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Josephine Baker To Be Instated In France’s Panthéon
The expatriate American singer-dancer, who arrived in Paris in 1925 and became a legend, will become only the sixth woman, and the first Black...
How Live Dance Came To Times Square At The Very Height Of Lockdown
In the spring of 2020, mad with cabin fever, Jena VanElslander and a few friends started meeting every so often just to dance in...
The Tempestuous, Scandalous Life Of England’s First Female Fiction Writer
Lady Mary Wroth, a noble at James I's court, had two bastard children with an Earl who ignored them and dumped her. The cream...
San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House Gets New, Roomier Seats
San Francisco Opera chief Matthew Shilvock: "The seats have historically been patrons' No. 1 concern for the building. Letters to me. Letters to the...
The Supreme Court Threw Out This Filmmaker’s Suit Against North Carolina. Now He Has...
When Rick Allen sued NC for (ahem) pirating his footage of the salvage of Blackbeard's ship, the justices unanimously ruled that citizens can't sue...
The ‘Netflix Of Italian Culture’ Is Coming (And A Lot of It Will Be...
Operating along the lines of France TV's Culturebox, the streaming service ITsART.tv offers concerts, theater, dance, opera, virtual museum tours, cinema, and documentaries. It's...
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Is Sending Art Out To Small Towns
"'Uffizi Diffusi,' or 'Scattered Uffizi,' an initiative concocted by the gallery's director, Eike Schmidt, … aims to build stronger ties between the famous Florentine...
“Pass Over”, Broadway’s First Play Since Lockdown, May Be In Trouble
One unnamed producer says, "The show is bleeding money," and not all of the initial capitalization had been raised when previews began on Aug....
Actors, Get Your Damn Shots Or Get Off The Damn Stage: L.A. Times
Charles McNulty: "Whatever excuses you may have for not doing everything in your power to avoid taking up a scarce hospital bed or putting...
Substack Is Becoming A Platform For Fiction
"Authors including Elle Griffin, John McWhorter, Maggie Stiefvater, and Matt Taibbi use the service to serialize new books or publish short stories exclusive to...
Artist Chuck Close, 81
"(His) larger-than-life portraits, some composed of thousands of small but intricate paintings that served as pixels, made him one of the most renowned artists...
Last Suspect In Dresden Green Vault Robbery Arrested
Six men took part in the theft of priceless historic jewelry from the city's Residenzschloss in 2019; all are now in custody. While their...
The Five Native American Oklahoma Women Who Conquered Ballet
They became known collectively as The Five Moons, though they rarely appeared together: Maria and Marjorie Tallchief, Yvonne Chouteau, Rosella Hightower, and Moscelyne Larkin...
The Case Of The Dresden Jewel Heist And The Fearsome Berlin Crime Family
Joshua Hammer (author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu) does a deep-dive into the royal gems stolen from the famous Green Vault, the Remmo...
A Leader Of Afghan Music’s Revival On Whether 20 Years Of Progress Will Disappear
"I'm hopeful that the Taliban learned that music is part of the cultural identity of any nation. And I hope that the Taliban also...
The Rise And Fall (And Rise And Fall) Of Jackie Mason
How a bored young rabbi named Yacov Moshe Maza became a Borscht Belt comic, came to Hollywood and got famous, alienated Ed Sullivan and...
Using Social Media To Teach The Secret Language Of Enslaved African-Americans
"Videos teaching how to speak and write in Tut, and the history behind the language have flooded TikTok in recent months. … Now Tut...
Scarlett Johansson’s ‘Black Widow’ Lawsuit Could Be A Movie Industry Watershed
"At stake is the future of how Hollywood stars negotiate their salaries, and how much they can command. … But the way the drama...
The Most Exciting, Original Streamed Theater Of The Pandemic Happened In A 2x4x8-Foot Closet
Jesse Green says that Joshua William Gelb's Theater in Quarantine "offered the best argument by far for the artistic promise of streaming theater. So...
Why Joshua Wolf Shenk Was Forced Out Of ‘The Believer’ (It Wasn’t Just The...
He was hired in 2015 to revivify the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and make Las Vegas a literary destination. He seemed to be...
Tennessee Teacher Fired For Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates Essay
Matt Hawn assigned his high schoolers in Blountville, in the state's northeast corner, Coates's "The First White President," which argues that Donald Trump was...
DC’s Arts Council Shifts $5.3 Million From Large To Small Institutions
"The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has dramatically reshaped the way it supports Washington's arts community by directing significant increases to the...
Fears Of Calamity For Culture In Afghanistan As Taliban Take Control
When it controlled the country before 2001, the hardline Islamist group was infamous for banning music, TV, film, and most visual art — not...
The History And Art Of The TV Opening Sequence
"No matter the form or style, (they're) a key part of the viewing ritual. … They serve as the buffer zone between our world...
A Classical Recording Engineer Explains What Exactly He Does
"What you think of as a good photograph of you might not actually be the truth in how it presents you – that can...
