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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...
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...
