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Australia’s Conservative Government Refuses To Insure Arts Against COVID Closures
"(Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Coalition) government has rejected a call by the Greens and Labor to provide Australia's live performance sector with an insurance...
The Scheme That Saved Classical Music In Melbourne Is Expanding To The Rest Of...
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed 430 performances, with over $1.6 million going to musicians during one of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world....
Climate Change Is Damaging Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art
Veteran archaeologists have noted visible changes just over the past half-century or less. Much of the rock art is painted on sandstone, which absorbs...
Zadie Smith Never Meant To Write A Play. A Press Release Made Her Do...
First of all, when her neighborhood submitted a bid to be London's Borough of Culture, she agreed to participate, thinking it wouldn't win. Then...
Jimmie Durham, Native American Artist And Activist (Or Was He?), Dead At 81
"(He was) celebrated for incorporating traditional Native American imagery and materials into lively, unconventional sculptures before his claim of Cherokee ancestry was widely challenged,...
How Children’s Radio Grew Popular And Then Faded Away
"Back in April, the only real player in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, which started life on the airwaves 25 years ago...
Finally, A Creative is Suing Over A Hollywood Studio’s Creative Accounting Of Profits
Studios have long had a reputation for promising actors or writers a percentage of a movie's profits, then using accounting tricks to show that...
One Of New York’s Biggest Collections Of Antiquities Is In The Manhattan DA’s Office
"The Antiquities Trafficking Unit is very much a victim of its own success. Set up in 2017 … to curb the smuggling of cultural...
Even Ancient Egyptian Relief Carvers Had Interns, And They Messed Up Sometimes, Too
"Scholars have long believed that apprentices learned their craft before they were allowed to carve reliefs for rooms like this one," the Chapel of...
Alumni Of University Of Utah’s Ballet Program Describe Body-Shaming, Intimidation, And Prejudice
A dozen graduates wrote letters describing abusive and sometimes racist language as well as body-shaming and authoritarian attitudes. The school's current director says progress...
More Than Half Of Arts And Heritage Jobs In UK Were Lost Due To...
"(A study) revealed the industry suffered a 60% decline in output because of restrictions. It said about 55% of jobs — 450,000 people —...
2021 National Book Awards Go To Jason Mott, Tiya Miles, Malinda Lo, Martín Espada,...
Mott's Hell of a Book won for fiction; Miles's All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack for nonfiction; Lo's Last Night at...
Many Of The Ancient Roman Stoics Were Proto-Feminists
Gaius Musonius Rufus wrote plainly, "If then men and women are born with the same virtues, the same type of training and education must,...
Former Ballerina To Get All Of €61,000 After Three-Decade-Long Case Against La Scala
Sabina Galasso was a member of La Scala Ballet's corps when, in 1991, the visiting Rudolf Nureyev picked her out for a lead in...
Fifteen-Second Book Reviews On TikTok Have Amassed 26 Billion Views
BookTok, as it's known, is an unusually lively corner of the mini-video app's subculture: the most popular reviewers can get a couple hundred thousand...
Māori To New Zealand Anti-Vaxxers: Stop Using Our Dance In Your Protests
The haka is a traditional (and rather intimidating) pre-battle dance that's been made famous by New Zealand's national rugby team. Demonstrators who oppose vaccine...
Does Method Acting Have A Future In The 21st Century?
The Method's two main teachers in America, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner, said in 1979 that they doubted it would outlive them. Well, it's...
Playwright Ed Bullins, Leader Of Black Arts Movement, Dead At 86
"Over a 55-year career in which he produced nearly 100 plays, Mr. Bullins sought to reflect the Black urban experience unmitigated by the expectations...
King Solomon’s Mines, Archaeology, And Arguments Over The Old Testament’s Historical Accuracy
New finds at a remote site that's been identified, dismissed, and re-identified as the Israelite monarch's fabled copper mines have reignited debates about whether...
Nobel-Winning Writer Orhan Pamuk Charged — Again — With Insulting Turkey And Turkishness
The particular crimes he's accused of this time are insulting Atatürk and making fun of the Turkish flag in his latest novel, Nights of...
4,500-Year-Old Sun Temple Uncovered In Egypt
A team of archaeologists working at Abu Ghurab, 12 miles south of Cairo, discovered this temple underneath the ruins of a temple that had...
Frida Soars Past Diego For Most Expensive Work Of Latin American Art Ever Sold
At an auction on Tuesday at Sotheby's New York, Frida Kahlo's self-portrait Diego y yo (depicting an image of her husband, Diego Rivera, on...
Spain Drops Post-Brexit Visa Requirement For British Musicians
"Spain's announcement means UK musicians and their crew will no longer need visas for engagements of less than 90 days, a change in policy...
Being Bilingual Really Does Help Your Brain. It Took America A Long Time...
From the start of World War I, for about 50 years, scientists and the government were convinced that using another language alongside English decreased...
Davóne Tines Is Transforming The Song Recital — And Maybe Even Classical Singing Itself
The bass-baritone has made programming an art in itself, building evenings around a sermon or a Langston Hughes poem, slipping from Bach to jazz...
