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Netflix For $7 A Month (Plus Ads) Is Coming
"The ad-supported service is scheduled to debut Nov. 3 as Netflix tries to reverse a drop in subscribers. It will cost $7 per month...
Parkour Dancers In Paris Have Become Anti-Light Pollution Activists
"Groups of young athletes practicing Parkour ... have been swinging around big French cities switching off wasteful shop signs at night, in a bid...
A Museum Telling The History Of Public Housing In America
Occupying the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum will record and preserve the personal stories...
The National Library Of France Has Finally Reopened, And It Has Some Hidden Gems...
"After 12 years and 261 million euros (more than $256 million) of renovations, the country's national library in the heart of Paris has reopened...
A Visit To The Oldest Public Library In The Americas
"The Palafoxiana Library ... owes its existence to one of Puebla's early Catholic bishops, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who in 1646 donated his...
TikTok Is Taking An Awfully Big Cut Of The Money Syrian Refugees Are Raising...
"Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation...
It Appears That Chaucer Was Not A Rapist After All, Newly Discovered Documents Indicate
It turns out that Cecily Chaumpaigne, believed to have been the victim of Chaucer's alleged attack, was on the same side as Chaucer in...
The 2022 Stirling Prize For Britain’s Best New Building Goes To The New Library...
"Selected from a pool of shortlisted projects, the outstanding new building replaces a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years ago and...
And What’s The New York Times’s Initial Verdict On The New David Geffen Hall’s...
Zachary Woolfe: "Any judgment on a hall's acoustics is highly provisional after just a few visits. ... But a mighty improvement is already obvious....
Now Climate Activists Are Throwing Soup At Van Gogh Paintings
Not that they've stopped gluing themselves to art, mind you. A pair from the group Just Stop Oil went to London's National Gallery and...
The Very Antithesis Of A Modern Major Ballet Company: SFDanceworks
Interim artistic director Dana Genshaft: "What attracted me was that SFDW felt like going camping: leaving structures of a big machine behind, self-producing, finding...
Gleeful Trashiness Is What Makes American Culture Fun. But The Culture Wars Have Chased...
Wesley Morris: "The gutter is where our popular culture began, and the gaminess lurking there is our truest guise. ... Trash is a persistent,...
Subtly As Well As Brazenly, Russian Action Movies Are Propagandizing For Putin’s Ukrainian War
"For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from...
Spotify Has Insisted On Exclusive Rights To The Podcasts It Carries. Maybe That Wasn’t...
The podcast industry built itself on an open ecosystem: any podcast player could make any particular podcast available. Then Spotify, after it bought Gimlet...
What’s A Poor Stage Director To Do When The Script Calls For Eyeballs Coming...
Michael Longhurst, Ned Bennett, Milli Bhatia, and Nadia Latif talk about meeting the challenge of staging the (presumably) unstageable. - The Guardian
Black Writers And Characters Are Appearing In American Fiction More Than Ever Before. Here’s...
"Our current problem isn't an insufficient amount of Black representation in literature but a surfeit of it. And in many cases that means simply...
Intimidation And Self-Censorship Are Rampant In Poland’s Cultural Sphere, Says Report
"The 100-page report ... claims that instead of establishing an explicit, centralized censorship regime, the leading the Law and Justice party has taken a...
This Fernand Léger Painting Was Missing For 100 Years. Turned Out It Was On...
"A lost Fernand Léger painting has reappeared after more than a century of being hidden behind another canvas. The work, an unnamed piece from...
Which San Antonio Orchestra Will Get County Funding? There’s Been A Bit Of A...
The problem: during the period between the board closing the San Antonio Symphony and the musicians forming the new San Antonio Philharmonic, a stopgap...
He’s Actually Going Through With It: Damien Hirst Is Burning His Own Paintings After...
"A lot of people think I'm burning millions of dollars of art but I'm not. I'm completing the transformation of these physical artworks into...
Here Are The 2022 Winners Of The MacArthur Fellowships (Okay, The “Genius Awards”)
The arts figures included in this year's class of winners are visual artists Paul Chan and Tavares Strachan; musician/scholar Martha Gonzalez; film/video artist Sly...
Special High-Tech Glasses For Color-Blind Visitors At The Dallas Museum Of Art
Glasses from the specialist manufacturer EnChroma "use cutting-edge lens technology to enhance the color perception of visitors with red-green deficiency ... to give color...
“A Strange Loop” Will Have The Shortest Run Of Any Recent Best Musical Winner
"(The Tony and Pulitzer winner) will close on Broadway on Jan. 15, after a short run that reflects the industry's ongoing pandemic-related struggles and...
Why Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is So Pleased To Be Taking Over Geneva’s Ballet
"Although I was born in Flanders, I sometimes feel like a foreigner because of my background and the way my life has gone. In...
How Hindu Nationalists Have Intimated And Bullied Bollywood Into Submission
Actors and directors are threatened by crowds and harassed by authorities; occasionally, a film set is vandalized; some stories become off-limits. "Out of fear,...
