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Shaping The Noises Of Animals Into A Grand Symphonic Sound Installation
Composer-performer and "soundscape ecologist" Bernie Krause has used 5,000 hours of field recordings, made over 50 years and featuring 15,000 species, to create The...
Medieval Runes Discovered In Oslo For First Time In Three Decades
Researchers found two objects, a rune stick with text in both Latin and Norse and a piece of bone with a Norse inscription, in...
NPR Does Its Own Report On How It Is “Hemorrhaging Hosts From Marginalized Backgrounds”
The job went to media reporter David Folkenflik, by now quite experienced in, and respected for, stories about his employer — and he finds...
Netscape Founder James Clark Surrenders Millions Worth Of Cambodian Antiquities Now Thought To Be...
Clark, who gave up 35 items he bought between 2003 and 2008, is "the latest in a line of people taken in by Douglas...
Even The Louvre Is Creating An Immersive Art Show — And With The Mona...
The world's most visited museum is teaming up with another Paris institution, the Grand Palais, to crate the light show, which will debut in...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Perform On Cunard Cruises
The RSC has signed a three-year contract with Cunard that will see a group of actors from the company performing two programs and offering...
It Seems Dogs Can Distinguish Between Different Human Languages
Researchers in Budapest using fMRI machines found very different activity in different parts of the brain when dogs heard Spanish, Hungarian, and nonsense words....
Rescuing The Iconic Floor Tiles Of Barcelona
The decorative cement tiles were used in most residential buildings that went up from the late 19th-century construction boom to 1950, and they became...
A 30-Hour, Three-Day Theatre Piece Staged On A Three-Ton Ice Block Suspended Over Sydney...
The work, titled Thaw and conceived by physical theatre company Legs on the Wall and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner, "features an acrobatic performer balancing,...
Where Films’ Set Design Illuminates The Struggles Of Working-Class Folks
"Those struggles can be seen in water-stained walls, amid the brick piles of a bulldozed neighborhood or on the tattered carnival tents of The...
There’s One Region Where The Clubhouse App Isn’t Fading Away (It’s Being Used For...
The audio-based social media app has been dissed by First Worlders as a glorified telephone and outflanked by Twitter and Facebook adding audio. But...
The “Freedom Libraries” Of The Jim Crow South
Starting in the "Freedom Summer" of 1964, impromptu libraries (the majority in Mississippi) using donated materials opened up at homes and churches, providing places...
Do We Really Need Art To Be Relevant? Should It Be? Maybe Not.
"By making the mistake, no matter how well-intentioned, of chaining works of art to politics or demanding that they address issues of social justice,...
Tamara Rojo, Now Headed To San Francisco, Genuinely Transformed English National Ballet
To put it succinctly, she's responsible for "turning ENB from a respected but unexciting touring company into a news-making organisation." - The Guardian
Here’s Just How Lord Elgin Got Those Marbles Out Of Greece And Into England
It was an even uglier, more dishonest project than some of us had realized. (At least Elgin was heavily criticized for it at the...
Director Kirill Serebrennikov, Who’d Been Banned From Leaving Russia, Suddenly Turns Up In Germany
For four years, ever since his conviction in a case many think was trumped-up, he's been directing theater in Europe via teleconference. Last week...
Three Major Rock Festivals Cancelled Within 24 Hours Down Under
The Grapevine Gathering in the Hunter Valley wine region and Unity Forever on the coast southeast of Melbourne have been called off, as have...
In South India, Weddings Are Becoming Great Big Dance-A-Ramas
In the state of Kerala, the actual ceremony may be brief and subdued, but the celebrations often include professional choreographers directing a mix of...
A New Molière Play (?!) At The Comédie-Française For The Playwright’s 400th Anniversary
The world's oldest operating theatre company has pieced together what it says is the original version of Tartuffe, premiered in 1664 and promptly suppressed...
It’s Not Just Vinyl: CDs Made A Comeback Last Year, Too
"The recorded music industry may no longer be laser-focused on the compact disc, but the format's sales grew in 2021 for the first time...
Modernizing China’s Ancient Writing System Has Always Been A Political Project
Through the centuries, the complexity of classical Chinese characters functioned as a powerful class barrier, since mastering reading and writing took so much work....
What Does Germany’s New Culture Minister Have Planned? “Green Culture”
"Claudia Roth has taken office pledging to continue her predecessor's work in decolonising museums, to set up a central 'green culture' desk, to boost...
Now Boris Johnson Corruption Accusations Extend Even To Arts Festivals
Texts from the Prime Minister's phone indicate that the man paying for renovations to Boris's apartment at 10 Downing Street was pitching him on...
Prehistoric Rock Art In Texas “Irreparably Damaged” By Jackass Vandals
The petroglyphs, at least 4,500 years old, in Big Bend National Park were ruined by "Isaac, Ariel, Norma, (and) Adrian," who carved their names...
President Of America’s Largest Public Radio Station Departs After Two Difficult Years
Goli Sheikholeslami, who's leaving to become CEO of Politico, faced a firestorm over a program cancellation the week after she arrived at WNYC, where...
