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Rare Old Books Should Be Handled Bare-Handed, Not With Gloves. The Public Will Not...
Morgan Library director of conservation Maria Fredericks: "The glove thing. It just won't die." Grolier Club director Eric Holzenberg: "Every time it comes up,...
The Dominion Voting/Fox News Lawsuit: Who’s Really Responsible (And Thus Liable) For What Was...
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch: "I'm not the CEO of Fox News. I'm not responsible for the editorial on Fox News. I don't make...
The Messy, Convoluted, Expensive, And Sometimes Ugly Business Of Campaigning For Oscar Votes
Studios, agents, and sometimes the talent themselves try to manipulate Academy voters and the press by hiring consultants, buying ads, throwing events, pestering people,...
Spotify Says It Has Now Paid Out Almost $40 Billion To Holders Of Music...
"The company said it pays out nearly 70% of every dollar it generates from music back to the industry. ... These rights holders include...
LACMA Says It’s Raised Almost All The Money For Its New Building
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that its $750-million fundraising campaign for a new building — the David Geffen Galleries,...
Chaim Topol, Actor Known Worldwide For “Fiddler On The Roof”, Is Dead At 87
A revered actor in his native Israel, he had a respectable list of stage and screen credits there and internationally, but he was indelibly...
Daniel Barenboim’s Health Is Again A Worry As He Cancels An Upcoming Recital
"(He) has canceled a piano recital at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo due to the effects of a serious neurological condition. … Barenboim was diagnosed...
Painters Have Been Flouting The Physics Of Shadows For Centuries, And Most Of Us...
"The rules of physics that apply in a real scene appear to be optional in a painting; they can be obeyed or ignored at...
Britain’s National Theatre Is Producing A Multi-City Adaptation Of “The Odyssey”
The first four episodes of the updated version of Homer's epic will be produced in Stoke-on-Trent, Doncaster, Trowbridge, and Sunderland, with each episode adapted...
More Dance Companies Are Moving To A Shared-Leadership Model
"Though complicated and sometimes fraught, these transformations can feel organic: They apply the ideals of creative practice to administrative practice. ... Not all dancers...
How Bosnians Used Underground Culture To Survive The Four-Year Bombardment Of Sarajevo
"A new documentary ... brought together musicians, artists and journalists who used music and art to rebel against their imprisonment and to assert their...
The Academy Should Make An Oscar Category For Best Stunt Work
"It seems particularly odd that the Academy would give an award for Best Visual Effects but not for Best Stunts. Visual effects could be...
New York Mag’s Vulture Confers Its First Annual Stunt Awards (Because If The Academy...
"(These honors have been) created from a desire to not only highlight great stunt work over the past year (and there was great stunt...
Bookmobiles Bearing Banned Books
"(In Florida and) along other fronts of the culture war, bookmobiles are motoring around the country to bring banned books to all, especially in...
After Ten Years, The Light Installation On The San Francisco Bay Bridge Goes Dark
Artist Leo Villareal's "Bay Lights" was supposed to be up for two years, and it wasn't designed to withstand the elements for a decade....
Alan Alda Prompted ChatGPT To Write A New Scene For “M*A*S*H”
"Alda, who hosts a podcast called Clear+Vivid, had decided to ask the tool to write a scene for M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye accuses B.J.,...
The BBC Will Close Down Its Professional Choir And Shrink Three Of Its Orchestras...
The BBC Singers, the UK's only full-time professional vocal ensemble, will cease operations this summer, and the Corporation is offering voluntary buyouts to reduce...
David Chipperfield Wins Pritzker Prize For Architecture
"Organizers called Chipperfield's work — more than 100 projects over four decades ranging from cultural, civic and academic buildings to urban planning to residences,...
Has Morris Dancing Actually Become … Cool?
"From all-female sides to youth teams and an appearance at the Brit awards, photographer Rachel Adams has been chronicling England's oldest surviving rural tradition,...
The Badass Women Who Rescued Hildegard Of Bingen’s Collected Works From The Red Army
Late in her life, virtually everything Hildegard had written was copied into a 33-pound illuminated manuscript — too heavy for Soviet soldiers to loot...
Scott Adams – How The Creator Of “Dilbert” Fell So Far So Fast
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent...
Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Can The Famously Reverberant Acoustics Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Be Restored? Should They Be?
Brian Katz, co-chief of the acoustics team for the medieval cathedral's reconstruction, has created a computer model — of which we can hear samples...
Notre-Dame In Paris Sets A Reopening Date
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years...
Peak TV? These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.
"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even...
