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Ebook And Audiobook Stats From UK Libraries Have A Few Surprises
The sleeper among audiobooks — ahead of Michelle Obama and Kazuo Ishiguro, behind only J.K. Rowling — is mystery writer Brenda Chapman's Cold Mourning....
The Venue For New York’s Shakespeare In The Park Is Getting Its First Overhaul...
The structure of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is deteriorating, and the renovation had been expected, before the pandemic, to run from 2020...
Fort Worth Symphony Names Kevin John Edusei Principal Guest Conductor
The 45-year-old German-Ghanaian, now in his final season as chief conductor of the Munich Symphony, joins incoming music director Robert Spano at the FWSO...
Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee Statue Will Be Melted Down And Made Into New Black...
In a project called "Swords Into Plowshares," the Confederate monument that was the excuse for the deadly Unite the Right rally in 2017 will...
Carnegie Hall Starts A Streaming-Video-On-Demand Network
The $7.99-a-month service, called Carnegie Hall+, isn't all, or even mostly, performances at the New York venue itself (where video recording is unusually expensive):...
Britain Makes Masks Mandatory For All Indoor Venues
With infections of the Delta and Omicron variants rising, the government has instituted what it calls "Plan B": audiences and staff at theatres, concert...
Filmmaker Lina Wertmüller Dead At 93
A protégée of Federico Fellini, she won critical acclaim internationally for such films as The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, and Swept Away;...
Literary Translators Are Finally Demanding The Recognition They Deserve — On The Book Cover
"For decades, translators in the U.S. have been ... working in the back rooms of literature even as they play a central role in...
A Museum On The Border Between North And South Korea (What Could Go Wrong?)
Unimaru, as it's called, opened in September in a former customs clearinghouse in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Visitors must get a permit from the...
Can Newly-Won Artistic Freedom In Sudan Survive Post-Coup?
After longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir was overthrown in 2019, the country saw "the flowering of an artistic community that had long been harassed, censored...
Greg Tate, Cultural Critic And Pioneering Writer On Hop-Hop, Dead At 64
He made his mark as a staff writer for The Village Voice, covering everything from rap to Black hardcore, African-American identity to Michael Jackson....
Sondheim’s “Assassins” And American Gun Culture
"In Assassins, the gun serves not as a tool of self-defense … but as an instrument of self-expression and self-realization. The assassins, who saw...
The Sondheim Musical The Tributes Haven’t Been Mentioning
Assassins — "It wasn't exactly a flop, but it's not exactly celebrated, either. … The songs are just as catchy, melodic, and surprising as...
Can Anna Wintour, The Very Avatar Of Old-Style Condé Nast, Remake Its Titles For...
This year she's been focused on turning seven of Condé Nast's biggest publications into global brands, each under one leader. She is also ensuring...
Justin Peck May Have Been The Perfect Person To Choreograph The Remake Of “West...
He grew up watching Jerome Robbins's original choreography in the film, and he's danced it himself in the West Side Story Suite Robbins created...
Playing A Real Person In A Biopic Is Harder Than Ever
There are four major actresses in contention for an Oscar this year for biopics. While the Academy likes to reward such work, the denizens...
Finally, African Medical Students Are Getting Textbook Drawings That Depict The Black Bodies They’ll...
"On November 24, Ibe posted a drawing of a Black fetus in utero on social media, calling for more diversity in medical illustration....
Marjorie Tallchief, Last Of The “Five Moon” Native American Ballerinas, Dead At 95
The younger sister of Maria Tallchief, Marjorie studied under Ernest Belcher and Bronislava Nijinska and was the first American to become an étoile at...
Orwell Estate OKs Retelling Of “1984” From Viewpoint Of Winston Smith’s Lover
"Orwell's estate said it had been 'looking for some time' for an author to tell the story of and that Newman, who...
Artist Sells Eggs From Her Ovaries As NFTs
"Armenian artist Narine Arakelian, 42, says her first NFT will be a painting entitled Live – which will include an embedded contract promising one...
Belarus Free Theatre Forced To Flee Homeland
While co-founders Natalia Kaliada and Nikolai Khalezin had to leave Belarus in 2011 and are settled in London, other members of the company continued...
A Dance School Flourishes In Africa’s Largest Slum
The Kibera district of Nairobi is home to 250,000 people, most in extreme poverty. Michael Wamaya, a Kibera native, returned home from Europe in...
Banksy To Help Turn Prison Where Oscar Wilde Was Held Into Arts Center
"Banksy has emerged as a possible white knight in a long-unrealized plan to transform the vacant prison where Oscar Wilde was once held into...
Spotify Removes Hundreds Of Comedians Over Royalties Dispute
The conflict is with the rights agency Spoken Giants, which is trying to get Spotify to pay comics for their writing the same way...
Persian Gulf Countries Ban Spielberg’s “West Side Story”
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait wouldn't clear the film for release at all; Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE demanded cuts Disney refused to make....
