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Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s Leading Composer, Is Now A Refugee In Berlin
"I don't know how we lived to see this," said the 84-year-old of the Russian invasion. As ensembles all over are performing his works...
Restoring Notre-Dame With Tools Its 12th-Century Builders Would Have Used
Experimental archaeologists Rick and Laura Brown have reconstructed the human-powered cranes that lifted huge objects during the Middle Ages and replicated the timber-framed roof...
Utah Choreographer Hit With Multiple Accusations of Sexual Harassment
When dancer Sybley Wozmak put up an Instagram post about her experience with a well-connected Salt Lake City choreographer, she got 250 responses in...
Nostalgia For Big-Box Bookstores? Really? Yes, Really.
"Chain box stores were big businesses, sure, but they were also a crucial third space for casual hangouts and serendipitous run-ins that metro suburbs,...
As The Pandemic Hit, Which Funders Came To The Rescue?
With so many venues losing earned income by closing their doors as COVID spread, individual donors and foundations increased their giving, but government emergency...
Nielsen, The Media Ratings Giant, Is Sold To Hedge Fund Group
"In a deal valued at $16 billion, Nielsen has agreed to sell itself to a consortium of private equity firms led by Evergreen Coast...
The World’s Most Visited Museums In 2021
Topping the list as usual is the Louvre, followed by the State Russian Museum (Mikhailovsky Palace) in St. Petersburg. (Where's the National Museum of...
Anne Parsons, Longtime Detroit Symphony CEO, Dead At 64
Over a 17-year tenure, she stabilized the orchestra's finances; led it through the Great Recession, a bitter 2011 strike, and COVID; saw the appointment...
Not To Be Outdone By Abu Dhabi, Qatar Is Building Three More Major Museums
As Abu Dhabi continues work on its starchitect-studded Saadiyat Island cultural district, Qatar is following suit with Lusail (designed by Herzog and de Meuron),...
Over 20 Years, Grant Gershon Has Transformed The L.A. Master Chorale
Before he took the helm, it was a group of largely amateur singers doing "the chestnuts of the golden age of choral music." Now...
A National Geographic Brief History Of Hula
How a sacred Hawaiian dance and music ritual was canceled, commercialized, and finally, revived. - National Geographic
Even With The Will Smith-Chris Rock Bitch-Slap, There Are Two Americas
Jemele Hill: "By that I mean: Black people and white people aren't necessarily talking about the incident in the same way. … I can't...
RT America, The Russian State Broadcaster’s DC Bureau, Was Just Weird
"But its weirdness is much harder to explain if you can't look at any of its deeply weird clips," most of which have vanished...
Aaron Sorkin Is Writing A New Script For “Camelot”
André Bishop, chief of Lincoln Center Theater (where the show debuts next fall) and director Bartlett Sher asked Sorkin to consider the project. "It...
Post-Sacklers, Museums Are Adding “Morals Clauses” To Donor Agreements
"When a wealthy donor agrees to support an institution in return for naming rights, the lawyers increasingly draw up contracts with carefully worded 'morals...
Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine In Jordan
"Located in the Khashabiyeh Mountains …, the shrine features two large standing stones carved with anthropomorphic figures, as well as an altar and hearth....
Did Target Yank A Bunch Of LGBTQ Books From Its Website?
"On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books — many of them by debut authors — were...
New York City’s New Mayor Suggests Cutting $72 Million From Arts Budget
In February "the mayor released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 that proposes slashing one-third of the city's culture budget. So how does...
Putin Suggests Merging Bolshoi And Mariinsky Theaters Under Valery Gergiev’s Direction
After Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin signed a petition for ending Russia's war in Ukraine and one of the Bolshoi's star ballerinas abruptly emigrated, the...
The Music, And Music Criticism, Of The Terezín Concentration Camp
David Patrick Stearns looks at "a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians" titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music...
The Splendiferous Din Of Italian Futurist Music
"What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo's intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to...
Can Fairy Tales Explain The (Lack Of) Progress In Russia’s War On Ukraine?
"Several weeks in, it's clear many overestimated the Russian army's will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army's will to resist an opponent...
It’s Not Easy To Make A Story Ballet About Evita Perón
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she...
Some Folks Want To Do Away With The Woman-In-Danger Subgenre Of Thriller Fiction. Bad...
Nancy Allen: "I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I've written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally...
Bowen Yang’s Immigrant Parents Could Not Comprehend His Making A Career In Comedy
No, it's not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living...