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One Of Iran’s Most Famous Historic Mosques Has Been Damaged During Restoration Work
The 17th-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, widely considered one of the country's most beautiful buildings, has suffered damage to the tiling and shape of...
Iran Imprisons Award-Winning Filmmaker Jafar Panahi For Six Years
Last week, when Panahi went to Tehran's Evin Prison to inquire about a colleague who'd just been arrested, he was taken into custody himself...
Toronto Symphony MD Gustavo Gimeno Accepts Music Director Job At Madrid’s Teatro Real
"The new role is slated to begin in the 2025/2026 season. Assuming (he) isn't renewing his contract with the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, he is...
Netflix Lost Almost A Million Subscribers Last Quarter. This Is Actually Good News.
Even though the tally, 970,000, is the largest such loss in the company's history, executives and analysts had expected the number to be more...
Did This British Dance School Really Eliminate Ballet From Its Curriculum Because It’s “Elitist”?
Not exactly, no (certain headlines notwithstanding). What the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds (Britain's only dance conservatory that's not in London) has...
Richard III, Shakespeare’s Most Fraught, Most Contested Villain
Not only is there the longstanding question of whether or not the actual English monarch was as evil as depicted, only a decade ago...
South Africa’s Arts Minister Announced A New National Orchestra. People There Are Very Angry...
Last week, when minister Nathi Mthethwa presented plans for the Mzansi National Philharmonic Orchestra, with an annual budget of 30 million rand (about $17.6...
In Medieval Europe, Cities Used Musicians As First Responders
Indeed, they were often required to keep watch at city gates and were sometimes required to show skill at swordsmanship. This isn't just because...
“He Is France Incarnate, In All Its Glory And Awfulness” — On Gérard Depardieu...
"(He) is firmly woven into the fabric of French cultural identity. As such, to condemn Depardieu amounts to a kind of self-harm. ... 'He...
A Symphony Of Ships’ Horns In A Newfoundland Harbour
Every other summer since 2004, composer Delf Maria Hohmann has been visiting the vessels docked in the harbor at St. John's to learn about...
If Theatres Phase Out Unpaid Internships, There Will Be A Tradeoff
"In conversation with (several) artistic directors, one trend seems abundantly clear: more equitable access to better opportunities for fewer people. ... Is that a...
The Heatwave In China Has Melted The Roof Right Off Of A Museum
The Forbidden City Cultural Relics Museum, which opened in 2020 in a restored Yangtze River-front warehouse complex in Chongqing, had a large number of...
Unpublished Poems By Ted Hughes About His Lover’s Suicide Have Been Discovered
No, these aren't about Sylvia Plath (who was Hughes's first wife): they're about Assia Wevill, who took up with Hughes (her landlord at the...
Award-Winning Documentary About Yazidi Women Enslaved By ISIS Is In Big Trouble
Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn't show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately...
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founder of Dance Troupe Urban Bush Women, Wins $250,000 Gish...
"Revolutionary at the time – and still cutting edge — Zollar's choreography synthesizes movement from modern dance and traditional folk African dance styles with...
Rescue Deal Falls Apart And San Francisco Art Institute Closes For Good
Twice the financially beleaguered school had secured a merger deal with the University of San Francisco, and both times USF backed out due to...
What Led Josephine Baker To Become A Spy And A French War Hero?
It wasn't only loyalty to France for having accepted her and taken her to heart. She had some personal experience with Nazism. - Literary...
“Princess Mononoke” Is A Brilliant, Complicated, Gorgeous Film, And Was A Huge Hit In...
Perhaps, as some in Japan say, because America has such a black-and-white, good-versus-evil mindset. Perhaps because Hollywood thinks animation is for kids and therefore...
A Paris Neighborhood Tries A Generally Un-Parisian Thing: Making Friends With All The Neighbors
In what the organizers call la République des Hyper Voisins (the Republic of Superneighbors), up to 2,000 people regularly gather for meals (including one...
Peter Brook Supported Theater Critics — And Set Them A High Standard
Lily Janiak: "Brook sympathizes with artists' complaints about critics — they're wrong; they're mean-spirited and 'disapproving' — but then he issues a warning: 'An...
Breakdancing Is A Freeform Art. How’s It Getting Organized As An Olympic Sport?
"While breakers around the world ramp up their training, the organization recognized by the IOC to conduct the program, the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF),...
The Alleged Mysterious Manuscript Thief May Manage To Avoid A U.S. Trial
Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated numerous authors, agents, and others in order to obtain unpublished manuscripts — for reasons nobody yet understands. Now his first...
Thieves Returned A Precious Medieval Chest Said To Contain Relics Of Christ To “The...
The ornate gold-and-lapis lazuli vessel, which houses vials said to contain blood that flowed from Jesus's body as he was crucified, was stolen on...
In Ukraine, The Phrase “Culture War” Is Not Metaphorical
"With Russia actively trying to erase Ukraine's national identity, this country's music, literature, movies and monuments are not recreations. They are battlefields. The true...
Angel Blue Withdraws From Verona Opera Festival Because Anna Netrebko Is Singing Aïda In...
The American soprano was going to make her Arena di Verona debut as Violetta in La Traviata — until a furor arose over Netrebko's...
