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Salman Rushdie: India Is No Longer The Country I Wrote About In ‘Midnight’s Children’
"When I wrote this book I could associate big-nosed Saleem with the elephant-trunked god Ganesh, the patron deity of literature, among other things, and...
The Spectacular Golden Parade Of The Mummified Pharaohs
"Crowds gathered on Saturday to witness the multimillion-dollar spectacle of 18 kings and four queens making the 7km journey (four miles) from the Egyptian...
Another Pandemic Silver Lining: Overhaul Of Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall Is Way Ahead...
"With concerts in the hall canceled since March 2020, construction began in earnest over the past few months. Work is expected to continue for...
Guillermo Del Toro Absolved In ‘Shape Of Water’ Plagiarism Case
"The producers of The Shape of Water will no longer have to contend with a copyright lawsuit that claims that Oscar-winning Guillermo del Toro...
Want A Subscription With Top Seats To Broadway Shows At Philly’s Kimmel Center? Give...
"The Kimmel Center is instituting a mandatory $1,000 donation for access to the best seats in its Broadway series. That's $1,000 up front, before...
A Report From New York’s Wary Return To Indoor Shows
"Like budding flowers awakening just in time for spring, music, dance, theater and comedy began a cautious return this past week as venues were...
Spoleto Festival USA Moves Cautiously Back Into Live Performance
There will be 80 events spread across four stages, three of them outdoors and two of those newly-constructed. (The old Dock Street Theater, site...
From The Wreckage Left By ISIS, Mosul’s Museum Begins To Rise Again
"By the time Mosul was liberated by Iraqi government forces in July 2017, most of the artefacts in the Mosul Cultural Museum had been...
Savage Beauty
A generation of important Chinese composers, paradoxical beneficiaries of enforced rural relocation, wound up studying in the West. For many, Bela Bartok became a...
Ashleigh Gordon Shares the Castle of our Skins
The co-founder, Artistic/Executive Director and violist of Castle of our Skins, a collective of artists of all kinds dedicated to advancing Black artistry through...
You’re Teaching Dance To Incarcerated Men. COVID Locks Everything Down. How Do You Keep...
Good old-fashioned letters, it turns out. Choreographer and educator Suchi Branfman has been running her Dancing Through Prison Walls project with inmates of the...
Museums’ Secret Weapon For COVID Safety: Really Good HVAC
The standards for heating, ventilation and air conditioning at North American and European museums tend to be quite high: minimizing airborne dust and maintaining...
She Was The First Englishwoman Ever To Earn A Living Writing. She Was Also...
She traveled to the Low Countries and Suriname on missions for King Charles II, and she took up writing to support herself because he...
What A Raga Is, And What It Is Not
"I should say that a raga is not a tune. It's not a note, not a scale, not a composition — although the raga...
‘Follies’ At 50: Why Sondheim’s Musical May Be The Most Important Flop Ever To...
"It was supposed to be a murder mystery: two couples, four motives, one gun. What it became was a different kind of mystery entirely:...
Ian McKellen On Playing Hamlet At Age 81
"I can't pretend I'm 20. No one's going to believe it. But I can feel that I'm 20. … One advantage is, when I...
Maybe Public Radio Stations Should Cut Two-Thirds Of Their Weekend Programming
Eric Nuzum: "The average number of unduplicated shows aired over Saturdays and Sundays is 25. Do all those programs help build audience? Station listeners...
Where The Candidates For Mayor Of New York City Stand On Arts And Culture
"New York City is heading into one of its most consequential elections in decades. … For the purposes of this inquiry, we asked eight...
How A Gang Of Wall-Climbing, Web-Slinging Rare Book Thieves Was Brought To Justice
In January of 2017, a group of skilled, acrobatic robbers began a series of daring break-ins — climbing walls, breaking through skylights and barriers,...
It Was Inevitable: New NFT Of ‘Salvator Mundi’ Holding Fistful Of Benjamins
"It sounds like an April Fools joke, and it both is and isn't. Author and art historian Ben Lewis has created a real non-fungible...
Venice Finally Bans Big Cruise Ships From Lagoon And Historic District
"For years, campaigns to oust cruise ships from the lagoon have been gaining traction, with locals claiming that the ships' massive structures erode the...
In Search Of Classical Music From Africa
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber writes about his colleague Rebeca Omordia, a pianist of Romanian and Nigerian parentage who, since 2013, has been pursuing a...
Web Streaming and Book Publishing: Two Bright Spots for the Cultural Sector During COVID-19?
Compared with the average annual growth rate of arts and cultural industries as a whole (+3 percent), web streaming and web publishing surged by...
Syracuse Musings: Words of Wisdom (or not) from Panelists at the Deaccession Symposium
Here are some lessons from old-school conference speakers who acknowledged the need for progress, but defended what former Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello...
Nobel Prize: Sweet!
Lucky in Manhattan to have a Japanese market nearby, and because I’m enticed by anything in a post-Pop package, I fell for Nobel’s Super...