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Some Benin Bronzes Contain Metal Mined In Germany, Say Scientists
"The Edo people in the Kingdom of Benin, modern Nigeria, created their extraordinary sculptures with melted down brass manilla bracelets. … A team of...
Wil Ron DeSantis Come After Mrs. Doubtfire? Florida’s Theater Community Worries About Governor’s Anti-Drag...
A number of organizations, especially larger ones such as Miami's Arsht Center, are confident that shows like Mrs. Doubtfire and Hairspray are sufficiently distant...
Florida’s Department Of Education Gives Its Approval To Michelangelo’s David
"'Florida encourages instruction on the classics and classical art, and would not prohibit its use in instruction,' Alex Lanfranconi, communications director for the Florida...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR As “State-Affiliated Media,” Flings Poo When Asked For Explanation
"NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president...
Britain Fines TikTok Nearly $16 Million For Misusing Children’s Personal Data
"The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued a fine of £12.7 million pounds ($15.9 million) … (and that) TikTok allowed as many as 1.4...
What Cheryl Strayed Puts Into Her Autofiction, And What She Keeps Out
"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a...
Remember Damien Hirst’s Spin Paintings? Now You And AI Can Make One Of Your...
Hirst did the originals, back in the 1990s, by dripping paint onto a rotating canvas. Now he and his partners have set up an...
How Dance Changes When It’s Viewed In A Museum Or Gallery Rather Than A...
It's not just a matter of coming off a proscenium or thrust stage: everything from audience expectations and behavior to documentation practices is different...
$33 Million Rescue By New Government Saves National Library Of Australia’s Digital Archives From...
"Trove, the expansive archival database that holds billions of images, newspapers, documents, manuscripts and myriad other resources that are freely accessible to the public,...
How The Panama Papers Percolated Through Pop Culture
It's not just books, movies, SNL sketches and New Yorker cartoons about to the investigation and resulting scandal. There are at least five bands...
Steve Reich Gets Grouchy About The Term “Minimalism” (Again)
"Michael Nyman had a lot to do with it, and he was probably thinking of minimalist art like Frank Stella. ... What disturbs me...
How Did Tiny Iceland Become A Hotbed Of Orchestral Music?
"In the third decade of the 21st century, no country on Earth has reinvented the language of the symphony orchestra on such distinctive and...
John Kander, At Age 96, Has A New Show Opening On Broadway
Titled New York, New York — yes, after what he calls "that song," which he and Fred Ebb wrote but he's never liked —...
Is The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Sitting On A Vermeer We Didn’t Know About?
"Arie Wallert, a former Rijksmuseum scientific specialist, … is convinced that there are two versions of the young woman playing a guitar: the long-accepted...
Hollywood Is One Step Closer To A Writers’ Strike
"The Writers Guild of America has set a strike authorization vote to begin on April 11. While this marks the first step toward a...
Australia’s National Cultural Institutions Get Big Funding Boost After A Decade Of Neglect And...
"The arts minister, Tony Burke, and the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, will make the $535m pre-budget announcement on Wednesday, throwing a financial lifeline to...
Bill Zehme, Dead At 64, Was The Absolute Master Of The Celebrity Profile
"(His gift was) to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the...
A New Program To Get More Literature From The Indian Subcontinent Onto English-Language Bookshelves
Almost all of the South Asian books known internationally were written in English, but there's an extremely vibrant literary scene in the subcontinent's own...
Every Year There Are Big New TV Shows During Ramadan, And Every Year There...
"It may partially be due to the fact that Ramadan is a religious holiday, which makes associations with socially controversial subjects, and standard soap...
Choreographing Dance Scenes For Movie Stars Who Maybe Can’t Dance
"Leading industry choreographers Chloé Arnold, Marguerite Derricks and Mandy Moore share their experiences on what it's really like to create dances for the stars."...
A Superstar Of Electronic Dance Music Turns To Composing For Symphony Orchestra
"After spending more than 20 years in public behind shiny, opaque robot-style helmets as half of the pathbreaking dance-music duo Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter...
Houston’s Leading Theatre Cancels Cancels A Major Production Because It Just Can’t Get The...
Said artistic director Rob Melrose in his announcement calling off Derek Walcott's adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, "We knew going into this production the scope...
Actors’ Equity Threatens Strike Against Touring Broadway Productions
"The union … has been bargaining with The Broadway League, which represents industry producers, presenters and general managers, since mid-January to create a new...
The Doofus Who Broke Off And Stole The Finger Of A 2,000-Year-Old Terra Cotta...
To avoid a charge that could have sent him to prison for up to 30 years, Mihcael Rohana — who did the deed at...
US Federal Judge Blocks Texas County’s Banning Of Library Books
"A federal judge in Austin, Tex., has found that a library board in Llano County likely infringed the constitutional rights of readers in the...
