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How Hollywood Turned Graham Greene’s Novel “The Quiet American” Upside-Down
"Greene usually liked to see his novels adapted, but not this time. What Greene was trying to say about American ignorance and arrogance in...
The Long Effort To Decipher Linear A And Linear B, Two Of The World’s...
The scripts come from the Bronze Age civilization on Crete during the 2nd millennium BCE. It was a long and somewhat tricky process to...
The Enlightenment Libertine: Making Sense Of Casanova
"Giacomo Casanova practiced many trades — violinist, gambler, spy, Kabbalist, soldier, man of letters — but his main line of work was deceiving fools....
How A Major Orchestra Goes About Choosing A New Concert Piano
The Pittsburgh Symphony was looking to buy a new Steinway concert grand for its concerto soloists. The price: $198,000. Fortunately, Emanuel Ax was there...
Turns Out The Inability To Dance To A Steady Beat Is Genetic, Say Researchers
"A new study by Vanderbilt Genetics Institute researchers ... found a genetic link to our ability — and inability — to move to musical...
Guaranteed Public School Arts Funding Could Become Law In California
The initiative on this year's general election ballot "would require the state to find a source of revenue to fund K-12 arts education equal,...
US Orchestras Really Are Playing More Music By Women And Minority Composers, Finds Report
"Compositions by women and people of color now make up about 23 percent of the pieces performed by orchestras, up from only about 5...
As Of July, At Broadway Theatres, Masks Will Be Optional
"In a statement, Charlotte St. Martin, president of The Broadway League, said audience members were still encouraged to wear masks, but would not be...
Cut Our Funding In Favor Of The Regions, Says UK’s National Theatre, And We...
"Cutting us back because of where our postcode is will have a direct and negative effect on the nationwide work that this move is...
Another Call, This Time From Sudan, For Britain To Return Looted Art Objects
"Museum officials from Sudan are calling for the repatriation of cultural artifacts and human remains that were stolen by British soldiers and other colonizers...
George Lamming, Giant Of Caribbean And Post-Colonial Literature, Dead At 94
Returning to Barbados after university in England, "(he) became a moral, political and intellectual force for a newly independent country seeking to tell its...
Vienna Philharmonic Musicians Reveal The Secrets Of Their Orchestra’s Unique Sound
There are plenty of factors, and these people are oh so proud of them all (despite the fact that one of them is subtlety). ...
Reclaiming The Lindy Hop’s African-American Roots
It's named after pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh, it was a staple of social dancing in the 1930s, and it regained popularity in the swing...
Amphitheatres Are Popping Up — Er, Down — All Over Great Britain
From Pitlochry in Scotland to the Cotswolds to Sutton Hoo to Cornwall (well, that one's been there for 92 years) to north London, old...
How The Business Of Immersive Art Exhibits Works
Under the headline "Monet Is Next Dead Artist To Mint Money," a correspondent explains the finances of this very successful business. - Bloomberg Businessweek
This 5,000-Year-Old City Was Just Reopened To The Public. A Planned Dam May...
Ashur, on the banks of the Tigris, was the first capital of the Assyrian Empire, and big parts of its city gate and ziggurat...
It’s In Turbulent Times Like These That We See How Culture Really Matters
Russia, for instance, is attempting to wipe out a separate Ukrainian culture; as Ukraine's artist at the Venice Biennale says, "If it has no...
An Arvo With The Battlers Working On The Australian National Dictionary
Crikey, collecting the lingo that makes Strine Strine is a hard yakka that can leave a poor bastard with a head like a half-sucked...
Sydney’s Largest Art Museum Just Got A $100 Million Bequest
"The Lavender Bay home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art...
Paramount Will Not Be Removing From Its Streaming Service Old Movies And TV That...
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish: "By definition, you have some things that were made in a different time and reflect different sensibilities. I don't believe...
French Switzerland’s Second City Just Built Itself A Massive New Cultural Center
"A vast new arts hub called Plateforme 10 has opened in the Swiss city of Lausanne with the aim to revitalize the surrounding area...
Deep Inside Erotic Cookbooks: A Brief History
No, they aren't just gag gifts. From their (modern) beginnings in Playboy magazine's food and drinks column, and then Mimi Sheraton's Seducer's Cookbook (somewhat...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Casts Its First Disabled Richard III
Arthur Hughes, who opens in the role at Stratford-upon-Avon later this month, lives with radial dysplasia and describes himself as "limb-different." "I've always wanted...
Dark Mofo, Tasmania’s Wild Winter Arts Festival, Learns From Last Year’s Disastrous Mistakes
"For those who know Dark Mofo for its gothic bombast, weird surprises and controversial headlines, this year's festival ... may feel a little different....
Italy Opens A New Museum Just For Stolen Antiquities It Has Recovered
The Museum of Rescued Art opened this week in part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian in Rome. Its exhibits will rotate every month,...
