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Oscar Wilde’s Irishness (Which So Many People, Including Oscar, Seem To Forget)
Everything about the man said London, but he spent 20 of his 46 years in Ireland, including seven years at a grim Ulster boarding...
The Future For American Movies For Grownups Seems To Be In Microbudget Indies. But...
The equipment for making professional-looking films has never been more inexpensive or accessible. There are people writing creative scripts; there's always an abundance of...
Is Melbourne’s Arts Centre On The Brink Of Financial Disaster? Depends On Whom You...
An alleged internal document was reported by the city's biggest tabloid to reveal that the complex is short $223 million (Aus), due to the...
She’s A Swing, An Understudy, And the Dance Captain For “+ Juliet,” One Of...
"(Brittany Nicholas is) responsible for knowing the 12 ensemble tracks and all of the dancing for eight principals. She also acts as an extension...
Here’s What The New, Animal-Free Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Will Look Like
"The 75 performers from 18 countries will include performers on a triangular high wire 25 feet off the ground, crisscrossing flying trapeze artists, a...
Is Hollywood Worried About ChatGPT-Style AI? Of Course It Is.
"(Many in the industry are ambivalent), acknowledging the power of AI to help a screenwriter overcome writer's block or an editor to skip mundane...
Raid On Suspected Art Smugglers Turns Up An Unknown Jackson Pollock Painting
Bulgarian officers working under Europol staged a raid in Sofia to break up a Greek-Bulgarian art-trafficking ring. They found what curators at Bulgaria's National...
More Evidence That Monet And J.M.W. Turner Were Inspired By Air Pollution
A new study has been published by climate scientists who examined paintings from throughout the two artists' careers and found that the works provide...
Book-Banning Attempts In The US Soared To A New Record Last Year
"More than 1,200 challenges were compiled by the association in 2022, nearly double the then-record total from 2021 and by far the most since...
When Violence Damages Jerusalem’s Medieval Al-Aqsa Mosque, These Skilled Craftsmen Repair The Damage
"The artisans there — including a gold-leaf specialist, coppersmiths and wood carvers — fear that their meticulous work will be destroyed, as has happened...
The Vermont Symphony Names A Music Director After A Three-Year Search
"After a three-year search, seven finalists' concerts; and extensive surveys of musicians, audiences and board members, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra finally has a new...
Ontario’s Conservative Government Eliminates One-Time Arts Grants
"The Ford government says it will maintain its $60-million in base funding for the Ontario Arts Council in next week’s budget but will not...
How Do Choreographers Come Up With Names For Their Works?
"It's a precarious task that needs to carefully shape the audience's experience but not smother it. A title should be just enough of a...
Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Legos
The exiled Chinese artist's Water Lilies #1 is 50 feet long and incorporates 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colors. The first public display of...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Struggles On Through Invasion And War
"The number of titles published in Ukraine was cut almost in half last year, dropping from 17,000 in 2021 to just under 9,000. …...
How Aaron Sorkin Is Remaking The Script Of “Camelot” Into Something Today’s Audiences Can...
The songs "How to Handle a Woman" and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" haven't aged well, and the book of the Lerner &...
NPR And WHYY Will Make 40 Years Of “Fresh Air” Archives Available To Paid...
"Subscribers to Fresh Air+ will also get more recent exclusives, such as unaired excerpts from recent interviews and behind-the-scenes content that pulls back the...
Perhaps For The First Times, A Prominent Podcast Company Is Sold To Its Employees
Jesse Thorn, host/producer of the public radio show Bullseye and founder/owner of Maximum Fun, which produces several other podcasts, worried about the fate of...
Yet Another Director Of A Major Moscow Museum Is Ousted
Just a month after the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was forced to resign after being pressured to make the exhibits "in line with...
Virginia Zeani, Soprano And Teacher Revered By Colleagues, Is Dead At 97
"The conductor Richard Bonynge ranked her among the top four sopranos of the 20th century. And according to Ms. Zeani, Maria Callas's husband,...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only West African City With Libraries Full Of Priceless Medieval Manuscripts
The oasis town of Chinguetti in north-central Mauritania, a major trans-Saharan trading stop in centuries past, has 13 libraries housing more than 6,000 manuscripts....
How Does A Public Radio Star Cope With Hearing Loss? Ask Mary Louise Kelly
"When I'm anchoring, I never have trouble, because the NPR studio is soundproof — there's no background noise to distract you, and I wear...
A Shostakovich Operetta About Australia’s Housing Crisis
"What could be more pressing than an operetta about the housing crisis? This is something that everybody in Australia is grappling with at the...
Iranian Women Are Posting Protest Videos On TikTok, Dancing Without Headscarves
Earlier this month a video of five teen girls dancing -- bareheaded, outdoors -- to the Rema/Selena Gomez hit "Calm Down" went viral. The...
Can Streaming Broadway Shows Help Sell In-Person Tickets? Very Possibly, If It Can Be...
"While the general consensus among industry experts is that digital access provides an opportunity for Broadway to reach new audiences and tap new revenue...
