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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...
Michelle Yeoh Wanted To Be A Dancer, Until She Got Injured
Then the actor - a mega-star in the world market - decided to take up martial arts. "I just needed to learn to transfer...
Time’s Up Post-Cuomo Shake Up Continues
Board members including Shonda Rhimes, Eva Longoria, and Jurnee Smollett have resigned, making way for an entirely new board as "the group continues to...
The Path To Becoming Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Preferred Choreographer Wasn’t Simple
But JoAnn Hunter persisted. Hunter is a "longtime Broadway performer and choreographer who has quietly become an important figure in a field that boasts...
How A Canadian Actor’s Movie Got Burdened With Carrying Marvel
The first Asian-led Marvel film "has been transformed into an unwilling test case for the future of box office blockbusters, fans' commitment to the...
Art Museums Must Tell A Richer Story About Afghanistan
What's up with U.S. arts audiences? "We have been at war with and occupied Afghanistan for two decades, yet culturally it has been a...
The Gym-Rat Maestro
Lorenzo Viotti is working on snagging young music fans via his workout, and shirtless, social media posts. - The New York Times
Has The Creepy Insect Trope Had Its Day?
Climate science shows we desperately need insects to keep the planet in any kind of balance. Horror films have disagreed - but it might...
How Netflix Took A Flop And Turned It Into A Global Phenomenon
In its first iteration on Spanish TV, Casa de Papel, known as The Money Heist in English, started strong and then massively flopped. Then...
The Evidence Is Clear For Supporting The Arts To Support Public Health
"The arts can be especially beneficial for public health in five key areas: collective trauma, racism, mental health, social exclusion and isolation, and chronic...
How To Nurture A Classical Music Community During A Pandemic
For violinist Jennifer Koh, the answer crystallized early in 2020: Hire composers, and get on Instagram. - NPR
Nobody Makes Superheroes Like Australia
DC and Marvel got you bored? Hunt down Captain Invincible, Griff the Invisible, or, even better, the TV series Cleverman, told from an Indigenous...
What A Classical Retelling Means To Its Writer, And Its Audience
Madeline Miller's 2011 book The Song of Achilles has, she says, helped readers come out to their parents; has inspired people to earn Ph.D.s...
Jeopardy’s Next Big Headache
What kind of vetting do they have over there at Sony, anyway? - Washington Post
Here Are The Fall’s Award-Bait Films
In theory, four fall film festivals are about to take place, with masked, vaccinated, and tested participants. "Yes, the last Oscars were just four...
