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The Fiercely Competitive Race To Decipher Cuneiform
"At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough. Three men — driven by boundless curiosity, a love of risk,...
This Little Three-Letter Verb May Be The Most Complicated Word In The English Language
The word "run" has 645 definitions just as a verb (plus others as a noun), and it took an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer nine...
Pianist Maria Tipo Has Died At Age 94
"(She) married technical mastery with charming unpredictability, receiving international acclaim for her sensitive and expressive interpretations of Scarlatti’s sonatas, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the...
How One Regional Theater Company Was Resurrected Ten Years After Its Sudden Demise
Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (CAST) in Charlotte was founded in 1992 and won numerous regional awards; in 2014, it abruptly announced its closure shortly...
Ravinia Festival Announces Multi-Year $75 Million Renovation
"This marks the first such all-encompassing renovation since the iconic park, with its Prairie School architecture and sprawling lawn/picnic areas, opened in 1904 as...
New England Public Media Lays Off 13% Of Its Staff
"(The) public radio and television station based in Springfield, Mass. laid off 13% of its employees on Wednesday. It's the station’s second round of...
Inside The Kennedy Center, Employees Are Scared And Events Are Disappearing From The Schedule
"Several Kennedy Center staffers … described a week of chaos, fear and confusion under the new leadership. Trump’s comments 'collapsed all the nuance of...
Thomson Reuters Wins “Fair Use” Copyright Case Against AI Competitor
On Tuesday, (a) US District Court … issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross...
Herzog And De Meuron Will Be Lead Architects For San Antonio Museum of Art...
"A SAMA spokeswoman said it was too early in the master planning process to confirm the overall project cost or describe any plans to...
Miami City Ballet Director Lourdes Lopez Will Step Down This Summer
"Lopez, 66, who joined the company in 2012, was originally scheduled to leave at the end of the 2026-27 season. (Her) departure ... came...
How Poker Helped Start (And Then Nearly Snuffed Out) The New Yorker Magazine 100...
The magazine's primary financial backer at its launch was one of founding editor Harold Ross's poker buddies, who was a yeast magnate. A few...
Female Surrealists Are Finally Getting The Attention They Deserve
"Last year was the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, … so it’s unsurprising that we saw such interest in the movement. But it...
Ibsen’s “An Enemy Of The People” Is Just The Play For These Times
"That’s not just because President Donald Trump has repeatedly weaponized the phrase of the title against his own critics. ... It’s also because the...
Why Hollywood Now Releases Almost All Romcoms Directly To Streaming
"'The bloom is off the rose of rom-coms,' says Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. 'There was a period in which they couldn’t miss....
“Nutcracker” Choreography In The US Is Still Almost Entirely By Men
"The findings reveal an overwhelming dominance of male choreographers, particularly in the Largest 50 ballet companies, despite some growth in opportunities for female choreographers...
Charlotte, NC Adopts New Model For Arts Funding
"The City Council voted 8-2 on Monday to become part of a new governance system for distributing millions in arts grants that will also...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Has Voice of America And Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty In Its...
"Musk commented on a social media post by U.S. Special Envoy Richard Grenell, ... who said the radio networks are 'state-owned media' and 'are...
California’s Two Flagship Classical Radio Stations Will Merge
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in California, both owned (as of 2011) by the University of Southern California, are merging their organizations into...
Court Throws Out Insurance Lawsuit Over Burned Monets Worth $45 Million
"A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over insurance payments for five artworks destroyed in a 2022 house fire in west Michigan, among them...
Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Moves Into Care Center For Parkinson’s Disease
The controversial Danish director announced in 2022 that he'd been diagnosed with the neurological disorder but that he intended to maintain his career. This...
Soprano Edith Mathis Is Dead At 86
On the opera stage, she was known mainly for Mozart, but she was particularly active as a recitalist and concert soloist, and she built...
“A New Identity”: When Dancers Switch To Choreographing Full-Time
"The transition ... involves more than just hanging up their (sometimes-proverbial) shoes. It can come with a new perspective on movement, a new relationship...
Missouri’s Two Largest Public Radio Stations To Split From University Of Missouri
"Public radio news/talk stations KWMU (90.7) St. Louis and KCUR (89.3) Kansas City have announced plans to separate from the control of and operation...
Her Title Just Begins To Describe What This Woman Does For Broadway’s “The Lion...
"The show is like a giant, kinetic jigsaw puzzle: It needs someone to ensure that all the pieces fit together, so that the narrative...
A Third Of The Observer’s Staff Is Taking Buyouts Before The Guardian Turns Over...
"More than 20 Observer journalists are believed to have taken redundancy rather than transfer over to Tortoise Media … following the sale of The...
