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This Guy Dressed Up As An Old Lady, Rolled His Wheelchair Into The Louvre,...
"Think of planet Earth, there are people destroying it," he proclaimed as security guards dragged him away. Don't worry: the painting's fine, and the...
Today In Chutzpah: This Couple Tried To Shoplift A Basquiat
An as-yet-unidentified man and woman walked into Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan, headed to a Basquiat screen print, searched it on their phone, took it...
Yes, Happily-Ever-After Is Okay In Serious Literature
"I argue that there's something in our human DNA that seeks the Happily Ever After (HEA). ... According to researchers, these fairytale endings can...
This Young Man is A Natural Male Soprano, And He’d Like To Try Singing...
Samuel Mariño, a 29-year-old Venezuelan whose voice never dropped, specializes in Baroque castrato roles, but he sees no reason not to sing female parts....
Can Newcomers To Dance Follow What Happens In A Story Ballet? Christopher Wheeldon Isn’t...
"I don't think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of...
It Takes Some Real Heroics To Keep Alaska Public Radio’s Far-Flung Stations On The...
Beyond Alaska's few cities, APR's stations are sometimes the only local ones available, "mixing Morning Edition with all flavors of music, emergency announcements, swap-and-shop...
Town Councilman In Wales Is Driven To Resign Because He Can’t Stop The Weird...
"Pembroke Dock town councilor William Gannon, age 58, was just elected earlier this month, but he couldn't quell rumors about his supposed illicit artistic...
Why Is Russia Looting Ukraine’s Museums? It’s Not Just Greed
"These latest thefts are in keeping with Putin's attempts to erase Ukraine's independent history and promote his own expansionist model of a new Russian...
Only At Disney World Could Live-Action Role-Playing Become This Elaborate
"For more than a decade, Imagineers — Disney designers and researchers — have been looking into LARPs and interactive theatre, and running 'playtests' in...
Kevin Spacey Charged With Four Counts Of Sexual Assault In The UK
"British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement...
Former Director Of The Louvre Is Officially Indicted For Complicity In Fraud And Money...
The charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down last year, concern five antiquities allegedly taken illegally from Egypt and sold to the Louvre Abu...
For The First Time, An Indian Novel Wins The International Booker Prize
The £50,000 prize for Tomb of Sand will be split equally between author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell. - BBC
Actor Ray Liotta Dead At 67
Best known for Something Wild, Field of Dreams, and Goodfellas, "in a decades-long, genre-spanning career, Liotta played criminals, cops, a baseball star, a preacher...
Even Sleeping Sickness Can Be The Subject of An Opera
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman have written Awakenings, based on the late neurologist Oliver Sacks's memoir/case study about treating encephalitis...
Inigo Philbrick — The Rise And Ruin Of A Talented And Charismatic Art Dealer
He had knowledge, taste, charm; two high-profile galleries; a beautiful partner and baby daughter. Now he's in prison for fraud, internationally reviled, and owes...
Here’s The Guy Who Oversees All Of Netflix’s Standup Comedy Shows
Robbie Praw, who spent 12 years as programmer at Just for Laughs in Montreal before joining Netflix in 2016, talks about how he chooses...
A New Festival To Showcase A Midcareer Playwright New York Ought To See More...
Volt, an annual project whose first featured writer is Karen Hartman, is meant to spotlight, as founder Val Day put it, "somebody who (is)...
It Appears That Chimpanzees Have Their Own Language, Complete With Words And Simple Sentences
Researchers have found that a troop of 46 chimps in the Ivory Coast has 390 unique vocal sequences that they use among themselves. They...
The Art, And The Power, Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s War Videos
"They serve as field reporting, pleas for weapons, arias that glorify Ukraine. But the videos have done more than win Ukraine moral and military...
After 27 Years, The Opera About Harvey Milk Has Been Completely Reworked
Composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie have removed 70 minutes, and many cameo roles, from Milk, and made arrangements for orchestras of 66...
“We Need A National Memorial To Gun Violence, Now.”
"It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. ... After every mass...
Ex-Director And Curators At The Louvre Detained For Questioning In Antiquities Trafficking Case
Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down as director last year when his contract wasn't renewed, as well as the head of the museum's Egyptian art...
Bèlè, Martinique’s Very Own Dance Of Emancipation
An Afro-Caribbean repertoire of quadrille square dances (accompanied by drumming and singing) that combines a complicated vocabulary of symbolic movements with improvisation, bèlè is...
Germany Raises Its Arts Spending Even More
As American arts workers watch and weep with envy, "Germany's new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has announced a 2022 budget of €2.3 billion ($2.4...
“Imagineering” Existed For Decades Before Disney Trademarked The Word
The people who coined the word, it seems, were the Word War II-era marketers at, of all companies, Alcoa. And through the 1980s and...
