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Commercial Art Galleries In UK Can Reopen Before Museums Do, And Museum Folks Are...
"Museum and gallery leaders in England have expressed anger, disappointment and bafflement at why commercial art galleries – which count as non-essential shops –...
He Invented New Instruments To Express The Soul Of His Troubled Homeland
Joaquín Orellana, one of Guatemala's leading composers, calls his creations útiles sonoros ("sound tools"), and many of them are de-and-reconstructed versions of his country's...
“Black Art’s” Blackout: Who’s Absent from HBO’s Survey of “Today’s Top African American Artists”?
Although it gives us fascinating inside-the-studio glimpses of several important artists at work, Black Art: In the Absence of Light insufficiently illuminates the depth...
Charles Hill, Heroic Undercover Art Detective, Dead At 73
"Hill's willingness to take major risks in order to find some of the world's greatest stolen artworks" — most famously, Vermeer's Lady Writing a...
Why Is The Turkish Government Trying To Sue This Cultural Organization Out Of Existence?
"While art philanthropist Osman Kavala has been jailed in Turkey for more than three years without conviction, the country has now filed an unprecedented...
Using Social Media To Preserve The Uyghur Language — And Keep It Up To...
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern...
How To Design A Memorial For The COVID Pandemic?
Several places in Italy and Great Britain are considering the question, and a few memorials have already gone up. " are not intended as...
Why Joffrey Ballet Is Only Now Making Work To Stream
Staging a full-length performance digitally "would break the bank," says artistic director Ashley Wheater, who doesn't really like streamed dance much. "I'm embracing it...
Will Upright Citizens Brigade Ever Reopen? ‘I Don’t Know’, Says Amy Poehler
In a feature interview for The New York Times Magazine, the co-founder of the famed, and now troubled, improv company and school said, "It’s...
Douglas Turner Ward, Pioneering Black Theater Artist, Dead At 90
A writer and director as well as an actor, he wrote a 1966 New York Times Op-Ed titled "American Theater: For Whites Only?" that...
France Is Trying To Raise Millions To Buy De Sade’s Filthiest Manuscript
"The French government is appealing for corporate help to acquire the manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's notorious The 120 Days of Sodom, valued...
It’s A 17,300-Year-Old Kangaroo: Australia’s Oldest Rock Art Identified
"A nearly-life-size depiction of a kangaroo — realistic genitalia included — is the oldest known rock painting in Australia. Scientists recently pinpointed its age...
Facebook Ends Australia News Ban After Deal With Government
The the government may not apply the code to Facebook if the company can demonstrate it has signed enough deals with media outlets...
Clarion
Someone’s calling, maybe me. C. C sharp? D? My scalp tightens, which makes me wonder where I am, and who, too. But this voice...
Jeff Alexander Shares the Importance of Live Orchestral Music
The President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra speaks about the importance of live, in-person concerts and the day-to-day leadership of a major symphony orchestra....
Pigs Have Learned To Play Video Games
In a research lab at Penn State, "four pigs — Hamlet, Omelette, Ebony and Ivory — were trained to use an arcade-style joystick ...
When Thornton Wilder Came Up With An Act Four Of ‘Our Town’
"Following his enlistment in the military in World War II, only ten days before he would age out of eligibility for active service, Wilder...
Why Do We Have Such Trouble Getting Monuments Of Women Right?
Consider, for instance, the new, widely derided "For Mary Wollstonecraft" monument in London. "Why couldn't a statue of Wollstonecraft, the individual woman, be seen...
How To Spot A Forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragment
"In 2009, the Green family, owners of the Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and- crafts stores, began acquiring a series of weathered fragments advertised as...
Thousands Are Angry About New Bronze Doors For 800-Year-Old Cathedral
"Plans to mark the 800th anniversary of Burgos's magnificent Gothic cathedral with three enormous new bronze doors have ushered in an unholy row, with...
Could This Series Be The ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ For The 14th Amendment?
"The new Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America, produced by Will Smith and Larry Wilmore, seeks to not through song, but extended,...
What’s At Stake For Chicago With The Sale Of Second City (To A New...
Chris Jones: "The issue now is the future of an institution that is not just a major tourist draw to Chicago but one of...
Dolly Parton To Tennessee: Please Don’t Put A Statue Of Me In The State...
"I am honored and humbled by their intention but I have asked the leaders of the state legislature to remove the bill from any...
City Of London Abandons Plan For New Concert Hall
"An ambitious £288m concert hall that was supposed to be 'the Tate Modern of classical music' has been scrapped by the City of London...
New Concert Hall For London Was A Doomed Project
Martin Kettle: "Justifying the cost, the priority, the location and the uses to which the hall would be put were all delicate tasks in...