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JoAnn Falletta’s Successor At Virginia Symphony Is Eric Jacobsen Of The Knights And Brooklyn...
The 38-year-old conductor and cellist is also music director of the Orlando Philharmonic and the Greater Bridgeport (Ct.) Symphony, but he's best known in...
Dan Frank, Brave And Influential Chief Editor Of Pantheon Books, Dead At 67
He shepherded the work of a remarkable group of authors ranging from Cormac McCarthy to Jill Lepore to Oliver Sacks and beyond. Perhaps his...
International Booker Prize Goes To David Diop’s ‘At Night All Blood Is Black’
"Diop, the author of two novels, and his translator Anna Moschovakis, split the £50,000 annual prize, which goes to the best author and translator...
How Wrens Coordinate Their Intricately Interlocking Songs
"A team of researchers studying brain activity of singing male and female plain-tailed wrens has discovered that the species synchronizes their frenetically paced duets,...
Running The Rodgers And Hammerstein Organization For 40 Years (What A Job!)
"As new ways of making money from The Sound of Music and the rest presented themselves, the job of advising the heirs and maintaining...
‘Uncancel Culture’: Kevin Spacey, Aziz Ansari, Mel Gibson, Louis CK …
Peter Bradshaw, considering the news that Kevin Spacey is acting again (albeit in a small European film): "Could this be Hollywood's hot new thing...
Clint Eastwood Is 91, And He’s Directed 17 Films Just Since He Turned 70
And those 17 movies — which include no less than Mystic River (with Sean Penn and Tim Robbins), Million Dollar Baby (Hilary Swank), and...
How Atlas Obscura Is Decolonizing — No, Enhancing — Its Content
"The Internet's favorite catalog of weird places" (as the headline fittingly describes it) is going through what it's calling (for lack of a term...
Mexico Forcibly Halts Illegal Construction Next To Teotihuacán
" sent in 250 National Guard troops and 60 police officers Monday to seize land next to the pre-Hispanic ruins of Teotihuacán where authorities...
Long Discreetly Camouflaged, Lesbians In Ballet Are Starting to Find Themselves And Each Other
Gay men aren't as ubiquitous in that world as some civilians think, but they're not rare. Yet gender norms in classical ballet are even...
Why Sarah Lane Quietly Slipped Away From ABT
" Lane and ABT parted ways last summer, although no announcement was made; rather, in September, her name was quietly taken off the roster....
As Travel Resumes, Can Italy Make Tourism Any Less Destructive?
"While the return of tourists is essential, local politicians and leaders in the cultural sector are emphasising the need to rethink how visitors interact...
Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct, And Even Assault, Rock English Drama Schools
"Former pupils have raised allegations including how tutors have 'grabbed' female students' breasts, made sexual comments about their bodies and pressurised them to remove...
Louvre Will Get New Department Of Byzantine And Coptic Art, Says New Director
"If that department comes to fruition, it would signify a break with the Louvre's president, Jean-Luc Martinez, who had deemed its formation unnecessary,...
An Opera By The Dean Of Black American Composers Finally Retakes The Stage
William Grant Still's one-act Highway 1, U.S.A. has barely been seen since its 1963 premiere, but it's being brought back to life this summer...
Oh, Great — Now Going Back To Movie Theaters Will Become Part Of The...
Owen Gleiberman: "To go or not to go? To believe in the primacy of the communal, cathartic big-screen experience or to see it as...
Why ‘The Great British Baking Show’, ‘Project Runway’, And Other Reality TV Competitions Have...
"Rather than offering an escapist vision of a world unravaged by pandemic, I've taken reassurance from the way these shows offer an escapist vision...
Getting New York’s Comedy Clubs Reopened Is No Laughing Matter
With capacity restrictions, social distancing rules, other safety measures, and eager-but-nervous audiences and performers, venues from mighty Caroline's to tiny Stand Up NY have...
Raimund Hoghe, Who Created Dances For His Own Nonnormative Body, Dead At 72
Five feet tall and born with a curved spine, he was a young journalist interviewing Pina Bausch when she asked him to work with...
Liam Scarlett’s Death Did Not Happen The Way Everyone Presumed It Did
The British choreographer, aged 35, died in April, one day after the Royal Danish Ballet announced it was cancelling its staging of his Frankenstein...
When ISIS Made Off With A Magritte Nude (Which Made It Back Intact!)
In 2009, a pair of thieves got into the René Magritte Museum in the Brussels suburb of Jette, located in the artist's former home,...
These Unpublished Charles Schultz Cartoons Are About (!!) Adults
Here's the story of a set of seven comic strips, called "the Hagemeyer strips" after their main character, set in an office, with protagonists...
At 4,300 Years, This May The World’s Oldest War Memorial
"A huge burial mound holding the corpses of at least 30 warriors in Syria could be the oldest war memorial ever discovered, dating back...
These Protesters Faced Down The Colombian Cops By Voguing
As a crowd marched in Bogotá against poverty and police violence, three twenty-something queer folks whose dance video had gone viral a couple of...
Arts Groups To UK: Thanks For Offering Us Relief Funding — Now Could You...
"Hundreds of arts organisations that received grants in the Culture Recovery Fund's second round are still waiting for money to be paid out, causing...
