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Unpublished Poems By Ted Hughes About His Lover’s Suicide Have Been Discovered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Filippo Bernardini allegedly impersonated numerous authors, agents, and others in order to obtain unpublished manuscripts — for reasons nobody yet understands.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...
Actor’s Equity Blacklists Broadway Producer Garth Drabinsky
"The actors and stage managers of (Paradise Square) asked for Drabinsky to be put on the 'Do Not Work' list due to 'outstanding payments...
Arizona Just Got The Biggest Chunk Of Arts Funding It’s Ever Had
From 2008 to 2012, the Arizona Commission on the Arts had a regular line, about $550,000, in the state budget; since then, the agency...
The Death Of The “Voice Of God”: Traditional Voiceover Narrators Are Disappearing From Documentaries
Starting in the 1990s, traditional documentaries started to be replaced by personality-driven nonfiction films whose directors (e.g., Michael Moore, Werner Herzog) were more than...
Graydon Carter’s Vanity Fair And The Inevitable Fade Of The American Glossy Magazine
"What happens when legacy magazines can no longer rely on their reputation to get readers, let alone party invites? Condé Nast's magazines, especially Carter's...
Winning A Professional Orchestra Audition Is Very Difficult. Then Comes The Trial Year.
Jeffrey Arlo Brown writes about the tricky, nerve-wracking process that two young trumpeters went through. One passed his trial, the other failed hers —...
Looted African Treasures Are Returned From Paris To Benin
Mind you, these aren't the Benin Bronzes, which come from what's now southwestern Nigeria. These were taken by French colonial soldiers in the late...
The North Of England Gets Its First Shakespearian Theatre Since Shakespeare’s Own Day
The town of Prescot, a few miles from Liverpool, was once home to the only freestanding Elizabethan theatre outside London. That's the case once...
A Sizeable Roman City, Unknown Until Now, Has Been Discovered Near The Spanish Pyrenees
Archaeologists report that the site, about 20 miles southeast of Pamplona, was "of urban character — the city's name is currently unknown — and...
Authorities Replace Moscow’s Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Old Theater
In 2012, Serebrennikov took over the stultified Gogol Theater, rechristened it the Gogol Center, and made it Moscow's most daring stage, regularly irking the...
Beloved Conductor Bramwell Tovey Dead At 69
Artistic leader of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and, as of the coming season, the Sarasota Orchestra, Tovey spent widely admired tenures...
A Census Of Every Single Dance Worker In New York City
The project by the nonprofit Dance/NYC "seeks to understand who makes up the dance work force and the social and financial hardships that these...
Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty To Sexual Assault In London; Trial Date Set
"(The actor) appeared at the U.K.'s historic Old Bailey criminal court on Thursday morning, where he pleaded not guilty to all five counts of...
