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Ian McKellen On Playing Hamlet At Age 81
"I can't pretend I'm 20. No one's going to believe it. But I can feel that I'm 20. … One advantage is, when I...
Maybe Public Radio Stations Should Cut Two-Thirds Of Their Weekend Programming
Eric Nuzum: "The average number of unduplicated shows aired over Saturdays and Sundays is 25. Do all those programs help build audience? Station listeners...
Where The Candidates For Mayor Of New York City Stand On Arts And Culture
"New York City is heading into one of its most consequential elections in decades. … For the purposes of this inquiry, we asked eight...
How A Gang Of Wall-Climbing, Web-Slinging Rare Book Thieves Was Brought To Justice
In January of 2017, a group of skilled, acrobatic robbers began a series of daring break-ins — climbing walls, breaking through skylights and barriers,...
It Was Inevitable: New NFT Of ‘Salvator Mundi’ Holding Fistful Of Benjamins
"It sounds like an April Fools joke, and it both is and isn't. Author and art historian Ben Lewis has created a real non-fungible...
Venice Finally Bans Big Cruise Ships From Lagoon And Historic District
"For years, campaigns to oust cruise ships from the lagoon have been gaining traction, with locals claiming that the ships' massive structures erode the...
In Search Of Classical Music From Africa
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber writes about his colleague Rebeca Omordia, a pianist of Romanian and Nigerian parentage who, since 2013, has been pursuing a...
Web Streaming and Book Publishing: Two Bright Spots for the Cultural Sector During COVID-19?
Compared with the average annual growth rate of arts and cultural industries as a whole (+3 percent), web streaming and web publishing surged by...
Syracuse Musings: Words of Wisdom (or not) from Panelists at the Deaccession Symposium
Here are some lessons from old-school conference speakers who acknowledged the need for progress, but defended what former Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello...
Nobel Prize: Sweet!
Lucky in Manhattan to have a Japanese market nearby, and because I’m enticed by anything in a post-Pop package, I fell for Nobel’s Super...
Podcasts By Retired Sports Stars Are Becoming Big Business
"If athlete-driven podcasts were once shoestring affairs, they've now been absorbed into the sports-media economy. Last year, The Ringer was acquired by Spotify...
What If Elena Ferrante Is Really A Man?
Over the past few years, a series of stylometric analyses, employing both human brains and AI software, has found that the true identity of...
Kurt Weill Was Destined For Broadway All Along
Joshua Barone: "Kurt Weill is often described as if he were two composers. One spun quintessential sounds of Weimar-era Berlin in works like The...
We’ve Got Robot Artists. Now We May Get Robot Art Critics.
"For human art lovers, learning which style or category a piece of art falls in is a relatively straightforward and objective task. Like the...
Is The Corps De Ballet Going To Become A Relic Of The Past?
In most places, the pandemic has put a stop to large-scale corps dancing. Yet, even when the virus is finally under control, there's reason...
Cooper Union Says It Will Be Tuition-Free Again By 2029
The prestigious, competitive art/architecture/engineering school in Manhattan's East Village charged no fees to students from its opening in 1859 until 2012, when an overambitious...
Smithsonian Holds Off On Reopening Its Museums
"Despite the reopening of most private museums in Washington, the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art have no set date to reopen from...
Live-Streamed Stand-Up Comedy Might Just Outlast The Pandemic
"Many are skeptical, including fans who badly miss being surrounded by echoing laughter and stand-ups who are exhausted by performing for screens and who...
Gianluigi Colalucci, Lead Restorer Of Sistine Chapel, Dead At 92
From 1980 to 1994, he led a team of workers who carefully washed away, frequently with plain soap and water, centuries' worth of dust,...
France Gets Another Nationwide Lockdown, But Arts Venues Could Open By Mid-May
With COVID caseloads on the rise again, President Macron announced a new set of restrictions, less strict than the first set introduced last year,...
The Mysterious Glyphs Of Easter Island
The set of symbols known in the Rapa Nui language as rongorongo is the only indigenous system of writing known to have developed among...
Notes on Outsiders: Carl Weissner’s German Essays and Reportage
To get the drift of Aufzeichnungen über Aussenseiter, I’ve been typing pieces of text into Google Translate. It’s a helluva time-consuming job, but it’s...
Researchers May Just Have Reconstructed The Long-Unknown Face Of The Pharaoh Akhenaten
Intact depictions of the world's first known monotheist, husband to Nefertiti and father of Tutankhamun, are rare (subsequent rulers of Egypt tried to erase...
The Pandemic Is Showing Us Plays Can Work Without Intermissions
Lyn Gardner: "Often an interval is only there to give audiences the opportunity to go to the lavatory and spend more money. It destroys...
Western Ballet Is (Just) Starting To Catch On In India
"Western classical ballet is still a very unfamiliar art form in India. But in the last few years, promising talent has begun emerging, often...