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Conductor Hans Graf Discovers And Revives A Forgotten Requiem For A Polish King
In 1798, King Stanisław II, exiled to St. Petersburg and knowing he was dying, commissioned Józef Kozłowski, who'd come to the Russian capital a...
Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mother Was An Enslaved Woman, Says Historian
A series of papers, discovered in Florentine archives, concerns the emancipation in 1452 of an enslaved Circassian woman, probably abducted as a girl, named...
The Latest Banksy Mural Was Demolished As Banksy Took Pictures
"The site of Banksy's latest work, an outside wall of a derelict farmhouse in the seaside town of Herne Bay in Kent, has been...
UK Extends Tax Relief For Theatres, Orchestras, And Museums
"The Treasury had doubled the rate of the reliefs ... about 18 months ago to help cultural bodies recover from the pandemic, but the...
China’s Most Popular Fiction Genre? Erotic Stories About Gay Men
"Danmei is romantic fiction about men or male beings – ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom – falling in love, written almost exclusively by and...
Promises Of Spring: Jill Lepore Reads Seed Catalogues
"Seed and garden catalogues sell a magical, boozy, Jack-and-the-beanstalk promise: the coming of spring, the rapture of bloom, the fleshy, wet, watermelon-and-lemon tang of...
Dancing In A White Lab Coat With Yellow Fans And Blue Balloons: See The...
"The dance video, in which the blue balloons stood in for ions, depicted how Checkers Marshall's Ph.D. work aims to make metal-organic frameworks smaller,...
100-Year-Old Movies Accompanied By 500-Year-Old Music — And It Works!
For nearly two decades, Tina Chancey and her ensemble, Hesperus, have been assembling and performing live music — songs and instrumental works from the...
The Guardian’s Chief Theatre Critic Defends Audience Misbehavior (Up To A Point)
Arifa Akbar: "Crunching or chewing can be a distraction, especially in the confines of the older, tighter West End venues, but theatre is a...
Roy Lichtenstein: Appropriation Artist Or Plain Old Thief?
"Since the 2000s, there has been a chorus of voices emerging from the comic book community decrying Lichtenstein's lifting of comic art — a...
John Jakes, Whose American History Novels Became Huge Hits, Is Dead At 90
"(He) wrote some 60 novels, including westerns, mysteries, science and fantasy fiction, and children's books. But he was best known for two series of...
Who’s Nailing TikTok Journalism? Germany’s Version Of The BBC World Service, That’s Who
Deutsche Welle has nine different accounts on the platform, and the oldest of them, Berlin Fresh (launched less than three years ago), has over...
UK Government Will Give An Extra $10.4 Million To Edinburgh’s Festivals
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce the £8.6 million ($10.4 million) in funding as part of the UK government's next budget. Scotland's...
Pompidou Center To Open A Branch Museum In Saudi Arabia
"On Sunday, Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, signed an agreement with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to...
Hyperion Records, Admired Indie Classical Label, Is Acquired By Universal
"The 43-year-old label — which is home to artists like Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt and Stephen Osborne and represents a catalog of 2,500 recordings,...
The Trailblazer: 17 Female TV Journalists On Barbara Walters
Jane Pauley: "From the beginning, and every decade thereafter, we were following her. No one ever caught up. She had contenders, but she never...
Andy Warhol Gets A Lot Of Blame For Today’s Celebrity Culture. Does He Deserve...
"Warhol, the original narcissist; Warhol, the genius; Warhol, the void. He is responsible for the TikTok dancers, the Instagram models hogging the infinity pools,...
Those People In Times Square Passing Out Flyers For Shows? They’re A Key Part...
"For the general public, street teams are often the first touchpoint to a theater production. ... They serve as extensions of a show's brand,...
Phyllida Barlow, Who Subverted Sculpture’s Monumentality And Durability, Is Dead At 78
"For more than 50 years, Barlow created 'nonmonumental' sculptures that prioritized absurdity over grandeur. Functional materials like cardboard, nuts and bolts, fabric, and plywood...
There’s No One Left At The BBC With Enough Power To Fight For Classical...
Paul Hughes, former director of the BBCSO and the BBC Singers: "The BBC's timing is as calculated as its strategy is callous: ensembles struggling...
It’s About Time To Remember Bronislava Nijinska As More Than Vaslav Nijinsky’s Little Sister
'His mythic status as a dancer and revolutionary choreographer has overshadowed her much longer, more productive career. Nijinsky, whose artistic life was cut short...
Why The Mysterious Book Manuscript Thief Did It
In court papers, former Simon & Schuster staffer Filippo Bernardini is quoted as saying, "I never leaked these manuscripts. I wanted to keep them...
Nobel-Winning Author Kenzaburo Oe Is Dead At 88
"Despite the outpouring of national pride over Oe's win, his principal literary themes evoke deep unease (in Japan). A boy of 10 when World...
How The FBI’s Art Crime Team Works
"Recently, two of the team's investigators … agreed to answer questions from The New York Times. They declined to comment on the Basquiat case,...
Britain’s National Theatre To “Reduce Activity” For The Next Four Years
"The National Theatre is cutting productions due to money troubles. … Accounts show the theatre's income for the year to March 2022 was £80.8...
