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A New Company Rises From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work...
Lloyd Dobyns, Anchor of ‘NBC News Overnight’ And ‘Weekend’, Dead At 85
He attracted national attention in the 1970s for his waggish style hosting NBC’s Weekend, where he was joined by the equally irreverent Linda Ellerbee....
Apple Buys Classical Streaming Service Primephonic — And Shuts It Down
The tech giant will take Primephonic offline next week and, it says, work on integrating the service's catalog and specialized search engine, with a...
Gary Graffman And Jennifer Higdon Leave Curtis Institute Faculty
Graffman, now 92 and formerly the music school's director and president, had been its leading piano teacher, with Yuja Wang and Lang Lang among...
A Giant Puppet Is Traveling Across Europe To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees. She’s...
Little Amal, a 20-foot representation of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl, is being walked by her handlers from Gazantiep, Turkey to Manchester, England. A...
Uruguay Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum
The Museo de Arte Contemporâneo Atchugarry, now under construction in the exclusive seaside resort town of Punta del Este, is being built and funded...
Eventually, One Gets Old Enough To Really Appreciate Proust
"Like Marcel, we've spent decades building our models of the world, and like him we're starting to see them for the gimcrack that they...
Thanks To Streaming, Indian TV Is More Daring Than It’s Ever Been (Or Is...
Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like...
At Last, Dorothy Parker Has A Tombstone, Complete With Epitaph
"Leave for her a red young rose,Go your way, and save your pity;She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty." ...
Nocturnes — The Best Music To Help With Your Pandemic-Induced Insomnia
From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep,...
This One Weird Trick Changed Medical Illustration Forever
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture...
For Over A Century, Black American Composers Have Gotten Attention In Europe That They...
From William Grant Still, William Dawson, and Florence Price to expatriates working there today, African-American composers whose music has been quickly forgotten here have...
Following In García Lorca’s Footsteps, Bringing Cinema To Remote Spanish Villages
In the 1930s, the poet and playwright co-founded La Barraca, a touring company that performed classical Spanish theatre in isolated hamlets. Now a project...
Bo Spassoff, Director Of The Rock School: The Exit Interview
"As he prepares to close this chapter of his career, Bo shares the lessons — for both teachers and students — that he's gleaned...
Broadway League Turns To Oprah To Convince Theatergoers To Come Back
Winfrey is narrator for the audio and video components of a multi-million-dollar campaign across print, broadcast, and social media to convince COVID-wary audience members...
Details Of Venice’s Planned Day-Tripper Tax Are Set
Regional lawmakers have approved a "contributo di accesso" ranging from €3 to €10 based on the time of year, and day visitors will have...
Actors Stranded In Sydney With No Work Or Money By Lockdown And Border Closures
With the Delta variant on the rise in the city, many Melbourne-based actors who had been performing in Sydney were contractually obligated to their...
The AI Program That Wrote A Guardian Essay Is Now Writing A Play
"The GPT-3 system argued (in the article) that humans had nothing to fear from robots. Kwame Kwei-Armah, artistic director of the Young Vic, read...
Why Does English Have No Equivalent Of The Académie Française? Pestilence
The Royal Society of London actually did attempt to start one in the winter of 1665, with a committee that included poets Abraham Cowley...
What’s The Torture In Today’s Russian Prison Camps? Eight Hours A Day Of State...
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny says the prison he's in isn't like the old Soviet gulag, with inmates doing hard labor in subzero weather. Instead,...
Desperate Venezuelans Turn To An Old Video Game To Earn Hard Currency
A large community has grown up around a now-outdated version of the online game RuneScape — and many players in rich countries don't want...
Emerson String Quartet Announces Retirement
The group, which for decades has been one of the world's most admired of its kind, said in a statement that it will close...
Who That Album Cover’s Naked Baby Is Today, And The Real Reason He’s Suing...
Spencer Elden claims that the band exploited him with what he now calls child pornography — but he's been exploiting that image of his...
L.A. Opera Builds All Scenery For New Production In Ten Days
The company's return to live performance, Verdi's Il trovatore, was to use sets from the Opéra de Monte-Carlo — but they're on a container...
Dealer Charged With Larceny And Fraud For Manufacturing Fake Antiquities
"Prosecutors say Mehrdad Sadigh, a New York antiquities dealer whose Sadigh Gallery has operated for decades in the shadow of the Empire State Building,...
