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How Broadway Is Working COVID Safety Into All Its Operations
Actors' Equity is requiring vaccinations. COVID safety officers are being added to production teams, and a leading epidemiologist has been hired to train them....
After Yet Another Suicide, The Vessel At Hudson Yards In NYC May Close For...
On Thursday, a 14-year-old visiting the attraction with his family jumped to his death; his was the third suicide there in less than a...
UK Could Have Even More World Heritage Sites De-Listed, Warns UNESCO Official
Just over a week after Liverpool's waterfront was stripped of World Heritage status, the chief of the relevant UNESCO committee warns that the same...
Asian Musicians On What They Really Face In The Classical Industry
"From world-famous musicians to anonymous internet commentators, discrimination toward Asian musicians contains an ugly, common tenor: In this music, they will not replace us."...
The Revolving Reputation Of Terence Rattigan, Once Britain’s Favorite Playwright
"His fall from grace in the mid-1950s was sudden and unexpected. From the mid-1930s he'd been the darling of the West End." Then along...
How A Newspaper Gardening Column Became A Chronicle Of Climate Change
When Jeff Lowenfels began writing for the Anchorage Daily News in 1976, he had not expected that one day one of his readers would...
Virtual Docents — The Best Museum Idea To Come Out Of The Pandemic?
The Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum developed a way to provide guides when COVID kept them from coming in: visitors can stop at strategically...
Using Thomas Cromwell’s Papers To Reconstruct His London Mansion
The compound at Austin Friars, known to readers of Hilary Mantel's trilogy, was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. But a historian has...
TikTok Is Hardly The First Place Where Black Dancers’ Moves Have Been Ripped Off
Alas, the practice goes at least back to the days of jazz dance at the start of the 20th century, when the first legal...
The Children Of Two Pathbreaking “Blaxploitation” Filmmakers Are Rescuing Their Fathers’ Work
We can still see Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (which launched the genre) and Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (a reggae...
Sculptor George Rhoads, Who Sent Balls Through Elaborate Rube Goldberg-Style Contraptions, Dead At 95
His 42nd Street Ballroom, which has mesmerized passersby for decades at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, is but one of the 300 "audio-kinetic...
US Seizes “Gilgamesh Dream Tablet”, Will Return It To Iraq
The 3,500-year-old artifact, covered with cuneiform writing from the "dream" section of The Epic of Gilgamesh, is part of the enormous collection of objects...
2,500-Year-Old Etching Of Last King Of Babylon Discovered In Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists found the 6th century BC rock carving of King Nabonidus, along with 26 lines of cuneiform, in the north of the country. -...
Which Countries In Europe Are Using “Vaccine Passports” For Arts Venues, And How
"Countries across Europe are extending the use of so called vaccine passports or health passes to allow for entry into bars, cultural sites or...
How Matt Damon Keeps Complicating Our Ideas About Matt Damon
"You only have to look a bit closer at Damon's career, at the notion of Matt Damon, Movie Star we have in our heads,...
American TV’s Journey In The 21st Century Has Been From Irony To Sincerity
"Two decades ago, TV's most distinctive stories were defined by a tone of dark or acerbic detachment. Today, they're more likely to be earnest...
West African Talking Drums Really Can Imitate Speech, Say Researchers
Yorùbá speech, that is. The West African language is tonal, using three different pitches, and dùndún drummers can adjust the tension on their drum...
12th-Century Organ, By Far The World’s Oldest, To Be Reconstructed
The pipes and carillon bells of the instrument were discovered a century ago at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Scholar-performer David Catalunya...
“Sunday In The Park With George” Barely Escaped Being A Disaster
First, Stephen Sondheim couldn’t come up with songs because he didn't think James Lapine's script needed any. So began a cascade of calamities, right...
The Man Who’s Saving Rohingya Folk Tales
Mohammed Rezuwan is himself one of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya driven out of Myanmar by that country's military and mobs. He now...
The Hermitage Hops On The NFT Train
Following in the footsteps of the Uffizi in Florence, the St. Petersburg museum will auction off digital tokens of five works in its collection,...
Amar Ramasar, Last Remaining NY City Ballet Dancer Involved In Sexting Scandal, Will Retire
The 39-year-old's decision to end his 20-year career with the company next May comes three years after the scandal roiled City Ballet and two...
How Activists Got New York The Beautiful New Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
The much-praised new branch of the New York Public Library, across 5th Avenue from the famous flagship, wasn't supposed to happen. The NYPL board...
Young People Are Using France’s Culture Pass To Buy … Manga
Granted, the program was only just gearing up when the pandemic closed arts venues, but officials' hopes that 18-year-olds would use their few-strings-attached €300...
UNESCO’s Latest World Heritage Sites
Among the monuments added are Madrid's Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park, the old port of Guangzhou, Peru's ancient Chankillo observatory, Mexico's 16th-century Tlaxcala...
