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Painting Stage Scenery The 17th-Century Way
Historical stagecraft expert Wendy Waszut-Barrett paints backdrops and wing pieces with the same material that European craftsmen used four centuries ago: distemper paint, made...
Filmmaker Alain Tanner, A Leader Of Switzerland’s New Wave, Is Dead At 91
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known...
Spotify Makes A 300,000-Title Bet On Audiobooks
"After spending the past few years teasing its literary ambitions and acquiring the audiobook platform Findaway for $119 million, Spotify has formally launched its...
Hollywood’s Masters Of Prosthetics Talk About Their Craft
Kazu Hiro, who turned Gary Oldman into Winston Churchill and Bradley Cooper into Leonard Bernstein: "I hate to see 'This actor is unrecognisable.' It's...
Constipated Scorpions, Moose Crash-Test Dummies, And The Best Way To Turn A Doorknob: The...
Other winners included a study of why ducklings swim in a straight line formation (the physics prize), research on ritual enemas in Mayan pottery...
Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Is Returning Its Benin Bronzes. Is It Irredeemable Nevertheless?
The German capital's ethnological museum has started displaying videos or modern copies of the works it has returned to the countries from which they...
A Dance Critic Considers The (Extensive) Choreography Of The Queen’s Funerary Ceremonies
"Like the classic 19th-century ballets that display massed ranks of identically costumed, identically moving dancers, the rituals have shown us many military units from...
Why Does Having A Royal Patron Matter For British Arts Groups?
With the queen's death and the ascension of a new king (who won't have time for all the causes he supported as Prince of...
Did Woody Allen Say He Was Going To Stop Making Films Or Not?
The Barcelona newspaper La Vanguardia printed an article this weekend quoting Allen saying that his next movie (his 50th) would be his last; on...
Byzantine Floor Mosaic Uncovered By A Gaza Farmer Trying To Plant A Tree
"Salman al-Nabahin unearthed the mosaic pavement, thought to date from the fifth to the seventh century AD, six months ago while working in his...
Russian National Orchestra Dumps Its Founder, Mikhail Pletnev
The pianist-turned-conductor founded the RNO in 1990, as the USSR was collapsing. Now the orchestra has refused to renew Pletnev's contract, saying that "since...
This Little Architectural Gem Was Built To Be An Italian Fascist Utopia
In the mid-1930s, Mussolini's minister of agriculture(!), Edmondo Rossoni, worked to turn his home village, marooned in the marshes of Emilia-Romagna, into a model...
Catherine de’ Medici — Was She Really “The Serpent Queen”?
She was certainly a canny operator, but she was working to maintain safety and authority for herself and her sons (all three of whom...
The Granddaddy Of Topical TV Dramedies: M*A*S*H At 50
"M*A*S*H is in some ways the most contemporary of its contemporaries. Its blend of madcap comedy and pitch-dark drama — the laughs amplifying the...
Alan Alda, Who Directed And Wrote As Well As Starring, Talks About M*A*S*H At...
"I was looking for stories, each in a different way, that showed how everybody left the war with a wound of some kind. ......
From “Groomer” All The Way Back To “Miscegenation”, American Politicians Have Turned Words Into...
"Where groomer has a pedigree as a legitimate term of opprobrium, ... miscegenation was invented out of whole cloth, intended as a bludgeon to...
The Real-Life Female Army Depicted In “The Woman King”
The story enacted by Viola Davis and her colleagues is fictional, but the Agojie did actually exist: a troop of women warriors, founded in...
A Ukrainian Baritone Took Five Russian Bullets, One In His Lungs. Amazingly, He Is...
Back in March, early in the invasion, Sergiy Ivanchuk was driving escaping civilians from the besieged city of Kharkiv when his car came under...
A “Suicide Mission”: Aaron Sorkin On Adapting “To Kill A Mockingbird” For The Stage
"I absolutely knew there was no way I would get out alive. I was going to ruin everyone's childhood. ... Everything that was presented...
Composer Judith Weir Is The First Woman To Be Master Of The Queen’s, Er,...
"She has only 20 predecessors, most of whom held their positions for life. ... Over the centuries, the function of the master as primarily...
Praemium Imperiale 2022 Winners: Ai Weiwei, Wim Wenders, Krystian Zimerman, Giulio Paolini, And SANAA
The 15 million yen (currently $104,000) prizes have been awarded to artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (sculpture), filmmaker Wim Wenders (theatre/cinema), pianist Krystian Zimerman...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Staffers Are On A One-Day “Warning Strike”
Management says that the museum will remain open to the public despite the walkout and picket line, which the union is staging to press...
Dance Theater Of Harlem’s Resident Choreographer Will Be Its Next Artistic Director
Robert Garland, a former DTH dancer mentored by founder Arthur Mitchell, was the company's first resident choreographer. He succeeds Virginia Johnson, a founding member...
“Better Call Saul” As The Portrait Of An Artist
"Rather than a crime drama in the vein of the Scamming Show canon, Better Call Saul is perhaps best understood as an unlikely Künstlerroman...
Salman Rushdie And The Marketization Of Hurt Sentiments
"If it shocks us that the novelist was attacked after so long, it should also shock us that commentary looks much as it did...
