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The Six Lines And Five Colors That Changed The Course Of Western Art
Deborah Nicholls-Lee offers a consideration of Piet Monrdian's Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey (1922). - BBC
Some Mexican Artists Are Using A New Medium: Piñatas
"A growing number of Latino artists are working to broaden and elevate how Americans view piñatas and (their) history. Some are carving out a...
At What Point Should We Consider Animals, Or Even AI, “Persons” In A Moral...
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and...
The Waggle-Dancing Of Bees Has Inspired A New Means Of Robot Communication
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international...
So Many Writers Wish They Could Just Redo Their First Novel. Akhil Sharma Did.
"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but...
English In India: The Colonial Oppressor’s Language? Not Anymore.
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic...
As The Russian Invasion Rages, At Odesa Opera The Show Must Go On
Mary Harris interviews Katarina Tsymbalyuk, a mezzo and a member of the Odesa Opera's resident ensemble, about the love, and the fear, she and...
Turning The Notre-Dame De Paris Conflagration Into A Disaster Movie
When the president of Pathé approached filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose) about making a documentary about the catastrophic...
Actors’ Equity And IATSE Sue Producers Of “Paradise Square” For Non-Payment
"Actors' Equity and the union representing theatrical designers are separately taking Broadway musical Paradise Square to court for close to $350,000 total in owed...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
Percy Shelley: Poetry As Political Crusade
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate...
And Here Is The New Poet Laureate Of The United States
Ada Limón "assumes the role with two primary intentions: to use poetry to help people reclaim their humanity and to repair their relationship with...
These Silk Weavers In Florence Still Work On 18th-Century Looms
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway,...
Why Ireland Has Become A Hotbed Of Horror Flicks
"The country's small film industry has made 20 horrors in the past six years, with another two (this) autumn. ..." Says one filmmaker, "Irish...
“Bad Art Is Doing Very Nicely These Days, And The Reason Is That People...
David Bromwich: "In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon recoiled from the display of affection by the happily married: 'It is simply washing one's...
Why This Former Martha Graham Star Is Doin’ The Hustle
"Hustle is fluid, fleet, as elegant as it is funky. A dance in 3/4 time, it moves elliptically through disco's 4/4 beat. ... Hustle...
Why Jeri Lynn Johnson Founded The Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
She got the idea after losing a music director post, following a successful audition, because "we just didn't know how to market you" (meaning...
Southern Rep Theatre In New Orleans Closes Permanently
Founded in 1986 to focus on new plays from and about the South, the company moved into a new space in 2018 that raised...
PETA Has A Damien Hirst Installation Shut Down For Wanton Murder Of Flies
Hirst's A Hundred Years, a glass cube in which flies hatch on one side and then fly into a bug zapper on the other,...
She Came As A Last-Minute Replacement Conductor. Two Months Later, She’s That Orchestra’s Music...
On a Tuesday in May, just arrived in town, Mélisse Brunet started rehearsing the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky for the season's final concert. By...
Baltimore Symphony Cancels Ten Of Next Season’s Concerts Due To Low Attendance
"In response to a precipitous slide in attendance during the 2021-22 season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has canceled 10 concerts originally scheduled to be...
After 56 Years As The Toronto Star’s Classical Critic, William Littler Writes His Farewell...
Bill remembers the myriad performers who came from abroad and his trips overseas covering Canadian ensembles: in Prague in 1968, weeks before the Soviet...
