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King Tut Was Not A Significant Pharaoh, Yet The Modern World Remains Fascinated By...
"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the...
The Index At The Back Of The Book Deserves More Respect
The story of the index "is, on one level, a history of information science, but it's also a history of reading and writing and...
Sting Sells His Back Catalogue For An Enormous Sum
The rocker has sold "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and the rest of his songs to Universal Music for a price believed to be...
Polish Government’s Holocaust Revisionism Is Scaring Some Historians
"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's...
2021 Wasn’t Supposed To Have Been The Year Of The Movie Musical, But …
By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but...
Space Choreography: Redefining Movement For Extremely Low Gravity
Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big...
At 90, John Williams Says He Is Giving Up Composing Film Music
He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring:...
On His First Day On The Job, A Museum Guard Vandalized A Painting With...
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Use TikTok To Market Low-Price Tickets To Young People
The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions...
How “Sleep No More” Has Changed New York Theater — And Itself
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on...
The Two Pieces By George Crumb That Changed American Contemporary Classical Music
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of...
A Childhood Friend Of Charlie Chaplin Remembers His “Always Hungry”, “Ragged” Early Years
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a...
The Former President Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Remembers 36 Years In The...
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic...
The Real Story Behind The Famous Bust Of Nefertiti (It’s Not What You Probably...
It was not an object of veneration, it was not meant for public display, and it wasn't considered valuable in its day except to...
One Of Ukraine’s Strongest Defenses Against Russian Aggression Is The Ukrainian Language
For much of the past century in Ukraine, Russian has taken precedence over Ukrainian, even in the post-Soviet period. These days one hears more...
There’s A Whole Body Of Women’s Novels In Yiddish That Are Finally Reaching English-Speakers
The originals were mostly published as serials in Yiddish newspapers and never made it into bound volumes in any language until now. Says one...
Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English
Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken,...
The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won't get an individual medal at these games because he doesn't have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes...
One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age...
No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
