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Meet The World’s Absolute Master Of Card Tricks
"Juan Tamariz has been a professional magician for 52 years, ... becoming both a household name in his home country and a living legend...
Ireland Is Using “The Banshees Of Inisherin” To Promote Tourism
"Inis Mór (Inishmore) and Achill Island, the islands where Martin McDonagh's black comedy was filmed, are marketing the locations, and a Tourism Ireland video...
Brazil’s Arts World Greets Lula’s Arrival And Bolsonaro’s Departure With Great Sighs Of Relief
"The move helps to draw a line under the 'culture wars' raging in Brazil that have led to increased censorship, with some artists facing...
The Leaning Tower Of Pisa Is Literally Standing Up Straighter
"After a stabilization project, begun in 1990, reduced the quirky monument's dangerous lean by a full 15 inches, the tower has straightened itself out...
Milan Cancels Sergei Polunin’s “Rasputin” Following Social Media Protests
The run of performances was called off by the Arcimboldi Theater as "an act of 'political and moral responsibility,' given 'a climate of tensions...
Is Bulgakov About To Become Another Casualty Of Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine?
Many writers and other figures are calling for Bulgakov's home in Kiev, a museum since Soviet days, to be closed, arguing that he was...
The César Awards, France’s Oscars, Bar Anyone Under Investigation For Sex Crimes
"Artists who have been charged or convicted of sexual crimes can still be nominated for a César, and can still win the award. But...
Soon We’ll Get To Hear Historic Wax Cylinder Recordings From The Metropolitan Opera
A specially developed device, the Endpoint Cylinder and Dictabelt Machine, has enabled the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to retrieve and...
Ancient City Of Petra Is Hit By Flash Floods
High water surged through the rock-hewn city in southern Jordan around Christmas Day and tourists had to be evacuated, though they had returned by...
Britain’s Arts And Heritage Sites Are Making Huge Cutbacks As Energy Coss Soar
"Theatres, museums, castles and other heritage sites are making staff redundant, turning down the heating, shutting rooms to the public and closing early. The...
Phnom Penh’s Gender-Bending All-Gay-Male Classical Dance Troupe
"Merging two cultural streams — the progressive and the conservative — that many see as mutually exclusive, Prumsodun Ok presents a new outlook on...
The Quintessential Film Genre Of the 21st Century? Considering The Technical Disaster Movie
"Unlike the schlockier disaster porn that precedes it, the technical disaster movie depicts a real or realistic catastrophe that is in principle avoidable. Their...
Should “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” Have Been Aired At All?
Critics hated it, audiences flocked to it, and some social media commenters and media columnists argues that it was immoral even to have written...
Yiddish Theatre In New York Is Alive And Well
"At one point in time, New York was home to more than 50 Yiddish theatres. … Today, reflecting both the relative decline and the...
A Recap Of The Prize-Winning Novels Of 2022
"Awards ceremonies are back, baby. For the first time since 2019, your favorite writers got to dress up and attend a fancy party or...
Odesans Have Pulled Down The Statue Of Catherine The Great
No matter that she founded the city of Odesa. She was a Russian empress, one who conquered large parts of modern Ukraine — and...
Here Are Some Of The Goodies Going Into The Public Domain In 2023
Among the intellectual property copyrighted in 1927 and available for you to have your way with as of Sunday are the last Sherlock Holmes...
Why Do The Principal Players In An Orchestra Get Paid So Much More When...
"At the top levels, where base salary is over $100,000, it takes years of training and experience and an intense audition process to get...
Statues Of Greek Gods From 2,000 Years Ago Unearthed In Central Turkey
"Stone heads of Eros, Dionysus, Herakles, and others were uncovered, as well as a full statue of an unidentified hero of Azanoi, of which...
The Ten Highest-Priced Artworks Of 2022
Collectively, two Warhols cost more than a van Gogh and a Cézanne, and the total price of the entire list is over $1 billion....
Arata Isozaki, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect, Is Dead At 91
"His prolific career spanned more than six decades, with over 100 completed buildings erected. ... The bold, helical Art Tower Mito in Japan, the...
“Immersive Experiences,” Handel’s “Messiah,” And The Quest To Make Classical Music “Relevant”
Despite a highly misleading headline, Ivan Hewitt uses a West End show called "Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience" to consider the various things that...
“Die Hard” As A Low-Budget, One-Man Stage Play (It Works!)
In Yippee Ki Yay, running through this week in London and then touring Britain, poet/playwright Richard Marsh uses just a few props and 75...
The Pandemic Had A Surprising (In A Good Way) Effect On The Arts n...
"The triggering effect of the pandemic, and its impact on artists' livelihoods and careers, resulted in what had been previously been unimaginable: an almost...
Telling And Retelling The Stories of The India-Pakistan Partition
"This past year has marked seventy-five years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory. Each generation has...
