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Nobel Prize: Sweet!
Lucky in Manhattan to have a Japanese market nearby, and because I’m enticed by anything in a post-Pop package, I fell for Nobel’s Super...
Podcasts By Retired Sports Stars Are Becoming Big Business
"If athlete-driven podcasts were once shoestring affairs, they've now been absorbed into the sports-media economy. Last year, The Ringer was acquired by Spotify...
What If Elena Ferrante Is Really A Man?
Over the past few years, a series of stylometric analyses, employing both human brains and AI software, has found that the true identity of...
Kurt Weill Was Destined For Broadway All Along
Joshua Barone: "Kurt Weill is often described as if he were two composers. One spun quintessential sounds of Weimar-era Berlin in works like The...
We’ve Got Robot Artists. Now We May Get Robot Art Critics.
"For human art lovers, learning which style or category a piece of art falls in is a relatively straightforward and objective task. Like the...
Is The Corps De Ballet Going To Become A Relic Of The Past?
In most places, the pandemic has put a stop to large-scale corps dancing. Yet, even when the virus is finally under control, there's reason...
Cooper Union Says It Will Be Tuition-Free Again By 2029
The prestigious, competitive art/architecture/engineering school in Manhattan's East Village charged no fees to students from its opening in 1859 until 2012, when an overambitious...
Smithsonian Holds Off On Reopening Its Museums
"Despite the reopening of most private museums in Washington, the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art have no set date to reopen from...
Live-Streamed Stand-Up Comedy Might Just Outlast The Pandemic
"Many are skeptical, including fans who badly miss being surrounded by echoing laughter and stand-ups who are exhausted by performing for screens and who...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Lead Restorer Of Sistine Chapel, Dead At 92
From 1980 to 1994, he led a team of workers who carefully washed away, frequently with plain soap and water, centuries' worth of dust,...
France Gets Another Nationwide Lockdown, But Arts Venues Could Open By Mid-May
With COVID caseloads on the rise again, President Macron announced a new set of restrictions, less strict than the first set introduced last year,...
The Mysterious Glyphs Of Easter Island
The set of symbols known in the Rapa Nui language as rongorongo is the only indigenous system of writing known to have developed among...
Notes on Outsiders: Carl Weissner’s German Essays and Reportage
To get the drift of Aufzeichnungen über Aussenseiter, I’ve been typing pieces of text into Google Translate. It’s a helluva time-consuming job, but it’s...
Researchers May Just Have Reconstructed The Long-Unknown Face Of The Pharaoh Akhenaten
Intact depictions of the world's first known monotheist, husband to Nefertiti and father of Tutankhamun, are rare (subsequent rulers of Egypt tried to erase...
The Pandemic Is Showing Us Plays Can Work Without Intermissions
Lyn Gardner: "Often an interval is only there to give audiences the opportunity to go to the lavatory and spend more money. It destroys...
Western Ballet Is (Just) Starting To Catch On In India
"Western classical ballet is still a very unfamiliar art form in India. But in the last few years, promising talent has begun emerging, often...
At The Opera In Barcelona — Indoors, With 1,000 Other People
There were staggered arrival times, temperature takers at the entrance, plenty of hand sanitizer, mandatory masks (a few of them fabu-fied with sequins). Every...
A Hollywood Boycott Of Georgia? Studios Aren’t Saying A Word
Several prominent individuals in the industry have spoken out against the restrictive election laws just passed by the Georgia legislature and signed by Gov....
New Initiative Will Give Cash Aid To Independent Bookstores Hurt By Pandemic
"The Survive to Thrive grant program, created by Ingram Content Group chairman John Ingram, hopes to raise a total of $2 million by the...
A Lavish ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel Is Coming To Broadway And The West End
George R.R. Martin, who wrote the Song of Ice and Fire novels on which the megahit HBO series was based, is working with playwright...
Is The NFT Market A Classic Bubble?
As prices for the digital artworks soar, with payments made in Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, some observers are throwing around words like "tulipmania." Says...
Spanish Police Seize Forged El Greco, Goya, And Modigliani Paintings
"The counterfeit canvases came from a non-specialist collector based in the province of Toledo who had intended to sell the works as originals. …...
Massive Amounts Of Money Intended To Help South African Artists Through Pandemic Are Missing
The South African government allocated 300 million rand (roughly $20 million) to a rescue fund for artists who lost their livelihoods due to COVID-related...
The Royal Albert Hall At 150: A Strange History
Way, way beyond the Proms: To mark the sesquicentennial of the hall's opening (Queen Victoria was all verklempt), the Beeb recounts some of the...
Obtuse in Syracuse: How the University’s Deaccession Symposium Got Compromised by Conflicts of Interest
Although last week’s Syracuse Symposium was nominally about Deaccessioning After 2020, it was mostly focused on the new museum imperative — advancing DEIA (Diversity,...
