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Ukrainian Sculptor From Berlin Stays In Lviv To Help Build Anti-Tank Defenses
Volo Bevza and several others have set themselves up in a metal workshop to build steel tank obstacles called "hedgehogs," which look like small...
As The Authorities Drop Mask and Vaccination Requirements For Indoor Spaces, Should The Arts...
"In interviews, leaders of almost a dozen cultural groups across the country emphasized the need for caution and carefulness. But they noted that each...
Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director
"Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol's 'red notice'"...
How Little Has Survived Of Medieval European Literature? More, And Less, Than One Might...
"A team using techniques more commonly used to track wildlife estimates that 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works produced in medieval Europe survive...
A Different Way To Approach Deciphering Quipu, The Incas’ Knotted-String Language?
Scholar Silvia Ferrara suggests that — since we don't have a Rosetta Cord giving us a text side-by-side in Inca knots and Spanish letters...
Belarus Free Theatre Does Its First Show Together Since Fleeing The Country Last Fall
In the wake of the stolen presidential election and Lukashenko's vicious crackdown on the subsequent demonstrations, the underground troupe decided to go into exile....
Edmund Keeley, Who Brought Cavafy And Seferis To The English-Speaking World, Dead At 94
As translator, scholar, and critic, he played a major role in showing Americans that Greece has a thriving modern culture alongside its ancient history....
Ranks Of Women Cinematographers Are Slowly Growing As Schools’ And Guilds’ Efforts To Train...
"The simple premise is that if you make a generational commitment — and about 25 to 30 years is a generational commitment — to...
Post-Industrial Parks Like New York’s High Line Are A Bad Idea, Argues Sociologist
Looking in particular at the High Line, the 606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston — all of which turned urban industrial...
As Ukrainian Dancers Escape, European Companies Are Taking Them In
In Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and elsewhere, ballet troupes have been helping their fleeing colleagues: finding them housing, letting them join class, and, if...
Why Did Sam Sanders Leave NPR? To Create New York Magazine’s New Culture Podcast
Sanders, who created the weekly show It's Been a Minute, is the fourth host of color in the past year to leave NPR for...
Arsonist Sets Trash Fire In Akron Art Museum
"Akron police have arrested a man accused of breaking into the Akron Art Museum and starting a small trash fire Sunday. ... Executive Director...
Olivier Award Nominations Led By “Cabaret”, “Anything Goes”, “Life Of Pi”
"A new production of the musical Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley leads the Olivier Award nominations with 11. It's followed by a...
Was This Man The Greatest Conductor Of The 20th Century? Probably. And He Was...
"Orchestras and singers regularly surpassed themselves under his guidance," writes David Patrick Stearns of Carlos Kleiber. "His deep immersion in whatever he conducted transcended...
Want To Watch ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’ Or ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’? You...
"A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to 'locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate...
Have Audiences Forgotten How To Behave? (Or Is It Just London?)
"Complaints about drunken, chaotic and argumentative audience behaviour have been reaching fever pitch. 'It feels like every bloody day there's a new debate about...
After An Artists’ Rebellion And Board Troubles, New York’s Flea Theater Is Trying Something...
"Now, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit theater is fighting to come back — this time with a new hybrid structure built to give complete...
Maine’s Largest Museum Plans A Big Makeover
"The Portland Museum of Art has embarked on an $85 million project leaders say will fundamentally transform the museum, bolstering its endowment and unifying...
“The Father Of Computer Art”, Charles Csuri, Dead At 99
"While he may never have been the subject of a proper survey at a major museum, Csuri's status within the history of digital art...
The Ballet World Faces The (Early) Fallout From The Invasion Of Ukraine
It's more than resignations and cancellations. The Kiev City Ballet , on tour in France when Russian forces attacked, is now stranded. A principal...
World Monuments Fund’s 25 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites
Awkwardly, the list was finalized before Putin's forces attacked Ukraine. The locations included range from world-renowned (Teotihuacán) to very ancient (cave paintings in the...
Proposed Idaho Law Could See Librarians Jailed For Lending “Harmful Materials” To Kids
The state House of Representatives has approved an amendment that removes the exemption libraries, museums, and schools had from a longstanding law against exposing...
Getty Trust Sues Investment Firm Over Loss Of $71 Million From Endowment
"The J. Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that oversees the Getty museum complex in Los Angeles, is suing the financial services firm Allianz Global...
Staffers At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Scramble To Protect Collection In Case Of Attack
"In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum (in Lviv), employees placed carefully wrapped baroque pieces into cardboard boxes. A few...
Amsterdam Hermitage Art Museum Cuts Ties With The St. Petersburg Mother Ship
"Due to our carefully built relationship," said a statement from the Dutch satellite, "we had access to one of the world's most famous art...