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Canada’s $100K Giller Prize Goes To Omar El Akkad For “What Strange Paradise”
An Egyptian-Canadian journalist and author who lives in Portland, Oregon, El Akkad describes his novel as "a repurposed fable. It's the story of Peter...
Golden Age Hollywood Director John Farrow Had An Extraordinary Life. Why Have We Forgotten...
He was more than Mia's father and Ronan's grandfather. He ran away to become a sailor, he wrote a Tahitian-English-French dictionary; he pretended to...
Creating Personalized Audio News Streams By Algorithm Is Not (Yet) A Success
"Audio is hard, from both a publisher and a consumer perspective. … And if Google couldn't figure out a way to assemble the sort...
How Dance Aspen Arose From The Ashes Of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
"Starting from scratch with no funding and with a global pandemic raging on, the group set a goal to raise $50,000 over the course...
Most US Theatres Lost Money And Audience On Their Digital Projects During Lockdown (But...
A survey of top execs at 64 companies in 25 states found that, following an initial flurry of interest in the spring of 2020,...
Now We See Just How Hard An Act Alex Trebek Was To Follow
"Jeopardy's longtime host, Alex Trebek, passed away a year ago today. And in the 12 months since, it's become increasingly clear just how challenging...
After A Difficult Few Years, DC’s Mosaic Theater Gets A New Director And A...
One year ago, founding director Ari Roth was forced to resign after angry protests from staffers about his, er, management style. (It was the...
Newark Museum Of Art Is Becoming A Real Estate Developer
Plans are for the $85 million complex, to be called Museum Parc, to include two buildings containing 250 apartments (50 of them "affordable"), 2,400...
Boris Johnson’s Government Is Using Britain’s Cultural Institutions As Culture War Battlefields
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief arts writer, comments on how the current Tory administration is applying loyalty tests and generally interfering with every single...
Major Museum In DR Congo Partly Destroyed In Fire
The blaze at the National Museum of Gungu, about 400 miles southeast of Kinshasa, began late at night on November 4; an estimated one-third...
Is This Chinese Government Trying To Buy Hong Kong’s Major English-Language Newspaper?
Founded under British rule in 1903, the South China Morning Post has managed to stay more or less independent of Beijing. Now a state-owned...
The Trauma That Upended Kenneth Branagh’s Life At The Age Of Eight
He's been reeling from it, one way or another, ever since, and it's the reason he made his latest film, Belfast. - The New...
Has The Pandemic Shown Us How America Could Fund The Arts And Artists Properly?
The shutdown introduced many ordinary people to the precarity that gigging artists have always faced, and the expanded unemployment benefits — with fewer restrictions...
“The Internet At Its Utopian Best”: In Praise Of The Public Domain Review
"'A frictionless world' in which evidence of the imagination floats around in the empyrean 'without cost, without registration, and without restrictive conditions on their...
Divers Are Discovering Golden Treasure From An Ancient Indonesian Empire
"Local divers exploring Indonesia's Musi River (on the island of Sumatra) have found gold rings, beads and other artifacts that may be linked to...
Some Dancers Are Starting To Rebel Against The Zero-Body-Hair Standard
Says one choreographer, "It's not the first fight I would pick about the homogeneity of bodies on stage. But there's something archaic in dance...
The Bionic Gloves That Let João Carlos Martins Play Piano Again
His international career was hobbled over and over again by a breathtaking series of mishaps, comebacks, and more mishaps that ultimately left him unable...
CNN’s Online Video Is Much More Divisive Than What It Airs On TV, And...
Yes, of course, it's ultimately to make more money, but here's a glimpse of just how different the content is and a look at...
Archaeologists Have Mapped Genghis Khan’s Lost Capital — And It’s Not What You’d Expect
Using equipment designed for geophysics, researchers scanned the site of Karakorum, chosen by Genghis and built by his two successors, and found that the...
Alice Childress Should Have Been The First Black Female Playwright On Broadway, After 66...
Her Trouble in Mind treats a touchy subject, even now: it's about an interracial cast rehearsing an anti-lynching play written and directed by whites....
New Marvel Film “Eternals” Banned In Saudi Arabia And Kuwait
Sources report that the decision is because Disney's Marvel Studios refused the request to cut a male-male kiss. Eternals is the first film in...
Afghan Dance Teachers In Exile, Cut Off From Students And Homeland
Makhloot had an entire crew of professional hip-hop dancers in Kabul (including one woman) and hoped to compete in breaking at the 2024 Olympics....
What’s The Secret Of Poetry’s Power? It’s The Rhythm, Baby
"Poems meet the raw needs of our most vulnerable inner selves in a disarmingly primal way, using a simple tool no other sort of...
The Art World’s Most Wanted Criminal (No, Not Inigo Philbrick)
"Not so long ago, Christian Rosa was a buzzy young artist on the rise. Now he's facing a series of charges related to alleged...
How Did 21st-Century TV Comedy Get So Dark?
"BoJack Horseman, Fleabag, Veep, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are among the comedies that have left the traditional sitcom form in the dust. … The laughs...
