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Looted African Treasures Are Returned From Paris To Benin
Mind you, these aren't the Benin Bronzes, which come from what's now southwestern Nigeria. These were taken by French colonial soldiers in the late...
The North Of England Gets Its First Shakespearian Theatre Since Shakespeare’s Own Day
The town of Prescot, a few miles from Liverpool, was once home to the only freestanding Elizabethan theatre outside London. That's the case once...
A Sizeable Roman City, Unknown Until Now, Has Been Discovered Near The Spanish Pyrenees
Archaeologists report that the site, about 20 miles southeast of Pamplona, was "of urban character — the city's name is currently unknown — and...
Authorities Replace Moscow’s Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Old Theater
In 2012, Serebrennikov took over the stultified Gogol Theater, rechristened it the Gogol Center, and made it Moscow's most daring stage, regularly irking the...
Beloved Conductor Bramwell Tovey Dead At 69
Artistic leader of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and, as of the coming season, the Sarasota Orchestra, Tovey spent widely admired tenures...
A Census Of Every Single Dance Worker In New York City
The project by the nonprofit Dance/NYC "seeks to understand who makes up the dance work force and the social and financial hardships that these...
Kevin Spacey Pleads Not Guilty To Sexual Assault In London; Trial Date Set
"(The actor) appeared at the U.K.'s historic Old Bailey criminal court on Thursday morning, where he pleaded not guilty to all five counts of...
The Six Lines And Five Colors That Changed The Course Of Western Art
Deborah Nicholls-Lee offers a consideration of Piet Monrdian's Composition with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black and Grey (1922). - BBC
Some Mexican Artists Are Using A New Medium: Piñatas
"A growing number of Latino artists are working to broaden and elevate how Americans view piñatas and (their) history. Some are carving out a...
At What Point Should We Consider Animals, Or Even AI, “Persons” In A Moral...
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and...
The Waggle-Dancing Of Bees Has Inspired A New Means Of Robot Communication
"This pattern of movements can be used by one forager bee to tell other bees where a food source is located. ... An international...
So Many Writers Wish They Could Just Redo Their First Novel. Akhil Sharma Did.
"He (has) revised and radically rewritten ... An Obedient Father, (which) he published 22 years earlier. Considerably shorter, with a very different ending but...
English In India: The Colonial Oppressor’s Language? Not Anymore.
"English has always been a language that has looked ahead to the future. Forged multiply in the crucible of caste, class, gender, and ethnic...
As The Russian Invasion Rages, At Odesa Opera The Show Must Go On
Mary Harris interviews Katarina Tsymbalyuk, a mezzo and a member of the Odesa Opera's resident ensemble, about the love, and the fear, she and...
Turning The Notre-Dame De Paris Conflagration Into A Disaster Movie
When the president of Pathé approached filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud (Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose) about making a documentary about the catastrophic...
Actors’ Equity And IATSE Sue Producers Of “Paradise Square” For Non-Payment
"Actors' Equity and the union representing theatrical designers are separately taking Broadway musical Paradise Square to court for close to $350,000 total in owed...
Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Now Has No Programming, No Top Execs, And No Resident...
The apparent strife between the theater's board and its staff and artists has culminated (unless things get still worse) in playwright Erika Dickerson-Despenza withdrawing...
Meow Wolf Co-Founder Matt King Has Died At 37
"King was an instrumental figure behind a company that The New York Times Magazine once described as 'the Disney of the experience economy.' …...
“Frenzy” Is Alfred Hitchcock’s Most Violent, Most Controversial Film. But Is It Really All...
"Hitchcock's fear and loathing of women is accompanied by a lucid understanding of – and even sympathy for – women's problems in patriarchy. ......
On Turning Benjamin Britten’s And Peter Pears’s Love Letters Into A Song Cycle
Composer Conor Mitchell: "How come these two men, so buttoned up and alien to empowered, liberated me, felt they could write passionate love letters...
Percy Shelley: Poetry As Political Crusade
"Shelley's greatest gift was in the deftness with which he interwove the poetical and the political. Poetry had, for Shelley, of necessity to appropriate...
And Here Is The New Poet Laureate Of The United States
Ada Limón "assumes the role with two primary intentions: to use poetry to help people reclaim their humanity and to repair their relationship with...
These Silk Weavers In Florence Still Work On 18th-Century Looms
"In a quiet corner of the bohemian district of San Frediano, hidden behind an 18th-century iron gate that opens onto a whimsical wisteria-covered alleyway,...
Why Ireland Has Become A Hotbed Of Horror Flicks
"The country's small film industry has made 20 horrors in the past six years, with another two (this) autumn. ..." Says one filmmaker, "Irish...
“Bad Art Is Doing Very Nicely These Days, And The Reason Is That People...
David Bromwich: "In The Importance of Being Earnest, Algernon recoiled from the display of affection by the happily married: 'It is simply washing one's...
