Louvre Gets Back 450-Year-Old Armor Stolen 39 Years Ago
"A military antiques expert alerted police after being called in to give advice regarding an inheritance in Bordeaux in January and becoming suspicious about...
Reviving Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Six Years After ISIS Destroyed It
It was six years ago last week that extremist forces rampaged through the place, smashing ancient Assyrian sculptures with sledgehammers, burning books, looting anything...
A Critic Reviews 125 Years Of The NYT’s Book Reviews
To wander through 125 years of book reviews is to endure assault by adjective. All the fatuous books, the frequently brilliant, the disappointing, the...
Lessons On How To Have An “Exquisitely Managed Career” By Philip Roth
"Its lessons include: never marry; have no children; lawyer up early; keep tight control of your cover designs; listen to the critics while scorning...
Why Working Digitally Will Be Here To Stay In The Theatre
“There are so many benefits to all this stuff, It’s going to make theatre more accessible. It’s going to help tackle the issue of...
The Toronto Star Bets The Future On A Casino
Torstar's new owners say they are branching into online gambling to help pay for those continuing efforts. "Doing this as part of Torstar will...
The Virtue Of Ethics
"Until quite recently there was a concern that ethical relativism had become the dominant cultural assumption, which meant that ethics was all just a...
The Unkindness Of Booing
"In nearly 50 years of musical life, I can count on the fingers of two hands the occasions on which I’ve heard boos erupt...
So Who Made Pantone The Boss Of Colors Anyway?
Pantone started out, under another name, as a printing company, and one of its employees, Larry Herbert, got tired of trying to figure out...
Dance Through The Mailbox
Audience members sit on stools in separated cubicles surrounding the stage, each with its own door and letter-drop slots through which they can watch...
‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which now seems almost anodyne, was the subject of a criminal prosecution in 1960, but Lolita, which came out the previous...
What Have Theatre Artists Been Doing This Past Year? Eight Tell Their Stories
“This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, ‘Hello, this is an...
Ice Music: Performing Pieces On, And For, Literally Frozen Instruments
"Carved instruments can be either completely made of ice, such as horns and percussion, or hybrids, like harps, in which the main body is...
Remembering Lawrence Ferlinghetti
One contradiction stands above the rest. The man who cofounded City Lights bookstore and press and wrote the million-selling poetry collection Coney Island of...
On Zoom, Vimeo, PBS, Or An iPod, If A Theatre Company Does It, Is...
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form....
Boy Scouts To Sell Off Norman Rockwell Collection To Pay For Abuse Claims
In a reorganization plan filed in federal bankruptcy court in Delaware this week, the Boy Scouts listed nearly 60 pieces of art by Rockwell...
At The Detroit Symphony’s Virtual Orchestra Hall, Inside The Head Of A (Virtual) Listener
Michael Andor Brodeur: "I'm 'here' to virtually attend a rehearsal of Stride, a stirring newer work from the British composer Anna Clyne. And Clyne...
Where AI Can Really Help Public Radio
That would be transcription, which is prohibitively expensive to do for every segment but which makes it far easier for potential users to find...
Roger Englander, Pioneering Producer Of Classical Music On TV, Dead At 94
At NBC in Philadelphia, he produced the first-ever telecast of a complete opera, Menotti's The Telephone, and he followed up by putting together Menotti's...
Requiring Audiences To Present Vaccine Passports — Would It Be Feasible?
On the surface, it certainly seems as if asking ticket buyers to show proof of COVID vaccination would be a good, quick way to...
Mausoleum Of Emperor Augustus, Long Neglected, Now Restored and Reopening
"Still imposing after 2,000 years, a vast funerary monument that was once the resting place of Rome's emperors is to reopen to visitors on...
Six Dr. Seuss Books Withdrawn For ‘Hurtful And Wrong’ Portrayals
"Six Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — will...
Alan Bowness, 93, Former Director Of Tate Galleries And Co-Founder Of Turner Prize
"The internationally renowned scholar was the first trained art historian to become director of London's Tate Gallery, a position he held from 1980 to...
Bookshop.com Generates £1 Million For Indie UK Bookstores
Bookshop.org was launched in the US a year ago and in the UK in November. Pitching itself as a socially conscious way to buy...
Survey: When Theatre-Goers Will Be Ready To Return To Theatres
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread...
