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After 30 Years, Director Of Australia’s Flagship Indigenous Dance Company Is Stepping Down
Stephen Page became artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1991, two years after its founding, and has led it to awards and acclaim...
The Saturday Evening Post Is Now 200 Years Old — And It’s Still Here
Most of us assumed the dear old mag had shut down forever. In fact, it was only closed from 1969-71, before being relaunched as...
US Architect Of Hermitage’s Planned Moscow Branch Unceremoniously Dumped
Hani Rashid of Asymptote Architecture says his firm worked for years on a design, got necessary approvals — and stopped getting any communication from...
Does Putting A Broadway Show On Video Cut Into Sales? Quite The Contrary, Says...
The creator of Hamilton says the show's filmed version o on Disney+ has only increased demand for tickets to the staged production. (If only...
Doing Standup Comedy In India Is Getting Dangerous
You can't say that the country is humorless, but the Modi government's laws can have people fined or jailed on mere accusations (even false...
What’s The Right Length For A Podcast? That Depends …
Hosting platform Acast says that the average episode length of its 100 most popular podcasts is 38'10" — but it's not that simple. Comedy...
Five-Ton, 12-Point Glass Star Installed Atop Highest Tower Of GaudÃ’s Sagrada FamÃlia
The 23-foot-wide ornament now sits 453 feet above Barcelona, crowning the basilica's Virgin Mary Tower. Some of the neighbors are mightily irked by the...
Skeptical Eyebrows Are Being Raised Over Planned Changes At Notre-Dame in Paris
These changes include replacing rarely-used confession booths in the nave with art installations, installing new lights at head height rather than near the high...
Media Consumers More Engaged By Audio Than Other Formats, Says Research
A study that used biometric feedback to measure immersion found that participants were more deeply engaged by content delivered via radio or podcasts than...
Alice Sebold’s “Lucky” Pulled By Publisher And Film Version Canceled Following Anthony Broadwater’s Exoneration
The 1999 memoir, which launched Sebold's career, recounts the rape and beating she suffered at age 18 and Broadwater's subsequent trial and conviction for...
Israel Says It Has Found Archaeological Evidence Of Hanukkah Story
Excavations in the Lachish Forest, about 40 miles southwest of Jerusalem, have uncovered the remains of a Hellenistic fortress — a structure which the...
Tenor Juan Diego Flórez Gets His First Artistic Directorship
As of January 1, shortly before his 49th birthday, the Peruvian will take the reins at the event where his international career was launched:...
David Gulpilil, Pioneering Indigenous Australian Actor, Dead At 68
He became a star in his home country playing the lead in Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout and familiar internationally for his role in Crocodile Dundee....
Why Morocco Is Pouring Money Into Rabat’s Arts Scene
King Mohammed VI's government says it's making art accessible to more ordinary people and promoting Morocco as an island of stability; some artists and...
Afghan TV And Radio Try To Hang On Under The Taliban
More than 250 media outlets have closed since the takeover; those that remain are losing their audience because people are scared of being caught...
It’s A Minor Miracle No One Died On The Set Of “The Wizard Of...
"The drama behind the scenes … would make several people's heads melt like the Wicked Witch of the West." Margaret Hamilton caught on fire,...
When Newspapers Die, What Happens To Their Archives?
There's no established procedure, alas, so the fate of the archives depends on the particular location and owner. (We're looking at you, News Corp.)...
The First NFTs Of Ballet (You Knew This Was Coming)
Natalia Osipova of London's Royal Ballet is selling specially-filmed of three duets with fiancé Jason Kittelberger, who says they hope to fund a new...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin To Take Four Weeks Off From Conducting
His sabbatical will run from Dec. 19 to Jan. 10; he has withdrawn from the Met's January revival of The Marriage of Figaro and...
Mosque Dating To Earliest Decades Of Islam Uncovered In Iraq
The mud structure in the southern province of Dhi Qar is small, roughly 26 feet by 16 feet and has been dated to 679...
Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2021 Is Something People Have Been Fighting About
"Vaccine" was the choice because of repeated spikes in traffic: searches of the word this year are up 601% from 2020 and 1,048% over...
Ticket Sales For England’s Christmas Pantos Are Lagging, And Theatres Are Getting Nervous
Sales are down by a third from 2019, and research indicates that many audience members remain wary of attending while COVID case numbers are...
Germany’s New Government Appoints A High-Profile Culture Minister
Claudia Roth, one of the Green Party's top leaders and vice president of the federal parliament, started her career as a theater worker and...
This Virtuoso Horn Player Works The Valves With His Left Foot
Felix Klieser, 30, was born without arms. Even so, he graduated from a German conservatory and made a recording at age 22 that won...
How The Temple Dancers Of South India Fought Back Against “Moral Reform”
In the 19th century, prompted by the disapproval of Protestant missionaries who wanted Hindu temple dancing banned, some Tamil reformers campaigned for the performers,...
