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Math, Music, And Moby Dick
Three great tastes that taste great together. But seriously: Literature is replete with math (and music), and here's a professor who can talk about...
Margaret Atwood Wrote The Words For A New Song Cycle About Murdered Women
The song cycle, with music by Jake Heggie and sung by baritone Joshua Hopkins, was inspired by Hopkins' sister, who was murdered by her...
Pandemic Inspires 1200 New German Words
This truly seems to delight English speakers. "For example, Coronamutationsgebiet is an area where coronavirus mutations are widespread. A Geisterveranstaltung (ghost event) is an event with no people...
In Japan, ‘Disaster Art’ Is Saving People’s Lives
While dealing with emotional turmoil after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, artist Kyohei Sakaguchi made a decision to merge his art and...
Some Are Vaccinated, And Very Ready To See A Movie In The Theatre Again
As New York cinemas open with precautions in place, "what movies are even playing in theaters these days? For those in attendance, the film...
Long Before This Year’s Announcement, Read Across America Was Turning Away From Dr. Seuss...
Conservatives heard that Loudon County had banished Dr. Seuss and started a backlash about "cancel culture." But that wasn't reality. "In fact, the Virginia...
Lockdown Repainting In The Louvre Leads To A Lawsuit
Cy Twombly designed an Aegean sea-colored ceiling mural in the Salle des Bronzes at the Paris museum, which is undergoing various renovations while closed...
Berlin Film Fest Awards Its First Gender-Neutral Acting Award
Women, men, and nonbinary people all compete for the same award starting this year at the Berlin Film Festival - and this year's award...
Naomi Rosenblum, Historian Of Photography Who Forced Others To See It As Art, 96
When she started her major scholarship, "histories of photography traditionally focused on England, France and the United States. But Dr. Rosenblum’s ... A World...
Sydney’s Museum Of Contemporary Art Is The Most Visited In The World
And Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, its director of 22 years, is leaving. "When Macgregor took over in 1999, the MCA was just eight years old...
Egon Schiele Gave A Watercolor To His Dentist As Payment, And Then It Was...
Now the painting, which was in Cologne's Museum Ludwig, is returning to the dentist's heirs. - Hyperallergic
What It’s Like Singing ‘Strange Fruit’ In 2021
Andra Day, who plays Billie Holiday in the new movie The United States Vs. Billie Holiday, explains how she felt when she heard it...
The Toll This Year Took On The People Responsible For Explaining The Toll This...
It's not great. "COVID has led to a sort of existential crisis for me working in journalism. When some of your readers claim that...
Wait, Disney Wants Us To Pay *How Much* For The New Princess Movie?
The economics of it are a bit weird. Mulan was $29.99 for a while, even with a Disney Plus subscription. Then Soul was free,...
A Lot Of Black People Already Knew About Dr. Seuss
"I assumed most people knew that Seuss, despite the support he expressed for civil rights, was capable of depicting human beings of other races in demeaning...
So, Let’s Talk About The Six Hundred Thousand Dollar Meme Art
How to explain this "NFT" thing we're all hearing about in the news? OK, so ... if you buy a unique ID number associated...
Chloe Zhao Makes History With Her Golden Globe, And China Reacts With Anger At...
Zhao, the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for directing and first Asian woman to win the prize, was at first feted...
The ‘Versailles Of Wales’ Is Falling Into Ruin
Can anyone force the Kimmel House's offshore corporation owners to save it? - The Observer (UK)
Ireland, Britain Reach Agreement In Century-Long Dispute Over Art Collection
The background to the 10-year (at least) truce: "In 1915 the Irish art collector Sir Hugh Lane was among nearly 1,200 people who died...
Amazon Films Are Getting More Respect
The game-changers were the pandemic, and also awards-nominated movies One Night in Miami and Sound of Metal, not to mention Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Those...
The ‘Guernica’ Replica Tapestry Hanging In The UN Has Been Repossessed By Its Rockefeller...
A spokesman for the UN Secretary General said, "I feel sad and a sense of loss looking at that empty wall. ... The tapestry...
What The Writers Guild Learned From Its Fight With The Agencies
For one thing, it's OK to fight. Writers are also seeing back pay come in - and letting the union win it for them...
Off With All Our Heads – The Online World Loves To Misquote Lewis Carroll
But why? Alison Flood investigates why Britain's Royal Mint and an actual Carroll commemorative collection have been getting quotes wrong ... and then printing...
Australian Theatre Is Lighting The Way For The West End And Broadway
Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug - so...
Ripping Up The Netflix Streaming Playbook, And Winning
The Mouse - Disney Plus, in this case - has a huge back catalog, and it's also doing this little thing called dropping a...
