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The Entire Marcel Duchamp Archive Is Now Available For Free Online

"It is a vast online trove of Duchampiana" assembled by the Association Marcel Duchamp, the Pompidou Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, "a...

“Fight Club” Gets A Whole New Ending For Streaming In China

In execution, it's sort of lame: instead of explosions, a title card is slipped in to say that the authorities foiled Project Mayhem and...

Little Brick Hospital In Regional Bangladesh Wins RIBA’s Best New Building Award

In the city of Satkhira, near the giant Sundarban mangrove swamp on the Indian border, the Friendship Hospital, designed by the Dhaka-based firm Urbana,...

This Orchestra Somehow Kept Going Through Lockdowns, Floods, Power Outages, And The Madness Of...

The Orquesta Sinfónica Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho in Caracas is already the country's least conventional symphonic ensemble: they frequently perform in the barrios and...

Meet The Organist Whose Concerts Get Protested By Conservative Catholics As Satanic

Anna von Hausswolff can joke about it, but enraged demonstrators have actually shut down concerts of hers. All because a music blogger called her...

Why Do Certain Sentences Become Famous Independently Of The Works They’re Part Of?

"You can't handle the truth!" or "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." "Celebrity sentences," Nicola Sayers dubs them. "There are countless brilliant...

Getting Copyright, And Compensation, For The Choreographers Of Hit Music Videos — Including TikTok

Says dancer/choreographer JaQuel Knight, who founded Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to address the issue, "Over the past year and a half, so...

Countries That Fund Public Broadcasting Better Have Healthier Democracies: Study

The question is: in which direction does the causality run? - Nieman Lab

Cairo’s Biggest Makeover In Decades Is Focused On Egyptian Culture

"The renaissance of traditions spans everything from new museum exhibits to artisans integrating old crafts into modern furniture and designers selling handmade jewelry, bags...

Netflix’s First Original Feature In Arabic Accused Of “Moral Degradation”, “Inciting Homosexuality And Betrayal”

The film, a Lebanon-set adaptation of the much-remade Italian film Perfect Strangers, includes unfaithful spouses, a gay character, and a woman removing her undergarments...

As Big West End Shows Offer Massive Discounts, Smaller Shows Are Being Squeezed Out

"Theatre producer David Pugh (fears) it could spell the end of plays in the West End. … By contrast with his show, where tickets...

UK’s First Dedicated LGBTQ+ Museum To Open In London This Year

"The charity Queer Britain has taken on the ground floor of the Art Fund building in (King's Cross) for the museum but hopes to...

Paris Surgeon Tried To Sell X-Ray Of Bataclan Shooting Victim As NFT

Dr. Emmanuel Masmejean, an orthopedic surgeon who claims to have operated on five victims of the 2015 terrorist attack, listed on the NFT sales...

Elza Soares, Brazil’s Grande Dame Of Samba, Dead At 91

"(She) rose from the slums of Rio de Janeiro and became one of Brazil's most popular singers of all time by fusing the traditional...

Dallas Museum Of Art Begins Planning For Major Expansion

"'We are now at the very early stages of planning what this will look like,' says the museum's director, Agustín Arteaga." An architecture firm...

How Do We Know For Sure About The Gender Imbalance In Ballet? It’s Thanks...

Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema: "The lack of artistic and leadership opportunities for women in ballet has been talked about for years. But...

She’s A Painter, A Writer, And The Only Woman Ever To Dump Pablo Picasso....

"It has been unsettling, if not entirely unwelcome, to find herself courted in recent months by art world pundits and curiosity seekers. … 'I...

Getting Duke Ellington Into The Orchestral Canon

Thomas Wilkins has been conducting Ellington with leading orchestras for some years now, including this weekend and next with the LA Philharmonic. He says...

Was Terry Teachout The Last Of The Conservative Arts Critics?

"For him, conservatism signaled a commitment to tradition, to persevering and building on past achievement. It was a conservatism of memory, not of grievance...

How Many Composers Ever Get To Have Two Operas Premiere In New York At...

"One new opera demands an enormous amount of attention, but two is downright invasive," says Ricky Ian Gordon. His Intimate Apparel (adapted by Lynn...

A Lot Of Broadway Shows Have Closed Temporarily. Could That Become A Standard Business...

The highly contagious omicron variant has given productions a reason to shut down for what happen to be the slowest two months of the...

The Newbery Award Has Been Honoring Children’s Books For 100 Years. Not All Of...

People tend to give books that win classic or canonic status, presuming that a Newbery medalist from decades ago will always be good for...

The Abuse Lawsuit Against UNCSA Is Even Bigger Than You Thought

Most of the reporting about the case has focused on sexual abuse of students in the dance division, but the allegations (and the defendants)...

Large Limestone Sphinxes Unearthed In Luxor

"A German-Egyptian team of researchers, led by archaeologist Hourig Sourouzian, discovered the artifacts half-submerged in water during their restoration of the funerary temple of...

A Film Studio In Space? That’s The Plan — And Within Three Years, No...

A company called Space Entertainment Enterprise intends to open a space station containing both a film and TV studio and a sports/performance arena for...
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