Brazilian Star Singer Marilia Mendonca, 26, Dies In A Plane Crash
Mendonça, Grammy winner and social media sensation, was killed in a small plane crash in Minas Gerais. "Her legions of fans found power in...
The Work It Takes To Create A Compelling Memoir
Just ask Laura Davis: "After many failed attempts at story architecture, with the help of several editors, my brilliant coach ... and 127 early...
England’s South West Region Gets A Big Boost From Bridgerton
The Netflix series revives the always-popular with Austenites tourism industry in Bath, but then there's David Attenborough's Our Planet and other productions that, said...
Smithsonian Moves To Return Benin Bronzes
The museum has become "the latest Western cultural institution — and one of the most prominent to date — to agree to explore returning...
How ABBA Became Such Beloved Gay Icons
The group's songs weren't actually popular in gay clubs at the time - but then came the 1980s, when disco was supposedly "dead," and...
A Parent Wants To Criminally Prosecute Librarians
During a tsunami of deeply virulent homophobic, racist protests against books, a parent in Kitsap County, Washington, has asked to prosecute librarians for having...
Ian Fleming Estate Authorizes New 007 Series
Kim Sherwood has struck a deal with HarperCollins to write three contemporary thrillers set in the world of James Bond but where the original...
This Nigerian Nobel Laureate’s Got A New Book, 50 Years After The Previous One
Wole Soyinka has received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has written more than two dozen plays, a vast amount of poetry, several memoirs,...
Trial In Spain Of Former Director Of Valencià d’Art Modern Accused Of Buying Forgeries
Consuelo Císcar is accused of using €3.4m in public funds to buy 98 works of art by the late artist Gerardo Rueda that she...
Two High Profile Projects Aimed At Reviving Memphis
Two ambitious new projects by leading architecture firms are at the forefront of the renaissance, using design to lift Memphis’s image in the eyes...
What Happens When You Try To Hack Opera With Gamers, Techies And Artists?
“Western opera was invented because people from different disciplines came together to reimagine theatre. They leveraged the best of all the art forms and...
A Social History Of Laughter
In the early years of the 18th century a select group of philosophers began to conceive of laughter as something that might police the...
The Trauma That Upended Kenneth Branagh’s Life At The Age Of Eight
He's been reeling from it, one way or another, ever since, and it's the reason he made his latest film, Belfast. - The New...
Globalization Has Been Widely Misunderstood. It’s Important To Be Clear About It
We are at a critical juncture: a relatively long period of stability in mainstream thinking about economic globalisation has given way to a situation...
Has The Pandemic Shown Us How America Could Fund The Arts And Artists Properly?
The shutdown introduced many ordinary people to the precarity that gigging artists have always faced, and the expanded unemployment benefits — with fewer restrictions...
How A Small Labor Dispute At Strathmore Hall Led To Baltimore Symphony Withdrawal
The escalation of events — from a contract with about a dozen employees to an ugly public battle between two of Maryland’s flagship arts...
“The Internet At Its Utopian Best”: In Praise Of The Public Domain Review
"'A frictionless world' in which evidence of the imagination floats around in the empyrean 'without cost, without registration, and without restrictive conditions on their...
Broadway Attendance Down. But What Does It Mean?
The anecdotal evidence, gleaned from social media and private conversations with industry leaders, suggests a variety of challenges — lingering fears of the coronavirus, the...
Divers Are Discovering Golden Treasure From An Ancient Indonesian Empire
"Local divers exploring Indonesia's Musi River (on the island of Sumatra) have found gold rings, beads and other artifacts that may be linked to...
Broadway Box Office Slips Again. Did It Open Too Soon?
Big picture: the 27 shows currently running grossed $19.66 million together last week, with 168,169 butts in seats. That’s a 11% box office drop...
Some Dancers Are Starting To Rebel Against The Zero-Body-Hair Standard
Says one choreographer, "It's not the first fight I would pick about the homogeneity of bodies on stage. But there's something archaic in dance...
The Bionic Gloves That Let João Carlos Martins Play Piano Again
His international career was hobbled over and over again by a breathtaking series of mishaps, comebacks, and more mishaps that ultimately left him unable...
CNN’s Online Video Is Much More Divisive Than What It Airs On TV, And...
Yes, of course, it's ultimately to make more money, but here's a glimpse of just how different the content is and a look at...
Archaeologists Have Mapped Genghis Khan’s Lost Capital — And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Using equipment designed for geophysics, researchers scanned the site of Karakorum, chosen by Genghis and built by his two successors, and found that the...
Alice Childress Should Have Been The First Black Female Playwright On Broadway, After 66...
Her Trouble in Mind treats a touchy subject, even now: it's about an interracial cast rehearsing an anti-lynching play written and directed by whites....
