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This Year’s Television Focused On The Price Of The American Dream
"On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen,...
Pointe Magazine’s Favorite Ballet Performances of 2022
"Here are 12 standout onstage moments from 2022, in chronological order, from large ensemble works to surprise star turns." - Pointe Magazine
In San Francisco, A First-Ever Sensory-Friendly “Nutcracker” For Kids
"The idea is for the show to be a relaxed, shush-free, shame-free environment. ... House lights will be kept on (and) guests will also...
Dorothy Iannone, Whose Erotic Artworks Drove Censors Nuts, Is Dead At 89
"Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions."...
The Biggest Art-History Discoveries Of 2022
"A long-lost Renaissance painting languishing in a nursing home — check. A 200-year-old marble statue by an Italian master forgotten in a garden —...
Remains Of A Huge, 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
"This long-lost urban web encompassed nearly 1,000 settlements across 650 square miles, linked by an immense causeway system, which was mapped out with airborne...
“Avatar: The Way of Water” Has Grossed $1 Billion In Less Than Two Weeks
Believe it or not, the movie still hasn't made a profit: it will need to gross between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to recoup...
The Ever-Malleable Figure Of Santa Claus
"Today's Tedium talks about Santa Claus as a visual and cultural icon who has had more changes in style than Madonna, a figure that...
Art Spiegelman Is Worn Out By 2022’s Culture-War Battles Over “Maus”
"Ironically, the ban has brought droves of new readers to his work, ... (and Maus) sold 665,000 copies this year, more than triple its...
Artist Vanessa Beecroft Places A Tribute To A Stolen Caravaggio Painting In The Sicilian...
In 1969, thieves cut Caravaggio's Nativity With Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi from its frame at the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo....
Building The Instrument That’s At The Heart Of Broadway’s “The Piano Lesson”
"That piano is so central ... that (August) Wilson's script dedicates half of its mandate for the play's setting to a description of the...
It’s Been Quite The Year Of Drama On BookTok
"With more than 77 billion views globally to date, TikTok's collection of literary-minded creators and clips, ... (has) (a lot of) drama, much of...
The Days Of TikTok Dance Videos Becoming Viral Megahits Are Ending
Unless, that is, you're already famous; Lizzo's dance videos easily draw a million viewers. Earlier in TikTok's history, before there were mountains of content,...
Russia’s Destruction of Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Matters Quite A Lot (Which Is Why Russia’s...
"Language, religion, historical memory: These, as much as territory, are the war's battlefields. Against its appalling human cost, its cultural toll may feel insignificant...
The Defense Of Ukraine Has Developed Its Own Slang
"The conflict is spawning a new lexicon. Some of the words and phrases that have entered wider usage in Ukrainian society date back to...
More 2,000-Year-Old Glyphs Have Been Found In Peru
"Archaeologists (have) discovered 168 geoglyphs near the arid Nazca plain in southern Peru. The new findings, which encompass images of humans, birds, snakes, cats,...
Stiffing On Pay, Sexual Harassment, Jurisdictional Disputes: A Big Labor Battle At Little Central...
"The (Colorado) company is in a bitter dispute with the labor union representing its performers, The American Guild of Musical Artists, ... with accusations...
The 100 Greatest Films Of All Time (According To The Showbiz Mag Variety)
"Do we want you to argue with this list? Of course we do. That's the nature of the beast. ... No doubt you'll say:...
This Choreographer Wanted To Move Back Home To San Diego To Live And Work. ...
"Exorbitant venue rental costs, cultural ignorance, a dismissive response to concerns of racial inequalities and funding models that make artistic careers a bleak option...
How A Simple Graphic Memoir Became America’s Most-Banned Book, Thus Juicing Its Sales
"The crusade against Gender Queer has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of (Maia) Kobabe's royalty checks. The memoir has sold more...
“The Whale” Was Originally A Play — A Powerful One, Say Those Who Have...
Says Shuler Hensley, who's played the 600-pound Charlie in New York and London: "It's a brilliant ending, because audience members have constantly told me...
The Coolest Archaeological Finds Of 2022
"There were long-lost tombs uncovered during renovations of Notre-Dame in Paris, the mosaic floors upon which Santa Claus — well okay, St. Nicholas —...
#MeToo Comes To Belgium’s Flagship Art Museum
"Staff at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts are speaking out against the museum's director, Michel Draguet, after 31 of 176 employees signed an...
TikTok Conquered The Social Media World. Now It’s Being Conquered By Geopolitics
Here's the story of how Zhang Yiming built the tech giant ByteDance and its star video app became a global juggernaut — only to...
Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Eldest Daughter And Heir Of Pablo, Is Dead At 87
"When her father died in 1973, Maya took up the mantle of preserving and propelling his legacy. ... It involved assembling and organizing a...
