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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...
The Late Eli Broad: My Talk with the Under-Appreciated Overachiever Who Energized LA’s Cultural...
“Everything I’ve done in my life,” he told me at the beginning of our wide-ranging conversation in his office, “has really been to challenge...
Gabriela Muñoz Speaks About the Importance of Collaboration
The Senior Program Coordinator of the National Accelerator at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts speaks about the impact of collaboration and...
The West’s First Superstar Composer (His 500th Anniversary Is This Year)
Josquin des Prez was, in his day and for more than a century after his death in 1521, the most influential and most revered...
Vincent Van Gogh Was His Own Worst Enemy (Just Read His Letters)
"The tone of the letters consistently is that of a man still aflame after a violent argument, gradually subsiding into a hot puddle of...
Blackface Didn’t Start With American Minstrel Shows. It’s Been Around For Centuries
"The origins of blackface minstrelsy are much older than most people know, with deep roots in the English medieval and Shakespearean theatrical traditions. Understanding...
If You Don’t Start Until Your Teens, Can You Still Make It In Ballet?
"The ballet world is filled with stories of dancers who first pointed their toes as toddlers and became professionals as teenagers. But what about...
How Kate Winslet Went About Mastering The Notoriously Tricky Philadelphia Dialect
"Few sounds are as difficult to master as the rounded Os, erratic As, dropped consonants and smushed syllables of the Philadelphia accent — or...
These $63 Million Paintings, Literally Kidnapped And Held For Ransom, Are Now The Subject...
The Shchukin Gallery, which sells Russian art in Paris and New York, is suing a Russian oligarch for damages and attorney fees of $950...
How Pixar Pushes The Boundaries Of Color To Push The Buttons of Moviegoers
"In a way, every filmmaker is really just playing with moving light and color on surfaces. That's the whole ball game, a filmic given....
Germany Takes Care Of Its Opera Houses, Even Through COVID — But There’s A...
"'What we learned in the crisis was that the public purse was very much willing to keep alive in Germany,' says Dieter Haselbach,...
Amsterdam Branch Of The Hermitage In Danger Of Closing Permanently
"After laying off 25% of its full-time staff, including those who had been there since opening day," the only Western European satellite of the...
France’s Cultural Venues Get An Official Reopening Date
"Museums, theatres, cinemas and concert halls will reopen on May 19, along with non-essential shops and outdoor seating at cafes and restaurants, Macron...
Scottish Government Ordered To Reconsider Six-Foot-Distance Reopening Rule After Arts Groups Rebel
Following a personal intervention by the culture minister, "controversial new guidelines which will force Scotland's arenas, concert halls and comedy clubs to impose two...
Is Music Universal Or Not? Depends On What You Mean
Kevin Berger: "In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like...
The Young Pipsqueak Professor Who Changed The Way Everyone Thought About Homer’s Epics
"Milman Parry was arguably the most important American classical scholar of the 20th century, by one reckoning 'the Darwin of Homeric Studies.' At age...
