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NPR Morning Edition Host Noel King Is Leaving For A Sort-Of Competitor
She is moving to Vox Media as editorial director and co-host (with current host Sean Rameswaram) of Today, Explained, Vox's morning news podcast. What's...
A Playwright-Turned-Librettist Considers Opera’s Centuries-Long Penchant For Adapting Pre-Existing Properties
Adaptations from well-known sources go right from the beginnings of opera as a distinct genre circa 1600 (Peri's Euridice and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo) to the...
Italy Shows Britain (And The Rest Of Us) How To Return The Parthenon’s Looted...
"The Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports has announced that Italy will return a fragment of the Parthenon Frieze, which has been on loan...
Female Filmmakers Are Rethinking And Reworking The Western
"These female-made Westerns are really tackling toxic masculinity and the ways in which men's attempts to prove themselves as men can backfire, rather than...
“The Russian Proust”, Who Died At Auschwitz, Will Have A Novel Published In English...
Yuri Felsen (né Nikolai Freudenstein), born in St. Petersburg in 1894, fled to Paris after the Revolution and was considered by Russian émigrés to...
Dominique Morisseau On Why She Pulled Her Play “Paradise Blue” From The Geffen Playhouse
"I felt in this situation that everybody's wellness was not considered. The theater makers that were causing the harm were being centered over the...
After 31 Years, A New Hint In The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Theft
A retired Boston jeweler says that, shortly after the 1990 heist, an acquaintance brought in a gilded bronze eagle for him to appraise —...
Hashing It Out: Is “West Side Story” Worth Doing In 2021, Or Is It...
As the Steven Spielberg/Tony Kushner film arrives, New York Times critics Jesse Green and Isabelia Herrera, playwright Matthew López, theater historian Misha Berson (author...
Alvin Lucier, Pathbreaking Avant-Garde Composer, Dead At 90
"During a career spanning six decades, Mr. Lucier moved from a respectable position as a traditional composer … to the near-personification of experimentalism in...
Turner Prize 2021 Goes To A Mockup Of A Belfast Bar
Array Collective has become the first Northern Irish artist(s) ever to receive the award. The winning work, titled The Druithaib's Ball, is a full-size...
If Boris Won’t Make British Audience Members Mask Up, Then Venues Will
When performances started up again in the UK over the summer, masks weren't made mandatory (much to the alarm of some visitors from abroad)....
After 30 Years, Director Of Australia’s Flagship Indigenous Dance Company Is Stepping Down
Stephen Page became artistic director of Bangarra Dance Theatre in 1991, two years after its founding, and has led it to awards and acclaim...
The Saturday Evening Post Is Now 200 Years Old — And It’s Still Here
Most of us assumed the dear old mag had shut down forever. In fact, it was only closed from 1969-71, before being relaunched as...
US Architect Of Hermitage’s Planned Moscow Branch Unceremoniously Dumped
Hani Rashid of Asymptote Architecture says his firm worked for years on a design, got necessary approvals — and stopped getting any communication from...
Does Putting A Broadway Show On Video Cut Into Sales? Quite The Contrary, Says...
The creator of Hamilton says the show's filmed version o on Disney+ has only increased demand for tickets to the staged production. (If only...
Doing Standup Comedy In India Is Getting Dangerous
You can't say that the country is humorless, but the Modi government's laws can have people fined or jailed on mere accusations (even false...
What’s The Right Length For A Podcast? That Depends …
Hosting platform Acast says that the average episode length of its 100 most popular podcasts is 38'10" — but it's not that simple. Comedy...
Five-Ton, 12-Point Glass Star Installed Atop Highest Tower Of Gaudí’s Sagrada Família
The 23-foot-wide ornament now sits 453 feet above Barcelona, crowning the basilica's Virgin Mary Tower. Some of the neighbors are mightily irked by the...
Skeptical Eyebrows Are Being Raised Over Planned Changes At Notre-Dame in Paris
These changes include replacing rarely-used confession booths in the nave with art installations, installing new lights at head height rather than near the high...
Media Consumers More Engaged By Audio Than Other Formats, Says Research
A study that used biometric feedback to measure immersion found that participants were more deeply engaged by content delivered via radio or podcasts than...
Alice Sebold’s “Lucky” Pulled By Publisher And Film Version Canceled Following Anthony Broadwater’s Exoneration
The 1999 memoir, which launched Sebold's career, recounts the rape and beating she suffered at age 18 and Broadwater's subsequent trial and conviction for...
Israel Says It Has Found Archaeological Evidence Of Hanukkah Story
Excavations in the Lachish Forest, about 40 miles southwest of Jerusalem, have uncovered the remains of a Hellenistic fortress — a structure which the...
Tenor Juan Diego Flórez Gets His First Artistic Directorship
As of January 1, shortly before his 49th birthday, the Peruvian will take the reins at the event where his international career was launched:...
David Gulpilil, Pioneering Indigenous Australian Actor, Dead At 68
He became a star in his home country playing the lead in Nicholas Roeg's Walkabout and familiar internationally for his role in Crocodile Dundee....
Why Morocco Is Pouring Money Into Rabat’s Arts Scene
King Mohammed VI's government says it's making art accessible to more ordinary people and promoting Morocco as an island of stability; some artists and...
