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The Smithsonian Selects Sites For The Proposed National Latino And Women’s History Museums
The two plots are at the southwest corner of the National Mall, near the Washington Monument: one is directly across the Mall from the...
The Latest Target Of The Self-Gluing Climate Protesters Is Vermeer
At the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, two guys in "Just Stop Oil" t-shirts walked up to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring; one...
Shadow Puppetry: A Disappearing Art?
"The craft of shadow puppetry had historically been passed down, master-apprentice style, through the generations. With varied technologies and media dominating contemporary performance, practitioners...
After Almost 20 Years, Baghdad Has Modern Artworks On View
"In a refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria (at the Ministry of Culture), 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq's foremost artists...
Britain’s NHS Tries Another Experiment Prescribing Arts And Sports As Mental Health Treatment
"NHS mental health trusts will use the activities to help 600 young people on their waiting lists for care as part of a study...
A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover
"The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the...
This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet...
Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn't stay in a Russia...
George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack
"The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily ... with the writer's memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. ... Subscribers to...
Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents
"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy...
Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?
"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the...
Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102
"In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black...
After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business
"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media....
John Neumeier Marks 50 Years At The Helm Of Hamburg Ballet
The American-born and -trained choreographer, now 83, became artistic director of the then-under-resourced company in 1973 and led it to world-class status, creating over...
And Who Is John Neumeier’s Successor At Hamburg Ballet?
Demis Volpi, a 35-year-old Argentine-German choreographer who trained in Buenos Aires, Toronto, and Stuttgart, has been artistic director of the Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg...
Alicia Alonso’s Successor At Cuba’s National Ballet Has A Very, Very Difficult Job
"Viengsay Valdés ... has the task of renewing the ballet's reputation when Cuba finds itself in a deep economic crisis. It will not only...
How Has TikTok Outrun YouTube And Facebook In Just A Few Short Years? It...
Or, to be more precise, it's very good at guessing what will interest you: "the most powerful tool TikTok has to grab users and...
Berlin Philharmonic Conductor Kirill Petrenko Worried That The Pandemic Demonstrated That Orchestras Were Expendable
"We all were very destroyed because at a certain point we thought no one needs us anymore. Their life goes on. The concert halls...
A Boy-Meets-Girl Play, Set At A Real-Life Pro-Nazi Summer Camp On Long Island
"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In...
Boris Pasternak’s Grand-Niece Loses Her Copyright Suit Against A Historical Fiction Author
"Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott's (novel), The Secrets We Kept, copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of...
History’s First Named Author And What She Achieved
Enheduanna, the daughter of King Sargon, founder of the Akkadian Empire, played perhaps the leading role in consolidating the religion of conquered Sumer with...
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Spending $4 Billion To Shrink Itself
"The newly combined media company said that costs associated with cutting content" — such as the Batgirl film whose release was canceled entirely —...
Dept. Of Silver Linings: Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Identified After 2020 Beirut Explosion
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window...
Mike Davis, L.A. Urbanist And Author Of “City Of Quartz”, Is Dead At 76
"(His) work exposed L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and (his) mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible....
Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts Gets A Starchitect Makeover
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges...
One Day Before They Were Due, England’s State Arts Funder Postponed Its Plans For...
"Arts Council England has revealed it has hit the brakes on its imminent investment programme announcement. ... The 2023-26 programme has promised to be...
