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Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop...
The Vatican Will Return Its Parthenon Fragments To Greece
"The pope called the return a 'donation' to the Greek Orthodox Christian archbishop His Beatitude Ieronymos II of Athens and a gesture of his intention to...
When Alexander Inarritu Went Hollywood
The director of the new film Bardo, an Oscar-winner for Birdman and The Revenant, didn't want to leave Mexico, but, he says, "There wasn’t...
Russia Is Looting Ukraine Museums’ Scythian Gold
"Some collections removed to Crimea have already been moved on, further into Russia. Meanwhile, Russian looters are targeting Crimean sites that they perceive to...
Movies Depicting Jewish American Experiences Are Few And Far Between
"Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox...
How The Bloomsbury Group Came To Change Art And Literature In England
The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - and their...
What Set Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Apart As A Dancer
He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, "his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a...
Taking The Music Documentary Far Behind, And Beyond, The Music
As a new crop of music documentaries' directors confirm, "Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of...
Adrienne Mancia, Who Brought The World In Film To New York, 95
At MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was a film curator who "scoured the world for significant films and brought them to...
London’s First, Groundbreaking Arabic-Language Bookshop To Close
Al Saqi, a literary institution that opened in 1978, will close at the end of 2022. One of the owners: "You'd meet Arabs in...
Evelyn Waugh’s Mansion Sells, But Superfans Living There Refuse To Leave
Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: "We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and...
Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too...
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
"What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as...
Storytelling May Save The Planet, If Anything Can
"The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication." - Wired
The New Museum Of Broadway Is A Shrine To Theatre’s Hard-Fought Battles
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41...
Dear News Junkies, Here’s How To Adjust To Life Without Twitter
It's not easy - and the long-ago murder of Google Reader by that tech company doesn't make it easier - but there are ways....
Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests
Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and...
Music Inspired By The Fire At Notre Dame Cathedral Wins The Grawemeyer Award
British composer Julian Anderson was devastated by the fire. He "began channeling some of his despondence into 'Litanies,' a 25-minute meditation for cello and...
Sesame Street’s Beloved Bob McGrath Has Died At 91
"McGrath played the friendly neighbor Bob Johnson, serving as a Sesame Street mainstay across five decades and 47 seasons of broadcast television. His final...
What Were Ancient Romans Eating At The Colosseum?
Nuts, fruit, and ... pizza. - Hyperallergic
A Season-Long Goodbye Ends With Nutcracker
Sterling Hyltin has been the Sugar Plum Fairy since 2006, but this season will be her final one. "One reason she gives for stepping...
The Composer Of The Queen’s Funeral Music Began Keeping It Secret In 2011
Sir James MacMillan "had not even heard a rehearsal of the piece, which he had written in secret, and until the night before the...
Bernadette Mayer, Who Brought Magic To Stream-Of-Consciousness Poetry, 77
Mayer "rejected formalism for the avant-garde. She expanded the parameters of poetry by incorporating other elements into her work, including photography, collage, letters from friends,...
How A Great Woman Critic And Publicist Made A Male Architect Famous
When Aline Louchheim took on Eero Saarinen, she "leveraged power dynamics and skirted journalistic ethics to get what she wanted: ... to champion...
One Button, And We’d Be Living In The Correct Timeline Again
Well, with the "Oh, yeah?" button, we could have tried for a better internet, anyway. - Slate
