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Alt-Weeklies Looked Doomed Even Before The Pandemic. Here’s How Some Of Them Have Hung...
The structural troubles those papers were facing before 2020 were bad enough; then COVID shut down their main sources of ad revenue (performance venues,...
Why Do Asian Actors Keep Getting Overlooked For Awards, Even As The Films They’re...
Parasite got six Oscar nominations and four awards, none of them for any of its actors. That case continued a pattern that has held...
How Weird Are This Season’s Tony Awards Going To Be?
Weirder than ever before, no doubt. As the voters fill out their ballots this week and next, none of the shows they're considering have...
Read Nabokov’s Long-Lost Superman Poem, Now In Print At Last
"The Man of To-morrow's Lament" — written as the superhero's internal monologue as he walks through the city with Lois Lane, ruing that they...
Small-Scale Indoor Performances To Return To New York In April
" said that arts, entertainment and events venues can reopen April 2 at 33 percent capacity, with a limit of 100 people indoors or...
Louvre Gets Back 450-Year-Old Armor Stolen 39 Years Ago
"A military antiques expert alerted police after being called in to give advice regarding an inheritance in Bordeaux in January and becoming suspicious about...
Reviving Mosul’s Cultural Museum, Six Years After ISIS Destroyed It
It was six years ago last week that extremist forces rampaged through the place, smashing ancient Assyrian sculptures with sledgehammers, burning books, looting anything...
So Who Made Pantone The Boss Of Colors Anyway?
Pantone started out, under another name, as a printing company, and one of its employees, Larry Herbert, got tired of trying to figure out...
‘Lolita’ Is A Horrifying Story. How Does It Keep Getting Past Obscenity Laws, Let...
Lady Chatterley's Lover, which now seems almost anodyne, was the subject of a criminal prosecution in 1960, but Lolita, which came out the previous...
Ice Music: Performing Pieces On, And For, Literally Frozen Instruments
"Carved instruments can be either completely made of ice, such as horns and percussion, or hybrids, like harps, in which the main body is...
On Zoom, Vimeo, PBS, Or An iPod, If A Theatre Company Does It, Is...
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form....
At The Detroit Symphony’s Virtual Orchestra Hall, Inside The Head Of A (Virtual) Listener
Michael Andor Brodeur: "I'm 'here' to virtually attend a rehearsal of Stride, a stirring newer work from the British composer Anna Clyne. And Clyne...
Where AI Can Really Help Public Radio
That would be transcription, which is prohibitively expensive to do for every segment but which makes it far easier for potential users to find...
Roger Englander, Pioneering Producer Of Classical Music On TV, Dead At 94
At NBC in Philadelphia, he produced the first-ever telecast of a complete opera, Menotti's The Telephone, and he followed up by putting together Menotti's...
Requiring Audiences To Present Vaccine Passports — Would It Be Feasible?
On the surface, it certainly seems as if asking ticket buyers to show proof of COVID vaccination would be a good, quick way to...
Mausoleum Of Emperor Augustus, Long Neglected, Now Restored and Reopening
"Still imposing after 2,000 years, a vast funerary monument that was once the resting place of Rome's emperors is to reopen to visitors on...
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...