Cambodia Gets Back Dozens Historic Artifacts Allegedly Looted In British Art Dealer’s Scheme
“The artifacts were described as dating from the pre-Angkorian period through the height of the Angkor Empire, including ‘monumental sandstone sculptures, refined bronze works,...
Firefighters Rescue Rare Books From A Library On The Cliff Edge After Landslide
“Firefighters drilled through the wall of a building behind the structure and entering for minutes at a time, strapped the bookcases together and hauled...
The Kentucky Optical Shop Owner Who Was Also One Of The Twentieth Century’s Best,...
“Often dark (literally and figuratively), surreal, sometimes playful and at other times sinister, his pictures stunned and sometimes perplexed viewers with their wild, poetic...
After Internal Consideration And Exterior Pressure, San Francisco Ballet Pulls Out Of Kennedy Center...
A company representative wrote, “SF Ballet looks forward to performing for Washington, D.C. audiences in the future.” - San Francisco Chronicle (Yahoo)
Larry Reed, California’s Master Of Shadow Puppetry, Is Dead At 81
He was among the first Americans to study Balinese shadow theater and then perform it back home, which he did for his entire career....
Ode To A Great Editor
During my own editing stint, I came to understand writers as prisoners of their own minds, pressed up against the bars of the words...
“Moral Self-Defense” And The Uses of Public Shaming
“There are plenty of self-serving, self-aggrandizing, morally objectionable reasons for why people participate in public shaming. Nevertheless, the concept of moral self-defence reminds us...
California Attorney General Warns Paramount Buy Of Warner “Not A Done Deal” Yet
Rob Bonta’s cold water on the Paramount-WBD fireworks comes a week after the CA Department of Justice opened a probe into any deal to take over WB...
Non-Professional Actors At The Heart Of Movies
The prominence of movies featuring nonprofessionals is no surprise: directors may make movies what they are, but actors are what viewers see, and these...
Sorry, “Guerilla Teaching” Isn’t Allowed In Smithsonian Galleries
He was at the Portrait Gallery as an educator but also as co-founder of Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian, a group that last year...
Jonathan Groff Is Practicing Sonnets To Prepare To Play Rosalind In “As You Like...
“(I wanted to) just start slow, with some Shakespeare that wasn’t the play,” said the Tony-winning actor, who’ll be starring in an all-male staging...
Pompeii Gets a Digital Makeover: Now With Less Ash
Forget the petrified citizens – new 3D renderings show Pompeii as the thriving metropolis it was before Vesuvius crashed the party. Because apparently we...
Woman Sues Meta, YouTube Over Social Media Use
Wearing a pink dress and cardigan, Kaley told the jury that she started watching YouTube videos at age 6 and made an Instagram account...
Congressional Republicans Propose National Book Banning
House Resolution 7661 transforms grassroots library battles into national policy, giving censors sweeping powers to purge school and public collections. Democracy's reading rooms become...
The Choreographer Behind The Ecstatic Shakers Dances In “The Testament Of Ann Lee”
“The night before we started filming, I was sleeping and, literally, the ghost of Ann Lee was over my bed with angels around and...
Where Has The Sex Gone? Our Literature Is Getting Cleaner
Literary writers have other demands to satisfy. In general, readers come to their books seeking not an escape from reality but perspective on it....
A Dystopian Story About An AI-Ridden 2028 Sparked A $200 Billion Crash Of The...
A speculative blog post about 2028's AI-choked economy just vaporized $200 billion in market value. When your dystopian fiction gets confused for a Goldman...
A Real Shit Show: Berlinale’s Director Faces Axe Over Israel Stance
Tricia Tuttle discovers that running a major film festival means navigating more landmines than a war correspondent. Her crime? Apparently failing to muzzle artists...
A Gay Cultural Critic Resistant To “Heated Rivalry” Explains Why He Finally, Happily Succumbed
Wesley Morris: “Why wouldn’t I have wanted this? A six-episode show that’s exemplary as romance, as physical intimacy, as banter, as athlete psychology, as conversation, confession...
Rena Bransten, Pillar Of San Francisco’s Gallery Scene For 50 Years, Has Died At...
“Rena Bransten Gallery was known as one of the pioneering contemporary art programs in San Francisco. She helped the gallery develop a long tradition...
Venues Hosting Shen Yun Dance In Australia Get Bomb Threats
The theatre presenting the controversial Falun Gong-associated troupe in the Gold Coast had to be evacuated; the venues where the group will perform in...
Public Radio’s Young-Musician Show “From The Top” Acquired By KERA Dallas
“We're not spending a dollar on this acquisition. They're essentially folding into KERA,” said station CEO Nico Leone. “We feel really good about our...
Nadia Boulanger’s Little-Known Opera Revived
Her opera La Ville morte was set to premiere just when World War I broke out; she never returned to it and only a...
France’s Controversial Culture Minister Steps Down To Run For Mayor Of Paris
Rachida Dati, a member of ex-President Sarkozy’s right-wing party Les Républicains (she was once his Justice Minister), is running to succeed outgoing mayor Anne...
DePaul Art Museum In Chicago To Shut Down This Summer
Announcement of the closure, which is effective June 30, comes two months after DePaul University laid off 114 full-time and part-time staff. Administrators cited...
