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Rock Musicians Are Getting Into NFTs. It’s Going To Be Messy.
"At the end of February, Grimes sold 10 pieces of digital artwork as NFTs for $6m, while Deadmau5 has offered bundles including music and...
Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids...
Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code...
Why Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia Lend ‘Salvator Mundi’ To The Louvre? Spite, Basically
History's most expensive artwork, purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, was supposed to be part of the...
Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear
On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading ("a place...
The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata
"Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art...
"The has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top...
Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88
Night after night, through multiple performances of a production's run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city's entire opera community...
What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake
Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at...
Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport
There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold's Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper...
It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship
"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...
Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield
"After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate...
Behold The World’s Largest Collection Of Magazines
" Hyman's collection now stands at around 150,000 editions of roughly 5,000 titles. They form the bulk of HYMAG, a dedicated magazine library housed...
Join the Conversation
I have said before here that the time for talk is long past and that figuring out a way to prod real action on...
Video Game Technology Helps Recreate Sound Of 16th-Century Scotland’s Chapel Royal
"Researchers have captured how they believe choral music would have sounded when played and sung in the now-ruined chapel at Linlithgow Palace, west Lothian,...
As Performances In Italy Remain Banned, Competitive Ballroom Dancing Waltzes On
" are preparing for the Italian Championships in Rimini in July and as such are allowed to keep practicing, given that the government considers...
Recreating A 2,000-Year-Old South Indian Lyre
The yazh is a seven- or 14-stringed harp, built over a wooden bowl resonator covered with hide like a drum, that's referenced in Tamil...
‘What If Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare, But Someone Else Wrote Him First?’
That's how one scholar summarizes the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were written, yes, by the glover's son from Stratford-upon-Avon — but...
Manfred Fischbeck, Who Built Audience For Avant-Garde Dance In Philadelphia, Dead At 80
"For more than 50 years, was an indefatigable contributor to the contemporary experimental dance scene in Philadelphia and around the world. … Mr....
Right-Wing Populists In Europe Are Going After Public Broadcasters
"In some countries, such as Hungary and Poland, illiberal governments are turning them into mouthpieces for the ruling party. In others, such as Germany...
Bayeux Tapestry May Be Too Damaged To Travel To UK
There was quite some excitement in January of 2018 when President Emmanuel Macron announced that the 950-year-old, 2,300-foot-long needlework depicting the Norman Conquest would...
California’s Arts Institutions Will Reopen June 15 (Won’t They?)
"California officials shocked the performing arts community Tuesday when they announced plans to fully reopen the economy June 15 if certain vaccination and hospitalization...
Suspect Arrested For Theft Of Van Gogh And Hals Paintings In Netherlands
"The police announced on Tuesday morning that they had arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of stealing both Vincent Van Gogh's The Parsonage Garden...
India Eliminates Appeals Of Film Censorship Board’s Decisions
"The Indian federal government has passed an order that scraps the Information and Broadcasting ministry's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, the first avenue of appeal...
Morris Dickstein, Cultural Historian And Literary Critic, Dead At 81
"A self-described 'freethinking intelligence yet a child of the ghetto,' … a public intellectual who examined such topics as the cultural ferment of...
Latvia’s Huge Body Of Traditional Poetry Is Finally Appearing in English
The verses, typically four lines long and metrical, are called daina. Thanks to an effort to transcribe them in the 19th and 20th centuries,...
