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Russians Steal Ancient Scythian Gold From Ukrainian Museum
Russian soldiers and intelligence officers, along with "a Russian-speaking man in a white lab coat" and a film crew, entered the Melitopol Museum of...
A New CEO At Hay Literary Festival Following Founder’s Forced Resignation
"Julie Finch, … the former CEO of the Cheltenham Trust, … has been appointed CEO of the Hay festival and will succeed founder and...
The Great Big Dialect Hunt
That's what the University of Leeds is calling its project to digitize its huge collection of field recordings of vernacular speech in regional England...
Films From Africa Are Better And More Plentiful Than Ever. When Will North American...
Better and less expensive equipment, the growing festival circuit, and, most of all, the rise of streaming video have made it easier for Africans...
For The First Time, There’s A Comprehensive Reference Source On Indian Art — And...
"An upstart museum in (Bangalore) has launched an open-source digital encyclopedia of ... the subcontinent's rich artistic history, dating from 10,000 years ago to...
Flemish Modern Architecture Used To Be Notoriously Ugly. New Buildings There Now Are Really...
"It is an astonishing output for a region of six million people, featuring elegant libraries and special educational needs schools, as well as dramatic...
Is It True That Doris Lessing Blithely Abandoned Her Children To Live The Creative...
Julie Phillips: "When I actually looked at Lessing's life, I didn’t find either heartless abandonment or a bold dash for freedom. Unsurprisingly, the author...
Leonard Bernstein Wrote A String Quartet? Who Knew?
"Music for String Quartet was composed by an 18-year-old Bernstein in 1936 while he was at Harvard. You can tell, authenticators agree, from the...
Wheelchair Aerial Dance — With Barbed Wire (Oh, Yes, There’s Such A Thing)
Alice Sheppard of the disability dance company Kinetic Light: "It kind of made sense. If you're making a work about barbed wire, of course...
Britain, At Last, Gets A National LGBTQ Museum
The opening of Queer Britain at king's Cross in London, "is an important milestone for a minority that has only enjoyed widespread public acceptance...
Will Fort Worth End Public Arts Funding Altogether?
"People who work in the arts in (the Texas city) say City Manager David Cooke is seeking to gut funding for Arts Fort Worth...
Can An Old Industrial City In England’s Northeast Produce A Rival To The Edinburgh...
Culture officials in Newcastle envision an event with "the same spirit, vibe and inclusivity as the Edinburgh Fringe" but including art shows, concerts, and...
English National Opera’s Online Breathing Lessons Help Long-COVID Sufferers: Study
"The programme, developed with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, is led by professional singers from the ENO and focuses on breathing retraining through singing...
Collapsing In Discord, The Children’s Chorus Of Greater Dallas Will Be Taken Over By...
"The announcement, made Tuesday, comes after several rancorous months at the 25-year-old children's chorus that saw hiring disputes with the chorus board, staff resignations...
Henry Winkler On What Acting Takes Out Of Him And Puts Back In
"All that stuff you squash, all that frustration, eventually you have to spoon it out, but then you're left with holes inside you. ......
A Paris Curator Is Auctioning Off Lalanne Sculptures To Help Pay For An Expansion...
"A trove of sculptures and objects by the design duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne are hitting the auction block at Sotheby's to help fund...
The Addictive Glory (Or Glorious Addictiveness) Of Word Puzzles
Oh, it goes way beyond Wordle (which, luckily, only lets us play once a day) and crosswords. A.J. Jacobs looks at the New York...
Scottish Ballet Develops A New Therapy Program For MS Patients
"The Orkney Islands has the highest prevalence of multiple sclerosis in the world – with one in 170 Orcadian women living with MS –...
Beyond The-Scottish-Play-Which-Shall-Not-Be-Named: Theatre Superstitions Continue To Thrive
Never wish an actor "Good luck." (That's why they say "Break a leg.") Never bring mirrors onstage. Don't wear green. (We didn't know about...
“Unprecedented”: Ancient Phoenician Burial Complex Discovered In Andalusia
"Archaeologists exploring the site – which was discovered amid the Roman ruins in the town of Osuna, 55 miles (90km) east of Seville –...
Pianist Alexander Toradze Suffers Heart Failure During Performance, Finishes Anyway
Toradze had been feeling ill most of last weekend and needed assistance to walk onstage Saturday night to play Stravinsky and Shostakovich with the...
If Florida Wants To Take Away Disney World’s Special Status, It Has To Pay...
"The Reedy Creek Improvement District claimed that dissolving the special tax district would violate a pledge (made) by Florida to bondholders under the law...
BBC To Sharply Reduce The Amount Of Programming It Produces
"Director General Tim Davie is preparing to announce deep cuts to BBC output in the coming week. ... The corporation estimates it needs to...
What Happened When People Who Hate The BBC License Fee Went Without Without All...
They changed their minds, of course: "70% of the households who initially wanted to pay nothing or less than the £159 ($200.54) per year...
Exquisitely Elongated Time In Noh Drama
"Attending a performance, the first thing you might notice is the way time itself immediately slows down and takes on a stretched-out quality. You...
