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Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio...
San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter...
There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with...
There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says...
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum...
Can An Artist Really Make A Living Online With A Thousand Serious Fans?
That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who'll each spend $100 annually to...
One Of America’s Hottest Young Playwrights Is Putting Down Syndrome Onstage
Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is "the rare play to feature both a lead character — and...
Has A Stolen Altarpiece From Italy Been Sitting In The Cleveland Museum Of Art...
"At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister...
“Fundamentally, It’s Just Really Beautiful”: Reviving The Music Of The First Published Black Composer
Born in 1520 to (most likely) a Portuguese father and African-descended mother, Vicente Lusitano published three volumes of highly accomplished sacred works and music...
Nashville (!) Has Developed A Thriving Early Music Scene
"(Historical performance has) been ebbing, flowing, and growing in Nashville for nearly 20 years. The city is home to two HP ensembles ... (and)...
Okay, Who At Netflix Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn “Squid Game”...
Granted, the losers in the reality-show version won't be killed, but still. In his announcement, the suit who greenlit this thanked the original series's...
The Washington Post Now Has A Hollywood Deal
"The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties culled from The...
Kevin Spacey Arraigned In UK On Four Charges Of Sexual Assault
"The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked...
Director Of Paris Opera Ballet Resigns Following Years Of Criticism
Aurélie Dupont, who is 49 and has been at the company since the age of 10, was appointed hastily following the resignation of Benjamin...
A Zen Priest Wins The 2022 Women’s Prize For Fiction
The novel has the rather Zen title The Book of Form and Emptiness, and its author is American-Canadian novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who,...
James Baldwin On Fire Island
He had two stays in the gay community of Cherry Grove, neither during high season, during which he worked on Another Country (May 1959)...
Russia’s Cultural Brain Drain, In The Words Of The Brains Who Have Drained
Actress Renata Litvinova: "I suddenly realized that maybe I'm never going back." Director Kirill Serebrennikov: "I continue to allow myself the illusion that my...
How Did Stanley Kubrick Ever Get Away With Making A Hollywood Movie Out Of...
"Forced to excise or elide some of the book's thorniest elements for the sake of (the film's) being allowed to exist at all, ......
Is It Telling, In This Age Of Mistrust, That Tom Hanks Is Playing A...
"At the end of the day, the only people who care about your image in a movie is the marketing department." Hanks discusses finding...
Discovery Of 13,000 Ancient Artifacts Sheds Light On Lost Culture Of Sanxingdui
The find, which includes bronze, jade, gold, and ivory pieces, many intact, is at the Sanxingdui Ruins in Sichuan province. The site was the...
How Pixar Grew From A Little Experimental Studio Into A Global Gold Standard For...
"Going back to its earliest days, Pixar was always a place where some minds succeeded by solving intractable problems with vim and whimsy, and...
Voguing — Dance, Subculture, Liberation Movement
The hybrid of dance, costuming, satirical mimicry and other ingredients that has provided community to several generations of Black and Hispanic queer people is...
Talking About “The Book Of Mormon” With Three Guys Who’ve Been In Its Cast...
Graham Bowen (dance captain and swing), Lewis Cleale ("all the old white guys"), and John Eric Parker (Mutumbo) "joined a reporter at the theater...
After 110 Years, “Poetry” Magazine Has Its First Black Editor
In a Q&A, Adrian Matejka, a multiple award-winner who holds an endowed chair at Indiana University and was the state's poet laureate from 2018-19,...
Norway’s New National Museum Looks Like A High-Tech Fortress. What Is It Protecting?
"This is a building that says 'No': after years of delays, here is a complex of enormous hard-edged boxes clad in dark gray slate...
The Head Of London’s Royal Opera Writes About Race, Representation, Black- And Yellowface, And...
Oliver Mears: "Notwithstanding their subject matter, these operas are masterpieces. Instead of cancelling them we should find creative ways to live with them. ......
