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New York Times Critic A.O. Scott Is Leaving The Movie Beat For The Book...
"Scott, who has reviewed more than 2,200 films for the Times over the last 23 years, will shift to The New York Times Book...
Back At Work After The Strike, Unionized HarperCollins Staffers Feel Vindicated
"For many of the more than 250 unionized employees, the agreement ratified on Feb. 16 between their union, Local 2110 of the U.A.W., and...
Cambodian Classical Dance On The Minnesota Prairie
"Founded by refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime, which sought to eradicate most religious institutions, (the Buddhist temple) Watt Munisotaram and its troupe hope...
Deep In Rural Virginia, A Theatre Helps Create New Black Plays
"The innovative structure of Barter Theatre's new Black Stories Black Voices program ... could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that...
Police In Barcelona Have Found Stolen Dalís And Mirós, And They’ve Arrested Suspects
"The (works were) taken from houses in Barcelona last year, sparking a major police investigation that led authorities to a hideout in Catalonia. Officers...
If Opera Gets Defunded Because “It’s For Elites,” Then Only Elites Will Ever Get...
"If opera in the form that its creators imagine it becomes for toffs, that is nothing to do with opera itself. It is absolutely...
The Canals Of Venice Are Running Dry
"Pictures of the city showed gondolas stuck in canals reduced to muddy ditches, revealing the ancient foundations of buildings. ... The problems in Venice...
Milan’s Cathedral Has Been A High-Maintenance Money Pit For Over 600 Years
The rare marble of which the Duomo is built may be lovely, but it's particularly fragile and susceptible to breakage from temperature changes —...
Criminal Charges Against Alec Baldwin For “Rust” On-Set Shooting Have Been Lowered
"Baldwin still faces one count of involuntary manslaughter, a fourth-degree felony that carries a sentence of 18 months in prison. But prosecutors have removed...
Changes To Language In Roald Dahl’s Books Draw A Backlash — And Not Only...
Salman Rushdie spoke out, as did PEN America: "If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing...
The BAFTA Nominees Were Pretty Diverse. The Winners Were All White. Criticism Has Ensued.
"By the end of the night," wrote one journalist covering the awards, "when it slowly sank in that every single winner was white, you...
Stella Stevens, Sexy, Funny Hollywood Star Of 1960s and ’70s, Is Dead At 84
"(She was) known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films as The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship...
Public Radio’s “The Takeaway” Will End In June
"The news program, which launched in 2008 as an alternative to NPR's Morning Edition, has seen declining carriage and audience, according to leaders at...
Why Is An Erotic Love Poem, One That Never Really Mentions God, In The...
Actually, Jewish and Christian theologians have been trying to finesse that question about the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) for 2,000...
Why So Many Choreographers Want To Set “The Rite Of Spring”
Since Nijinsky created the original in 1913, there have been, starting in 1920, more than 150 different dance settings to Stravinsky's score. Most follow...
Why Exactly Is That BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi So Controversial? (An Explainer)
For a start, the TV film — titled India: The Modi Question — deals with a very sore subject for the Prime Minister: his...
The Biggest New Bollywood Hit, The Comeback For Its Biggest Star, Has Quite A...
Before Pathaan — which just knocked Avatar 2 out of the top spot on the global box office chart — Shah Rukh Khan hadn't...
Why Disney More Or Less Surrendered In Its Struggle With Gov. Ron DeSantis
"When Florida stripped Disney of its special tax zone around the company's theme parks, it led observers to wonder: Why would Disney cede this...
Advertising For Broadway Shows Isn’t Working Like It Used to. Here’s What Needs Fixing.
"Great advertising does not create success. Great shows do. But advertising can expand success from a limited audience and make it larger. Much larger....
Rio’s First All-Female Samba School
"The community-tied music and dance clubs have always included women, commonly as seamstresses and dancers. They've played the schools' smaller instruments; Carnival queens lead...
Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Frontotemporal Dementia
Last year the 67-year-old actor retired after receiving a formal diagnosis of aphasia. His condition has now worsened: he's suffering progressive loss of nerve...
The Architect Who’ll Renovate Greece’s National Archaeological Museum Is David Chipperfield. Some Greeks Are...
"Before the proposed design had been chosen, the Association of Greek Architects had threatened to (go to) the country's supreme administrative court after it...
Judge Orders Paris’s Musée d’Orsay To Restitute Four Major Impressionist Paintings Stolen By The...
"The group includes Renoir's 1883 seascape Marine Guernesey, and a study, completed around 1908, for The Judgement of Paris (in the collection of the...
Why Bertolt Brecht’s Plays Still Attract Directors And Audiences On Six Continents
Even 67 years after his death, the left-wing firebrand's work gets produced from Germany to Japan to Togo (Mother Courage is currently being staged...
A “Documentary Opera” Asks What Russians Really Think About Russia
In what seems to be a cross between an Anna Deavere Smith interview-based theater piece and Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet,...
