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A Dancer Who Fled Moscow Tried To Counter Russian Propaganda
Half of Laura Fernandez's family is Ukrainian, so when the then-Stanislavsky Theatre first soloist heard her Russian peers describe "the destruction of the Ukrainian city...
A British Documentarian Says Social Media Gives Traditionally Marginalized People A Voice
Asif Kapadia also says that he wishes he'd discussed mental health more while making the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy. - The Observer (UK)
Is Life Random Or Not?
Some physicists bat it around, with the help of art: "We meet up, sometimes over a drink, to exchange ideas and share our latest...
Why Is The Art World In Love With Basketball Right Now?
Fans of the sport and the arts might ask, "Why not?" but also, you know, why? "'It’s like the best sport ever,' said Jonas...
Almost Half Of US Museums Focus On A Small Percentage Of Contemporary Artists
And, real shocker, those numbers don't favor women - except, unexpectedly, in Miami. - Hyperallergic
The Drama At The Met This Opera Season
"Amid a labor battle, a pandemic that surged again and again, and a war, it was as if the real drama was in simply...
Pablo Picasso Created How-To-Draw Books For His Daughter
The artist "created them for Maya Ruiz-Picasso when she was aged between five and seven. On some pages, the little girl made impressive attempts...
Stranger Things Fans, Here’s How To Expand Your Kate Bush Fandom
"Legions of Stranger Things viewers have been recently indoctrinated into a secular belief system that has already transformed millions of lives. The text that...
The Colosseum’s Been Around So Long That It Has Been A Holy Site For...
Sure, gladiators, but: "The recent restoration of a 17th-century wall painting of ancient Jerusalem on one of the Colosseum’s main interior arches is shedding...
The Sydney Morning Herald Says It Didn’t Threaten To Out Actor Rebel Wilson
Amid an absolute avalanche of online criticism, the SMH has activists shaking their heads. "The 42-year-old Australian actress, who is known for roles in...
The Shocking Truth Behind Most Contemporary Architecture
Theaster Gates' design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2022 reveals that there's slavery behind many contemporary building materials, and buildings: "To the greatest extent possible,...
Angela Lansbury Wins A Lifetime Tony, And All Of The Other Tonys Results As...
As Lansbury wins and Chita Rivera is in the audience, we see how "the theater, for all its physical hardships, can provide actors with...
As Climate Change Destroys Paleolithic Cave Art, France Opens A Museum Of Reproductions
The Cosquer cave is "an underground grotto off the coast of Marseille that was once home to more than 500 works of prehistoric art."...
The Irish Writer And Artist Who Created Countless East German Books
Elizabeth Shaw had quite a life: "From a childhood living above the Ulster Bank in Belfast's York Street, via the London Blitz to four...
This Women’s Social Club Changed Literature And Art, But Its Members Kept It Quiet
"Guest speakers, frequently invited, included Margaret Sanger, the poet Amy Lowell, Emma Goldman speaking on 'Anarchy,' and Edith Ellis, a lesbian writer in an...
A 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman Is Reunited With A Painting Looted By The Nazis
Her father, a doctor who resisted Nazi orders, "had stored the painting in the Amsterdam Bank in Arnhem, thinking it would be safe there....
Looks Like Dance Classes Improve Your Memory
That's a summary, but: "Latinos age 55 and over who participated in a culturally relevant Latin dance program for eight months significantly improved their...
Why So Many Art Critics Find Women’s Bodies Monstrous
In the 1970s, "there was a backlash against reclaiming of the naked body, from feminist polemicists campaigning against pornography, to feminist artists and...
Will Jennifer Hudson Get Her EGOT At The Tonys Tonight?
It all depends on the voters, of course, but there's a good chance: "Hudson was a producer for A Strange Loop, which is nominated for...
Portland Art Museum Repatriates Nine Tlingit Objects To Their Clan In Alaska
Luella Knapp, a member of the clan, said, "As a caretaker of these clan items, it is an honor. Receiving them back, one by...
Paula Rego, Artist Who Had A Breakout Moment Alongside Hockney, Has Died At 87
A teenaged Rego fled Portugal for London at her parents' urging when dictator Salazar came to power. Her series of paintings about women suffering...
The World Of Comic Books Is Kinda Old And White
But Milestone Media is trying to change that. - Los Angeles Times
Norway Finally Gets Its National Museum, Which Is Opening With An Exhibit Of Reindeer...
"The tapestry of 400 reindeer skulls, the flesh and tissue boiled and scrubbed off and the bone polished to a shine, hangs like a...
John Merriman, Who Brought Historical France To ‘Freestyle Rap’ Life, Has Died At 75
Merriman "plumbed dozens of French governmental archives for the information that invigorated his fast-paced books about anarchists, terrorists, leftists and ordinary people in France."...
In Disney’s Latest Shake-Up, Heir Apparent Peter Rice Is Summarily Fired
Fascinating, if you like to follow the kingpins at The Mouse: "Rice, a widely admired TV veteran, was dismissed over issues of 'cultural fit,'...
