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Why Do Some Right-Wingers Get Fixated On Epic Poems?
Elon Musk. Jordan Peterson, Peter Thiel. All three have been repeatedly talking about and referring to — and misconstruing — The Iliad, The Odyssey,...
Cynthia Ozick’s Ode To, And Lament For, The Written Letter
She considers the letter as game, as plot device, as plot vehicle (epistolary novels), historical source, moral statement, advice column fodder, greeting card, and...
“Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera” (Yes, Really)
Certainly the story is operatic: two people with traumatic childhoods meet on a cruise ship, fall in love, develop a successful magic act, and...
Friedrich St. Florian, Who Designed DC’s World War II Memorial, Has Died At 91
"A dapper, soft-spoken architect who spent much of his career in academia, (he) was in some ways an unlikely architect of the World War...
One Of Britain’s Best Drama Schools Is Closing Down Its Entire Undergraduate Program
The Bristol Old Vic — which counts among its alumni Patrick Stewart, Olivia Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Miranda Richardson, and Gene Wilder —...
Dance Is “At An Inflection Point” In Minnesota’s Twin Cities
Just in the past year, two of the metro's major companies closed, as did the area's keystone performance space for dance. The dance scene...
Women Are Losing Ground As U.S. Dance Companies Hire New Artistic Directors
"The data shows that from 2023 to 2024, overall artistic director appointments decreased. However, female artistic director appointments decreased by 36%, compared to a...
Nick Cave’s $1 Million Artwork At Kansas City Airport Taken Down And Might Not...
"Cave’s kinetic sculpture The Air Up There … consists of 2,800 colorful spinners that dangled from the ceiling of the check-in hall at Kansas...
Novelist David Lodge Dead At 89
"(He was) best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work. … His other celebrated works included Changing Places...
Ushers Vote To Authorize Strike At Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center
"The attendants working in the Academy of Music, Kimmel Center (Marian Anderson Hall, Perelman Theater, and other venues in the complex), and the Miller...
It Seems Andy Warhol Never Actually Said, “I Want To Be A Machine”
And what he did, in fact, say — during a 1963 interview for a feature about Pop art in ARTnews — was not about...
Using Theatre To Connect Russian Refugee Kids With Their American Counterparts
Theatremaker and professor Irina Kruzhilina's project, SpaceBridge, involved a series of theatre workshops with 11 Russian refugees aged 10 to 14, recruited from the...
Uncovering The Angels At Boston’s Old North Church
"The painted angels ... once were among the defining features of Old North Church when they were painted around 1730. But officials at the...
This 400-Year-Old Company Near Boston Makes The World’s Favorite Cymbals
No, the company wasn't started by the Pilgrims, even though it is near Plymouth. The Avedis Zildjian Co. was founded in Istanbul in 1623...
How The Carabinieri Busted Tomb-Raiders Right In The Center of Naples
The thieves used the basement of a condo building as their excavation site, tunneling 26 feet under the city to find thousands of ancient...
Can “The Cleveland Of Britain” Get A Reputation Boost As The UK’s Latest “City...
Just like Cleveland, Bradford (just west of Leeds in Yorkshire) has a mighty industrial past, a de-industrialized present, notoriously grey weather, and a very...
One Of Brazil’s Hottest Dance Scenes Is Under A Freeway Overpass In Rio
"Charme" is a popular dance style which developed in the 1980s as the Brazilian way to party to American soul and R&B. When COVID...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules
A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the Internet is an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications...
Gov. Kristi Noem Proposes Two-Thirds Budget Cut To South Dakota Public Broadcasting
"She approved the last six state budgets, each of which included an increase for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. The organization’s annual state funding went...
Meet Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch For 2025
"Whether or not you’re already familiar with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from across the dance world predict that we’ll be hearing a...
The Love Letters Of Georgia O’Keeffe And Alfred Stieglitz
O’Keeffe to Stieglitz: "Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that...
The Artworks Of Henri Matisse And Frida Kahlo Are Now In The Public Domain
Before you go wild with the cutouts and unibrows, however, remember that (especially in Kahlo's case) those images may be trademarked. - Hyperallergic
A Traditional Instrument Maker Struggles On Under The Taliban
"Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab, the national musical instrument of his...
What A Ballet Company’s Shoe Manager Does
Yes, it's a real job, and not an easy one. - Dance Magazine
Teaching Classical Music To Children In Kenya’s Poorest Urban Slums
"Ghetto Classics provides lessons to about 1,000 students, who feed three orchestras, a choir and a dance group. … (The organization) works in schools...
