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Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: What Killed Him?
He was a lifelong alcoholic, so the common assumption has been that he died of alcohol poisoning or related organ failure — but medical...
The Gender Pay Gap In The Arts In Australia Is Really Pretty Wide
"A survey of professionals across the performing and visual arts found overall incomes for women were 25% less than their male counterparts, ... almost...
A New York Times Classical Music Critic Makes His Metropolitan Opera Stage Debut
Joshua Barone writes about becoming one of the throngs of supernumeraries in the Triumphal March of the Met's very grand production of Verdi's very...
The Choices For 2022’s Word Of The Year Are Weird And All Over The...
The selections: a word that describes 2022 entirely too well; an all-too-common behavioral M.O. these days; a now-overused term derived from a Hollywood movie;...
“Fam and Yam”, The Edward Albee One-Act You Probably Never Knew About
A thinly veiled swipe at playwright William Inge (and at himself), the play seems to have been deliberately omitted by Albee from his collected...
Latvia’s Government Revokes The Broadcasting License Of Russia’s Leading Dissident TV-Network-In-Exile
"Dozhd — also known as TV Rain — had been fined earlier this month for airing a map labeling Crimea as Russian territory, and...
Metropolitan Opera Is Hacked; Website And Ticketing System Are Paralyzed
The attack was discovered Tuesday morning and is ongoing; rehearsals and performances are going on more or less as scheduled. The perpetrators have not...
“STOMP” Is Closing After A 29-Year Run Off-Broadway
The long-popular show, which combines rhythmic movement and comedy with percussion, much of it using everyday objects, opened in Manhattan's East Village in 1994. ...
Turner Prize For 2022 Goes To Sculptor Veronica Ryan
At 66 the oldest person ever to win Britain's top art award, Ryan was honored for her memorial to the Windrush generation of Caribbean...
What’s The One Thing That Profanity Throughout The World Has In Common? Phonemes.
The phonemes they lack, that is. "They're less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L, R, W or Y. And more...
Angels In The Bible Have No Wings. Who Gave Them Wings, When, And Why?
The ancient Near East had many divine beings with wings, including cherubim and seraphim. Yet, in both Old and New Testaments, angels are identified...
Broadway Musicals Have Gotten Too Damn Loud
John McWhorter: "I don't mean ordinary modern pop loud. I mean that in many numbers the volume is turned up so high ... you...
How The National Philharmonic Of Ukraine Plays On, Even Through Russian Missile Strikes And...
Smaller ensembles are playing with battery-powered lamps, and attendance is capped at the number of people who can fit in the concert hall's bomb...
The Tory Government Wants English National Opera To Move North, But Does The North...
"Opinion locally is divided about whether the ENO should relocate. But the London-centricity of much outraged reaction to the story has generated irritation. ......
British Media Giant ITV Goes All In On Streaming (And Not Everyone’s Sure It’s...
This week the company launches ITVX, a free, ad-supported streaming service. The plan is to offer 10,000 hours of content, including new material, in...
US Ballet Companies Are Performing Fewer Works By Women Than Last Season, Researchers Find
"Of 1075 announced works for the 2022/2023 season amongst the Largest 150 U.S. ballet and classically influenced companies, 27% are choreographed by women, which...
Author Dominique Lapierre Dead At 91
His books — some nonfiction, some historical novels, several with co-author Larry Collins — sold 50 million copies. Among them are Is Paris Burning?...
Group “Concerned With Slavery Justice” Sues Smithsonian To Stop Repatriation Of Benin Bronzes
A New York-based nonprofit called the Restitution Study Group is asking a US federal court to undo the ownership transfer of the Smithsonian's 29...
Lula Promises He Will Reopen Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Shuttered By Bolsonaro
Outgoing president Jair Bolsonaro dissolved the Ministry of Culture on his first day in office, slashed arts funding by half or more and politicized...
Ukraine’s Culture Minister Asks Other Countries To Boycott Russian Culture (Even Tchaikovsky And Chekhov)...
"Oleksandr Tkachenko argues that such a 'cultural boycott' would not amount to 'cancelling Tchaikovsky', but would be 'pausing the performance of his works until...
Here’s The Ukrainian Culture Minister’s Essay Calling For A Boycott Of Russian Culture
"Russia isn't just physically attacking Ukraine; it is also trying to destroy our culture and memory. ... The Kremlin (has) made clear that culture...
Pantone’s Color Of The Year Gets The Assessment It Deserves
The color company used AI to create an "endless new ecosystem to be explored, called 'the Magentaverse'." Well. As the subhed puts it, "Say...
Timbuktu Isn’t The Only Place With Badass Librarians. They’re Heroes In Ukraine, Too.
"The brutal material horrors of the struggle, might make any cultural reading of the conflict seem fantastical or glib. But at its core, and...
When Good Oral History Demystifies Hollywood, What Do We Really Learn?
"For all the clouds of publicity, moviemaking is an artisanal business with a craft base. How you light, shoot, edit, even make deals —...
A Battle Over Whether John Neumeier’s “Othello” Is Racist Rocks The Royal Danish Ballet
Neumeier's adaptation includes a dream sequence which takes the Venetians' stereotypes of Othello to their limit, with the Moorish general doing an "African hunting...
