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Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, And Clare Boothe Luce Dropping Acid Together: The Musical (We’re...
Yes, the actor, the writer, and the playwright/politician/doyenne all experimented with LSD in the 1950s, when it was legal. They never did it together,...
Patrick Reyntiens, Who Worked Miracles With Stained Glass In Britain’s Bombed-Out Cathedrals, Dead At...
While he did a great deal of high-quality work, his most admired projects were in two modern monuments which replaced medieval landmarks destroyed in...
New York Times Declares, “Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Now New York’s Conductor”
Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor: "Omnipresent and energetic, he has been one of the central figures in New York's cultural re-emergence, and certainly the...
New Buyers Are Painting San Francisco’s Colorful Old Houses “Gentrification Gray”
"To their proponents, they're understated and contemporary, with paint jobs that will take a beating without ever looking dirty. To their detractors, they're unimaginative,...
French Dictionary Adds Gender-Neutral Pronoun; Education Minister Is Horrified
Because younger people are starting to use it, lexicographers at Le Petit Robert added the pronoun iel (a portmanteau of il and elle). The...
Are All-Female- Or All-BIPOC-Composer Programs The Best Way To Diversify Classical Music?
For example, the group Resonance Works Pittsburgh, which has committed to make half of all works it plays by women and at least one-third...
A First Printing Of The US Constitution Is Now The Most Expensive Document Or...
The price was $43.2 million, and the anonymous winner outbid an impromptu group of cryptocurrency players who raised money via blockchain over a few...
“I Knew That My Actions Were Wrong And Illegal”: Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Pleads...
He had previously pled not guilty to several charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft; in an apparent plea deal, he confessed to...
Qatar Says It Will Make Itself A “Vast Outdoor Art Museum” For World Cup...
The public art project will ultimately involve 100 installations (70 are now in place), by both local artists and Western big names such as...
Australia’s Conservative Government Refuses To Insure Arts Against COVID Closures
"(Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Coalition) government has rejected a call by the Greens and Labor to provide Australia's live performance sector with an insurance...
The Scheme That Saved Classical Music In Melbourne Is Expanding To The Rest Of...
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed 430 performances, with over $1.6 million going to musicians during one of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world....
Climate Change Is Damaging Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art
Veteran archaeologists have noted visible changes just over the past half-century or less. Much of the rock art is painted on sandstone, which absorbs...
Zadie Smith Never Meant To Write A Play. A Press Release Made Her Do...
First of all, when her neighborhood submitted a bid to be London's Borough of Culture, she agreed to participate, thinking it wouldn't win. Then...
Jimmie Durham, Native American Artist And Activist (Or Was He?), Dead At 81
"(He was) celebrated for incorporating traditional Native American imagery and materials into lively, unconventional sculptures before his claim of Cherokee ancestry was widely challenged,...
How Children’s Radio Grew Popular And Then Faded Away
"Back in April, the only real player in the kid-centric terrestrial radio space, Radio Disney, which started life on the airwaves 25 years ago...
Finally, A Creative is Suing Over A Hollywood Studio’s Creative Accounting Of Profits
Studios have long had a reputation for promising actors or writers a percentage of a movie's profits, then using accounting tricks to show that...
One Of New York’s Biggest Collections Of Antiquities Is In The Manhattan DA’s Office
"The Antiquities Trafficking Unit is very much a victim of its own success. Set up in 2017 … to curb the smuggling of cultural...
Even Ancient Egyptian Relief Carvers Had Interns, And They Messed Up Sometimes, Too
"Scholars have long believed that apprentices learned their craft before they were allowed to carve reliefs for rooms like this one," the Chapel of...
Alumni Of University Of Utah’s Ballet Program Describe Body-Shaming, Intimidation, And Prejudice
A dozen graduates wrote letters describing abusive and sometimes racist language as well as body-shaming and authoritarian attitudes. The school's current director says progress...
More Than Half Of Arts And Heritage Jobs In UK Were Lost Due To...
"(A study) revealed the industry suffered a 60% decline in output because of restrictions. It said about 55% of jobs — 450,000 people —...
2021 National Book Awards Go To Jason Mott, Tiya Miles, Malinda Lo, Martín Espada,...
Mott's Hell of a Book won for fiction; Miles's All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack for nonfiction; Lo's Last Night at...
Many Of The Ancient Roman Stoics Were Proto-Feminists
Gaius Musonius Rufus wrote plainly, "If then men and women are born with the same virtues, the same type of training and education must,...
Former Ballerina To Get All Of €61,000 After Three-Decade-Long Case Against La Scala
Sabina Galasso was a member of La Scala Ballet's corps when, in 1991, the visiting Rudolf Nureyev picked her out for a lead in...
Fifteen-Second Book Reviews On TikTok Have Amassed 26 Billion Views
BookTok, as it's known, is an unusually lively corner of the mini-video app's subculture: the most popular reviewers can get a couple hundred thousand...
Māori To New Zealand Anti-Vaxxers: Stop Using Our Dance In Your Protests
The haka is a traditional (and rather intimidating) pre-battle dance that's been made famous by New Zealand's national rugby team. Demonstrators who oppose vaccine...
