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Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?
Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now. Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they're reading...
A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On...
"Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere ... through May 29,...
How The Standup Comedy TV Special Became A Genre Of Its Own
"The first decade or so of the 2000s wasn't exactly a time of artistic evolution for the special, but the rapid increase in special-making...
Kyiv’s Opera House Is Back To Putting On Opera
"In a city that ... became used to wailing air-raid sirens and the thuds of artillery from the suburbs, the audience was instead treated...
Philadelphia’s City History Museum Was Doomed. Thank Goodness A University Has Taken It Over.
"Interviews with more than a dozen museum professionals suggest that the Philadelphia History Museum ended up in (storage) far from the heart of the...
There Was More To Frank Langella’s Firing Than Just Ignoring The Intimacy Coordinator’s Blocking
"One word consistently used by virtually everyone when describing Langella's behavior" on set for Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher "was 'toxic'...
ABT’s Incoming Director Could “Quietly Blow Up The Entire Way We Think About Ballet”
"Susan Jaffe, who recently turned 60, has in mind such steps as opening up artistic processes to the public and soliciting views from balletgoers...
“The Art World’s Bernie Madoff”, Inigo Philbrick, Gets Seven Years In Prison
"Prosecutors accused Philbrick of committing 'one of the most significant frauds in the art market's history,' describing his operation in a sentencing memorandum as...
Beeple’s Twitter Was Hacked, And A Lot Of Money Was Lost
"Teasing a fake Louis Vuitton x Beeple collaboration, the hacker first tweeted out a raffle entry and then a link where followers could claim...
Elspeth Barker, Journalist Who Wrote “One Of The Best Least-Known Novels Of The 20th...
Published when she was 51, Barker's O Caledonia won several awards and was popular in Europe for several years, then faded away. She parlayed...
One Of India’s Bravest Playwrights Takes On Her Touchiest Subject Yet: The Man Who...
Anuparna Chandrasekhar has wriiten about a sex tape going viral in conservative India to the notorious 2012 gang rape on a bus in Delhi. ...
For The First Time, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” Is Being Produced As She Wrote...
The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering...
Calvin Royal III Takes Mother Jones To The Ballet
The crusading lefty investigative magazine profiles Royal, a principal dancer at ABT and one of the still-all-too-few Black stars of classical ballet. The marquee...
Virtual Reality Gets Smelly: Startups Are Trying To Bring Aroma To The Metaverse
"Today, as metaverse engineers, designers, and architects map out the look of digital future experiences, for some, smell has become a key part of...
Researching The Smells Of The Ancient World With Modern High Technology
Using mass spectrometers and techniques from the field of molecular biology on residues from ancient containers, refuse, and even dental tartar, archaeologists and historians...
Looters Who Stole Idols From Hindu Temple Return Them After Being Tormented By Nightmares
"We have not been able to sleep, eat and live peacefully. We are fed up with the scary dreams and are returning your valuables,"...
Britain Agrees To Serious Negotiations With Greece About Returning The Parthenon Marbles
"The United Kingdom will hold formal talks with Greece regarding the potential repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, which have been in the British Museum...
Roots Music Star And Macarthur Genius Rhiannon Giddens Returns To Her First Art Form,...
She came to prominence as co-founder of string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, moved to a solo career, and now directs the Silkroad Ensemble,...
Popular Podcast “Reply All” Is Ending Next Month
A staff memo from Gimlet Media chiefs said that "the decision to end this iteration of the show" was made as the series's two...
Artist Gerhard Richter, Even At 90, Could Not Stay Retired
Five years ago the German painter, one of Europe's most prominent living artists, announced that he was ending his career. But he couldn't stop...
Don’t Get The Whole Fanfiction Thing? This Will Explain It All
What are slash and femslash? Lemon and gen? UST? Danmei? Here's an introductory guide that covers it, even the het stuff. - Quartz
The Collective That Launched Australia’s Indigenous Art Movement 50 Years Ago
"Starting out as an informal gathering of local men painting wherever they could find some shade, Papunya Tula has become one of the most...
Willa Cather’s Surprisingly Open Life With Edith Lewis
"Their domestic partnership was not a secret. Lewis often was and sometimes still is made over into Cather's secretary (she wasn't) rather than being...
Ousted Director Of Munich’s Ballet Company Is Basically Putin’s Son-In-Law: Report
Igor Zelensky, 52, former principal of the Mariinsky and New York City Ballets, resigned last month as artistic director of the Bavarian State Ballet...
“Sisters With Transistors”: The Female Pioneers Of Electronic Music
Not all of these women are forgotten: Clara Rockmore (the first virtuoso of the theremin) and Pauline Oliveros are remembered, and Wendy Carlos, Eliane...
