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So Who Made Pantone The Boss Of Colors Anyway?
Pantone started out, under another name, as a printing company, and one of its employees, Larry Herbert, got tired of trying to figure out...
‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which now seems almost anodyne, was the subject of a criminal prosecution in 1960, but Lolita, which came out the previous...
Ice Music: Performing Pieces On, And For, Literally Frozen Instruments
"Carved instruments can be either completely made of ice, such as horns and percussion, or hybrids, like harps, in which the main body is...
On Zoom, Vimeo, PBS, Or An iPod, If A Theatre Company Does It, Is...
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form....
At The Detroit Symphony’s Virtual Orchestra Hall, Inside The Head Of A (Virtual) Listener
Michael Andor Brodeur: "I'm 'here' to virtually attend a rehearsal of Stride, a stirring newer work from the British composer Anna Clyne. And Clyne...
Where AI Can Really Help Public Radio
That would be transcription, which is prohibitively expensive to do for every segment but which makes it far easier for potential users to find...
Roger Englander, Pioneering Producer Of Classical Music On TV, Dead At 94
At NBC in Philadelphia, he produced the first-ever telecast of a complete opera, Menotti's The Telephone, and he followed up by putting together Menotti's...
Requiring Audiences To Present Vaccine Passports — Would It Be Feasible?
On the surface, it certainly seems as if asking ticket buyers to show proof of COVID vaccination would be a good, quick way to...
Mausoleum Of Emperor Augustus, Long Neglected, Now Restored and Reopening
"Still imposing after 2,000 years, a vast funerary monument that was once the resting place of Rome's emperors is to reopen to visitors on...
Six Dr. Seuss Books Withdrawn For ‘Hurtful And Wrong’ Portrayals
"Six Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — will...
Alan Bowness, 93, Former Director Of Tate Galleries And Co-Founder Of Turner Prize
"The internationally renowned scholar was the first trained art historian to become director of London's Tate Gallery, a position he held from 1980 to...
What’s Anthony Hopkins’s Secret? ‘No Acting Required’
"If you follow a superb screenplay, the language is a road map, and so you don't have to act.. … When you learn that...
MIT Has Figured Out How To Read Unopened 17th-Century Letters
In those days before mass-produced envelopes, important letters were intricately folded and then sewn shut; until now, modern-day scholars couldn't read such items without...
Reviewing The First Play Written By An Artificial Intelligence Bot
"The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer's imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most...
What Was ‘The Mona Lisa Of Ancient Egypt’? A Gaggle Of Geese
"Called Meidum Geese, the painting was discovered in the 1800s in the Chapel of Itet at Meidum. Itet was the wife of the vizier...
What Happens When Public TV And Radio Stations Combine With Digital News Startups
"The cultures of public media (nonprofit, built around broadcast, sometimes a little sleepy) and digital news startups (often for-profit, built around text, real-time and...
Glimmerglass Opera Festival To Build Outdoor Stage For 2021
The opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, directed by Francesca Zambello, will offer — in "the most ventilated area we could find" — 90-minute...
Texas Ballet Theatre Loses Its Headquarters To Winter Storm
The snow and frigid temperatures that struck Texas in late February caused "a massive water pipe break" at the company's office/studio complex in Fort...
Stratford Festival Will Open This Summer, But With A Short Season Held In Tents
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to...
Unknown Titian Painting Identified In English Village Church
"The Last Supper was gifted to St Michael and All Angels Church in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1909. Art historian Ronald Moore believes he has...
‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
"The chariot is preserved in remarkable detail, officials say, with four iron wheels, metal armrests and backrests, and a seat perched atop that could...
UK To Spend Another Half Biillion For Arts Sector’s COVID Recovery
The government is topping up the £1.57 billion ($1.9 billion) Culture Recovery Fund announced last July with an extra £300 million ($416 million), with...
Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
The Met's premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD's relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for "care of the collection,"...
Rajie Cook, Who Designed The Pictograms We See Everywhere, Dead At 90
"In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Mr. Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to...
The History Of ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japan
"It was not the 'alien' music that disturbed the Japanese audience" at the Tokyo premiere in 1914 (there had been a Western music school...