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It Appears That Chimpanzees Have Their Own Language, Complete With Words And Simple Sentences
Researchers have found that a troop of 46 chimps in the Ivory Coast has 390 unique vocal sequences that they use among themselves. Â They...
The Art, And The Power, Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s War Videos
"They serve as field reporting, pleas for weapons, arias that glorify Ukraine. But the videos have done more than win Ukraine moral and military...
After 27 Years, The Opera About Harvey Milk Has Been Completely Reworked
Composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie have removed 70 minutes, and many cameo roles, from Milk, and made arrangements for orchestras of 66...
“We Need A National Memorial To Gun Violence, Now.”
"It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. ... After every mass...
Ex-Director And Curators At The Louvre Detained For Questioning In Antiquities Trafficking Case
Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down as director last year when his contract wasn't renewed, as well as the head of the museum's Egyptian art...
Bèlè, Martinique’s Very Own Dance Of Emancipation
An Afro-Caribbean repertoire of quadrille square dances (accompanied by drumming and singing) that combines a complicated vocabulary of symbolic movements with improvisation, bèlè is...
Germany Raises Its Arts Spending Even More
As American arts workers watch and weep with envy, "Germany's new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has announced a 2022 budget of €2.3 billion ($2.4...
“Imagineering” Existed For Decades Before Disney Trademarked The Word
The people who coined the word, it seems, were the Word War II-era marketers at, of all companies, Alcoa. And through the 1980s and...
More Inflammatory Opinions From David Mamet (About Theater, Not Just Politics)
"What play did you ever see that's changed your life? That's not the purpose of theatre." "Acting has nothing in the world to do...
If We Described Someone As “A Vocal Figure Skater”, Whom Would You Picture? Probably...
You'd probably picture some winsome soprano singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, not a big, bearded tenor who sings Peter Grimes. But...
“Linguistic Convergence” — Why Folks Tend To Start Mimicking The Speech Patterns Of The...
"People tend to converge toward the language they observe around them, whether it's copying word choices, mirroring sentence structures or mimicking pronunciations. ... In...
Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Has Been Shepherding Through Some Big Changes
"Four years ago, Alicia Graf Mack — a former star of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey — took the reins of the...
Looks Like Even France’s Film Industry Has Had Enough Of Roman Polanski
His career flourished there after he fled statutory rape charges in the US in 1973. But there was a huge backlash when he won...
Is That Long-Lost Painting The Italian Police Just Recovered Really A Titian?
The Carabinieri say so, but at least two prominent art professionals disagree: Titian scholar Andrea Donati ("sensationally wrong ... I cannot even see the...
“This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO
Roger Lynch: "We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million...
“Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed
"Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe....
Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically
"Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise...
France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister
Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in...
“True Rhymes Are Marvels; A Slant Rhyme’s A Sin. Or Is It Vice Versa?...
Adam Gopnik considers how "slant rhyme" (English teachers call it assonance) and rap's constant use of it have revivified verse, both sung and spoken...
Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?
Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now. Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they're reading...
A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On...
"Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere ... through May 29,...
How The Standup Comedy TV Special Became A Genre Of Its Own
"The first decade or so of the 2000s wasn't exactly a time of artistic evolution for the special, but the rapid increase in special-making...
Kyiv’s Opera House Is Back To Putting On Opera
"In a city that ... became used to wailing air-raid sirens and the thuds of artillery from the suburbs, the audience was instead treated...
Philadelphia’s City History Museum Was Doomed. Thank Goodness A University Has Taken It Over.
"Interviews with more than a dozen museum professionals suggest that the Philadelphia History Museum ended up in (storage) far from the heart of the...
There Was More To Frank Langella’s Firing Than Just Ignoring The Intimacy Coordinator’s Blocking
"One word consistently used by virtually everyone when describing Langella's behavior" on set for Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher "was 'toxic'...
