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The Sweet Old Professor Who Saved Iceland’s Ancient Literary Heritage From Danish Fire
Árni Magnússon, who undertook Iceland's first-ever census and land survey, was a near-obsessive manuscript collector; he gathered many thousands of medieval documents, sagas, and...
What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure?...
Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets...
Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned Most Of Hollywood’s History, Dead At 106
He started his working life onstage with Eva Le Gallienne and Orson Welles; acted in films by Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, and Hitchcock (he was...
With New Hosts, NPR’s ‘Invisibilia’ Podcast Is Reorienting Itself
"'Something we've thought about for a long time is how the show has historically had a strong emphasis on the individual and the internal...
Most Plays Are Just Better Without Intermissions
Charles McNulty: "I prefer to experience plays the way I experience films at the movie theater — uninterrupted. At night when I awake momentarily...
Race Is On To Save Boston Mansion Designed, Inside And Out, By Louis Comfort...
"The mansion was recently listed for sale — along with an adjoining building — with an asking price of $22.5 million. That has caused...
Dance With Prosthetic Limbs Is Getting More And More Creative
"Consider Belgian hip-hop artist Angelina Bruno. A star of the European dance circuit whose right arm was amputated at the forearm as a teenager,...
I Have A Prosthetic Leg. Dancing Has Transformed My Relationship With It.
Mickaella Dantas: "It took me a while to consider working with my prosthesis, since it has a limited range of flexibility. I struggled with...
One Down, Two To Go: Met Opera Reaches Labor Agreement With Chorus
"The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists — which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — is the first of the...
Turner Prize Finalist Group Calls Out Turner Prize: ‘Extractive And Exploitative’
From the statement released by Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), one of five art-and-social-justice collectives nominated for this year's prize: "The urgency with which...
West End Theatre Folk Look Eagerly, Nervously Toward Reopening
"What's it actually like for the theatermakers who are starting work again after 15 months? Has the pandemic shaped the way they think about...
Status Report: When And How Various Countries Are Restarting Their Arts Scenes
Here's where plans currently stand in Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Spain, as well as the U.S. -...
Maybe Hollywood Could Just Give Up On The Golden Globes Entirely
Kyle Buchanan: "That's the thing about awards: These trophies are only as important as the recipients believe them to be, and now that the...
The WPA is history
New York City has announced a new program, City Artist Corps, inspired by FDR's Works Progress Administration. There are two major problems with launching...
A Soldier’s Tale for Today — Premiered
As I put it in a program note: “It’s a COVID-period entertainment: compact, flexible, rejecting Romantic symphonic upholstery in favor of a dry, caustic...
Setting Of James Joyce’s ‘The Dead’ Is Being Turned Into A Hostel, Sending Literary...
The unassuming 18th-century townhouse at 15 Usher's Island is where Joyce's great-aunts ran a music school, and their annual Epiphany dinner was the model...
A Musical About COVID, Titled ‘Breathe’
"Before we get to the logistics of writing, staging and filming a musical" — one with five songwriting teams, four directors plus a supervisor,...
Berlin Film Festival Will Get A Live Version This Year After All — Outdoors
"The Berlin Film Festival, which took place online earlier this year, will show most of the movies that were part of the competition at...
Conductor Christian Thielemann Is Losing His Job
The culture ministry of the German state of Saxony has announced that Thielemann's contract as music director of the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of Europe's...
‘Irreparable Damage’ — Scholars Protest Newark Museum’s Plan To Deaccession Artworks
"When the Newark Museum of Art announced a plan to sell 17 objects in March, it provided few details as to which artworks might...
Penn State University To Build Largest Art Museum Between Philadelphia And Pittsburgh
"The new 71,000-square-foot facility will be constructed alongside the botanic gardens at the university’s arboretum. It will increase the size of the museum...
Houston Symphony’s Music Director, Stranded In Europe By Pandemic, Misses Last Two Weeks Of...
Andres Orozco-Estrada hasn't been back to Texas to conduct his orchestra for a year, but he had been planning to return for concerts May...
More Trouble For Golden Globes As NBC Drops Broadcast
"NBC will not air the Golden Globes in 2022, the network said in a statement on Monday morning. This means the Hollywood Foreign Press...
Architect Helmut Jahn, 81, Killed In Bicycle-Car Collision
He's best-known for a series of major buildings in Chicago, including the Thompson Center, the Xerox Center (now 55 West Monroe), the addition to...
Performance Venues And Museums In UK May Reopen Next Monday (Though Many Will Not)
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the lifting of a series of pandemic-related restrictions as of May 17; the new measures include the reopening...
