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The Real Miracle Of Notre-Dame? Reconstructing The Intricate Wood Frame Of The Roof
That project meant finding trees comparable to the huge oaks used to make the original eight centuries ago, finding or reproducing the medieval tools...
Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Selects Giancarlo Guerrero As Director
The 55-year-old Costa Rican conductor, currently completing his 16th and final season as music director of the Nashville Symphony, takes over the summer music...
Matthew López On The One Play He’s Written That He Was Terrified Of Reviving
One big reason that the Tony-winning playwright of The Inheritance has been reluctant to revisit this script, titled Reverberation, is that it's the last...
Backstage At San Francisco Opera For “Innocence” And “The Handmaid’s Tale”
"(Kaija Saariaho's) Innocence is about the aftermath of a school shooting, and the blood table was where the makeup crew applied stage blood to...
Video Streaming Platforms Are Looking Back To A Very 20th-Century Structure: TV Channels
"Viewers are getting tired. Choosing from thousands of options on a dozen streaming services, it turns out, is 'overwhelming.' .. Now Disney … has...
Why France’s Culture Pass For Young People Is In Danger
President Macron's program giving money to young people to spend on cultural products now costs €260 million a year. After a report showed that...
New York Public Radio Settles Discrimination Suit Brought By Former Host
Jami Floyd had filed a lawsuit in February 2023 alleging racial discrimination, retaliation, and a hostile work environment (though that part of the case...
Daniel Day-Lewis Ends His Seven-Year Retirement From Acting
The three-time Oscar winner is co-starring in his son Ronan's debut feature film, Anemone, whose screenplay the two wrote together. Ronan is also a...
Salman Rushdie’s “Knife” And Miranda July’s “All Fours” Among Titles Shortlisted For National Book...
"The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards. The winners in each of the five categories — fiction,...
John Amos, Pathbreaking Black TV Actor Known For “Roots” And “Good Times,” Has Died...
"A running back turned actor who appeared in scores of TV shows — including groundbreaking 1970s programs such as the sitcom Good Times and...
How Shelley Duvall Left A Two-Decade Retirement And Made Her Final Film Appearance
"Duvall’s participation was a surprise to everyone. As well as being officially retired since 2002, she was using a wheelchair, couldn’t travel and struggled...
Syntax Makes (Almost) All The Difference
"If a change of style is a change of subject, as Wallace Stevens averred, then a change of syntax is a change of meaning....
National Black Theatre Prepares to Move Into Building Worthy Of Its Work
CEO Sadie Lythcott says, "Our artistic ambition was always stifled by the space that we had." Come 2027, NBT will move into a block-long...
Here’s The 2024 Class Of MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellows
Figures from the arts include poet Jericho Brown, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, media artist Tony Cokes, filmmaker Sterlin Harjo, cabaret artist Justin Vivian Bond, writers...
When Disney Tried To Build An American History Theme Park
Disney's America was intended to have nine sections, from a Colonial-era Presidents Square and an Indigenous village to Ellis Island and a 19th-century factory...
By Age 25, She Had Choreographed For Commercial Dance, West End Musicals, Pop-Star Tours,...
Emma Portner is now almost 30, and the National Ballet of Canada has brought a major work of hers on tour to London. Yet...
Cell Phones Keep Interrupting Philadelphia Orchestra Concerts. Do The Orchestra’s Own Policies Bear Part...
"(Management) has invited the problem at least partially by asking audiences to ... engage with their cell phones during visits. Tagging the ensemble on...
Bringing South Africa’s Unique Street Dancing To The World’s Stages
Pantsula is a dance style developed in the country's black townships by Africans who combined the tap dancing they saw in American movies with...
Judge Denies Convicted Armorer For “Rust” A New Trial
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted of manslaughter for the accidental shooting of the film's cinematographer by star Baldwin, who presumed that a prop gun would...
This Guy Evidently Found A Picasso In Somebody’s Basement
A junk dealer found the painting when cleaning out a deceased homeowner's basement on the island of Capri. The dealer took it home and...
Cincinnati Opera Postpones Production Of New Afrofuturist Piece
Lalovavi, set in the year 2119 and with a score by composer Kevin Day, was to premiere next June but has been postponed one...
Broadway Star Gavin Creel Dead At 48
A beloved musical theater performer, singer-songwriter and activist who won a Tony for Hello, Dolly! (opposite Bette Midler) and an Olivier for The Book...
Harriet Martineau, The Now-Forgotten 19th-Century Novelist Who Changed Far More Than We Realize
"A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture — everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy — would look different, or might...
Saying “Like” All The Time Serves A Legitimate Purpose
And that legitimate purpose is, to put it one way, imprecision, which is precisely why all the constant "like"-ing so irks sticklers. Sociolinguist Valerie...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Throw Soup At Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” Again
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London...