“The National Museum of Beirut, which stood on the deadly Green Line during the Lebanese civil war, has reopened fully to the public after more than 40 years. On 7 October, [dignitaries] inaugurated the restored basement galleries dedicated to Lebanon’s ancient funerary art.”
How The Corruption Of The Bolshoi Mirrors The Decay (And Resilience) Of Russia
Simon Morrison describes “the thuggish Bolshoi as having survived revolution after revolution because the “narrative respects its own laws of storytelling,” the struggle time and again the perfection of ballet’s eternal laws. “To dance, after all, is to condition the body, and with it the mind, to let go,” he writes. Yet it is this very inability to let go—to let anything go—that has divided what used to unite the love of millions.”
Staffers At Versailles Indicted For Selling Counterfeit Tickets
“First it was suspected counterfeit chairs, and now, counterfeit tickets – the Palace of Versailles is having a rough year. Five employees of the opulent tourist attraction were indicted for fraud on Monday, after French police confirmed a fake ticket conspiracy suspected by innocent colleagues.”
Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Playwright, Dead At 90
“He was best known for Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970), a play based on the case of an Italian railroad worker who was either thrown or fell from the upper story of a Milan police station while being questioned on suspicion of terrorism, and for his one-man show Mistero Buffo (‘Comic Mystery’), written in 1969 and frequently revised and updated over the next 30 years, taking wild comic aim at politics and, especially, religion.”