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The New Hot Spot For Art In Athens Is — Piraeus (?!)
Yes, the Greek capital's grotty old seaport, which has been busy, industrial and unpleasant for 2,500 years, is seeing serious art galleries, and the...
Peru Has A New National Museum With Thousands Of Pre-Columbian Objects
"The Peruvian government has inaugurated the Museo Nacional del Perú, a $125m museum that was initiated by the ministry of culture to preserve the...
‘Negotiated Authenticity’ — What Black Scriptwriters In Hollywood Have Always Been Expected To Provide
That's how one screenwriter describes the unspoken task she and her Black colleagues usually face: "it's still white people determining what the Black experience...
South Korea Considers Adding A Serious Museum To Its Busiest Airport
Authorities are planning to set aside two spaces at Seoul-Incheon, one in each terminal, as a satellite location for one or two major museums....
Mirga’s Successor At The City Of Birmingham Symphony Has Been Chosen
And it's sort of an internal hire: in April 2023, Kazuki Yamada, a 42-year-old from Japan who's been the orchestra's principal guest conductor for...
Yep, Too Much TV Really Will Shrink Your Brain, Researchers Find
A professor at Johns Hopkins found that middle-aged people who watched an above-average amount of television lost volume in the frontal cortex. (The Guardian's...
Is There *Anything* To The Idea That You Can Learn A Foreign Language While...
Well, you can't say there's nothing to it. But there's not much. And don't even think that playing recordings of the language while you’re...
For The First Time, A Dancer In A Wheelchair Will Perform With London’s Royal...
Joe Powell-Main studied at the Royal Ballet's school for four years, until his accident at age 15. Now 23 and a member of Ballet...
As London’s West End Reopens, It May Scrap Wednesday Matinees
There's plenty of demand for seats from theatregoers within England, but the audience for midweek afternoon shows is almost entirely tourists from abroad, of...
Broadway’s Biggest Hits Are Back Onstage At Last
Eighteen months after the novel coronavirus shut them all down, the long-running audience favorites — Hamilton, Wicked, The Lion King, Chicago — resume their...
George Wein, Who Invented The Outdoor Popular Music Festival As We Know It, Dead...
His Newport Jazz Festival, founded in 1954 and packed with major stars from the beginning, was the template for everything from Woodstock to Lollapalooza...
Aid For German Arts Institutions Damaged In Summer Floods
"The German government will give €30 million ($35.4 million) in aid for areas impacted by this past summer's devastating rainfall and floods, including to...
Have A Look At The New Yorker’s Original Mission Statement
So many things about the magazine — in both content and design — are recognizable today that it's easy to forget that, when Harold...
Stand-Up Comedians Look Back On Their First Shows After 9/11
"Every comedian's response to the attack wasn’t necessarily positive, just like every American's wasn't. Comedy didn't save the country after 9/11, but it did...
Designers Are Working To Make US Airports Less Miserable (And Maybe Even Pleasant)
"A clutch of new terminals and recent upgrades to existing concourses from New York City to San Francisco demonstrate ways both small and large...
Xi Jinping’s Crackdown Is Reshaping China’s Culture
Just this year, authorities have gone after social media, high-profile actors, highbrow artists, reality TV, K-pop fans, feature films, video games, and "sissyness". Intelligentsia...
A Real-Life ‘Black Swan’ Homicide? TV News Takes On The American National Ballet Fiasco
The CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours does a 42-minute report on founders John and Ashley Benefield, the idealistic dance company that collapsed just as it...
Boston Globe And Boston University To Relaunch 19th-Century Abolitionist Newspaper
Envisioned as a 21st-century online successor to the United States' first anti-slavery newspaper, The Emancipator will operate as a not-for-profit and will focus initially...
After 18 Months Dark, Metropolitan Opera In Mad Dash To Reopen
As the head of the makeup and wig department puts it, "I would love about six months. We have six weeks." - The New...
RSC Chief Gregory Doran Steps Down Temporarily
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director is taking indefinite compassionate leave (the UK equivalent of family/medical leave) to care for his husband, actor Antony...
NPR ‘Weekend Edition Sunday’ Host Lulu Garcia-Navarro To Depart
After working as an international correspondent starting in 2004, she became host of the Sunday morning flagship in 2017. She made the announcement on...
M+, Hong Kong’s Long-Delayed Contemporary Art Museum, At Last Has An Opening Date
It's been 18 years since the project was first proposed, and there have been messy conflicts over costs and content (notably over the inclusion...
Cellist Sebastian Hess Dead At 50 Of Brain Aneurysm
A student of William Pleeth and Mstislav Rostropovich, he made his solo debut at 18 with Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic and developed...
What’s The Latest Dangerous Distraction For Drivers? Infotainment Screens On Their Dashboards
"With American traffic fatalities recently hitting a 15-year high, an infotainment arms race seems like the last thing we need right now. The car...
Katherine Dunham Was More Than A Choreographer And Ethnographer. She Was An Entrepreneur.
Her Ballet Nègre in Chicago, founded in 1930, was only the second ballet company of any kind in America. Her revues Tropics and Le...
