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Zadie Smith’s First Play Hits The Stage, Retelling A Canterbury Tale
The Wife of Willesden is an update to Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale," transferring the setting from a carriage carrying pilgrims to Canterbury...
Strathmore, Baltimore Symphony’s DC-Area Home, Finally Settles With IATSE
"After a two-year stalemate that sparked a feud with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra," — which cancelled several concerts this fall because of the standoff...
The Louvre Said That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is A Real Leonardo. Now The Prado Says...
The catalogue for this fall's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the Madrid museum has reclassified The World's Most Expensive Artwork into the "attributed works,...
‘Discovery Of A Lifetime’: Well-Preserved Tudor-Era Murals Uncovered At Yorkshire Manor
During restoration work at Calverley Old Hall, between Bradford and Leeds, workers discovered what turned out to be floor-to-ceiling paintings ("basically Tudor wallpaper") in...
At The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Annual New York Powwow
"Dance Magazine joined Saturday night's sunset bonfire to capture some of the competitions, and asked Thunderbird director Louis Mofsie and company dancer Michael Taylor...
Ocean Vuong Bombarded By Complaints From Australian 12th Graders Who Got His Writing On...
Student: "ur text was good but so confusing". Vuong: "mission accomplished". Student: "So u da one that got us all fucked up". Vuong: "Don't...
The Original True-Crime Dramas Were In Elizabethan Theatres
"More than four centuries ago a series of plays closely based on real murder cases appeared on the London stage. Their literary quality is...
Oxford’s Bodleian Library Was A Wreck Before The Eponymous Bodley Fixed It Up
"In 1598, … Sir Thomas Bodley, a retired diplomat and Oxford alumnus, offered to restore the dilapidated university library, entirely at his own cost....
Forest Whitaker’s Production Company Has Never Lost Investors A Dime. It Still Has Trouble...
Significant Productions, founded by Whitaker and run by Nina Yang Bongiovi, has made admired films like Fruitvale Station and Sorry to Bother You (that...
How A Nice Jewish Boy From Oakland Became A Busy Bollywood Actor
Richard Klein seemed well set as a math and science teacher and amateur performer in the Bay Area. Then, at 45, he up and...
How Julia Child Changed Americans’ Minds, And, Later, Her Own
Those under 55 may not appreciate just how differently people in the US thought about home cooking before Child's TV shows caught on. For...
Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Opens In A Climate No One Expected When It Was...
When plans for Asia's biggest contemporary art museum were announced back in 2007, Xi Jinping wasn't yet president of China, few people anticipated political...
How Peter Gelb Is Handling The Most Difficult Job In Opera, Now Even More...
A longread on how the Metropolitan Opera's general manager is handling the company's reopening and its long-term problems, what people inside and outside of...
A Universal Basic Income For Arts Workers? One Country Is Trying It
Ireland will launch a basic income guarantee program for artists and arts workers in 2022. The three-year initial plan will have a budget of...
Art Critic Reviews Work Without Noticing That It Depicts Rupert Murdoch
Robert Nelson of Melbourne's The Age wrote several hundred words about Jeremy Deller's Father and Son — life-sized grey wax candles, lit and gradually...
How Can Today’s Piano Students Learn To Improvise? The Same Way They Did In...
John Mortensen has made a thorough study of how music students in Baroque-era Naples were taught to improvise harmony and counterpoint, then a basic...
Chinese Composers Are Making Western Classical Music Their Own
In fact, there have been composers in China writing for European instruments for over a century. Since the end of the Cultural Revolution, though,...
The Building Industry Helped Create The Climate Crisis. The National Building Museum Wants To...
"The construction industry is responsible for nearly 40 percent of global carbon emissions, and it must be part of the solution, says museum president...
Here’s The First State To Requires All High Schoolers To Take A Media Literacy...
The Illinois legislature approved the rule this summer — almost entirely along party lines. Republicans seem to assume out-of-hand that the class will be...
What Will Change The Way Hollywood Portrays Muslims? Maybe Just This Directory
When a co-founder of the Pillars Fund advocacy organization discussed this issue within the industry, he heard repeatedly that decision-makers didn't know where to...
This Theatre Is Avoiding Founder’s Syndrome By Shutting Down When Its Founder Retires
First Folio Theatre, a small Equity company in the Chicago suburbs, will close when David Rice retires in 2024. He and his wife founded...
Think There Aren’t Any Serous Female Magicians Or Jugglers? Let’s Make That Idea Disappear
Los Angeles magician Krystyn Lambert and puppeteer Pam Severn have launched a new variety show called "No Man's Land" featuring circus artists, jugglers, ventriloquists,...
Sadler’s Wells Reveals Plans For New Dance Center In London’s Olympic Park
Sadler's Wells East, one of the anchors of the coming East Bank arts district, will include a 550-seat theatre presenting numerous dance genres, a...
Attendance At The World’s Most Visited Museums Plunged By 78% In 2020
The two most-attended are the same as most years, the Louvre and the National Museum of China; below them, pandemic closures changed the rankings...
Actor Dean Stockwell Dead At 85
After a successful but unhappy career as a child star, he left and returned to acting several times: in the late '50s and 60s,...
