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Putin’s War On Ukrainian Cultural Memory
It's always the libraries. "Three national and state libraries, including the National Scientific Medical Library of Ukraine, as well as some 25 university libraries,...
Remember All Those Chromebooks School Kids Got Early In The Pandemic Lockdown?
Turns out they're low quality and not reparable, and, three years later, that's not turning out to be so great for the schools or...
The Small British City Getting A Bunch Of Dali’s Surreal Sculptures
In Shrewsbury, a town of 40,000 a few miles east of the Welsh border, "the organisers of an ambitious arts trail in the Shropshire...
Imagine Being A 16-Year-Old Bookstore Owner Who Gets To Interview Judy Blume
Just, like, wow. That is extremely cool. And: "'It’s people like you who give us hope, because you’re the next generation and you’re who’s...
A Blockbuster Show, Ripped In Half By War
The National Gallery in London and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow both have a new show up - "After Impressionism."...
Tracking Down Retired Celebrities Is A Gross New Trend For Paparazzi
"The rush to track down people who used to be famous does seem to have picked up some speed lately. And, as far as...
A City That’s Been Longing For A Bookstore Finally Gets Its Own
"Most of Buho's books are secondhand or donated, costing around $10 to keep them accessible. Literacy rates in the region are some of the...
Poised For Change At The Dance Theater Of Harlem
The legacy: "I remember being at barre on the first day, in Studio 3 with the beautiful red brick, and not having ever experienced...
Music Festivals Can Be Crowded, Hot, And Sometimes Seemingly Out Of Control
And yet, whether they're classical or pop or rock or whatever Coachella is, we fall for them. "As festivalgoers we untether, if only for...
The Woman Revolutionizing An Iranian Storytelling Tradition In Los Angeles
"For centuries, skilled Iranian storytellers known as Naqqals have transfixed audiences in traditional coffeehouses" - but it was always an art by men, and...
Author Celeste Ng On Book Hangovers And Getting Through The Last Few Years
"I had a crisis of faith in the early days of the pandemic. I thought: books don’t do anything, maybe I should go and...
Lynn Nottage And Her Daughter Are Creating Theatre, And Opera, Together
Ruby Aiyo Gerber to her mom: "For so long, I rebelled against wanting to be a writer, fearing that admiring any part of you...
The Bloody Past And Blurry Future Of The So-Called Digital Revolution In News
"The time has come for us to stop using the term 'digital revolution' in such a catchphrase-cute way, with the inevitable emphasis on 'digital' and little...
Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer And Self-Described Archaeologist Of Dance, 91
"A notation-based reconstruction movement took hold around the turn of the 21st century, but Lacotte — ahead of his time — had already been...
Perhaps Writers Don’t Actually Fetishize The Tools Of The Trade Enough
Tobias Wolff reflects on his unfilled notebooks and wonders, "At what point do the tools of writing go from functional objects in their own...
The Film Industry Is Pretty Much Gone, Says Jim Jarmusch, Who’s Releasing A Rock...
The director of Ghost Dog and Coffee and Cigarettes says that "funnelling creative energy into making music has become a vital escape from some...
Can EDM Get Milliennials And Gen Z Into Classical Ballet?
That's a gamble the San Francisco Ballet is willing to make. - San Francisco Standard
If The Writers Strike, SNL Will Be Among The First Shows To Go
A May strike would hit late-night first, including Jimmy Kimmel Live and many other popular shows, but then start hitting at fall content -...
Creating An Entirely New Way To Save A Threatened Language
It was not exactly easy, but Brian Maracle "has figured out this improbable, but linguistically extremely smart, method of delivering this radically different language...
Wisconsin Has Some Tips On Building Statewide Local Theatre Connections
World Premiere Wisconsin was born in 2019 with three goals - connecting theatres, raising national awareness, and commissioning new work. Then came the pandemic,...
As Record Store Day Becomes An Institution, Young Fans Drive Vinyl Sales
In Britain, vinyl outsold CDs in 2022, and for some Gen-Z members, they're better than streaming too. One 19-year-old: "I think the sound quality's...
The Jazz Detective Who Unearthed Legendary Baltimore Recordings
Concerts at the Famous Ballroom "were recorded, mostly for the private archives of the Left Bank and for the artists. ... Only a handful...
The Stars Of Netflix’s ‘Beef’ Defend Their Coworker Over A Sexual Assault Story
Actor David Choe says he made up a rape story for a podcast. Beef creators and stars stated, "We’re aware David has apologized in...
How One Woman Amassed A 10,000-Movie Pan-African Film Archive
When June Givanni, a Black British archivist, activist, and curator, "received the British independent film awards’ grand jury prize in 2021, the organisers said that she...
The New Hampshire Muffin Mural That’s Challenging A Definition Of Public Art
High school art students painted a bakery at the owner's invitation - but "the painting was cited by the town code enforcement officer in...
