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Ethiopian Popular Culture Is Making The Chinese Its Bogeymen
As investment from China flows into Ethiopia, social media and entertainment are voicing worries about inexpensive made-in-China versions of Ethiopian handicrafts, mocking Chinese eating...
Five Small Theaters Sue City Of New York Over Vaccine Requirements
The issue: the venues must require audiences to wear masks and be vaccinated, but similar buildings, or even the same one, are exempt from...
Supply Chain Problems Are Still Plaguing Publishing, And There Might Be Book Shortages For...
"Supply chain problems have touched almost every aspect of book production, storage, and delivery, mostly as a result of Covid-related bottlenecks. Printer capacity issues...
With The Walls Finally Stabilized, Reconstruction At Notre-Dame In Paris Can Begin In Earnest
Those solid, 850-year-old walls were damaged much more by the catastrophic 2019 fire than authorities realized at first. (They really could have collapsed.) Now...
Enormous Stage Rock Nearly Crushes Tenor; Court Rules It Was Sabotage
It's the end of Tristan und Isolde at the Capitole de Toulouse. Isolde is singing the Liebestod and Tristan is playing dead upstage when...
What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?
Osita Nwanevu: "The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy...
A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns
Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s...
Afghan Singers Recount Their Flight From The Taliban
The BBC interviewed half a dozen musicians who have had instruments smashed, relatives killed, and threats issued since the extremists took over Afghanistan last...
In Crimea, Russian Government Is Trying To Wipe Out Tatar Heritage: UNESCO Report
"The report ascribes a goal of erasing traces of their cultural presence on the peninsula and weakening 'the fundamental role of the indigenous Muslim...
Myanmar’s Arts Community Is Caught Between Military Dictators, Floods, Economic Turmoil, And COVID
"People are focused on survival … and caring for their loved ones," says one artist in Yangon. Adds another, "It's dangerous to do a...
Why This Filmmaker In Myanmar Is A Fugitive From The Junta
Director Na Gyi and his wife (and leading actor) would be in hiding even if their latest film weren't about a lesbian romance: they...
Jane Powell, Wholesome Star Of Classic Movie Musicals, Dead At 91
"An actress and singer who first appeared in movies as a teenager, (she) became a sunny stalwart of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and...
Here’s The First-Ever Piano With 108 Keys
The instrument, designed and handmade by Wayne Stuart of Stuart & Sons in Australia, has a nine-octave range, two octaves more than a standard...
Stephen Sondheim, At 91, Is Working On A New Musical
As he told Stephen Colbert this week, "I've been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and...
A Previously Unknown Van Gogh Is Now On View In Amsterdam
"Study for 'Worn Out,' as the drawing is being called, has lived in a private Dutch collection since the first decade of the 20th...
Paris’s Musée d’Orsay ‘Can No Longer Be A Tourist Factory,’ Says Its New Director
That would be Christophe Leribault, until now director of the city's Petit Palais and, before that, of the Musée Delacroix. He replaces Laurence des...
‘Learned Behaviour’ At The Royal Ballet: How A Case Like Liam Scarlett’s Could Happen
Luke Jennings: "His behaviour (was) egregious and exploitative, but his is not an isolated case. It is symptomatic of a culture I have seen...
Liv Ullman And Jessica Chastain On Playing The Same Role In ‘Scenes From A...
"Forty-eight years after the original aired, Ullmann is still aghast at her character's decision to have a later-in-life affair with her ex-husband — 'In...
Playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie Dead At 85
" was a mainstay of the experimental theater world, … especially known for America Hurrah, a form-bending trio of one-acts that opened in 1966...
Missing For Two Years Now, Where Is Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet?
The fully functional 18-carat commode, titled America, became world-famous while on exhibit at the Guggenheim. (The Trump White House wanted to borrow a van...
Soprano Carmen Balthrop Dead At 73
Part of the third generation of Black opera singers to become international stars, she performed throughout Europe and the US, achieving wide fame in...
Unknown Tennessee Williams Story Sees Print At Last
"Honored worldwide as a playwright, Williams also wrote dozens of short stories. A rarely seen piece, 'The Summer Woman,' set in Italy, appears...
Scaffolding At Stonehenge As First Repairs In 63 Years Get Underway
Workers will stabilize cracks and holes in the stones of the 4,500-year-old monument and will replace concrete mortar used in the 1958 repairs with...
San Antonio Symphony Management Demands To Slash Orchestra’s Size By 40%
In renegotiations for the final year (2021-22) of the current contract, management had proposed cutting salaries in half, down to $17,710 per year. Their...
After 35 Years, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Artistic Director Robert Falls To Depart
" decision, which he said was not made under any kind of internal or outside pressure, brings the exit of Chicago theater's premier auteurist...