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Pritzker Prize For 2025 Goes To Architect Liu Jiakun
“In China’s era of architectural excess, Liu has instead quietly thrived by letting each site — and the history, nature and craft traditions surrounding...
2025 Olivier Award Nominations: “Fiddler”, Imelda Staunton, Adrien Brody, John Lithgow, Romola Garai (Twice)
Garai received nods as best supporting actress (play) for both The Years and Giant, which led the dramas with five nominations each. A revival...
When The Bauhaus Took On Ballet
Revisiting Triadic Ballet, Oskar Schlemmer’s 1922 experiment with applying Bauhaus aesthetic and design principles to a very dissimilar art form. - Colossal
Interjections — Those Little Junk Words We Toss Into Conversation — Serve An Important...
“For many decades, linguists regarded such utterances” — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — “as largely irrelevant noise, the flotsam and jetsam that accumulate on the margins...
Bong Joon Ho Intends To Destroy Yet Another Genre
As the Oscar-winning director/screenwriter (Parasite, Snowpiercer, Okja) once told an interviewer in his native South Korea, “Whatever genre I choose, I intend to destroy...
The Case For Playing Tchaikovsky With Period Strings And Bows
David Faber, cellist of the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam: “In the early days of recorded classical music, string players exclusively used gut strings. Musicians like...
Artist Hal Hirshorn, Who Used Old-Fashioned Means To Make Unearthly Images, Has Died At...
“An artist known for his ubiquity around New York City’s cultural scene, (he) nevertheless managed to exist outside its manic commercial hustle, using antique...
New David Byrne Immersive Theater Piece To Set Up In Historic Chicago Landmark
The piece, titled Theater of the Mind and based on current research in neuroscience, will be housed in a 19,000-square-foot space inside the Reid...
Chicago’s Brand-New Social Change Theater Festival
“All of the performances (are) staged readings, with actors working from scripts without the costumes and sets of a full production. The goal is...
Writing Opera For Children Is Serious Business (And It Can Be Lots Of Fun)
“For contemporary classical composers, writing children’s opera (is) like casting a spell that lets them be both big and small. Artists with highly experimental...
Holland’s Famous Art Detective Locates Brueghel Stolen 50 Years Ago
“Woman Carrying the Embers vanished from the National Museum in Gdansk, Poland in 1974. Journalists from the Dutch culture magazine Vind spotted what they...
French Government Cuts Funding For Culture Pass By Half
“The French Government has announced a 50 percent cut in their lauded Culture Pass, four years after its nationwide launch for young people aged...
See Video Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet Being Stolen
“The heist of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.1 million gold toilet from a British palace was caught on video that was just revealed to the...
Change And Continuity At The World’s Oldest Active Theatre Company
A new director (formal title: general administrator) will soon be taking up his position (one appointed by no less than the French President) at...
Can Saudi Arabia Successfully Market Its Pre-Islamic Past After Decades Of Suppressing It?
The kingdom’s status as the birthplace of Islam is the very basis of its identity; as such, its pre-Islamic past was largely taboo. Yet...
Doubleday Launches New Imprint Of Literary Trade Paperbacks
“Outsider Editions plans to reissue underappreciated literary works of all genres — including novels, story collections, memoirs, and essay collections — in an effort...
“The Hunger Games” Is Now A High-Tech Immersive Play
A new 1,200-seat venue in London’s Canary Wharf is being purpose-built to house the production, with a script adapted by playwright Conor McPherson (The...
At San Francisco Ballet, Tamara Rojo Gives “Raymonda” A Feminist Revamp
“It’s easy to see why this classic needs an update. ‘Many of my choreographer colleagues were very hesitant to take on Raymonda,’ said Rojo. ‘It’s...
Inside The Campaign To Make “Parasite” A Very Unlikely Best Picture Winner
Few non-English-Language films had ever been nominated for the top Oscar, and almost nobody had seriously expected one to win. Here’s an oral history...
Gene Hackman’s Death Deemed “Suspicious”; He And His Wife Had Been Dead For Days...
When responders examined the bodies, they were already decomposing, showing bloating in the face and partial mummification in the hands and feet. Both Hackman...
American Movie Theaters Showed Double Features For Decades. What Happened To Them?
Here’s an explainer on why cinemas did double features in the first place (bullying by the studios) and why they faded away. - JSTOR...
A Literally Bacchanalian Frieze Is Uncovered In Pompeii
Found on three walls of a large banquet room and known as a “megalography,” the set of life-size frescos depicts bacchantes (female followers of Dionysus/Bacchus)...
For First Time Ever, ASCAP Tops $1 Billion In Revenue
“ASCAP … delivered a record-breaking $1.835 billion in revenue in the 2024 calendar year, an increase of $98 million, or 5.7% over 2023, with...
National Ballet Of Canada Appoints New Resident Choreographer
Following the North American premiere of his ballet The Four Seasons, the company has engaged David Dawson as Resident Choreographer. He’s currently an Associate...
Again, British Museum Defends Its Sponsorship Deal With BP
“The British Museum and the Science Museum … said the company’s decision to grow its investments in oil and gas by cutting back on green spending...
