Thieves Steal $700K Worth Of Raw Gold From France’s National Museum Of Natural History
“A break-in was detected on Tuesday morning, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into...
The Italian Palazzo Where Broken Voices And Vocal Techniques Get Repaired
Marianna Brilla and Lisa Paglin spent years in Italy studying old vocal treatises and historical recordings to find the roots of bel canto technique....
The Grass Roots Activists Fighting For The Right To Read
“This is who the Fifth Circuit is harassing: a mom of four with a Diet Coke in her hand, doing this while her kids...
Beirut, Once The Arab World’s Publishing Capital, Struggles To Keep Its Book Culture Alive
Before Lebanon’s long civil war, authors from all over the Arab world published in liberal Beirut the books they couldn’t release in their own...
In Xi’an, Anywhere You Dig, There’s History
Some estimate that the city’s subterranean history could stretch back 1 million years, with early human settlement from the Lantian Man and walled settlements...
Just How Can You Make Theatre In Ukraine During a War?
They have brothers and fathers in the war; they have family members cut off from them in the occupied Donbas. At one rehearsal, an...
The Remarkable Adji Cissoko
Over more than a decade with Lines, Cissoko has become such a part of King's creative process that it's now almost impossible to know...
A Librarian Recounts A Moment That Makes Her Very Difficult, Now-Very Controversial Job Worth...
“Libraries are enduring book bans, mental health crises, drug overdoses, and more” — including accusations of peddling pedophilie porn — “as we try to provide resources and...
National Parks Staff Are Removing Information About Slavery
Trump’s March executive order directing the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a “corrosive ideology” that disparages historic Americans. National Park Service officials...
North Dakota Columnist Who Wrote Famous Review of Olive Garden Dies At 99
In the review, she famously wrote in praise of the chain’s chicken Alfredo as “warm and comforting on a cold day.” “As I ate,...
The Art-Of-Endurance Artists
The subject has grown rarer as the art world has gotten more commercial, but there are still people who immerse themselves in projects that...
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is Working Out The Cultural Divisions Within His Homeland And...
“I thought the (wider) world was so interesting (when I was young), and outside was where I could breathe. I think the world I...
Rise Of The AI-And-I Essay
Call the genre the AI-and-I essay. Between April and July, the New Yorker published more than a dozen such pieces: essays about generative AI and the...
The Trump Administration’s Plan To Change How UCLA Is Run
The Trump administration’s settlement proposal to UCLA — which includes a nearly $1.2-billion fine over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations — seeks...
How Robert Redford Changed How The Film Industry Worked
“When I started the Institute, the major studios dominated the game, which I was a part of,. I wanted to focus on the word...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Starts Major Staff Buyouts (With Layoffs To Follow)
“A spokesperson said the number eligible for voluntary redundancy was 420 of its (835) permanent employees, as part of a programme running until October...
Money Struggles And Retrenchment Plague Regional Theaters — But Not Milwaukee Rep
Chris Jones has a look at the company’s three-theater headquarters, which has just undergone an on-time, on-budget $80 million renovation, and at the programming...
Why Suppressing The Photo Of An Enslaved Man’s Whipped Back Is A Horrifying Idea
Philip Kennicott: “If you can erase ‘The Scourged Back,’ if you can erase … any one of the millions of enslaved people who suffered...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians’ New Contract Hits The $200K Mark
The agreement, retroactive to Nov. 24, 2024 and ending on Nov. 20, 2027, maintains the starting weekly base salary of $3,450, with biannual increases...
Polluted Air Is Leaving Black Crust All Over Delhi’s Red Fort
“Fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide in the capital’s air are accelerating the decay of the sandstone fort, built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan...
Louvre Discontinues Tours Guided By Nintendo 3DS
“For the past decade, visitors to the Louvre could rent a Nintendo 3DS console for personalized tours, audio commentary and additional information about more...
Agreement Is Near On Keeping TikTok Available In U.S.
In 2024, due to data security concerns, Congress passed legislation requiring the Chinese company ByteDance to either sell TikTok to an American owner or...
A Training Regime Designed To Strengthen Feet For Pointe Work
Working with a physician and several dancers, Lynne Charles (who had a 35-year-career as a principal ballerina) developed 4Pointe, a somatic method to strengthen...
What About Those Works Of Art That Aren’t Bestsellers?
Headlines focus on that tiny segment of the arts that garners extraordinary numbers (whether readers, audience members, or dollars). The lucky writers and performers...
What’s Happened To Cultural Institutions In Russian-Occupied Mariupol
“In the months and years since the siege that destroyed it, the city has been turned into a showcase of the concept of the...
