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Inigo Philbrick, “The Bernie Madoff Of Art Dealers”, Will Plead Guilty To Fraud
In 2020 he was indicted on multiple charges of wire fraud and identity theft and fled to Vanuatu in the South Pacific, where he...
After 80 Years, The “City Of Arts” Diego Rivera Dreamed Of Is Open
"The 13-building complex opened this weekend (in Mexico City) with around 64,600 square feet of gardens, workshops, and performance and exhibition spaces." Amazingly, the...
Not Your Grandfather’s Native American Dance Troupe
"When Indigenous Enterprise appeared on World of Dance, Kenneth Shirley described the group's style as 'Native American with a little bit of hip-hop.' And...
“Internet Culture” Reporting Is Technology Reporting (So Let’s Call It That, Okay?)
Taylor Lorenz: "Why aren't internet culture writers, who are primarily women and people of color, seen simply as technology or culture reporters? And do...
What Happened To Tony Soprano In The End? “Sopranos” Showrunner David Chase Finally ‘Fesses...
Okay, it's not really a surprise, but we finally get confirmation from the guy who made the decision, along with his feelings about the...
Tomb Of Chief Official To Pharaoh Ramses II Uncovered
The 3,200-year-old monument was the burial place of Ptah-M-Wia, who was treasurer and chief scribe to Ramses the Great. It's one of many impressive...
Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Opens Its Brand-New Building
Chris Jones: "Contrary to the way it has sometimes been reported, Steppenwolf has not added a theater to its portfolio so much as replaced...
One Of The World’s Largest Ancient Mosaics Restored and Unveiled In Jericho
The tiled floor in Hisham's Palace in the West Bank city dates back to the 8th century and covers nearly 900 square feet. -...
By 2100, Venice Could Crumble Into The Sea, Warn Scientists
The European Geosciences Union reports that sea levels could rise three feet by the end of the century — and that's before the seasonal...
Middle East’s Leading English-Language Newspaper Shuts Down
The Daily Star was founded in Beirut in 1952 and relaunched in 1996, after Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. Having struggled financially for years, it...
The Old Soviet Novel That Was The Prototype For Orwell’s “1984”
Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, published 100 years ago, set 1,000 years in the future in a technologically controlled superstate, was the first novel ever banned...
AI Is Figuring Out Ancient Board Games — And Letting Us Play Them Online
Those games go back as far as cilivization does. Yet when archaeologists discover game boards and pieces, of course, they never find rule books....
Why #MeToo Isn’t Making Much Headway In Stand-Up Comedy
The female comics in the trenches of the club circuit say it remains a realm of "blatant misogyny" — and that #MeToo has only...
That Godawful Dorm Design For UCal-Santa Barbara? It May Be The Best We Can...
Henry Grabar lays out the web of dysfunction, failure, and perverse incentives that leads to a respected state university accepting, with no changes, a...
True Crime Books, Video, And Podcasts Are Massively Popular. Are They Brain-Rotting Junk Or...
There are arguments to be made on both sides. The Times gathers people to make them. - The New York Times
The Problem With New York City Ballet’s Balanchine
Jennifer Homans: "Balanchine, it seems, has become orthodox: classical, beautiful, the radical edges zipped up and smoothed. This is not the dancers' fault, nor...
Netflix Is A Drug, Its Algorithms Are Dealers, And David Foster Wallace Predicted It...
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos "recognized that viewers were addicts, and that his role was to supply what they wanted" whenever they wanted it. The...
Pianist Nelson Freire Dead At 77
"One of the most celebrated pianists of the second half of the 20th century, … The Guardian once wrote of him, 'few pianists alive...
Why Did The Old Vic Cancel “Into The Woods” So Suddenly Last Week? A...
The high-profile revival of the Sondheim musical was to be directed by Terry Gilliam (yes, from Monty Python), who has made some, er, controversial...
Why Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Important, Despite All The Censorship Controversy
"With 700,000 square feet of space, it is expected to be a major entry into the region's art scene. … Below, a look at...
Preserving Mexico’s Old-Time Popular Cinema — And Getting Some Respect From The World For...
"Had they not been rescued from a dusty storehouse seven years ago, the original negatives of hundreds of Mexican movies featuring the likes of...
Turns Out Poland Is A Hotbed Of Sacred Choral Music
Paweł Łukaszewski, now his nation's leading living composer, has written a lot of good music for choir. So have his Polish colleagues and predecessors...
Victorian “Penny Dreadful” Pulp Novels Actually Contributed To Improving British Society (No, Really)
The cheap, cheesy horror stories became so popular, especially among older children and teens, that they were arguably a bigger factor in spreading literacy...
James Ivory, Still Working At 93, Says His Life As A Gay Man Has...
The director half of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking duo (and the oldest person ever to win an Oscar) says he and Ismail Merchant weren't...
When Rudy Giuliani Tried To Shut Down The Brooklyn Museum
In a new memoir, Arnold Lehman, who was director of the museum at the time, looks back at the culture-war media circus that broke...
