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Love It Or Loathe It, It’s Architectural History In Concrete: London’s Barbican At 40
"Part bastion, part Brutalist Hanging Gardens of Babylon," it's is a city-within-a-city in the heart of old London, with apartments, schools, pubs, an artificial...
Duvall Hecht, Pioneer Of Commercial Audiobooks, Dead At 91
As an Angeleno with an hour-long commute, he was desperate to escape the "bad music and worse news" on radio and started listening to...
Forgotten Design By Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Has Now Been Built
The 1952 design was initially commissioned by a fraternity at Indiana University, but money ran out before construction could begin in earnest. The plans...
Another Major Chicago Theater Is Losing Its Longtime Director
"Barbara Gaines will exit her position as artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company she founded some 36 years ago, … likely at...
Another NPR Host Departs
Sam Sanders, who joined the network in 2009 and has hosted the radio show/podcast It's Been A Minute with Sam Sanders since 2017, said...
Owner Of Barnes & Noble And Waterstones Buys Britain’s Largest Independent Bookstore Chain
Blackwell's, a 143-year-old family business with 18 bookshops which went up for sale last month, has been purchased by hedge fund Elliott Advisors, which...
Russian Airstrike Destroys Kharkiv’s Opera House And Concert Hall
A large Russian missile was fired at Freedom Square in the center of Ukraine's second-largest city, causing severe damage to the Kharkiv State Academic...
Anna Netrebko Withdraws From All Performances “Until Further Notice”
The Russian soprano, a former protégée of Gergiev and supporter of Putin who has come under pressure to denounce the invasion of Ukraine, said...
Suddenly, Ireland’s Film Industry Is Booming
"Ireland is now host to dozens of international feature films in production or post-production and a multitude of TV series,' with spending in the...
Theater’s Dance Audition Call Becomes TikTok Craze
"What began as a legitimate audition call for the St. Louis theatre had become a micro-trend on TikTok, the short-form video app that has...
Birmingham Will Host A Six-Month Arts Festival Alongside This Summer’s Commonwealth Games
"Birmingham 2022 festival will include more than 200 events from March to September across the West Midlands and will involve more than 100,000 participants,...
Gemma New Named Principal Conductor Of New Zealand Symphony, Her Hometown Orchestra
The 35-year-old Wellington native, principal guest conductor of the Dallas Symphony and music director of the Hamilton (Ont.) Philharmonic, is not only the first...
Zelensky’s Previous Career As A Performer Was Useful Preparation For His Current Role
Says one academic observer, "He's used to being in front of a camera. He's used to performing. While before this conflict his poll numbers...
Dubai’s Architecturally Fabulous New Museum Of The Future
In recent years, Abu Dhabi has been the United Arab Emirate to build and open high-profile museums in eye-catching new buildings. Now Dubai has...
Missouri School Board Reverses Ban On Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye”
Last month, the school board in Wentzville, a suburb of St. Louis, voted 4-3 to have the book removed from all district libraries because...
Russian Invaders Burn Ukrainian Museum To The Ground
The Historical and Local History Museum in the city of Ivankiv, about 50 miles north of Kyiv, was destroyed on Sunday. It housed 25...
The New Host Of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday: Ayesha Rascoe
Currently the network's White House correspondent, Rascoe formally succeeds Lulu Garcia-Navarro in late March. - NPR
Edinburgh International Festival’s Next Director: Violinist Nicola Benedetti
The 34-year-old Ayrshire native will be the first woman and the first Scot to head the country's flagship arts event in its 75-year history....
Valery Gergiev Fired As Chief Conductor Of Munich Philharmonic
The Bavarian capital's mayor followed through on his warning that the Russian maestro would be dismissed if he didn't denounce Putin's invasion of Ukraine....
What Is It That Makes A Group Of Neighboring Venues Into An “Arts District”?
For a start, there should be multiple art forms available and multiple points of entry, both physical and metaphorical. - ArtsHub (Australia)
Not Only Are TV Series Episodes Longer These Days, They’re No Longer At Standardized...
"Freed from the need to fill a half-hour (actually, 21 minutes with commercials) or an hourlong (e.g., 44 minutes plus ads) time slot in...
The Transcript Of The Emmett Till Murder Trial Is Put Onstage For The First...
The Chicago company Collaboraction has edited the proceedings of the 1955 case — in which an all-white Mississippi jury acquitted two white men who...
Paloma Herrera Walks Away From The Helm Of Buenos Aires’s Leading Ballet Company
In 2017, after 20 years as a principal at ABT, Herrera became artistic director of the Ballet Estable del Teatro Colón, where she trained...
After 46 Years, San Diego Repertory Theatre’s Founding Artistic Director Is Retiring
In 1976, Sam Woodhouse and D.W. Jacobs launched a theater company "for a San Diego that didn't exist at the time" — cosmopolitan, with...
This Literary Journal Was Philadelphia’s Answer To The Harlem Renaissance
"Black Opals" had only four issues, in 1927-28, but it's now among the most requested items in the Free Library of Philadelphia's rare books...
