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New Yorkers Turned To Poetry After The Towers Came Down
People sent poems to newspapers and posted poetry on bus shelters. "When we went into Manhattan to see the site where the Twin Towers...
The Conductors Climbing The Dudamel Fellows Ladder
"A striking aspect of the former fellows, however, is how little they are like Dudamel — or each other. ... The main thing these...
It’s Time To Reassess The Architecture Of The Twin Towers
Rowan Moore: "Japanese-American Yamasaki was dismissed by his contemporaries for being 'dainty', 'prissy', 'epicene', 'ballet school', for example, on account of the slender gothic-looking arcades...
Nickolas Davatzes, A Force Behind The A&E And History Channels, 79
Davatzes' analysis and plans changed cable. He said, "By network standards, ... our viewership will always be limited. But that is the function of...
Rewriting The Final Night Of The Proms
"This wonderful event must be forward-looking, rather than scanning backwards to old tropes of empire – however good the tunes. It is the ultimate...
Sheila Bromberg, Harpist For British Symphonies And Oh Yes, The Beatles, 92
Bromberg was a busy harpist and mom when her "agent called on March 17, 1967, to offer her a three-hour stint that night as...
How The World Of Theme Parks Affected The New Academy Museum
Dream it and you can do it, or at least you can pretend to lift your own Oscar at the long-awaited museum. - Los...
Some Of The White Art World Is Finally Cluing Into Dindga McCannon’s Work
The artist is well known in many circles - after all, "for more than five decades, McCannon has been making work rooted in who she...
Translators Should Be Named On Book Covers
Weirdly, "the underlying assumption on the part of many publishers seems to be that readers don’t trust translators and won’t buy a book if...
Will Hollywood See Another Bloody Friday?
Not likely, but for the below-the-line workers (props, costumes, camera people, etc.), "after months of protracted negotiations with the major studios, 13 IATSE Hollywood...
Does Publishing Miss The 45th President?
All signs, and an absolute onslaught of books, point to yes. - The New York Times
Hollywood Has Sold Out To China
And it's not likely to change anytime soon. - The Atlantic
Italy Seizes 500 Fake Francis Bacon Works
"Five people have been charged with criminal conspiracy to authenticate and circulate fake works of art and fraud and money laundering." - The Guardian...
All Of The Winners At The Venice Film Festival
And the Golden Lion goes to ... a movie with a very timely subject. (Plus all of the other winners.) - Variety
Soprano Teresa Zylis-Gara, Stalwart Of The Met In The 1970s, 91
Zylis-Gara "displayed a plush voice, impressive versatility and beguiling stage presence during a three-decade international career." - The New York Times
The Real-Time September 11 Conversation Between August Wilson And John Lahr
August Wilson, responding to Lahr, on the morning of September 11, 2001: "Yesterday was a different world, and I am mourning for it." -...
Kashmiri Poets Say India Is Censoring Them
Poet Ghulam Mohammad Bhat: "In the last 30 years I have never seen this kind of suppression. ... There is silence everywhere, as if...
What Gets Lost In Opera Livestreams?
We were lucky to have access to livestreams from across the world in 2020. But: "Although the streamed productions I later saw live had...
Artists In Louisiana Are Trying To Help Those Harmed By Hurricane Ida
"I't’s been a real grassroots, community-led effort,' Abdul Aziz, a photojournalist, told Hyperallergic. 'It’s overwhelming and beautiful, and I don’t want to say shocking,...
The Archaeology Of The Future Is Here
In Spain, an archaeology team looking at ancient Roman cities "routinely uses technologies such as ground-penetrating radar, drones and magnetometers – devices that measure...
Ernst Van De Wetering, Foremost Expert On Rembrandt, 83
A Sotheby's consultant says, "No one else alive knows as much as he did about Rembrandt; nobody else comes even close." - The New...
Piecing Together Roman Frescoes From French Ruins
In Arles, with thousands of pieces taken from the so-called House of the Harpist, "the fragments, some barely bigger than a fingernail, have been...
On Facebook, Misinformation Gets Six Times As Much Engagement As News
A new peer-reviewed study shows that "from August 2020 to January 2021, news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount...
A Shakespeare Company Of Black Women Wants To Transform Theatre
The British Mawa Theatre Company's "goal is to change the industry from within, creating more space for marginalized voices in a field that is...
Delores Custer, 79, Who Gave Food A Style
Custer, a food stylist for companies like Kraft, General Mills, and Bacardi, was "able to shape the unwieldy, the drab and the formless into...
