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Does Esperanto Have Any Hope Of Ever Catching On As A World Language? Not...

There are two fundamental problems with Esperanto as a genuinely global lingua franca. One is that, while it was intended to be have grammar...

Why Would Any Self-Respecting Woman Sing Schumann’s ‘Frauenliebe Und -Leben?’ In 2021? Let This...

Soprano Carolyn Sampson summarizes the texts of the eight songs in the cycle thus: "1. I can't think of anything but him; 2. He's...

‘The First Great Balanchine Dancer’, Mary Ellen Moylan, Dead At 95

"Still in her teens, Ms. Moylan began to perform principal roles with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where Balanchine, ever more enthusiastic about...

France Is Allowing Auction Houses To Keep Operating During Lockdown, But Not Galleries. Galleries...

"Late last month the president of the Conseil des Ventes, the regulatory authority for auction houses, gave notice that the government would in fact...

Video Now/Live Later — How Pacific Northwest Ballet Approached Its Commissions After COVID Shut...

"PNB opted for an all-digital 2020-21 season, honoring its commissions from Lang, Donald Byrd, Alejandro Cerrudo, Edwaard Liang and Christopher Wheeldon by filming premieres...

Univision And Televisa Sign Merger To Create Spanish-Language Media Giant

Univision, the largest producer of Spanish-language in the United States, and Televisa, Mexico's largest media conglomerate (and one of the world's biggest single producers...

Edinburgh International Festival Will Go On This Summer — Outdoors (Yes, In Scotland)

Last summer, COVID forced the cancellation of the flagship of the Festival City's summer events; this year, with new cases falling in Scotland and...

One Of Australia’s Most Popular Soap Operas Roiled By Accusations Of On-Set Racism

Neighbours, which has been running in Australia since 1985 and is one of the country's most successful TV shows internationally, has had two indigenous...

‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry...

"Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of...

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As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound...

Raising the flag

As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a...

A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And...

"How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance...

A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E

An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question?...

Singing By Hand: How To Translate Songs Into American Sign Language

"A good A.S.L. performance prioritizes dynamics, phrasing and flow. The parameters of sign language — hand shape, movement, location, palm orientation and facial expression...

The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It...

A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated...

Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think

It's not just that they're wildly popular and can be addictive. It's because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced...

The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok

In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: "The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates...

Where Second City’s New Chief Means To Lead The Improv Institution

Says Jon Carr, who came to the company's Chicago headquarters from Dad's Garage in Atlanta four months ago, "It's a little strange, because there’s...

Is The CEO Who Saved Waterstones Turning Around Barnes & Noble, Too? Well, He...

To be fair, James Daunt was not at all as self-aggrandizing as that headline suggests when he spoke to the Independent Book Publishers Association...

New Turn In Saudi Arabia-vs.-Louvre ‘Salvator Mundi’ Drama (It’s Still About Spite, Though)

Last week several news outlets reported, based on a French TV documentary, that the world's most expensive artwork wasn't in the Louvre's big 2019...

Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra

The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of...

Doubting Thomas: Greenville County Museum Sells “Alma’s Flower Garden” in a Non-Transparent Transaction

Taking a page from the problematic playbooks of the Berkshire, Everson and Baltimore museums, the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, has become...

Marshall Marcus Talks the UN and Arts Organizations

The Secretary General of the European Union Youth Orchestra shares about the connection between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the mission of arts...

Yes, There Really Was An Eleanor Rigby

Paul McCartney invented the details of her life as recounted in the famous Beatles song, but he found her name on a gravestone in...

Even Japanese Poetry Is Getting Messed Up By Climate Change

The natural world has always been a key subject of Japanese verse, and there's even an established body of words — kigo — that...
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