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Oklahoma Governor’s Push To Get Bibles In Every Classroom Goes Right Back To 19th-Century...
Starting in the 1830s, the American Bible Society began a campaign to get inexpensive Bibles into homes "in every part of the land," while...
Gradually, Restaurants Are Becoming Literally Inhuman: Pete Wells In His Farewell Column
"Blackbird’s new checkless exit gives me the creeps. It's just the latest in a series of changes that have gradually and steadily stripped the...
South Africa Forges Its Own Style Of Opera
"With South African stars shining on the international stage, opera has boomed since racial barriers were scrapped in 1994, drawing in talent from the...
Nina Ananiashvili On Her Twenty Years Remaking The State Ballet Of Georgia
She was one of the Bolshoi's biggest stars and in demand as a guest all over the world. Yet the president of Georgia himself...
Author And Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah Wins $500K Kluge Humanities Prize
"Appiah, a professor of philosophy and law at New York University, is author of more than a dozen books and is known for scholarly...
Disney Makes Profit On Streaming For First Time As Entertainment Revenue Soars
The entertainment division's bonanza was from improvements in direct-to-consumer streaming and the box-office hit Inside Out 2. … The streaming business specifically (which includes...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Who Attacked A Klimt Give Up And Disband
"'We no longer see any prospect of success,' the group (Last Generation Austria) said in a statement. The group regularly made headlines over the...
Seattle Opera’s New General Director: Opera Theatre Of St. Louis’s James Robinson
"Robinson, who has been artistic director at the opera company in Missouri since 2008, will join Seattle Opera on Sept. 4. … He succeeds...
Lincoln Center Appoints New President After Henry Timms’s Surprise Departure
Mariko Silver, currently head of the Henry Luce Foundation, formerly president of Bennington College, and for several years an Obama administration official, will take...
Business Is Down At Disney’s Theme Parks (Is This A Warning Sign?)
Even though revenues have grown by 2% since last year, operating profit declined by 3% — this just a year after Disney committed $60...
Venice’s Mayor, Under Investigation For Corruption, Refuses To Resign
"Luigi Brugnaro, who has maintained his innocence since the wide-ranging scandal involving public tenders and land sales broke in July, addressed the city council...
Alan Ayckbourn Has Had 90 Of His Plays Produced, And He’s Written Even More
He says he stockpiled plays during the COVID lockdowns; he's had readings of two in the past two years, has another getting a full...
“Assembly Theory” — One Physicist Believes She’s Figured Out How Life Emerged
Assembly theory, as ASU professor Sara Walker and her colleagues call it, "looks at everything in the universe in terms of how it was...
Breaking At The Olympics: How The Judging System Works
"Understanding the intricacies of the judging system — and how it’s been adjusted to work in the Olympics, while still honoring breaking’s history —...
Breaking At The Olympics: A Guide To The Power Moves
"This spring, at Red Bull’s Lords of the Floor competition, we watched Olympians bust out some of the moves they’ll showcase at the Summer...
Pixar’s “Inside Out” Movies Have Changed Practice Of Child Psychology
"That Pixar hit, about core emotions like joy and sadness, and this summer’s blockbuster sequel, which focuses on anxiety, have been embraced by educators,...
Anthony Roth Costanzo May Be Just The Right Guy To Save Opera Philadelphia
"Costanzo is a rare blend of artistic star power and equally starry connections, entrepreneurial intuition, and business savvy. He’s just the sort of triple...
Zora Neale Hurston’s Unfinished Final Novel Will Be Published
"(She) was working on a sequel to her 1939 novel Moses, Man of the Mountain when she died in 1960. That sequel, The Life...
Whitney Museum Goes In-House For Curators Of 2026 Whitney Biennial
Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer are both staff curators at the Whitney; Guerrero is the museum's first curator devoted specifically to Latinx art, while...
Metropolitan Opera And Yannick Nézet-Séguin Extend Their Contract Through 2029-30 Season
Over the next six years, Nézet-Séguin will conduct four or five operas each season, including new works — such as Mason Bates's The Amazing...
Miami’s Small Arts Organizations Slash Their Budgets And Search For Life Rafts After DeSantis’s...
"Arts organizations across Miami-Dade County have been left to their own devices ... to deal with the cuts in funding, and in many cases,...
Meet Mourad Merzouki, Choreographer Of The Olympics’ Official Dance Showcase
No, this doesn't mean the breaking competition. This is free performance before 13,500 spectators at the Trocadéro Champions Park, where the Algerian-French hip-hop choreographer's...
Yuval Sharon Will Stage Metropolitan Opera’s Next “Ring” Cycle And “Tristan”
Sharon’s Tristan und Isolde opens March 9, 2026 with Lise Davidsen as Isolde. The Ring begins with Das Rheingold in spring 2028, continues with...
Chimpanzees Have Back-And-Forth Conversations Much Like Humans Do
"Researchers analysed thousands of gestures made by wild chimps in east Africa and found striking similarities with the turn-taking seen in human conversations, in...
How On Earth Does One Write A Musical About Particle Physics?
David Henry Hwang wondered that, too. Yet he's part of an impressive team working on a show about the Large Hadron Collider and the...