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The Influential Librarian Who Was Not A Goodnight Moon Fan
The book's "widespread fame is relatively recent. Though Goodnight Moon was published in 1947, sales dropped low enough in 1951 that the book nearly went out...
Is The Australia Ballet Letting Go Of Tutus – And Classic Ballets?
Not forever, but the 2022 season is tutu-less thanks, new AD David Hallberg says, to the realities of pandemic programming - and "Kunstkamer, a...
Do We Really Need Netflix Viewing Numbers?
Netflix has released its Top 10 lists. But "the obsession with the numbers generated by films in the first few days of their release...
TR (And The Horse He’s Riding On) Heading To North Dakota
The Teddy Roosevelt statue that's been in front of the American Museum of Natural History for decades will soon be bound for Minot, ND,...
Putting The Fun Back Into Franz (Schubert)
And the puppets; don't forget the puppets. Instead of a quiet recital hall, "Schubert’s songs grew from entertaining evenings of spontaneous, alcohol-fuelled interaction, with...
What To Learn From Being The Target Of (Deeply) Hateful Attacks For What You...
Nikole Hannah-Jones on what she's learned: "Power doesn’t flash what it’s going to do. ... It doesn’t signal what it’s going to do. It...
When The Uffizi Almost Sued Pornhub
To be fair to Pornhub, the Birth of Venus is definitely a "classic nude." But the larger issue is about how museums make money...
Lee Maracle Propelled Herself And Other First Nations Writers Into Canadian Consciousness
Maracle died at 71, after having "chronicled the effect of Canadian settlement on the land’s Indigenous people and the persistence of discrimination, only to...
Reviving A Dying Record Label In The Era Of Streaming
Claddagh Records, founded in the '50s to preserve Irish musical heritage, fell on hard times in the 2000s. But now a deal with Universal...
Novelists Could Take A Cue Or Two From Poets
Or so says a novelist who took a poetry class that helped her move forward after a stale period of writer's block. - LitHub
England’s Artistic Culture Stretches Beyond London
You might think that's obvious, but it's not necessarily so to those in the capital city. Even during COVID, "London draws all the oxygen,...
How To Stay Focused When The World Turns A Spotlight On You
National Book Award finalist and MacArthur "genius" grant winner Hanif Abdurraqib keeps to himself most of the time, far from the madding crowds. "I’m...
Why People Still Collect, And Enjoy, DVDs
One librarian explains, "There's an interesting sort of equity piece to DVDs. ... They're popular with people who can't necessarily afford the paid subscription...
So Sorry That We Missed National Cliche Day
Oh: "Cliché comes from the printing process when a metal plate was used to physically transfer ink to paper. The term echoes the imitative sound...
Younger Media Viewers Love Subtitles
There's the popularity of K-dramas, for one, but also, "originally intended to help those with hearing problems, subtitles have become an essential aid for...
The (Re)Rise Of The Movie Musical
Charles McNulty: "A musical must establish its own aesthetic logic without apology to rational etiquette. We may think we’re living in a purely realistic...
The Wild Side Of Poussin
It's likely you find the French artist a bit, well, staid. Boring, even. But: "Quite a bit of wildness hides beneath the cloak of...
Donors Withhold Gifts To Protest Changes At Hamptons Sculpture Garden
A longtime director fired, a bequest altered, plans for the sculpture garden to become a museum - there's a lot going on at LongHouse...
Thousands Of Venezuelan Musicians Gather In Attempt To Win Guinness Book Of World Records’...
"The musicians, all connected to the country’s network of youth orchestras, performed a roughly 10-minute Tchaikovsky piece outdoors under the watchful eyes of independent...
Europe’s Best Cathedrals
While some on this list are obvious, others may inspire an artistic pilgrimage - though Milan "is a chaotic hotchpotch of buttresses, pinnacles and...
Happy Birthday, Fanny (Mendelssohn) Hensel
From Google Doodle. Hensel "composed more than 450 pieces of music, most of which show a deep reverence for Johann Sebastian Bach. But she...
Bettina Grossman, Artist And Artistic ‘Feature’ At The Chelsea Hotel, 94
Grossman "was unusual even by the standards of the Chelsea, the storied haven for quirky artists." Her apartment "had become so crowded with her...
Republicans Have Escalated From Banning To Wanting To Burn Books
The targeted books are often by Black authors or other authors of color, and/or have queer content. Of course, the wannabe burners are calling...
Oliva Colman Says It’s Easier To Portray A Murderer Than The Queen
That two-year stint on The Crown wasn't the easiest for the multiple award-winning Colman, but "it wasn’t the actual Queen she found the hardest...
How Slipcovering A Minimalist Cube Changed Art History
"Slipcovers are what you put over a tired sofa or tatty armchair to refresh and resuscitate the worn-out object’s useful life. After the quarter-ton...
