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Krista Tippett’s “On Being” Is Leaving Public Radio To Go Podcast-Only
"Alongside its sister show, Poetry Unbound, On Being will move from a weekly radio production to a seasonal podcast model. The show plans a...
Julian Schnabel’s Big Show In Spain Is Postponed Because All The Truckers Are On...
"Schnabel's 23-painting show at the Centro de Arte Comporaneo (in Málaga) was expected to open on Friday, but it will no longer kick off...
On Artists, Addiction, And The End Of The Myth That The Two Go Together
"It's incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. ... The myth of the high-functioning...
The Author Of The Graphic Memoir “Gender Queer” On Having Her Life Story Caught...
Maia Kobabe: "I'm learning that a book being challenged or banned does not hurt the book and does not hurt the author. The book...
This Brave And Skillful Actor Is On Standby For Every Male Role In “Hamilton”
"Jimmie 'JJ' Jeter ... is halfway down the Australian Hamilton cast list, described merely as 'standby'. But he's played every single male role in...
These Days, Being A Public Librarian In America Can Be Dangerous
Amanda Oliver, author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, recounts some incidents from her years working in the DC library system, cautioning against...
With Hollywood Cutting Them Off, Russian Movie Theaters Are Turning To Bollywood
Without access to big American blockbusters that reliably put butts in their seats, cinema chains in Russia will turn to domestically-made films as well...
At Nearly 80, Meredith Monk Is Finally Creating Music Other Performers Can Do Without...
"It's difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. ... When other people want...
A Dance Company Finds Its Way After The Sudden Death Of Its Founder
When Nai-Ni Chen died in a swimming accident in Hawaii last December, her company's executive director — also her widower, Andrew Chiang — was...
The Oscar-Nominated Film “CODA” Will Be Adapted As A Stage Musical
The adaptation will be done by the film's producers and Deaf West Theatre, the Los Angeles company known for its hit Broadway productions of...
Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery
"A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as...
Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel...
The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced "Parris Pluss" or "Paree Pluice"?) - Artnet
We’ve Been Calling Machu Picchu By The Wrong Name All This Time
"A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO World Heritage Site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu...
John Waters On Today’s Climate Of Political Correctness And Incorrectness
"I'm happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young … we used political incorrectness...
As Tech Marches On And Formats Fade Away, Preserving Old Audio Becomes Ever More...
"Modern digital storage is still expensive and data and audio/video can be lost when older websites are no longer technologically supported, when links become...
NK-Pop: The Kitschy, Catchy Music Of Kim Jong-Un’s Workers’ Paradise
"Try to imagine a mashup between a communist Kraftwerk and an authoritarian Abba." Classic "hits" include "Let's Defend Socialism", "Peace Is On Our Bayonet",...
Listeners Using Smart Watches May Be Added To Radio Ratings
In Australia, "measurement provider GfK began rolling out its MediaWatch, a wristwatch that uses audio matching technology to identify what stations participants are listening...
A New Generation Of Women Choreographers Arrives On Australia’s Stages
In the decade before the pandemic, male choreographers were getting three times the number of commissions female ones got from major companies in the...
The Latest Example Of Why Writers Should Stay Out Of Twitter Fights And Avoid...
Lauren Hough's Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing was a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Memoir — until this week, when...
17th-Century Tapestry Is Complete Again, 42 Years After A Portion Was Cut And Stolen
In 1980, an art thief known as "Erik the Belgian" stole a set of half a dozen Flemish tapestries, created by a follower of...
For Its First New Immersive Show In Nine Years, Punchdrunk Chose A Timely Story
The Trojan War and siege of Troy are the subject of The Burnt City, the latest environmental theatre piece from the creators of Sleep...
For The Arts In Other Post-Soviet Republics, It Is Not Business As Usual
"Putin's distortion of history and second-guessing sovereign states is a direct threat to our country also," said one Latvian arts executive. "Aside from experiencing...
Striking Technicians At Chicago’s PBS Station Are Serious
Says one official at the IBEW union local, "We've had a contract with WTTW since 1955 and we've never had a problem of this...
The New Museum Housing Vast Treasures Of Medieval Georgian Art
The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest...
Collector Budi Tek, Who Helped Create The Contemporary Asian Art Scene As We Know...
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those...
