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What Really Made Nadia Boulanger Tick?
"It is widely assumed that Boulanger consciously renounced composition after her sister died in order to champion Lili's music and focus on teaching. But...
How Will Actors’ Equity’s New Open Access Policy Change Theatre?
Will a larger, more activist union make things fairer? Or will business remain more or less as usual? "We asked several industry sources and...
Reviving Australia’s First Major Oratorio, 85 Years After Its Last Performance
Charles Packer's The Crown of Thorns premiered in Sydney in 1863 and was considered a masterpiece, sung every year at Eastertime by Australian choral...
“We Cannot Go Back To How It Was” — Dancers Reflect On Their Return...
Principals from ABT (Calvin Royal III and Misty Copeland), NY City Ballet (Tiler Peck), the Martha Graham company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane, Ballet Hispánico,...
Longest-Running Kids Animated Series In History Will End After 25 Years
Arthur, starring everyone's favorite cartoon aardvark, debuted on PBS in 1996 and will air its final season in 2022. In fact, one of the...
Emily Brontë Wrote A Second Novel. Did Charlotte Burn It?
The manuscript was unfinished but well underway when Emily died at age 30. The legend has been that Charlotte, envious and conservative, threw it...
Why Newsmax Is Flopping
The network's founders hoped to supplant Fox News, but viewership is down by half since January. Why? Says one expert, "Newsmax is just not...
Judge Rules Controversial San Francisco School Murals Must Remain Uncovered
In 2019, alums and students at George Washington High School protested what they saw as racist imagery in a set of Victor Arnautoff frescoes...
How Broadway Is Working COVID Safety Into All Its Operations
Actors' Equity is requiring vaccinations. COVID safety officers are being added to production teams, and a leading epidemiologist has been hired to train them....
After Yet Another Suicide, The Vessel At Hudson Yards In NYC May Close For...
On Thursday, a 14-year-old visiting the attraction with his family jumped to his death; his was the third suicide there in less than a...
UK Could Have Even More World Heritage Sites De-Listed, Warns UNESCO Official
Just over a week after Liverpool's waterfront was stripped of World Heritage status, the chief of the relevant UNESCO committee warns that the same...
Asian Musicians On What They Really Face In The Classical Industry
"From world-famous musicians to anonymous internet commentators, discrimination toward Asian musicians contains an ugly, common tenor: In this music, they will not replace us."...
The Revolving Reputation Of Terence Rattigan, Once Britain’s Favorite Playwright
"His fall from grace in the mid-1950s was sudden and unexpected. From the mid-1930s he'd been the darling of the West End." Then along...
How A Newspaper Gardening Column Became A Chronicle Of Climate Change
When Jeff Lowenfels began writing for the Anchorage Daily News in 1976, he had not expected that one day one of his readers would...
Virtual Docents — The Best Museum Idea To Come Out Of The Pandemic?
The Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum developed a way to provide guides when COVID kept them from coming in: visitors can stop at strategically...
Using Thomas Cromwell’s Papers To Reconstruct His London Mansion
The compound at Austin Friars, known to readers of Hilary Mantel's trilogy, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. But a historian has...
TikTok Is Hardly The First Place Where Black Dancers’ Moves Have Been Ripped Off
Alas, the practice goes at least back to the days of jazz dance at the start of the 20th century, when the first legal...
The Children Of Two Pathbreaking “Blaxploitation” Filmmakers Are Rescuing Their Fathers’ Work
We can still see Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (which launched the genre) and Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (a reggae...
Sculptor George Rhoads, Who Sent Balls Through Elaborate Rube Goldberg-Style Contraptions, Dead At 95
His 42nd Street Ballroom, which has mesmerized passersby for decades at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, is but one of the 300 "audio-kinetic...
US Seizes “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet”, Will Return It To Iraq
The 3,500-year-old artifact, covered with cuneiform writing from the "dream" section of The Epic of Gilgamesh, is part of the enormous collection of objects...
2,500-Year-Old Etching Of Last King Of Babylon Discovered In Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists found the 6th century BC rock carving of King Nabonidus, along with 26 lines of cuneiform, in the north of the country. -...
Which Countries In Europe Are Using “Vaccine Passports” For Arts Venues, And How
"Countries across Europe are extending the use of so called vaccine passports or health passes to allow for entry into bars, cultural sites or...
How Matt Damon Keeps Complicating Our Ideas About Matt Damon
"You only have to look a bit closer at Damon's career, at the notion of Matt Damon, Movie Star we have in our heads,...
American TV’s Journey In The 21st Century Has Been From Irony To Sincerity
"Two decades ago, TV's most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of dark or acerbic detachment. Today, they're more likely to be earnest...
West African Talking Drums Really Can Imitate Speech, Say Researchers
Yorùbá speech, that is. The West African language is tonal, using three different pitches, and dùndún drummers can adjust the tension on their drum...
