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How Contemporary Dance Artists Who’ve Stayed In Ukraine Are Helping The War Effort
Some are continuing to create dance as possible; most are doing volunteer work as well. Several are developing ways to assist solders with stress...
Meet Tamara Rojo’s Successor At The Helm Of English National Ballet
Aaron Watkin, a 52-year-old Canadian who has spent the last 16 years as artistic director of the Semperoper Ballett in Dresden, actually danced with...
Actors’ Equity Joins The Fight To Unionize Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club
Performers who work or worked at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood have been picketing for months, arguing that working conditions...
The Guardian’s Dance Critic Rates Heads Of State On How They Boogie
If people are ragging on poor Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister who was videotaped while out partying, then Lyndsey Winship will wield her...
Covering Kyiv’s Anti-Tank “Hedgehogs” With Traditional Ukrainian Art
Artist Varvara Logvyn has been painting the steel obstacles, which look like giant jacks from a children's game, in the traditional, brightly colored Petrykivka...
Norah Vincent, Who Wrote A Bestseller About Living And Passing As A Man, Is...
"Ms. Vincent was a lesbian. She was not transgender, or gender fluid. ... She was a contrarian, and proud of it. ... She tilted...
Bullfighting Is Fading Away In Spain. So How Can They Repurpose All The Bullrings?
Most of them are in city and town centers, and many are architecturally significant and can't or shouldn't be demolished. Yet they're usually too...
Why Did Netflix Build A Gorgeous Replica Of The Sistine Chapel And Then Destroy...
The streamer spent $5 million to build it for The Two Popes, and it seems nobody understands why it wasn't repurposed. (Perhaps because the...
Why Did The Philadelphia Orchestra Pull Beethoven’s 9th From Its Edinburgh Concert? The Choir...
The concert is the first on a 15-day tour, and the players won't risk COVID transmission, so they asked the Edinburgh Festival Chorus to...
Return The Rosetta Stone To Egypt, Demands The Country’s Most Famous Archaeologist
Says Dr. Zahi Hawass of the 2,200-year-old stele, which provided the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, "The Rosetta Stone is the icon of Egyptian...
Francesca Zambello Wraps Up 12 Years At Glimmerglass Opera
She feels she has achieved her goals at the upstate New York summer festival: "Creating a 'festival' environment and focusing on our brand of...
“A Special Magic Of Its Own”: Wallace Shawn On The Pleasures Of Reading Plays
"The written play has its own music, its own pristine existence — words, thoughts, and spirit ... abstracted from the bodies of actors (moving)...
Alexander Payne And Laura Dern Figured “Citizen Ruth” Would Eventually Be A Period Piece. ...
Payne's 1996 dark comedy starred Dern as a trainwreck who finds herself co-opted into America's abortion battles. Says Dern now, "we thought we were...
The Issues Around Copyright For Choreography On TikTok Are Even Messier Than You Think
Intellectual property law concerning choreography in general hasn't yet been thoroughly worked out by the courts — and when it comes to choreography created...
What Has Davóne Tines Done With “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
The first verse of the US national anthem feels too militaristic for some Americans' comfort, and the second and third are worse. So bass-baritone...
“El Lbirotraficante” Isn’t Just A Banned-Book Smuggler, He’s A Hero Of Texas Hispanic Literature
"One of his defining acts (was) helping organize a 2012 caravan to Arizona with books outlawed as part of a state ban on Mexican...
The Brain Trust: Meet The Staffers Who Kept All The Details On “Better Call...
"Working closely with a team of writers, assistants and producers — led by the showrunner and co-creator Peter Gould — Ariel Levine and Kathleen...
People May Keep Working From Home, But Downtowns Will Not Die, Writes Richard Florida
"Downtowns and the cities they anchor are the most adaptive and resilient of human creations; they have survived far worse. Continual works in progress,...
It’s Time To Stop Hiring Plácido Domingo, Says The Washington Post
"On the international stage, Domingo has largely remained an in-demand star. But why? I can tell you right now it's not his voice. …...
Salman Rushdie Attack: Suspect Says He “Read Like Two Pages” Of “The Satanic Verses”
Hadi Matar, speaking from his cell at the Chautauqua County Jail: "I read a couple pages. I didn't read the whole thing cover to...
Gallery 249 At The Met Is Full Of Stolen Art, Says Cambodian Government
"The Cambodians have enlisted the help of the U.S. Justice Department to press for the return of dozens of artworks, basing their claim in...
Who Were The Dudes Jet-Skiing On Venice’s Grand Canal?
"The mayor of Venice has said he is on the hunt for the 'two overbearing idiots' who were filmed gliding along the Grand Canal...
How Maria Montez Made Hollywood Make Her A Star
"An immigrant from the Dominican Republic with minimal acting skills, she managed by sheer force of will to become one of Hollywood's brightest stars...
Preserving The Traditional Kashmiri Craft Of Papier-Mâché
"Papier-mâché has been practiced for centuries by Kashmiri artisans ... who make their living from the craft. But, in recent years, just as Kashmiri...
How Much Medieval European Literature Have We Lost?
A team of European researchers, using a method borrowed from biostatistics called the "unseen species model," has estimated that 90% of the literary manuscripts...
