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Here Are The 2022 Winners Of The MacArthur Fellowships (Okay, The “Genius Awards”)
The arts figures included in this year's class of winners are visual artists Paul Chan and Tavares Strachan; musician/scholar Martha Gonzalez; film/video artist Sly...
Special High-Tech Glasses For Color-Blind Visitors At The Dallas Museum Of Art
Glasses from the specialist manufacturer EnChroma "use cutting-edge lens technology to enhance the color perception of visitors with red-green deficiency ... to give color...
“A Strange Loop” Will Have The Shortest Run Of Any Recent Best Musical Winner
"(The Tony and Pulitzer winner) will close on Broadway on Jan. 15, after a short run that reflects the industry's ongoing pandemic-related struggles and...
Why Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is So Pleased To Be Taking Over Geneva’s Ballet
"Although I was born in Flanders, I sometimes feel like a foreigner because of my background and the way my life has gone. In...
How Hindu Nationalists Have Intimated And Bullied Bollywood Into Submission
Actors and directors are threatened by crowds and harassed by authorities; occasionally, a film set is vandalized; some stories become off-limits. "Out of fear,...
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer And Major Figure In Japan’s Avant-Garde (And The First Mr. Yoko...
"(He was) a pioneer, using free-spirited compositional techniques that left much to chance, incorporating ... traditional Japanese elements and instruments but also electronic music....
Cate Blanchett Works Very, Very Hard, And She Really, Really Doesn’t Like To Talk...
"It's the eternal problem where you make a deep, instinctual connection with something ... but then you move through it, you put it out...
How Much Is The Life Of Cate Blanchett’s Character In “Tár” Like That Of...
In terms of the music-making, Justin Davidson observes, Blanchett and filmmaker Todd Field do very well. But Lydia Tár's awful behavior? She could've gotten...
A New Online History Museum Takes On A Very Touchy Event: The Spanish Civil...
"The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War, ... which bills itself as the 'first museum dedicated to this central event of 20th-century history',...
Classical Music Groups Developed Some Impressive Online Programming During The Shutdown. What Happens To...
"Organizations are now accepting the fact that they will need an online presence, but ... they (also) want to be able to focus on...
CNN Drops Its NFT Project, “Vault by CNN”
"You may have already forgotten about it, but Vault by CNN launched in the summer of 2021 as a marketplace for its own NFTs...
Russian Missile Strikes Targeted, And Hit, Museums And Cultural Sites In Kyiv
Among the institutions damaged by missile fire, reported Ukraine's culture minister, are the Kyiv Art Gallery, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the National Philharmonic,...
How The Acousticians Went About Fixing David Geffen Hall
Rivka Galchen looks into the development of acoustical engineering as a craft (which goes all the way back to Chichén Itzá and Hagia Sophia)...
Ballroom Dance Was Created By And For Prancing Aristocrats. How Did It Get To...
"Although ballrooms were once the territory of the elite and considered off-limits for common people, in the upheaval of the 19th century, new types...
Ukrainians Are Making Video Games About Russia’s Invasion
In one game, the player is a Ukrainian tractor driver stealing Russian tanks; in another, she slaps Putin with a sunflower; in another, he...
He Was The Bestselling Poet In American History. He’s Totally Forgotten Now. What Happened...
"Rod McKuen sold millions of poetry books in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a regular on late-night TV. He released dozens of albums,...
A Leading Philadelphia Indie Theatre Company Has A New Artistic Director
"Inis Nua Theatre Co., a Philadelphia-based company that draws its material from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, has named longtime Philly theater director Kathryn...
Artist Billy Al Bengston, A Leader Of L.A.’s “Cool School” Artists, Is Dead At...
"Pop art was just emerging and Bengston spoke its language well with his simple, aesthetically direct and repetitive motifs. His shiny, heavily lacquered surfaces...
Europe’s Fuel Crisis Is Crippling Venice’s Murano Glassmakers
The high temperatures necessary for glassmaking require huge amounts of natural gas, whose price has soared by well over 1,000% since Russia's invasion of...
John Cleese of Monty Python To Host Show On Britain’s Equivalent Of Fox News
Cleese's as-yet-untitled show on GB News, shared with satirist Andrew Doyle, will presumably be part of his notorious ongoing campaign against "wokeness" and "cancel...
Innovative Arrangement Will Restore Ownership Of Ancient Artworks To Greece While Displaying Them At...
The deal involves the collection of antiquities from the Cyclades islands assembled by philanthropist Leonard Stern: the objects will be legally in the possession...
Journalist Grace Glueck, Who Pioneered News Reporting On The Art World, Is Dead At...
Starting at a time when American journalism about the visual arts was strictly by critics, she treated it as a news beat, writing more...
One Week La Scala Packed A 5,000-Seat Sports Arena. The Next, It Barely Half-Filled...
It's not about COVID fears. The difference between the two events was as simple as could be: price. - Gramilano (Milan)
Multicultural Japanese Literature (Yes, There’s Such A Thing)
"Understanding whether or not Japanese literature is changing also requires defining 'Japanese literature,' and defining the 'Japanese' part of the term is challenging enough....
How Jon Stewart’s Attempt To Fix TV Journalism Led To The Triumph Of His...
"The problem was that he misunderstood what made the monolithic mass media world a financial success. He was convinced that you could keep all...
