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Greece Closes Acropolis As Wildfires Burn And Athens Chokes On Smoke
"Across southern Europe, large wildfires have so far killed eight people and caused mass evacuations while also threatening to damage ancient cultural sites. In...
UK Gov’t Announces $1 Billion Insurance Plan To Cover Performance Cancellations Due To COVID
The Live Events Reinsurance Scheme, a partnership with Lloyds, sets aside £750 million to offer cancellation insurance that private companies have been unwilling to...
Ethiopia’s Ancient Rock-Hewn Churches Captured By Tigrayan Rebels
Residents of Lalibela, a UNESCO World Heritage site that's home to 11 landmark 13th-century churches and a major pilgrimage destination for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians,...
Russia Blocks Popular Online Community DeviantArt
Roskomnadzor, the country's communications regulator, "said it had sent 145 requests to DeviantArt to remove unlawful content from its site since 2019, saying certain...
No, Say Musicians, UK Government Has Not Solved Post-Brexit Touring Problem
"We knew all this in January," says the CEO of the musicians' trade body. "The idea that the government has done something fantastic or...
We Need Better Plots About Friendship
"When friendship exists in the background, it's unremarkable but generally uncomplicated. But when friendship becomes the plot, then the only story to tell is...
What Holds This Tiny Former Mining Town Together? Its Theater Company
Elisabeth Vincentelli visits Creede, Colorado (population 350), isolated high in the San Juan Mountains, to check out the Creede Repertory Theater, which came up...
Will Scott Rudin Make A Comeback? Could He If He Wanted To?
Word is that the disgraced producer hopes to return, and he claims he's working to improve his notorious temper. Would he be accepted? Some...
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Should Be Overhauled To Focus On The Internet: Study
The German Marshall Fund has issued a policy paper arguing that the CPB, which currently channels federal money to local public TV and radio...
Bolshoi Ballet Director Wants Company To Build A Third Theatre
The Moscow troupe has the famous 1,680-seat house, which he calls the Historic Stage, and a venue opened in 2002, called the New Stage,...
Who’s Everyone’s Favorite Guy At Jacob’s Pillow This Year? The Weatherman
With all performances outdoors this year, the dance festival hired its first resident meteorologist, Paul Caiano from nearby Albany. And, since this summer's weather...
Does “Jeopardy!” Have Its New Host?
If so, it's an inside job: reportedly, the chosen candidate, now said to be in advanced negotiations with Sony Pictures Television, is the quiz...
UK May Finally Have Solved Musicians’ Post-Brexit Touring Problem
"The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it had negotiated with 19 EU member state countries to allow British musicians and performers...
Artist’s Memorial To Victims Of Beirut Explosion Draws Controversy
The Gesture, an 82-foot sculpture by Nadim Karam, is made of steel debris from last year's catastrophe and stands at the blast site itself....
Teaching Kids To Read And Getting Them To Enjoy It — What The Data...
Emily Oster looks at the phonics vs. whole-language debate (she has one word for you: "delumpification") and what studies show about how to entice...
Could 1980s Film Noir Actually Be Better Than The Classic 1940s Stuff?
Neo-noir "could spell out what the 1940s films could only imply, with themes, violence and sexuality that could only be hinted at four decades...
In Defense Of Watching TV At High Speed
Nicholas Quah writes that the habit, reviled by creators, simply makes it easier to get through mountains of content, leaving time to try stuff...
Why Composer Jake Heggie Writes His Operas Entirely By Hand
"Making a mess is central to creativity and certainly to composition. … (With music software,) I think that sometimes young composers can be misled....
This Improv Group Wants To Be The Anti-Upright Citizens Brigade. Is That Possible?
In 2020, the worst of a series of bad years for the company, UCB withdrew entirely from New York. Now the Squirrel Comedy Theater...
The Dance Of The Discus Throw
Olympic gold medalist Valarie Allman, a former dancer: "I think it's a second-and-a-half dance that you do hundreds of times and it's really repetitive,...
Simone Biles Offers A Lesson For The Dance World
Bradford Chin: "I love that, although most of us dancers are not Olympic athletes, we treat every performance like the Olympics. But, like the...
The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture (Per The NYT’s Style Mag)
"Three architects, three journalists and two designers gathered over Zoom to make a list of the most influential and lasting buildings that have been...
Now AI Is Creating Customized Artwork To Order (And It’s Cheap)
"Customers scroll through a selection of artwork and click the designs they like. … Then, the user clicks a button reading 'Make My Art,'...
Baltimore Symphony Fires Principal Flutist Emily Skala
CEO Peter Kjome said in a statement, "Ms. Skala has had discipline imposed upon her over these past few months; unfortunately, she has repeated...
Phillip King, Leading British Sculptor Of ’60s “New Generation”, Dead At 87
"Some critics and historians have considered King one of the most important British artists of the past half-century, although his reputation has lagged behind...
