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Director Todd Field Explains Some Of The Strange Things In “Tár”
"I hate explaining this stuff." Yet explain he does — why the end credits are at the beginning, and what he was up to...
Piano Lessons Can Provide Real Benefits To People On The Autism Spectrum: Study
"While the authors noted the limits of their single study, they were unequivocal. Those who completed music training were the only group to show...
The Guy Who Smashed Stuff At The Dallas Museum Of Art Called 911 On...
"'Hey, I'm in the Dallas Museum of Art,' he told a dispatcher nearly 15 minutes after police say he entered. 'Come get me.' The...
St. Mark’s In Venice Has New Glass Barriers To Protect It From Flooding
The big floodgates out in the lagoon aren't enough: the Piazza San Marco is the lowest point in the city. What's more, the heavy...
The Rockettes Get Their Own Hallmark Christmas Movie
Julie Branam, who directs and choreographs the beloved Radio City Music Hall dance troupe, talks about the dance in the film, titled (what else?)...
India Wouldn’t Nominate This Year’s Biggest Blockbuster For The International Film Oscar — So...
After seeing the raucously rapturous reactions that audiences, even in L.A., are having to RRR, producer-director S.S. Rajamouli and US distributor Dylan Marchetti (Drive...
How Do We Reconcile The Journey Anthony Bourdain Took Us On With The Sad...
"The tragic irony of Bourdain's life and death is that the same interior darkness he succumbed to enabled the alchemy that he performed, again...
English National Opera Was Doomed: Norman Lebrecht
"The cause of death, in this coroner's verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. ... The decline and fall of England's national opera...
After Five Centuries, The Holy Roman Emperor’s Secret Code Has Been Deciphered
"Sent by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to his ambassador at the French royal court — a man called Jean de Saint-Mauris —...
The Real Secret Of The L.A. Comedy Scene’s Success? Gigs In People’s Backyards
"No matter how cobbled together the entire operation might be, some of the very best comedy shows in L.A., for more than two decades,...
“You Can’t Eat Prestige”: Culture Workers Have Started Organizing and Striking For A Living...
"Professors of art, workers at museums, and assistants at a publishing house have all gone on strike or staged public protests during contract negotiations....
The Academy Agrees To Put All Oscar Categories Back In The TV Broadcast This...
"The news comes after eight different Oscar categories — original score, makeup and hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live action...
The Rijksmuseum Declares Three More Vermeers Authentic. But Is That A Self-Interested Decision?
Amsterdam's flagship museum is, after all, about to present the largest Vermeer exhibition in history, so increasing the artist's slim corpus could very much...
Athens Now Faces The Dangers Of Amsterdam-Barcelona-Venice-Style Overtourism
Leisure travel has roared back since the pandemic, with the Greek capital a destination rather than a transit point to the islands; the Acropolis...
BBC Philharmonic Gives Its Chief Guest Conductor The Big Job
John Storgårds, a Finnish violinist-turned conductor who is also artistic director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, was named the BBC Phil's Principal Guest Conductor...
San Francisco Dance Company ODC Acquires A Third Building
Well, at least somebody can afford San Francisco real estate. This fortuitously located building — right next door to the company's theater in the...
“Phantom Of The Opera” Isn’t Leaving Broadway After All (Well, Not Yet)
In September, after months of shrinking attendance, producers announced that the longest-running show in Broadway history would finally close this coming February. Ticket sales...
“WALL-E” Director Andrew Stanton On Pioneering The Movie’s Style Of Visual Storytelling
"I always say that it was like trying to invent a new color. The hardest part is trying to get everybody to see this...
Is The Founding Novel Of Lesbian Literature Really A Lesbian Novel? Is It Even...
Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness was a powerful, even life-changing story for several generations of gay women. But there's a serious argument to...
Welsh National Opera’s Boss Tries To Understand The Funding Cuts, But They Make No...
Aidan Lang: "There's been no explanation given other than a pleading that it's not an opera thing, it's about levelling up or spreading culture...
The Architect Who Made Modernism Colombian
"If (Rogelio Salmona is) relatively unknown outside Colombia, that's perhaps because his work is difficult to categorize, distant from both the pure rationality of...
Is There A Full-Blown Crisis At CNN?
"The original cable news network ... has been shedding viewers. ... The cost-cutting new corporate management under the umbrella of Warner Bros. Discovery has...
Expensive New Floodgates Save Venice Again (But For How Long Will They Be Effective?)
When unusually high tides hit last week, the $6 billion MOSE system of barriers in the lagoon was raised and a repeat of the...
Russia’s Ambassador To UNESCO Finally Gets Out Of The Way
The Russian Federation and its envoy had been chairing UNESCO's World Heritage Committee this year, throwing a wrench in the organization's attempts to save...
The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Come After Classical Music
Last week at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Julia Fischer and the Staatskapelle Dresden were about to start Beethoven's Violin Concerto when two activists from...
