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What’s This About A New Frank Lloyd Wright House?
A house called RiverRock, based on the design plans that were on Wright’s drawing board when he died, was completed early this year in...
John Feinstein, Star Sports Commentator And Bestselling Author, Dead At 69
A full-time sportswriter for The Washington Post for 14 years and steady contributor thereafter, he became known to national audiences through regular appearances on...
Playlists For Your Plants (Yes, Really)
While it’s been clearly demonstrated that plants respond to sound, the evidence about whether they’re affected by music, let alone which genres, is far...
At Angkor Wat, A Buddha’s Head Gets Its Torso Back
“Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head...
No American Play Is More Affected By The Shadows Of Its Previous Actors Than...
And that doesn’t mean only Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, though their shadows are the longest. Ben Brantley revisits some of the other prominent...
Despite A False Start, Philadelphia Ballet’s New HQ Is Getting Built
Wednesday saw the troupe visiting the construction site for a topping-out ceremony, at which the highest steel beam for the building’s roof was hoisted...
French Authors And Publishers Sue Meta Over Its Use Of Their Material In Training...
“Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s ‘massive use...
They Thought It Was A Canaletto. Turns Out It Was Painted By His Teenaged...
The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo (1737), housed at the Wallace Collection in London, has been reattributed to Bernardo Bellotto, who studied in his...
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina, 93
“(She) believed that it was Soviet repression which made her so powerful and distinctive a composer, though it was only after the fall of...
At The Rehab Center With Puzzlemaster Will Shortz
The New York Times crossword editor and Sunday-morning NPR stalwart suffered two strokes a year ago. He came home from the hospital last April...
Unpublished Ravel Work Gets Premiere From Dudamel And New York Phil
“On Thursday, Dudamel and the Philharmonic will give the world premiere of the five-minute piece as part of a program celebrating the 150th birthday of Ravel....
Trump Forces Out Chair Of NEH
“Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President...
A Fully-Funded BBC World Service Is The Only Way To Counter Disinformation, Argue BBC...
“Amid concerns about the scale of state-backed content after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, senior BBC figures believe it is ‘undeniable’ that the government should shoulder the...
16th-Century Painting Stolen From Italy Is Discovered In England. Its Current Owner Intends To...
“Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario was taken in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno in northern Italy. Sometime later it was bought...
Meet The 21st-Century Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Porky Pig
Nope, no studio is using AI to re-create Blanc’s rendition of the wascally wabbit, dastardly duck, put-upon pig and their Looney Tunes confrères. Why...
TV Actors’ Secrets For Convincingly Pretending To Be Drunk And/Or Drugged
Yes, there have certainly been cases of what one might describe as method acting, but being intoxicated on set is never good for actors...
Considering The Trump Administration’s War On Drag: Philip Kennicott
“The essence of drag is its exaggeration of gender stereotypes in a theatrical style that gives the performer permission to say outrageous, often offensive...
50 Years Of Bob Fosse’s Extraordinarily Influential Choreography For “Chicago”
“Over the decades, Chicago’s lasting footprint on Broadway has helped make Fosse’s style of dance instantly recognizable. With its sly head tilts, specific hand gestures,...
Larry Appelbaum, Perhaps America’s Greatest Jazz Librarian, Has Died At 67
“At the Library of Congress, his employer for 44 years, he ... created a jazz film series, solicited and catalogued collections of recordings and...
Why The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Trumpet Stayed Only Six Months
Esteban Batallán was lured away from the Chicago Symphony’s famous brass section, and he decided to go back. He describes the reason for his...
Hilma Af Klint’s Heir Wants To Sequester Her Work Away In A Temple
Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and the current chairman of her foundation, wants to see her work removed from museum exhibitions and installed...
Where U.S. Audiences Have, And Haven’t, Rebounded To Pre-COVID Numbers
Five years after the lethal coronavirus arrived, “the recovery has been uneven, but there are signs that audiences are finally coming back. Here’s a...
Guthrie Theater Will Reopen Its Third Stage For First Time Since Pandemic
“For the first time in five years, Minnesota’s largest theater will produce a work in its Dowling Studio, activating its ninth-floor third stage that...
Member Of Greece’s Parliament Vandalizes Artworks In National Gallery
“Police detained Nikolaos Papadopoulos — of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party — for several hours before releasing him. … Papadopoulos and one other...
The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War
Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others...
