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The Finnish Ballet At 100
Can a national ballet actually have a style in a global world? What, indeed, is Finnish about the Finnish National Ballet? - The New...
Goodbye, Ridiculously Paywalled Scientific Research
If research is publicly funded, the results need to be available for free as soon as it's published (by 2025), says a new White...
Zoom Kept Us Safe, But Kept Us Apart From Music
Irish musician Martin Hayes: "We need to eat, to sleep, to have shelter, to keep our bodies alive, ... our souls need music,...
A New Law Requires Museums In New York To Prominently Identify Nazi-Looted Art
The state senator who introduced the bill said, "Today, artwork previously stolen by Nazis can be found hanging in museums around New York with no recognition...
Finding Gold At Shakespeare And Company
A battered copy of The Outsiders helps a writer start to heal, and write again. - LitHub
Reviving Older Crafts, With A Decidedly Raunchy Flair
Yeah, those aren't asparagus stalks on that Delft. - The New York Times
Actor Gary Busey Is Charged With Sex Crimes Offenses After A Horror Convention
Police in New Jersey said there was groping at the Monster-Mania convention. "The 78-year-old Busey ... was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree...
We Already Know We’re Renting, Not Owning, Digital Media
But now we know car companies and other companies might tell us we're also renting proprietary info and perhaps services too, what does this...
Making Films With And About The Community Of The Amazon
Filmmaker Alex Pritz: "It was so clear from the first frame that his was just plain better. You felt the chaos and tension in...
Frank Stella’s Sculpture Ranch, And His Uncertain Near Future
His massive sculptures are on display on Long Island, on the oldest continuous working ranch in the United States. But he says it's not...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong With AI Art?
Dall-E's "appearance generated intense interest, perhaps because while most people can write text, many of us cannot draw to save our lives. So having...
John Malkovich Is Building A State-Of-The-Art Studio In North Macedonia Why, Exactly?
"The region is already enjoying an unprecedented production boom, with Greece, Croatia, Serbia and neighboring countries luring big-budget studio projects to the dazzling coasts...
Benin Gets Its Art, And Its Artistic Groove, Back
Says one sculptor, the descendant of a king of Dahomey, "The artistic awakening of our population was switched off from the end of the...
Artists Who Built Their Careers Around Instagram See The Platform’s Changes Yanking Away Their...
"'But things have changed since Instagram was in its golden years,' says who's watched her reach and engagement plummet in recent months as...
The Scientist Whose Books Are Her Secret Joy And Shame
Ali Hazelwood wrote one of last year's bestselling books, a romance called The Love Hypothesis, but the scientist author won't give away her real...
This Young Singer Says Long Covid Has Taken Away Her Voice, Job, And Passion
The 21-year-old had been performing "her whole life" until she contracted COVID-19. Now what? - BBC
The Numbers For Black Architects Are Abysmal
One solution? Expose kids to architecture and architects starting in elementary school. - Fast Company
Making Community-Engaged Art Means Taking Risks
Jana Harper: "The thing about community-engaged work is that it takes an actual community for it to work. ... I feel like I just...
Live Performances Have Been Back, But The Pandemic Isn’t Over
And that means audiences have been thin on the ground. "Fewer than half as many people saw a Broadway show during the season that...
The Ukrainian Artist Painting Military Equipment As A Symbol Of Resistance
"Varvara Logvyn might look like any other open-air artist working in Kyiv’s historic Independence Square ... except she doesn’t direct her attention to a...
The Push For A Memorial To LA’s Biggest Race Massacre
In 1871, a mob murdered 18 Chinese people and looted every Chinese building in what's now downtown LA. "A bronze plaque embedded in the...
Author Karen Joy Fowler On Reading Doris Lessing
"Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow and Ken Kesey – their women were inexplicable. They were often childish, petty and shallow, yet desirable. My bewilderment just...
How This Small East Coast Film Festival Became A Hot Spot For Black Hollywood
"Steadily growing in size and prestige since incubating 20 years ago in the Brooklyn apartment of co-founders Stephanie and Floyd Rance, the Martha’s Vineyard...
A Mystery In The Desert, Solved
Michael Heizer's megasculpture in the Nevada desert is called City and is a mile long, half a mile wide, and the artist's masterpiece. "It...
Finding A Greener Solution To The Vinyl Backlog
By replacing vinyl with a different plastic, can this Dutch company get records playing again - without all of the delays, and without as...
