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The Slow Death Of The Second-Run Movie Theater
Time was, folks on a budget could see a film at cinemas where titles that were no longer brand-new were shown at discounted ticket...
Mezzo-Soprano Josephine Veasey Dead At 91
She sang with such conductors as Bernstein, Solti, and Karajan (whom she told she wouldn't work with him again), with a repertoire from Mozart...
After A COVID-Wracked Winter, Broadway Producers Anticipate A Big Spring Comeback
The holiday season in particular was plagued by constant cast changes or cancellations when someone in the company got sick or tested positive. With...
The First Comprehensive Encyclopedia Of Indian Art Is About To Arrive (And It’s Written...
The open-source online project — started by Bangalore's Museum of Art and Photography, with entries written by Indian experts — will include textiles and...
Jewelry Retailer Van Cleef & Arpels Launches A New Contemporary Dance Festival
Dance Reflections, which will be held in a different city each year, debuts in London March 9-23 with a program featuring contemporary classics by...
How To Fill In All The Gaps We Have In Ancient Greek Texts? Artificial...
"Artificial intelligence could bring to life lost texts, from imperial decrees to the poems of Sappho, researchers have revealed, after developing a system that...
Audible Goes All In On Its Push Into Live Theater
"The company, which created its theater division just five years ago, has already released 93 audio theater works, ... commissioning new work from 55...
Presenters Are Cancelling Performances By This 20-Year-Old Antiwar Russian Pianist. Should They Be?
Alexander Malofeev traveled to Canada for a concert this week with the Vancouver Recital Society and a Prokofiev concerto this weekend with the Montreal...
Is Business Finally Turning Around At Long-Troubled Barnes & Noble?
In 2019, after years of management turmoil and falling revenue, James Daunt (who turned around British chain Waterstones) was brought in to fix things. ...
Ukrainian Sculptor From Berlin Stays In Lviv To Help Build Anti-Tank Defenses
Volo Bevza and several others have set themselves up in a metal workshop to build steel tank obstacles called "hedgehogs," which look like small...
As The Authorities Drop Mask and Vaccination Requirements For Indoor Spaces, Should The Arts...
"In interviews, leaders of almost a dozen cultural groups across the country emphasized the need for caution and carefulness. But they noted that each...
Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director
"Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol's 'red notice'"...
How Little Has Survived Of Medieval European Literature? More, And Less, Than One Might...
"A team using techniques more commonly used to track wildlife estimates that 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works produced in medieval Europe survive...
A Different Way To Approach Deciphering Quipu, The Incas’ Knotted-String Language?
Scholar Silvia Ferrara suggests that — since we don't have a Rosetta Cord giving us a text side-by-side in Inca knots and Spanish letters...
Belarus Free Theatre Does Its First Show Together Since Fleeing The Country Last Fall
In the wake of the stolen presidential election and Lukashenko's vicious crackdown on the subsequent demonstrations, the underground troupe decided to go into exile....
Edmund Keeley, Who Brought Cavafy And Seferis To The English-Speaking World, Dead At 94
As translator, scholar, and critic, he played a major role in showing Americans that Greece has a thriving modern culture alongside its ancient history....
Ranks Of Women Cinematographers Are Slowly Growing As Schools’ And Guilds’ Efforts To Train...
"The simple premise is that if you make a generational commitment — and about 25 to 30 years is a generational commitment — to...
Post-Industrial Parks Like New York’s High Line Are A Bad Idea, Argues Sociologist
Looking in particular at the High Line, the 606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston — all of which turned urban industrial...
As Ukrainian Dancers Escape, European Companies Are Taking Them In
In Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and elsewhere, ballet troupes have been helping their fleeing colleagues: finding them housing, letting them join class, and, if...
Why Did Sam Sanders Leave NPR? To Create New York Magazine’s New Culture Podcast
Sanders, who created the weekly show It's Been a Minute, is the fourth host of color in the past year to leave NPR for...
Arsonist Sets Trash Fire In Akron Art Museum
"Akron police have arrested a man accused of breaking into the Akron Art Museum and starting a small trash fire Sunday. ... Executive Director...
Olivier Award Nominations Led By “Cabaret”, “Anything Goes”, “Life Of Pi”
"A new production of the musical Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley leads the Olivier Award nominations with 11. It's followed by a...
Was This Man The Greatest Conductor Of The 20th Century? Probably. And He Was...
"Orchestras and singers regularly surpassed themselves under his guidance," writes David Patrick Stearns of Carlos Kleiber. "His deep immersion in whatever he conducted transcended...
Want To Watch ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’ Or ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’? You...
"A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to 'locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate...
Have Audiences Forgotten How To Behave? (Or Is It Just London?)
"Complaints about drunken, chaotic and argumentative audience behaviour have been reaching fever pitch. 'It feels like every bloody day there's a new debate about...
