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Playwrights Sarah Ruhl And Samuel D. Hunter On Religion And Theater
Hunter: "I think people have been really reticent to talk about spirituality or religion in these kinds of 'secular spaces.'" Ruhl: "For me, theater...
The Met Museum Is Reclassifying Some Formerly “Russian” Works As Ukrainian. It’s Not Going...
For a start, one of the artists reclassified as Ukrainian was, in fact, an ethnic Armenian, as New York's Armenian-American community was very quick...
Yes, Negative Headlines Work, But They Don’t Have To Be Angry Or Frightening: Study
A large survey of click stats from Upworthy.com (!) found that headlines with negative words had a higher clickthrough rate than those with positive...
Is The Indoor Plaza At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center Is Finally Becoming A Genuine Public...
"The Kimmel Center was trumpeted as Philadelphia's fifth public square — an 18-hour-per-day, seven-day-a-week arts center where you could show up anytime and find...
Contractors Renovating A Kitchen Uncover 17th-Century Friezes
The murals, believed to date from between 1635 and 1699, are in a one-bedroom apartment in the old walled city of York in northern...
After 41 Years, Beloved NPR Veteran Sylvia Poggioli Is Retiring
"Sylvia's wide-ranging, often hard-hitting and always rich storytelling helped NPR distinguish itself in its early years as a news organization with deep interest in...
Why The Exclamation Point Started Fading Away, And How It Came Roaring Back!
Mid-20th-century writing guides taught that this emphatic punctuation mark should be used sparingly -- not least because advertising and marketing overuse it. But !...
Scientists Working On Notre-Dame’s Reconstruction Have Found Something They Had Never Anticipated
"Scientists working on the scorched interior of Notre-Dame de Paris have found iron was used in the cathedral's construction in the mid-12th century. It's...
Amazon Stops Selling Periodical Subscriptions For Kindle And Print
"Amazon hasn't shared its exact reason for the change …, but one obvious explanation is that relatively few people are buying these subscriptions and...
How Broadway Was Tied Up With Signature Bank
The New York-based institution is the favored bank of many Broadway theaters, producers, and related businesses; when New York state regulators closed Signature last...
Two King’s Singers Tell How The Pensacola Concert Cancellation Went Down
It made international headlines when Pensacola Christian College cancelled a performance by the famed vocal sextet two hours before curtain time because of some...
The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: After 33 Years, What Do We Know?
Before dawn on March 18, 1990, two criminals dressed as policemen convinced a security guard to let them into the Boston museum, tied him...
The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: A Timeline
Here's a chronology of the entire mystery, from the strange event two weeks before the robbery happened through all the tips, clues, and suspects,...
Stella Abrera Named Permanent Director Of ABT’s School
"Stella Abrera is ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School's new Artistic Director. Abrera has been acting in this position for the last several months after...
TikTok May Split From Its Chinese Parent Company If It Can’t Assuage US Officials’...
"China's TikTok is considering separating from parent ByteDance to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks. … A divestiture, which could result in...
The Arts Contribute A Record $1 Trillion To US GDP: NEA Report
The study, covering calendar year 2021, shows a 13.7% increase in economic value over 2020 provided by the arts; it also indicates clearly that...
Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Has A New York Opening Date
The show, whose last working title was Square One, is now called Here We Are; it's based loosely on the Luís Buñuel films The...
Pompidou Centre Is Getting Another Overseas Branch, This One In South Korea
Less than a week after the announcement that the Paris contemporary art mecca will have a satellite in Saudi Arabia's planned arts destination, AlUla,...
What’s The Trickiest Part Of Marketing A Movie? Getting The Title Right
"A good title won't save an unwatchable movie. But a catchy name has potential to propel a film into the zeitgeist (see 'M3GAN'), and...
Women Are Mastering (And Sometimes Subverting) The All-Male Craft Of Maskmaking For Noh Theater
"When Mitsue Nakamura began, she knew of one other woman in the field, but this year, all four of her current apprentices, some of...
Mexico’s Greatest Living Writer Is 90, And She’s Not Done Writing Yet
"Elena Poniatowska has chronicled every major social movement in Mexico over seven decades, her 40-plus books a one-woman time capsule of a country's modern...
There’s Somewhere In America Where Newspapers Are Growing? Yes — Prisons
"According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory by the Prison Journalism Project, there are 24 prison-based newspapers in 12 states. At least four...
A Voyage Into Beeple World: The Digital Artist Opens His New 50,000 SF Studio...
"It is world of digitally birthed babies that pile pink and helpless atop one another, contained in rectangular digital totems, or kinetic sculptures, flowing...
Bees Learn Their Waggle-Dances From Their Elders, Says Researchers
"Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as 'waggle dancing' — performing steps that map out...
Spain’s Legendary 700-Year-Old Boys’ Choir Will Finally Include Girls — Sort Of
The Montserrat monastery in the mountains of Catalonia, home to the famous Escolania de Montserrat boys' choir, is forming a new ensemble of 25...
