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Why Morocco Is Pouring Money Into Rabat’s Arts Scene
King Mohammed VI's government says it's making art accessible to more ordinary people and promoting Morocco as an island of stability; some artists and...
Afghan TV And Radio Try To Hang On Under The Taliban
More than 250 media outlets have closed since the takeover; those that remain are losing their audience because people are scared of being caught...
It’s A Minor Miracle No One Died On The Set Of “The Wizard Of...
"The drama behind the scenes … would make several people's heads melt like the Wicked Witch of the West." Margaret Hamilton caught on fire,...
When Newspapers Die, What Happens To Their Archives?
There's no established procedure, alas, so the fate of the archives depends on the particular location and owner. (We're looking at you, News Corp.)...
The First NFTs Of Ballet (You Knew This Was Coming)
Natalia Osipova of London's Royal Ballet is selling specially-filmed of three duets with fiancé Jason Kittelberger, who says they hope to fund a new...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin To Take Four Weeks Off From Conducting
His sabbatical will run from Dec. 19 to Jan. 10; he has withdrawn from the Met's January revival of The Marriage of Figaro and...
Mosque Dating To Earliest Decades Of Islam Uncovered In Iraq
The mud structure in the southern province of Dhi Qar is small, roughly 26 feet by 16 feet and has been dated to 679...
Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2021 Is Something People Have Been Fighting About
"Vaccine" was the choice because of repeated spikes in traffic: searches of the word this year are up 601% from 2020 and 1,048% over...
Ticket Sales For England’s Christmas Pantos Are Lagging, And Theatres Are Getting Nervous
Sales are down by a third from 2019, and research indicates that many audience members remain wary of attending while COVID case numbers are...
Germany’s New Government Appoints A High-Profile Culture Minister
Claudia Roth, one of the Green Party's top leaders and vice president of the federal parliament, started her career as a theater worker and...
This Virtuoso Horn Player Works The Valves With His Left Foot
Felix Klieser, 30, was born without arms. Even so, he graduated from a German conservatory and made a recording at age 22 that won...
How The Temple Dancers Of South India Fought Back Against “Moral Reform”
In the 19th century, prompted by the disapproval of Protestant missionaries who wanted Hindu temple dancing banned, some Tamil reformers campaigned for the performers,...
Using Medieval Mystery Plays To Revive The Cornish Language
This year was the third full production in modern times of the Ordinalia, a cycle of three 14th-century mystery plays originally written in the...
The Problem With Piling Prosthetics On Actors To Make Them Look Like The Famous...
"These inspired-by-real-life prosthetics are meant to bring authenticity, but they have a perverse way of achieving the opposite. … Playing people as heavily televised...
Anderson Cooper Visits Caligula’s Pleasure Garden
A gay silver-fox fantasy come to life? Nope, sorry. In 2006, workers excavating for an underground parking garage found what archaeologists determined was a...
Japan’s Grand Old Man Of Anime Is Making One Last Film
Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli said in 2013 that he was retiring. Now, aged 80, he's back at work, the film titled How Do...
He Was A Child Laborer, Then A Homeless Migrant. Now He’s A Prizewinning Filmmaker...
P.S. Vinothraj worked in a flower market at age nine and a sweatshop at 14. At 19 he ran to the big city (Chennai)...
How Right-Wingers Tried To Turn Thanksgiving Into A Celebration Of Free Enterprise And Rejection...
This was not some scheme dreamed up by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or even the Cato Institute: this particular intellectual endeavor goes all...
This AI Algorithm Could Help Us Figure Out Shakespeare
No, not his actual identity, we're afraid. But, if not the definitively correct version of the text of a play or poem, at least...
Italy’s “Netflix For The Arts” Is Now Open Across Europe
"ITsART … was rolled out across 26 European countries on Tuesday, with plans to expand into the U.S. and China next year. … Prices...
Britain’s Collins Dictionary Declares “NFT” Word Of The Year 2021
It's hard to believe now, but it was only this March that Beeple sold his original non-fungible token artwork for $69 million, setting off...
After George Floyd And Breanna Taylor, Do We Need TV Cop Shows To Change?
"The ways in which Brooklyn Nine-Nine and NCIS: New Orleans reacted to a changing cultural and political environment were rudimentary: some timely references inserted...
How A Lifetime Of Cross-Dressing Helped Aurore Dupin Dudevant Become George Sand
When she was a child, her officer father dressed her up as a mini-me in full uniform. As a young woman, she moved freely...
The Biblioburro, A Four-Hooved Bookmobile For Rural Colombia
When Luís Soriano began teaching, he saw that his students made little progress — and ultimately realized that, in their isolated homes, they had...
Africa’s Cultural Institutions Can Teach Us A Few Things About Audience Development
A museum in Benin offers free bus rides to students and recruits popular musicians to help with publicity. MACAAL in Marrakech invited taxi drivers...
