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There’s An Inheritance Battle Over the Site Of Caravaggio’s Only Known Ceiling Mural
The Texas-born "Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi has ... defied the court order demanding she vacate Rome’s Villa Aurora. The property is known for...
Victor Navasky, Editor Of The Nation And Voice For Progressive Journalism, 90
Navasky "appreciated the work of making news stories passionate and beguiling. He told NPR he watched Fox News for years, because Bill O'Reilly and...
Why Is The Rebuild At The Glasgow School Of Art Taking So Long?
The post-fire clearance took forever - "'intricate and painstaking' work, done by hand, of removing from the site and evaluating in excess of 2,400...
The Rise Of Queer Comics, And Why Bans Will Backfire
"Long before witty digital comics found a home on your Instagram feed, depicting things from the struggle with Grindr to birth-control access, there were...
Dance Artists Of Color Are Getting More Chances To Lead
Kiyon Ross at Pacific Northwest Ballet: "The skills you learn as a choreographer are definitely transferable to being a leader. ... You have to have...
France’s Cesar Nominations Include Many For A Movie About An Injured Dancer
"Cédric Klapisch’s Rise, about a ballet dancer (Marion Barbeau) who, after an injury, seeks a new future in contemporary dance, picked up 9 César nominations."...
Hollywood Won’t Survive Without Actual Movie Theatres
"The solution ... is simple: Put new releases exclusively in theaters and give them a real chance to succeed with paying moviegoers. No more...
Rereading Russian Classics In The Shadow Of The War In Ukraine
"The idea that great novels disclose universal human truths, or contain a purely literary meaning that transcends national politics, wasn’t evenly distributed across the...
Could Music Therapy Help Ease Long COVID?
"It seems ironic that music, one of the fields hardest hit by the global pandemic, may prove to be an effective treatment specifically for...
The Academic Career Is Broken
And half-assed reforms aren't going to fix it. "It’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether...
Why Are British MPs Declaring War On Opera?
Their reasoning: "Patronising claptrap. So, young people will only accept opera if it’s put on in a car park. The lower orders can make do...
The Nominations, Snubs, And Surprises For This Year’s Academy Awards
The fun, searing, rapidly movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led with nominations, but some actors, movies, and directors were - explicably or not...
The Arts Collective Ousted In Vienna Speaks Out
At the heart of the conflict: What is Austria? "We were trying to look beyond the Western canon as the only idea of what...
Dallas Paper Tries Replacing Its Architecture Critic With Artificial Intelligence
Things didn't go well: "Because an AI program can’t 'be there,' it ends up, like a lazy college freshman, culling what material it can...
Why Director Todd Field Employed Mahler And Elgar To Give His Film Tar Meaning
Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)
An Author Sells A Bucket List Weekend, And Fans Absolutely Line Up For It
What draws hundreds of fans of writer Elin Hilderbrand to Nantucket in January? The chance to hang out in person with the author, of...
LAPD Chief Apologizes For Officer Who Protected CBS Exec Les Moonves
The commander, Cory Palka, allegedly shared details of a sexual assault report with CBS and Moonves. - Los Angeles Times
Peru Closes Machu Picchu And Inca Trail Indefinitely
"Hundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued. ... Rail services...
The Ambitious Second Novel Of Nigerian Author Ayobami Adebayo
Adébáyò's first novel, Stay With Me, "told a closely focused story about the impact of childlessness and sickle-cell disease on the life of a...
Dick Polich, Whose Foundry Made Artists’ Visions Into Reality, Has Died At 90
"The notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she — along with many of the world’s ...
How Did Anime Come To Be Everywhere In Culture?
It's all going to plan. But also, "Anime's fans are largely online, and the pandemic — when people were suddenly able to focus on...
Elon Musk Is Ending Twitter’s Use To Publications
Basically, what referrals Twitter provided - and the percentage wasn't large for most publishers - has dropped to near nothing after Musk's recent decisions....
Sculptor Hank Willis Thomas On The ‘Strange’ Backlash To His MLK Sculpture
Thomas says he "focused on the Kings’ arms 'an embodiment of the ‘beloved community,’' a term the civil rights leader often used to...
Wikipedia’s Thoughtful Dealing With Cultural Hot Topics
"Wikipedia’s editors are no longer simply citing dated sources; instead, they are hashing out how someone would want to be understood. But even though...
Why An Indian Action Spectacle Film Is Charming The West
Maybe the reason is that blockbusters churned out in the U.S. have been hit with a similarity stick, or with a cynicism audiences can...
