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You Can Now 3D-Print Yourself A Whole Gallery’s Worth Of Miniature Historical Statuary
A user of the 3D-printing platform Sketchfab has assembled digital renderings, ready to download and print fabricate, of artworks ranging from an ancient Egyptian...
The Only Degree Program In Dance In The State Of Arkansas Has Been Axed
The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock formally voted last week to eliminate the school's BA in dance. A formerly tenured...
Ebony Magazine’s Former CEO Committed Fraud To Keep It Alive, Alleges SEC
Willard Jackson, who was forced out in 2020, is one of several men accused of diverting crowdfunded investment money raised for marijuana-related business ventures;...
Last Suspect In Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Robbery Dead At 85
Robert Gentile, a mob figure who did several stints in prison on unrelated charges, refused for decades to speak with FBI agents about the...
London Arts Orgs And Audiences Are Jeopardizing Their Comeback By Being Lax About COVID
Mark Pullinger finds that, while venues' staff may be masked themselves, they're not requiring patrons to have face coverings or proof of vaccination (to...
It’s Just Too Much Trouble For EU Groups To Hire British Musicians Post-Brexit, Warns...
"People who are normally hired by organisations abroad are being told, 'I'm sorry, we just don't have the capacity to bring somebody from the...
Riccardo Muti Extends Chicago Symphony Contract For One More Season
His term as music director was set to expire next summer, but with the pandemic having shut down CSO concerts for the period when...
How An Opera By A Black Composer Finally Made It To The Met
The company's certainly had opportunities before: William Grant Still submitted scores in 1919 and 1935; both were casually dismissed. So Terence Blanchard was astounded...
Was An Exploding Space Rock The Inspiration For The Story Of Sodom And Gomorrah?
Archaeologists report that the destruction, circa 1650 BC, of the city of Tall el-Hammam was caused by a large meteor disintegrating in the atmosphere...
How Jasper Johns Changed Modern Art — And My Life: Jerry Saltz
"Looking at Johns's work, I sometimes almost no longer feel like a person. I wonder if I have died in the instants between synapses...
Elia Kazan’s Annotated Script For The First Stage Production Of “A Streetcar Named Desire”
The script, along with 100 pages of unusually detailed notes for the actors, comes from the pre-Broadway New Haven tryout in the fall of...
Somalia Gets Its First Public Movie Showing In 30 Years
"The event was held at the National Theatre of Somalia, whose history reflects the tumultuous journey of the African nation. It has been targeted...
For the Second Time In Two Years, America’s Chinatowns Are In Danger
"(The delta variant surge has) worsened a host of additional issues, like technology and language barriers and pandemic-stoked xenophobia. Community organizations fear that the...
Dutch Police Arrest Suspect In Thefts Of Van Gogh And Frans Hals Paintings
DNA evidence at the crime scenes, museums in suburban Amsterdam (van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring) and Leerdam (Hals's Two Laughing...
Kerry James Marshall To Design Stained Glass Windows For Washington National Cathedral
The new work, which will replace windows depicting Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson which were removed in 2017, will be Marshall's first in...
Pennsylvania School Board Reverses Ban On Black Authors’ Books, Children’s Bios Of MLK And...
The vote by the Central York district board came after weeks of protests by students and unflattering reports in national media. The list of...
Melvin Van Peebles, Dead At 89, Was So Much More Than The Maker Of...
Over 60 years, he was a master of self-reinvention: Air Force navigator; cable-car operator in San Francisco; indie filmmaker; author (in English and French);...
Choreographer Jan Fabre Will Stand Trial For Sexual Harassment And Assault
The case, to be tried next spring in Antwerp, "stems from complaints by 20 dancers from his company who in 2018 alleged … a...
When Did America’s First Black Theater Open? Exactly 200 Years Ago
"For the price of 25 cents — or, for a nicer seat, a hefty 50 cents — the African Theater" (which opened on Sept....
Saadi Yacef, The Man Who Started “The Battle Of Algiers”, Dead At 93
He didn't start the battle itself, but he was the top military man in Algeria's war of independence. When that was won, the new...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet May Be Gone, But Its Successor Is Now Taking The...
The former company shut down in March after 25 years, but five of its dancers, with one colleague and choreographer Ben Needham-Wood, have formed...
Vantablack, The World’s Blackest Black? Hollywood’s Going To Be All Over It (And...
Yes, Anish Kapoor purchased exclusive rights to the color for visual art, but the entertainment world sees numerous uses for it and has been...
Yes, Music Really Can Be Infectious — Statisticians Apply Epidemiology To Pop Songs
"The pattern of music downloads after their release appears to closely resemble epidemic curves for infectious disease – and electronica appears to be the...
Netflix Is About To Milk The Hell Out Of Roald Dahl’s Stories
"Netflix has acquired the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) and will expand their existing deal to … create a universe across animated and live...
Is The Future Of Newspapers 24/7 Online, With Actual Newsprint Only On Sundays?
That's already the case in Little Rock and Chattanooga, while the Tampa Bay Times prints only Wednesdays and Sundays. Many other papers throughout the...