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If Russian State TV Suddenly Starts Playing “Swan Lake”, Look Out
With rumors flying of Vladimir Putin's deteriorating health, it could happen: going back to the earliest days of Soviet television, the unscheduled appearance of...
BIG/Bjarke Ingels Will Design Prague’s New Riverside Concert Hall Complex
The Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which will be the home of the Czech Philharmonic and the FOK Prague Symphony, will have auditoriums of 1,800, 700...
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Buys The Record Label Pentatone
A year and a half after the school acquired the management agency Opus 3 Artists, it has done the same with Pentatone Music, an...
Choreomania: The Great Strasbourg Dance Plague Of 1518
That summer, dozens of Strasbourgeois found themselves dancing and hopping uncontrollably for days on end, and more than a few died of exhaustion and...
Peter Greenaway, Cinema’s Most Playful Post-Structuralist
"Right off the bat, Peter Greenaway wants to make clear that he's never really taken himself seriously as a filmmaker — although like so...
As An Election Approaches, Australia’s Main Opposition Party Announces A More Expansive Arts Policy
The Australian Labor Party "has pledged more transparent funding to arts and cultural institutions, an examination of a national insurance scheme to protect the...
DeafBlind People Are Adapting ASL Into A Language Of Touch
Protactile, as the new language is called, started with people (usually sighted) signing ASL into the hands of DeafBlind folks. But many of ASL's...
Ukrainian Soldiers Make Archaeological Find While Digging Defenses In Odesa
While digging ditches in anticipation of a potential Russian attack, Ukrainian military men discovered several amphorae (bottle-necked ceramic containers) estimated to be up to...
The 389-Year-Old Oberammergau Passion Play Has Recovered From COVID
"Depicting the life, persecution, death and resurrection of Jesus, ... the oldest continuous running amateur theatre production in the world will open on Saturday...
A New Museum In Senegal For Repatriated African Art
Funded by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the museum and community center called Bët-bi (Wolof for "the eye"), to open in 2025 in...
Rescued From The Clutches Of The Sex Toy Collective, “The Believer” Magazine Will Go...
"After a journey even the creative minds at The Believer could not have imagined, the celebrated literary magazine is back in business and again...
Saved: Dallas’s Classical Radio Station Will (Probably) Be Taken Over By The Region’s NPR/PBS...
WRR — at 101, the oldest radio station in Texas — is owned by the City of Dallas, which wants out of the radio...
With A Billion Downloads, The Economist Has Become A Podcasting Powerhouse
The magazine's flagship audio property, a daily news podcast called The Intelligence, averages 3.9 million downloads each week and 2.5 million unique listeners a...
Simon Preston, Organist And Choirmaster With A Major Recording Legacy, Dead At 83
With Christopher Hogwood's Academy of Ancient Music, Preston and his Choir of Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford released landmark period-instrument recordings of Handel's Messiah,...
Interpretive Dance In A Session Of The EU Parliament (By A Famous Choreographer, No...
The Twitterverse had a high old time when news and photos hit of the final session of the Conference on the Future of Europe...
Keanu Reeves — “Why Do We Get So Much Out Of A Movie Star...
"He's an unknowable icon, the internet's adorably tragic boyfriend, a prolific actor who never seems to be acting. ... Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas...
A Traditional Urban House Design That Figured Out The Work-Home Life Balance
A look at the layout, functions, and history of machiya, the traditional shop-front-and-courtyard houses of Kyoto. - Bloomberg CityLab
Stage Director Ivo Van Hove Has Got Himself A Festival
The Belgium-born, Amsterdam-based director, known in the US for his Broadway stagings of A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, Network, and West Side...
Standup Comedy Classes As Psychological Treatment, Courtesy Of Britain’s National Health Service
Angie Belcher, comedian-in-residence at Bristol University (yes, really) and founder of the practice Comedy on Referral, has already had a successful NHS-funded course for...
Is Standup Comedy Becoming A Dangerous Job?
"A couple of recent high-profile physical attacks on comedians ... have left some comics wondering if the stage is becoming less safe, and have...
The Sale Of “The Believer” Magazine To The Sex Toy Collective Guy Isn’t Going...
The first article the new owner published online was a listicle of hook-up sites with an old contributor's name slapped on the byline. As...
Ex-Fox News Anchor Fired For Sexual Misconduct Drops Libel Suit Against NPR and CNN
"Ed Henry initially alleged last year that journalists at the two outlets — including NPR media reporter David Folkenflik, CNN chief media correspondent Brian...
At 71, Black Composer Anthony Davis May Finally Be Having His Breakout
With five companies (the Met, Detroit, Chicago, Omaha, and Seattle) sharing a revival of his X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X directed...
David Hockney Has Made A 314-Foot-Long Scroll Painting
Or you could call it a frieze. Hockney was inspired, he says, by the Bayeux Tapestry as well as by the seasons in Normandy,...
205 Million Subscribers — If Streaming Is Slowing Down, It’s Not At Disney
"Disney is quickly closing in on Netflix's long-established streaming lead. The entertainment giant now has 205 million paid subscribers across all of its services" ...
