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Long-Delayed Guggenheim Abu Dhabi At Last Has An Opening Date (And It’s Not Soon)
The Frank Gehry-designed museum, one of several starchitect-designed brand-name cultural institutions planned for the Emirati capital's Saadiyat Island, is expected to be October of...
France’s Top Book Prize Has A New Conflict-Of-Interest Scandal
One of the finalists for this year's Prix Goncourt, The Children of Cadillac, was written by François Noudelmann, the romantic partner of one of...
Pathbreaking TV Writer Irma Kalish Dead At 96
Most female scriptwriters in the 1950s and '60s had to churn out proto-Hallmark-Channel movies, but Kalish thrived in comedy. Her biggest mark was in...
Someone Thought Putting The Bible, The US Constitution, And Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless The...
"Big-name Christian authors penned a letter blasting it as 'dangerous,' and more than 900 people signed a petition decrying the decision to print it....
Free Artistic Expression In India Is Being Gradually Strangled
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party, "censorship (is) no longer about nudity, gore, or promiscuity. It (has) firmly set its...
Looping — Perhaps Hollywood’s Most Surprising, And Most Secretive, Profession
Loopers are the equivalent of extras: they're voice actors who provide realistic background chatter for just about any setting or subject. And no, you...
The Royal Ballet’s Most Unlikely Star Says Farewell To The Stage
Edward Watson was a very promising student, but the gangly ginger never fit the handsome-Prince mold. As he retires after 27 years with the...
China Now Has Its Own Version Of The Carbuncle Cup
Each year, an online architecture magazine offers a list of 80-odd edifices from which readers can vote for the ten ugliest buildings in China....
Ethiopian Popular Culture Is Making The Chinese Its Bogeymen
As investment from China flows into Ethiopia, social media and entertainment are voicing worries about inexpensive made-in-China versions of Ethiopian handicrafts, mocking Chinese eating...
Five Small Theaters Sue City Of New York Over Vaccine Requirements
The issue: the venues must require audiences to wear masks and be vaccinated, but similar buildings, or even the same one, are exempt from...
Supply Chain Problems Are Still Plaguing Publishing, And There Might Be Book Shortages For...
"Supply chain problems have touched almost every aspect of book production, storage, and delivery, mostly as a result of Covid-related bottlenecks. Printer capacity issues...
With The Walls Finally Stabilized, Reconstruction At Notre-Dame In Paris Can Begin In Earnest
Those solid, 850-year-old walls were damaged much more by the catastrophic 2019 fire than authorities realized at first. (They really could have collapsed.) Now...
Enormous Stage Rock Nearly Crushes Tenor; Court Rules It Was Sabotage
It's the end of Tristan und Isolde at the Capitole de Toulouse. Isolde is singing the Liebestod and Tristan is playing dead upstage when...
What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?
Osita Nwanevu: "The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy...
A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns
Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s...
Afghan Singers Recount Their Flight From The Taliban
The BBC interviewed half a dozen musicians who have had instruments smashed, relatives killed, and threats issued since the extremists took over Afghanistan last...
In Crimea, Russian Government Is Trying To Wipe Out Tatar Heritage: UNESCO Report
"The report ascribes a goal of erasing traces of their cultural presence on the peninsula and weakening 'the fundamental role of the indigenous Muslim...
Myanmar’s Arts Community Is Caught Between Military Dictators, Floods, Economic Turmoil, And COVID
"People are focused on survival … and caring for their loved ones," says one artist in Yangon. Adds another, "It's dangerous to do a...
Why This Filmmaker In Myanmar Is A Fugitive From The Junta
Director Na Gyi and his wife (and leading actor) would be in hiding even if their latest film weren't about a lesbian romance: they...
Jane Powell, Wholesome Star Of Classic Movie Musicals, Dead At 91
"An actress and singer who first appeared in movies as a teenager, (she) became a sunny stalwart of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and...
Here’s The First-Ever Piano With 108 Keys
The instrument, designed and handmade by Wayne Stuart of Stuart & Sons in Australia, has a nine-octave range, two octaves more than a standard...
Stephen Sondheim, At 91, Is Working On A New Musical
As he told Stephen Colbert this week, "I've been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and...
A Previously Unknown Van Gogh Is Now On View In Amsterdam
"Study for 'Worn Out,' as the drawing is being called, has lived in a private Dutch collection since the first decade of the 20th...
Paris’s Musée d’Orsay ‘Can No Longer Be A Tourist Factory,’ Says Its New Director
That would be Christophe Leribault, until now director of the city's Petit Palais and, before that, of the Musée Delacroix. He replaces Laurence des...
‘Learned Behaviour’ At The Royal Ballet: How A Case Like Liam Scarlett’s Could Happen
Luke Jennings: "His behaviour (was) egregious and exploitative, but his is not an isolated case. It is symptomatic of a culture I have seen...
