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Paris Reveals Planned Overhaul Of Outdoor Space At Notre-Dame
The redesign by landscape architect Bas Smets will include expanded plazas in front and in back of the cathedral; more plantings, including shade trees...
16th-Century Frescoes Which No One Knew Were There Uncovered In Monaco
Wall and ceiling paintings, believed to be by Genoese artists, were found and conserved in three rooms of the Prince's Palace: the Gallery of...
Mariupol’s Drama Theater Is Destroyed, But Its Theater Company Is Still Working
"In all, 13 members of the Mariupol troupe survived the weeks of bombardment of their city. ... In recent weeks, the group has reconvened...
Stage Director Peter Brook, 97
"He explored the interior world of the self and the nature of reality in dramas of every description – Shakespeare, opera, Asian epic and...
“Disneyfication”: What Has Xi Jinping’s Government Done To The Ancient Silk Road City Of...
BuzzFeed's reporters have compared video and photos from 2017 (not long after the current repression campaign against Uyghurs began) and earlier to more recent...
How Did The Romans Keep Wine From Going Bad In Their Amphorae? Like This.
"By looking at the chemical deposits found within the amphorae, plant tissue residue, and pollen, researchers were able to determine which grape derivatives were...
Why Pittsburgh Festival Opera Is Not Putting On Any Operas This Year
Faced with the challenges of simply surviving as a small independent company post-pandemic, PFO — noting that there's more grant money available for educational...
TikTok Is Now An Integral Part Of The Book Market
"Early last year, the publishing industry noticed that books readers gushed about on TikTok were showing up on bestseller lists. ... A year later,...
An Ancient Roman Home, Complete With Frescoes, Has Been Excavated From Under The Baths...
"The frescoes pre-date the baths themselves, and adorned a house that was part of a neighborhood destroyed to accommodate the baths, which were inaugurated...
Meet Some Of The Workers Making Theatre Accessible To Disabled People
Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the...
SXSW Expands Beyond Austin For The First Time —And It’s Going A Very Long...
The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in...
“Copying Is Not Satire, It Is Theft. And Lying To Consumers Is Not Conceptual...
That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged "trademark...
Anti-Oil Protestors Are Gluing Themselves To Paintings In British Museums
Asking "What's more important? This painting? Or a future?" (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their...
San Diego’s Theaters Are Back. Half Of Their Audience Is Not.
"For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say...
Amazon Is Spending Big Money To Become A Player In Live Sports Media
The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK's Premiere League soccer. Now Amazon has...
YouTube Has Spawned A Crop Of Media Critics
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena...
Is Taika Waititi Maybe A Little Bit, Er, Workaholic?
"His runaway résumé is also a sign of how difficult Waititi finds it to say no. And if you wonder how anyone can possibly...
Is There About To Be A Labor Dispute At The Alvin Ailey Company?
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union...
A Little Dust-Up Over Opera And Classism In Britain’s Parliament
Boris's deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going...
San Francisco Expands Its Guaranteed Income Pilot For Artists
"Thanks to funding from Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall foundation and a donation from billionaire McKenzie Scott, which supplemented the city's initial investment with $3.5 million,...
“It’s A Mysterious Thing, The Dynamic Between A Puppet Onstage And The Audience, Even...
Take, for instance, the puppet playing Milky White the cow in the upcoming Broadway revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. - The New York...
Hagia Sophia’s 1,500-Year-Old Marble Floors Cracked By Heavy Machinery
"A number of marble tiles on the floor of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was turned back into a mosque in 2020 after...
Remember When Hollywood Threatened To Pull Out Of Georgia Over An Abortion Ban? It...
"Now that the law is on the verge of going into effect, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, the studios have gone quiet. ......
Germany Signs Formal Agreement To Return 1,100 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
"The collection of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin ... that have found their way into...
There’s A New, Well-Endowed Funder On The Arts Scene
"Funded by a $440 million bequest from Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts immediately enters the highest echelons of arts...
