ridiculous was founded by playwright/director/actor Charles Ludlam in the late 1960s. Quinton became Ludlam's partner...
John Williams Is, Again, The Most Oscar-Nominated Person Alive
With the Academy's nod for his score for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, the 90-year-old composer has tallied 53 nominations (and counting), trailing only Walt...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Appoints Chief Curator Asma Naeem Director
"After its last leader departed to head the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art has named a new director:...
