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Why A Photographer Asked Her Subjects To Pose In Victorian Dress
Zimbabwe-based photographer Tamary Kudita has her contemporary subjects pose in Victorian outfits - often made with contemporary fabric, by designers - to show links between...
How Eataly Has Changed Our Understanding Of Italian Food
Eataly is not actually Italy, despite the advertising tagline. "Eataly celebrates agricultural life, but its urban stores feel miles away from a rural idyll....
New Research Says That Sleep Evolved Before Brains
This is an entirely new concept for many researchers. "For more than a century, researchers who study sleep have looked for its purpose and...
Can The Movies Recover From The Pandemic?
Well, A Quiet Place II's boffo box office seems to indicate that people are sick of their living rooms and, one hopes, fully vaccinated...
Chi Modu, Photographer Who Shaped Rap’s Visual Identity, 5
"In the early and mid-1990s, working primarily for The Source magazine, at the time the definitive digest of hip-hop’s commercial and creative ascendance, Mr. Modu was...
Forget Art And Gems, The Real Money’s In The Library
How many archives are being plundered for private profit? Probably quite a few - and only librarians and academics seem to care. - The...
The Specialized Bacteria Cleaning Michelangelo’s Masterpieces
A top-secret project made the Medici Chapel gleam anew: "In the months leading up to Italy’s Covid-19 epidemic and then in some of the...
A Sound Check In Inglewood
How'd the dry run for the YOLA concert hall go? "It would be hard to imagine a less proper acoustic assessment, or a better...
Barcelona’s City Council Rejects A Proposed Branch Of The Hermitage
It's not a simple no, however: "The port authority, which owns the site of the proposed museum, gave the green light but the council...
The Food Design Of Mare Of Easttown
Honestly, among fans, the food is famous. "HBO is aware of the series' reputation, and continues to tweet things like 'The Mare of Easttown food pyramid:...
A Choreographer Finds Her Voice
Leslie Cuyjet has recently created a dance "so conceptual and personal. Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen — who curate Dance and Process, an...
The Washington State Choir Whose Rehearsal Proved Singing Can Be A Superspreader Event Wants...
To be fair, the Skagit Valley Chorale (the one where 52 of 61 singers eventually got COVID from a single rehearsal in March 2020)...
How Italy’s Art Police Turned The Tide On Tomb Raiders
It takes extraordinary measures to deal with the thieves. "Looters have been plundering Italy’s cultural sites for decades, but since 2012 their trade has...
Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovere Explains How Her Life Created Her Character
Rovère's character "Arlette has struck a chord as everyone’s ideal disreputable aunt with a repertoire of outrageous stories that she just might tell if...
People In Cars Scream Racial Epithets At Ballet West Dancers
And this didn't happen once, bad as that would have been. The company says "two black dancers had people scream racial epithets at them...
How Hollywood Has Avoided Telling The Story Of The Massacre Of Black Tulsa
We don't avoid telling stories about difficult topics. "There have been numerous movies about slavery, about Jim Crow, about the Vietnam War. There have...
The Power Of Fiction Helped Millions Of Us Get Through Lockdowns
Author Valeria Luiselli just won the Dublin literary award. She says that she, her daughter, and her niece have been reading out loud to...
A New Disney Movie Gives Punk’s Overlooked Women Designers Their Due
Yes, that's a weird confluence, but Cruella still makes it happen. "Cruella signposts something essential about punk: the power of reinvention. For the original...
The Fonts Of The NYT Book Review
The history of the New York Times Book Review is pretty interesting for word nerds. "Although photos already appeared in other parts of the...
Jerome Hellman, Producer Of Midnight Cowboy And Coming Home, 92
With barriers at every turn, from an anxious director who didn't want to work with the leading actors to disastrous early scripts, no one...
TV Characters, Like Everyone During The Pandemic, Have Trouble Connecting
Both on Master of None and Solos, even when the pandemic isn't in the script, it affects everything. New seasons feel "intriguingly defined by...
Gavin MacLeod, Star Of The Mary Tyler Moore Show And The Love Boat, 90
MacLeod had been a working, but struggling, actor for many years when he read for The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. He had...
Misconduct Allegations Rock LA’s Largest LGBTQ Theatre Company
Celebration Theatre's longtime AD Michael Shepperd was accused of sexual misconduct over more than a decade - and the accusers say that the theatre...
French Quarantine Rules May Prevent Britons From Attending Cannes
The problem is a new variant: "After delays caused by Covid, the festival confirmed it would take place in early July, but France has announced...
Faye Schulman, Who Fought The Nazis With A Rifle And A Camera, 101
Her rifle was important during the war; her camera became more important after: "As one of the only known Jewish partisan photographers, Mrs. Schulman,...
