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Indie Bookstores Used To Hate Barnes & Noble. Now They’re Rooting For It.
So's the entire publishing industry. "(The chain's) unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested...
A Brief History Of IMAX
"Born in the late 1960s in the minds of two Canadian filmmakers looking to improve the documentary film-watching experience on the festival circuit, IMAX...
The Disappearing Art Of Thai Royal Porcelain
Hand-painted benjarong was a super-luxury product in the 18th and 19th centuries, and early 20th-century Buddhist temples were clad in benjarong shards. Yet the...
Confessional Theatre Is Having A Big Moment Just Now. Why So?
"While hardly a new genre, confessional theatre is unique in its focus on the true stories of its creators and its intimate insights into...
Ex-CEO Of Sydney Symphony Claims She Was Fired For Investigating Sexual Harassment
Emma Dunch was sacked by the orchestra's board in December, allegedly because of problems with her leadership style and relationships with funders. Court filings...
Putin Impersonator And Kim Jong-Un Impersonator Help Zelensky Impersonator Escape Ukraine
The Ukrainian president has remained in Kiev, but for Umid Isabaev, the entertainer who looks like Zelensky (and played his body double on Servant...
Being A Comedian May Be An Ideal Background For A World Leader
"Imagine if Zelensky's hit show had been not Servant of the People, but Fury Force 5 or something similarly over-the-top, and Zelensky's career had...
How Intimacy Directors Work In Ballet
"Intimacy work for screen and theater doesn't entirely translate to dance. In those fields, intimacy directors choreograph sexually charged scenes by setting the performers'...
700-Year-Old Passover Manuscript At Center of Lawsuit Against Israel Museum Over Nazi Looting
The so-called Birds' Head Haggadah (ca. 1300) belonged to German parliament member Ludwig Marum, one of the earliest Jews to die in the Holocaust....
Does The Spanish Language Explain The “Hispanic Paradox” In Health Outcomes?
The "paradox" is that Hispanics in the US tend to have less heart disease and longer lifespans than non-Hispanic whites despite having higher risk...
Dr. William G Hamilton, Who Pioneered Dance Medicine, Dead At 90
"Ballet dancers may be the 'athletes of God,' as Albert Einstein supposedly said. But until Dr. Hamilton came along" as New York City Ballet's...
CNN’s New Streaming Network Is About To Get Massive Budget Cuts
"The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service, CNN+, over the next four years. Hundreds of millions of...
How Thomas More And Thomas Cromwell Ended Up Glaring At Each Other Across A...
That fireplace is at The Frick Collection in midtown Manhattan, and on each side of it are Hans Holbein's famous portraits of Henry VIII's...
Nature Writing Should Be As Unsentimental As Nature Is
"Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn't all look at them too closely,...
Spoilers And Their Relationship To Relentless Capitalist Excess, Explained
In which Emily St. James argues that the culture's arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which...
In Australia’s Election, Nobody’s Talking About The Arts. So What Are The Parties’ Arts...
"Just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ... By examining a party's record, we can assess the values that...
Watching “Servant Of The People” Now That Volodymyr Zelensky Is Actually President
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in...
Russian’s Rich Lexicon Of Profanity Has Become A Tool In Ukraine’s Resistance
"Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has...
Dance Salad, A Festival “Born In Brussels, Brought Up In Houston”
For 25 years, an enterprising Texan named Nancy Henderek has been bringing major artists to her hometown for a three-day festival with "bite-size samplings"...
A Group Of Napoleon’s Personal Effects, Stolen Years Ago, Were Found On eBay
The items — portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, locks of the emperor's hair, and his inkwell set — were stolen from a historic house...
Arena Stage’s “Toni Stone” Was Cancelled Mid-Run Because The Lead Actress No Longer Felt...
"Santoya Fields said it wasn't an illness that led to her being unable to take the stage; it was the impact of what she...
Largest Van Gogh Exhibition In U.S. In 20 Years Opens This Fall
"The coming Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts will include 72 Van Goghs, with 56 paintings and 16 works...
Long Beach Opera Wasn’t Racist Or Sexist, Just Poorly Managed: Investigation
When three staffers resigned last month, they claimed a culture of racism and misogyny kept them from being able to do their work, and...
Charlotte Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director
"The dance company announced Thursday that Alejandro Cerrudo, 41, will be its next leader. Cerrudo has worked as a dancer and choreographer for 24...
She’s Turned A Little RV Into An Eight-Seat Touring Cinema
"Until fairly recently, Kerry Jones's caravan lay rotting and forgotten about in her garden in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders — a home for...