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Pianist Yundi Li Arrested On Immorality Charge In Beijing
Li, who earned fame in the West in the '00s and became a household name in China, was arrested with a sex worker —...
Alec Baldwin, Firing Prop Gun On Set, Kills Cinematographer And Wounds Director
While filming a scene on location near Santa Fe for the feature Rust, which he co-wrote, is producing and stars in, Baldwin discharged a...
Bernard Haitink, Revered Conductor, Dead At 92
Known especially for his Mahler and Bruckner, Haitink had long tenures at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera...
Facebook Agrees To Pay News Outlets In France For Content
"Facebook said Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that...
What Monica Lewinsky’s Documentary About Public Shaming Completely Misunderstands
In HBO's 15 Minutes of Shame, Lewinsky — the prototype victim of worldwide public humiliation via the media — argues that today's Twitter-driven pile-ons...
Is This 12 Hours Of Documentary Theatre Or Is It Displaying People As If...
The show 12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse consists solely of dozens of people talking about, or actually doing, what they do for a...
Tribute Or Marketing Stunt (Or Both)? Secretive Seattle Street Artist Stalks Manhattan Recreating “Shadowman”
Richard Hambleton painted his dark silhouette figures around the Lower East Side in the 1980s, becoming "the godfather of street art." The artist known...
Picasso Lived His Entire Life In France Under Surveillance
"For more than 40 years, his Catalan connections, his communist leanings and his celebrity made him a suspect in the eyes of the French...
With His “Team TERF” Routine, Dave Chappelle Dishonors A Long Line Of Great Black...
Artists from Richard Pryor to Moms Mabley to Ma Rainey "took big risks to affirm LGBTQ people and be honest about their own sexuality....
Disgraced During #MeToo, Garrison Keillor Tries For A Comeback
Five years after he retired from A Prairie Home Companion, four years after accusations led public radio and publishers to drop him, Keillor is...
Black Americans Should Absolutely Appropriate European Opera (Though Not Necessarily Like This): John McWhorter
Writes the Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones and William Grant Still's Highway...
The Believer, Award-Winning Literary Magazine, To Close
The announcement comes seven months after high-profile editor Joshua Wolf Shenk was forced to resign after an indecent exposure incident on Zoom and multiple...
Interpol Says Illegal Excavations Of Cultural Heritage Sites Soared During Pandemic
"Africa saw an increase in offenses related to digs, up from 44 incidents in 2019 to 153 in 2020. The starkest increase occurred in...
Nine Years In Prison For Former Principal At English National Ballet
Yat-Sen Chang was convicted on twelve counts of sexual assault on female students in London between 2009 and 2016. Born and trained in Cuba,...
England’s Theatres Are Open, No Masks Or Distancing Required, And Feelings Are Mixed
"How are theater fans feeling about this new normal? Has the pandemic changed what they're seeing, and how they're seeing it? We spoke to...
The Strange Journey Of South Africa’s Most Popular Magazine
Perhaps surprisingly in 2021, that magazine is in Afrikaans: Huisgenoot ("Home Companion"), founded in 1916 to help form a national Afrikaner consciousness in the...
The Mind-Boggling History That Shapes South Korea’s Popular Cultural Exports
Think about it: Parasite and Squid Game are pretty weird: intense drama, occasional shocking violence and dark satire jumbled with juvenile humor and an...
Tom Lehrer, Remembered By Someone Who Was At His First And Last Public Concerts
Jeremy Bernstein: "When I was a graduate student Tom and I sometimes had lunch at the (Harvard) Graduate Center. On one occasion a student...
Native American Radio In The Big City
There's a long history of radio serving indigenous Americans, but most of it involves dedicated stations serving individual tribes in rural areas. Here's a...
Meet America’s Oldest Working Actor
In Chicago, Mike Nussbaum, 97, is "a part of theatrical history. And the people who run the theaters all know me. They know that...
The Wildly Popular Immersive Art Experiences Of The Late 1800s
"Never heard of cycloramas? Understandable, since they have all but vanished from memory. There are still a few around, though, reminders that, in their...
A Lifeline For Boys Who Get Tormented For Studying Ballet
"Through town halls and one-on-one virtual mentorships, which are open to dancers around the world," Boys Who Dance "aims to help students overcome bullying,...
First There Was Wall Street’s “Charging Bull”. Then Came “Fearless Girl”. Now There’s A...
Why? Because capitalism has gone bananas. So now there are 10,000 bananas (real ones) piled around Charging Bull, with a seven-foot statue of the...
WBEZ And The Chicago Sun-Times: Can Public Radio Really Rescue Print Journalism?
"Similar mergers and acquisitions have become a common way to bolster the struggling print industry, but if radio were to take on a major...
The Returning Broadway Audience Has A Whole New Set Of Pre-Show Rituals
"Coming back has entailed a few adjustments: the ability to deftly juggle proofs of vaccination and photo IDs and tickets to get inside; preshow...
