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The Final Christo/Jeanne-Claude Project Is Happening! Isn’t It?
Earlier this month, there were reports that Mastaba, a 500-foot-tall quasi-pyramid made of 410,000 brightly colored steel barrels and planned for a desert site...
Artist Carmen Herrera, Whose Big Break Came When She Was 89, Is Dead At...
"Critics and collectors, once made aware that Ms. Herrera existed, were rapt by the intensity of her work, which she achieved by juxtaposing geometric...
After Three Years With No Hosts, This Year’s Oscars Will Have Three Of Them
Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, and Wanda Sykes — "an all-female team with broad appeal and comedic chops" — are in final talks to serve...
The Extravagantly Painted Chapels Of Michoacán
The walls and ceilings of these old places of worship, some of them dating back to the 1600s, illustrate Catholic stories and teachings and...
The Rwandan Women’s Percussion Group Bringing Hutu And Tutsi Together
"Ingoma Nshya, … founded by Odile Gakire Katese in 2004, … arose to heal divisions after the 1994 genocide, which left around 800,000 people...
Will Dance Companies Keep Experimenting With Film And Video After They’re Performing Live Again?
"Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going." - Dance Magazine
Defining Afrofuturism (Can It Be Done?)
With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that's even...
“What If John Lennon Was A World-Class Intellectual With An Insatiable Curiosity For Third...
A long, loving profile of Caetano Veloso, who has transformed Brazilian music more than once, was a famous exile during the dictatorship, and has...
An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever
"Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the 'ballsy' episode that...
Remember Ski Ballet?
"On social media, it's easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport...
Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?
"Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their...
Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”
"The books are kind of incidental. What we're really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?...
Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations
The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters....
Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival
Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival's chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she'll...
New York State Is Dropping Mask Requirements, But Broadway Is Not
"Broadway's mask and vaccination policy will remain in place through at least April 30, the most recent extension date for the policy announced last...
Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four...
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...
