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Six Dr. Seuss Books Withdrawn For ‘Hurtful And Wrong’ Portrayals
"Six Dr. Seuss books — including And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street and If I Ran the Zoo — will...
Alan Bowness, 93, Former Director Of Tate Galleries And Co-Founder Of Turner Prize
"The internationally renowned scholar was the first trained art historian to become director of London's Tate Gallery, a position he held from 1980 to...
What’s Anthony Hopkins’s Secret? ‘No Acting Required’
"If you follow a superb screenplay, the language is a road map, and so you don't have to act.. … When you learn that...
MIT Has Figured Out How To Read Unopened 17th-Century Letters
In those days before mass-produced envelopes, important letters were intricately folded and then sewn shut; until now, modern-day scholars couldn't read such items without...
Reviewing The First Play Written By An Artificial Intelligence Bot
"The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer's imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most...
What Was ‘The Mona Lisa Of Ancient Egypt’? A Gaggle Of Geese
"Called Meidum Geese, the painting was discovered in the 1800s in the Chapel of Itet at Meidum. Itet was the wife of the vizier...
What Happens When Public TV And Radio Stations Combine With Digital News Startups
"The cultures of public media (nonprofit, built around broadcast, sometimes a little sleepy) and digital news startups (often for-profit, built around text, real-time and...
Glimmerglass Opera Festival To Build Outdoor Stage For 2021
The opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, directed by Francesca Zambello, will offer — in "the most ventilated area we could find" — 90-minute...
Texas Ballet Theatre Loses Its Headquarters To Winter Storm
The snow and frigid temperatures that struck Texas in late February caused "a massive water pipe break" at the company's office/studio complex in Fort...
Stratford Festival Will Open This Summer, But With A Short Season Held In Tents
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to...
Unknown Titian Painting Identified In English Village Church
"The Last Supper was gifted to St Michael and All Angels Church in Ledbury, Herefordshire, in 1909. Art historian Ronald Moore believes he has...
‘Lamborghini’ Of Ancient Roman Chariots Unearthed At Pompeii
"The chariot is preserved in remarkable detail, officials say, with four iron wheels, metal armrests and backrests, and a seat perched atop that could...
UK To Spend Another Half Biillion For Arts Sector’s COVID Recovery
The government is topping up the £1.57 billion ($1.9 billion) Culture Recovery Fund announced last July with an extra £300 million ($416 million), with...
Pandemic Polemics: Metropolitan Museum’s Off-Key NPR Message vs. Cleveland’s Harmonious Storage Show
The Met's premature revelation that it might take advantage of the AAMD's relaxed deaccession standards, selling art to pay for "care of the collection,"...
Rajie Cook, Who Designed The Pictograms We See Everywhere, Dead At 90
"In 1974 Cook & Shanosky Associates, a design firm started by Mr. Cook and Don Shanosky a few years earlier, won a contract to...
The History Of ‘Madama Butterfly’ In Japan
"It was not the 'alien' music that disturbed the Japanese audience" at the Tokyo premiere in 1914 (there had been a Western music school...
The World’s Largest Bach Website, Brought To You By A Computer Engineer In Tel...
The Bach Cantatas Website, founded 20 years ago by Aryeh Oron, includes texts from Bach's sacred works in multiple languages, discographies, history and analysis...
Literature Is A Technology, And It Should Be Taught Like One
Neuroscientist-turned-English-professor Angus Fletcher: "It's a machine designed to work in concert with another machine, our brain. The purpose of the two machines is to...
A New York Times Reporter Tries To Learn ‘Podcast Voice’
Alexis Soloski: "It’s recognizable enough that Portlandia and Saturday Night Live can parody it. It suggests intimacy, a rumpled authenticity. Because if someone were...
Podcasting Is Becoming Big Business. Will That Ruin It?
Even as media companies pour billions into the industry, "its formats and business practices are still developing, leading producers, executives and talent to view...
Lessons From The Explosion Of Online Dance During The Pandemic
"With audiences and funders generally letting dancers decide what (and how much) to produce while distancing requirements are in place, the incentive to go...
California Lost 175,000 Creative Sector Jobs In 2020
The latest edition of an annual study from the Otis College of Arts & Design found that "the creative economy lost more than 13...
Lincoln Center To Open 10 Outdoor Spaces This Spring
"The broad initiative, known as 'Restart Stages,' … plans for a cabaret-style stage, a dedicated area for families that will feature arts activities...
Was This Picture Painted By A Human Or By AI? Most Folks Can’t Tell,...
"A majority of respondents were only able to identify one of the five AI landscape works as such. Around 75 to 85 percent of...
Major Layoffs Coming At London’s V&A Museum
"Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire. … Details...