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Willem Dafoe Is Genuinely Addicted To His Work
"Acting is not so much a job for Dafoe as a way of being, a practice so essential he can't go without it. ......
Revisiting The First Edition Of The Encyclopedia Britannica — And The Much, Much Larger...
"Encyclopedias are not like rose bushes, for which pruning is everything. They are usually the opposite, more like Japanese knotweed, spreading wildly and germinating...
Hip-Hop Meets Symphony Orchestras
Classical instruments have been sampled for hip-hop for decades, but in recent years such hip-hop stars as Mos Def, will.i.am, Pharrell Williams, and Kendrick...
Sweden Is Having A National Freakout Over A Documentary Series Called “Three Dads”
"The show didn't just annoy Swedish viewers, though — it wholly divided them. Three Dads has become a sensation during a winter of political...
How Exactly Do Movies And TV Shows Get Chosen For And Licensed To Airlines?...
"In-flight licensing (is) unique in the licensing business in that it raises questions among everyday consumers — like how titles are chosen, why a...
In War-Torn West Africa, A Pilot Project To Fight Looting And Trafficking Of Antiquities
Mali and Burkina Faso are blessed by active art scenes and scores of museums — and afflicted with militias causing murder and misery, and...
Dance Data Project’s First-Ever Gender Equity Index: The Results Are In
"We have ranked the Largest 50 U.S. ballet companies based on their equity score. ... Included are DDP's 'Best of' Awards for companies in...
The Number Of Broadway Shows That Closed This Past January Isn’t As Bad As...
"By the end of the month, 12 Broadway productions in total ended their runs. It may sound bleak, and many have reported these numbers...
Trying To Save A 112-Year-Old Toronto Theatre From The Wrecking Ball
"The theatre is set to be razed and redeveloped into a 76-storey, mixed-use building. ... The smallest of Mirvish's four venues, the 700-seat CAA...
Britain’s Coronation Throne Has Been Through An Awful Lot In Seven Centuries
"Of the hazards that Westminster Abbey's 700-year-old Coronation Chair has survived – a suffragette bomb, schoolboys with penknives, thick brown paint, the violent theft...
Restoring The 700-Year-Old Throne On Which Charles III Will Be Crowned
"The ancient throne, known as the Coronation Chair, has been at the centerpiece of English coronations for centuries, including those of Henry VIII, Charles...
Why Black Playwrights Canceling Productions Of Their Plays Has Become A Thing
"The steps by playwrights to halt productions of their own work reflects concerns by Black artists frustrated by what they see as a failure...
In Italy, The Actors Who Dub Foreign Movies Can Become Big Stars
"Imagine walking into a room to be confronted by Helena Bonham Carter, Meg Ryan, Ashley Judd and Michelle Yeoh. It would be a pretty...
Walter Mirisch, A Major Hollywood Producer (Who Was Actually A Nice Guy!), Is Dead...
"The Mirisch Company, which (he) founded in 1957 along with (two brothers), grew to be an industry powerhouse, greenlighting films by leading directors —...
How The New York And California Wage Transparency Laws Will Affect The Dance World
"In the dance industry, where gigs are often underpaid or unpaid, and where most performers string together many opportunities over the course of a...
Barnes & Noble And Waterstones Have Turned Around By Becoming More Like Indie Bookshops
"He empowers booksellers at each location to curate books based on their own quirky, idiosyncratic tastes. It's a strategy that leads to more engaged...
Appropriation, The Andy Warhol Case, And Five Centuries Of “fArt”
Blake Gopnik makes a case that the appropriation of imagery — at the heart of the legal dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and...
Ukrainian Architects Get To Work On Rebuilding, Even As Russian Missiles Keep Coming
"In a demonstration of remarkable Ukrainian resilience, several rebuilding initiatives are taking place across the country despite continued Russian attacks on civilian areas. ......
As The War Drags On, Odesa’s Opera House Keeps Running
"During a rehearsal at the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Odesa, it's easy to forget that Ukraine is a country at...
Actors’ Equity Report Finds “Modest Improvement” In Diversity/Equity In US Theater Industry
"The latest installment of Actors' Equity Association's annual hiring and wage report – covering the year 2021 and titled 'Progress During an Atypical Year'...
Philadelphia’s Arts Community Gets Nervous As Attendance Is Slow To Rebound
"Arts leaders are unsure what the new normal might be after attendance numbers took a hit from the pandemic. Much hinges on the answer,...
International African American Museum Sets Another Opening Date (And This Might Be The Real...
"After more than two decades of planning, fundraising, and construction, the International African American Museum in Charleston finally has an opening date: June 27,...
The Epic Historical Series That Has Transfixed Half Of Belgium
The Flemish half, that is. The Story of Flanders features lavish, unsparing reconstructions of historical scenes interspersed with commentary from scholars. It was funded...
How Two Curators Solved The Mystery Of A Most Unusual Dalí Painting
Preparing for the Dalí exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, Caitlin Haskell and Jennifer Cohen were stumped by Visions of Eternity, a...
Rare Embroidered Medieval Icon Unearthed In Russia
The item, found in the tomb of a young woman uncovered during construction on the highway between Moscow and Kazan, shows a deisis, a...
