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Archaeologists Unearth Massive 1,000-Year-Old Viking Hall
"Archaeologists digging in the village of Hune in Denmark have discovered the remains of a vast Viking hall — what they're calling the 'largest...
Academic Freedom Wars Continue After Professor Is Fired For Showing Students Images Of Muhammad...
The incident happened in a virtual art history class at Hamline University in Minnesota last fall: the professor gave his students advance warning before...
San Francisco’s Basement Performance Venues Flooded By Repeated Storms
"As with the historic storm that pummeled the Bay Area over New Year's weekend, the outside world doesn't always stay outside. Now flooded venues...
Turns Out Alexei Ratmansky Is Leaving ABT To Go To New York City Ballet
Two weeks ago, the world's most admired living ballet choreographer announced that he's ending his 13 years as artist in residence at American Ballet...
UK Government Abandons Plan To Privatize Channel Four
"The decision represents a dramatic U-turn by Rishi Sunak's Conservative government to that of Boris Johnson, which was forging ahead with privatization proposals last...
Defunding Of English National Opera Was A “Politically Motivated Stunt”, Says Ex-Culture Minister Under...
Nadine Dorries tweeted that she's been "blamed for lazy, politically motivated decision making at (Arts Council England), who … pulled this as a stunt...
ABT Director Susan Jaffe On How She Programs A Season
In this video interview, Jaffe talks with Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema about inspiration, engagement, production, and creating or incubating new works. -...
How A 38-Year-Old Don DeLillo Novel Nails The 2020s
"While White Noise is intentionally specific to 1985, the tendencies described have only intensified. … The same tensions DeLillo mined so eloquently still grip...
Live Performances Of Podcasts Are Attracting Huge Audiences
"Compared with 2013, the number of events has gone up by 2,000%, no doubt helped along in the past year by the COVID-driven rise...
The First Published Black Composer Is Enjoying A Renaissance After More Than 400 Years...
Until 2020, very few music fans had heard of Vicente Lusitano; even those music history scholars knew him only for a treatise and a...
50 Years Of Ms. Magazine, Remembered Year By Year
"Ms. Magazine was a brazen act of independence when it launched 50 years ago. First introduced to the world as an insert in New...
“The Lion King” Just Had The Most Lucrative Week Of Any Broadway Show Ever
"Last week, Disney's The Lion King grossed $4,315,264 in ticket sales, which is the most any Broadway show has ever made from a single...
Fay Weldon, Author, Screenwriter, And Unorthodox Feminist, Is Dead At 91
"A polemicist whose opinions shaped themselves around the plot of her latest book, a pragmatist who giggled her way through every sentence, she was...
Ten Years Of The Prototype Festival, New York’s Hotbed Of Award-Winning Chamber Opera
Founded in 2013 during what had been the slow weeks of mid-January, Prototype — which has already produced two operas that went on to...
The Philly Pops Is Working On A Plan To Save Itself
"Citing public dismay at news that the Philly Pops would shut down at the end of this season, leaders of the group have reversed...
British Museum Confirms That It’s Negotiating An Arrangement To Return The Parthenon Marbles To...
"'We've said publicly, we're actively seeking a new Parthenon partnership with our friends in Greece and as we enter a new year constructive discussions...
The Icelandic Language Is Full Of Scots And Irish Gaelic, Argues Researcher
"A book by Thorvaldur Fridriksson, an Icelandic archaeologist and journalist, argues that Gaelic-speaking Celtic settlers from Ireland and western Scotland had a profound impact...
Ukrainian National Ballet’s New Artistic Director Is Japanese
A Japanese, that is, who has lived and worked in Kyiv ever since he arrived there as an 11-year-old dance student. Nobuhiro Terada went...
The Swinging Sixties London Writer Who Tried To Eliminate Every Trace Of Her Career
Rosemary Tonks was suceessful critically, commercially, and socially. Then a series of life crises in the 1970s led her to convert to fundamentalist Christianity,...
Why Audiences And Actors Remain Enthralled With That Sordid, Squalid “Streetcar Named Desire”
Sordid? Squalid? That's pretty much how a lot of critics reacted to the play when it was new. Yet for decades it has been...
Arts Organizations Are Hiring Women Of Color As Leaders, Then Losing Them. Here Are...
"Arts groups need to make institutional changes to support these new leaders, according to women leaders of color at these groups. They say solutions...
Britain’s National Gallery Has Spent £3 Million To Buy An Abandoned Public Lavatory
"The lavatory on Charing Cross Road closed in the Seventies and later became a West End ticket kiosk before falling into disuse. There may...
Cineworld/Regal Says No, It Is Not Selling Itself To AMC
"Regal-owner Cineworld, the world's second largest movie theater operator, has denied reports that it has been in talks with AMC, the world's largest movie...
The Mysterious Manuscript Thief Is Expected To Plead Guilty
"For years, someone impersonated authors and agents, editors and publishers, trying to steal unpublished book manuscripts from high profile authors … and writers of...
The British Museum And Acropolis Museum Are Nearing A Deal For The Return Of...
"An agreement would see a proportion of the marbles sent to Athens on rotation over several years. … In exchange, other objects would effectively...
