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Soprano Teresa Żylis-Gara Dead At 91
The Lithuanian-born, Polish-raised singer, known as an especially reliable artist with a beautiful lyric soprano, had an unusually wide repertoire, from Bach to Mozart...
Eternal Return: Known Forgeries Keep Turning Up In The Art Market
"Anyone who thinks works of art declared fake simply disappear in disgrace or are destroyed should talk to Jane Kallir, author of the catalog...
The Real Problem With The New Architecture At The World Trade Center Site? Fear
Justin Davidson: "This is a landscape shaped by fear. It has been formed not only by the reasoned response to a documented threat but...
What The Latest Study On The Secrets Of Stradivaris And Guarneris Found
"According to new research … violins made by Antonio Stradivari and his contemporary, Giuseppe Guarneri, were treated with proprietary blends of mineral salts, which...
They Waited Over A Year, But They’re Finally Making Their Broadway Debuts
Laura Collins-Hughes interviews four young performers who were just about to start living their dream when COVID shut Broadway down. (The youngest of them,...
‘Jeopardy!’ Wasn’t The First Game Show Where Mike Richards Was A Problematic Boss
As executive producer of The Price Is Right (2008-2019), Richards was "a manager who was more interested in being a host, who ushered out...
‘Jeopardy!’ Fiasco Ends As Executive Producer Who Hired Himself As Host Is Fired
Mike Richards lasted a day as permanent host before revelations of past behavior and social media protests led him to resign. As more details...
Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony Music Director Resigns
Timothy Redmond, who assumed the job in July 2019, lives in London and most of his work is in England. He said in a...
Interesting Side Effect Of Pandemic: Arts Audiences Are Growing Beyond Australia’s Big Cities
With overseas travel blocked, people from the state capitals are traveling to regional towns and boosting attendance there, and more local people are coming...
What Will Happen Now To Afghanistan’s Biggest Broadcaster?
"'I'm still surprised we are up and running,' said Saad Mohseni, Tolo's co-owner. … Whether its menu of pop music and female television hosts...
‘Rodeo Clowns Are The Best Athletes In The Arena, And They Save Lives’
"Their work is just as dangerous and exciting as the bull riders they're employed to protect. Working in teams, their job is to distract...
American Speech Isn’t Getting Coarser, It’s Getting Softer And More Polite (F-Bombs Notwithstanding)
John McWhorter: "The grand old four-letter words seem to be used as punctuation, … (and) Twitter is full of people being recreationally nasty. Yet...
Prices For Vintage Video Games Are Getting Insane
Just over the past year, the record price for a copy of a game has risen by a factor of almost 20, from $114,000...
In Louisiana, Someone’s Finally Teaching Genuine Cajun French
The state has been working to revive French for decades — but the language taught in schools has been the standardized variety, very different...
A New Company Rises From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"A group of performers from the shuttered Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company have founded the new contemporary company DanceAspen and will debut new work...
Lloyd Dobyns, Anchor of ‘NBC News Overnight’ And ‘Weekend’, Dead At 85
He attracted national attention in the 1970s for his waggish style hosting NBC’s Weekend, where he was joined by the equally irreverent Linda Ellerbee....
Apple Buys Classical Streaming Service Primephonic — And Shuts It Down
The tech giant will take Primephonic offline next week and, it says, work on integrating the service's catalog and specialized search engine, with a...
Gary Graffman And Jennifer Higdon Leave Curtis Institute Faculty
Graffman, now 92 and formerly the music school's director and president, had been its leading piano teacher, with Yuja Wang and Lang Lang among...
A Giant Puppet Is Traveling Across Europe To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees. She’s...
Little Amal, a 20-foot representation of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl, is being walked by her handlers from Gazantiep, Turkey to Manchester, England. A...
Uruguay Gets Its First Contemporary Art Museum
The Museo de Arte Contemporâneo Atchugarry, now under construction in the exclusive seaside resort town of Punta del Este, is being built and funded...
Eventually, One Gets Old Enough To Really Appreciate Proust
"Like Marcel, we've spent decades building our models of the world, and like him we're starting to see them for the gimcrack that they...
Thanks To Streaming, Indian TV Is More Daring Than It’s Ever Been (Or Is...
Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like...
At Last, Dorothy Parker Has A Tombstone, Complete With Epitaph
"Leave for her a red young rose,Go your way, and save your pity;She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty." ...
Nocturnes — The Best Music To Help With Your Pandemic-Induced Insomnia
From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep,...
This One Weird Trick Changed Medical Illustration Forever
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture...