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How “Sleep No More” Has Changed New York Theater — And Itself
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on...
The Two Pieces By George Crumb That Changed American Contemporary Classical Music
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of...
A Childhood Friend Of Charlie Chaplin Remembers His “Always Hungry”, “Ragged” Early Years
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a...
The Former President Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Remembers 36 Years In The...
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic...
The Real Story Behind The Famous Bust Of Nefertiti (It’s Not What You Probably...
It was not an object of veneration, it was not meant for public display, and it wasn't considered valuable in its day except to...
One Of Ukraine’s Strongest Defenses Against Russian Aggression Is The Ukrainian Language
For much of the past century in Ukraine, Russian has taken precedence over Ukrainian, even in the post-Soviet period. These days one hears more...
There’s A Whole Body Of Women’s Novels In Yiddish That Are Finally Reaching English-Speakers
The originals were mostly published as serials in Yiddish newspapers and never made it into bound volumes in any language until now. Says one...
Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English
Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken,...
The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won't get an individual medal at these games because he doesn't have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes...
One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age...
No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III
Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as "limb-different".) The production opens...
Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was...
The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace,...
A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State
"Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, ... the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists...
Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”
"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with...
The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.
Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry's owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place...
Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New...
The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn't been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract...
Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?
Ben Davis: "Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman's authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry...
Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?
Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?
"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...
