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Preserving Websites With User-Generated Content When Corporate Owners Want To Pull The Plug

"After seeing yet another situation where a longstanding Yahoo-owned website is shutting down, I'm left to wonder if the problem is that the...

Dive Bars That Are Backbone Of Spain’s Flamenco Scene Are Getting Wiped Out By...

"These small clubs, called tablaos, have acted as a springboard for generations of flamenco artists in Spain to launch professional careers. … But that...

Granta’s New List Of The Best Young Writers Working In Spanish

"Eleven years after publishing its first collection of the finest up-and-coming authors in Spanish, Granta magazine is releasing a second volume that brings together...

Impromptu Arts Relief Funds That Sprang Up In Pandemic’s Early Days May Be Around...

As lockdowns arrived and spread, many mutual aid networks, mostly small-scale, were put together on the fly to help the many thousands of suddenly...

An Entire 3,000-Year-Old City Has Been Uncovered In Egypt

Excavating in an area between large temples at Luxor, a team led by famed archaeologist Zahi Hawass found the ruins of an entire working...

There’s Still A Tyranny Of Thinness In Ballet. It Just Gets Worded Differently.

"Today's ballet teachers and company directors know that they can no longer simply instruct their dancers to lose weight. But that doesn't mean they've...

First Day For Performance Venues To Apply For Federal Pandemic Relief Was A Disaster

"As the government prepared on Thursday to start taking applications for a $16 billion relief fund for music clubs, theaters and other live event...

One Of Philadelphia’s Leading Pianists Held For Trial On Sexual Assault Charge

" now-21-year-old Temple student said that Mikhail Yanovitsky, 56, hugged, kissed, and fondled her while she practiced piano in a classroom at Temple's...

This $1,780 Painting May Actually Be A Caravaggio

The 44"-by-34" depiction of Christ with the crown of thorns was thought to be by José de Ribera, a minor 17th-century Spanish artist, and...

Rock Musicians Are Getting Into NFTs. It’s Going To Be Messy.

"At the end of February, Grimes sold 10 pieces of digital artwork as NFTs for $6m, while Deadmau5 has offered bundles including music and...

Choreography With Water And Fire (This Is Not A Metaphor, This Is Actual Fluids...

Billy Bell, who is a visual spectacle designer and computer engineer as well as a dancer and choreographer, combines movement, architecture and computer code...

Why Wouldn’t Saudi Arabia Lend ‘Salvator Mundi’ To The Louvre? Spite, Basically

History's most expensive artwork, purchased by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2017 for $450 million, was supposed to be part of the...

Wisconsin School Works To Save Ojibwe Languages Before Native-Speaker Elders Disappear

On the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation, near Lake Superior in the northwestern corner of the state, is a K-8 school called Waadookodaading ("a place...

The Black Violinist Who Premiered Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata

"Born in 1778, in Biała Podlaska, Poland, Bridgetower started playing the violin at an early age. His father John Frederick Bridgetower (probably of...

Hong Kong’s New M+ Wants To Be One Of The World’s Great Contemporary Art...

"The has set M+ the target of being the first museum of its kind in Asia and to be ranked among the top...

Lois Kirschenbaum, New York’s Most Beloved Opera Superfan, Dead At 88

Night after night, through multiple performances of a production's run at the Met or New York City Opera, Lois (the city's entire opera community...

What Killed L.A. Stage Alliance? It Wasn’t That One Dumb Mistake

Los Angeles sound designer and playwright Howard Ho — the boyfriend of actress Jully Lee, who was the subject of the dumb mistake at...

Enormous Golden Modernist Mobile Removed From Lincoln Center Will Be Installed At LaGuardia Airport

There was a minor uproar in December when Lincoln Center announced that Richard Lippold's Orpheus and Apollo, which had dangled in the multi-story upper...

It’s 2021, And Italy Is Finally Abolishing Film Censorship

"It will now no longer be possible to block the release of a new film or demand edits for moral or religious reasons. Filmmakers...

Protestors Occupying French Theatres Carefully Dance Through A Minefield

"After trade union representatives in Paris entered the shuttered Odéon Theater, a movement to occupy playhouses spread rapidly. … Yet with the infection rate...

Behold The World’s Largest Collection Of Magazines

" Hyman's collection now stands at around 150,000 editions of roughly 5,000 titles. They form the bulk of HYMAG, a dedicated magazine library housed...

Join the Conversation

I have said before here that the time for talk is long past and that figuring out a way to prod real action on...

Video Game Technology Helps Recreate Sound Of 16th-Century Scotland’s Chapel Royal

"Researchers have captured how they believe choral music would have sounded when played and sung in the now-ruined chapel at Linlithgow Palace, west Lothian,...

As Performances In Italy Remain Banned, Competitive Ballroom Dancing Waltzes On

" are preparing for the Italian Championships in Rimini in July and as such are allowed to keep practicing, given that the government considers...

Recreating A 2,000-Year-Old South Indian Lyre

The yazh is a seven- or 14-stringed harp, built over a wooden bowl resonator covered with hide like a drum, that's referenced in Tamil...
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