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Here Are The Finalists For The 2021 National Book Awards
"A food memoir that examines a mother's schizophrenia. A novel about an author's book tour, and about growing up as a Black boy in...
Tyshawn Sorey On How His Jazz Drumming And His Classical Compositions Inform Each Other
"Whenever I'm playing drums, I'm always thinking compositionally about how things develop. … Why do certain harmonies accompany the musicians in a particular way?...
Pondering Masks As Theaters Reopen And Theater Workers Meet Their Colleagues Again
Playwright Sarah Ruhl: "To ask 'How are you?' no longer felt like small talk. We relied on our eyes above our masks to make...
The Disappearance Of America’s Midsized Indie Book Publishers
Following Hachette's purchase this past summer of Workman Publishing, "there is a dearth of what can be called midsize publishers that fall between the...
IATSE Members Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Hollywood Strike
The vote by the affected members — cinematographers, electricians, video editors, costumers, and the like — was 98.7% in favor of greenlighting what would...
Revival Of Vinyl Records Hobbled By Shortages Of Vinyl
Worldwide sales of the old-style black discs are up 700% in a decade, so the supply chain has no slack to absorb problems caused...
Flash Floods Cause Closure Of Slovenia’s National Theater And Modern Art Museum
A total of nearly five inches of rain fell on Ljubljana on the evening of September 25, and among the many buildings to suffer...
Toni Morrison Thought This Woman Changed Black Literature Forever. She Left Public View 23...
In 1975, aged 25, Gayl Jones shook the American literary world with her novel Corregidora. After more books and a turbulent personal life, Jones...
When Virgin Voyages Wanted A Dance Show For Its Cruises, It Did Not Go...
No, Richard Branson's grownups-only cruise line chose three choreographers from The Dance Cartel. The trio couldn't believe that a cruise ship wanted their avant-garde-dance-meets-house-party...
How Did Fox News’s Right-Wing Late-Night TV Host Beat Stephen Colbert In The Ratings?
Not only because Greg Gutfeld has no conservative competition in his time slot. "Right-wing comedy has become both a viable business strategy and a...
He Acts And Directs In Four Languages. Actors Say He’s Gentle To A Fault....
Says Tiago Rodrigues, who's coming to Avignon from Portugal's Teatro Nacional, "I really love to see what happens to a play when you did...
Tommy Kirk, Teen Star Of A String Of Disney Hits, Dead At 79
In the 1950s and '60s, from ages 15 to 23, he starred in 11 Disney features, including The Shaggy Dog, Swiss Family Robinson, The...
Industrial Vacuum Cleaners, Traps, And Micro-Wasps: How Museums Fight The Bugs That Invade During...
It's a battle even in normal times, but when the pandemic closed museums, clothes moths, silverfish, and carpet beetle larvae were left with no...
Scarlett Johansson And Disney Settle Lawsuit Over “Black Widow” Pay
"Johansson had accused Disney of reneging on its promise to do a traditional theatrical release for Black Widow in favor of a simultaneous release...
Carlisle Floyd, Dean Of American Opera Composers, Dead At 95
"Floyd's operas, more than a dozen, were steeped in southern culture, examining the post-Civil War South, the Depression and small-town life. Works such as...
Spain Finally Approves Money For Expansion Of Prado
The €36 million ($42 million) allocation, delayed by six years, will fund the renovation of the neighboring Salón de Reinos (Hall of Realms), which...
England Launches New £20 Million Arts Fund For Capital Projects
Over the next two years, Arts Council England's Capital Investment Fund will issue grants from £100,000 to £750,000 to cultural organizations to make improvements...
Want To Learn A New Language As An Adult? It’s Much Easier If You...
"New research suggests that it's not as difficult as experts previously thought for adults to pick up a new language. Immersing yourself in a...
How A Paris Museum Convinced Russia To Lend Out Its Most Important Collection Of...
The collection of the brothers Morozov, full of Picassos, Monets, van Goghs, Matisses and such, is split between the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and...
Why Are Gen Zers And Young Millennials Binging On ‘The Sopranos’?
The streaming stats are high. There are multiple podcasts, a book, a new prequel (The Many Saints of Newark), and memes galore, many of...
Using Artificial Intelligence To Complete Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony
Yes, it has now been done, and the AI researcher (already known for robot-created art) who led the tech side of the project —working...
Universities Are Screwing Over The Working Dancers Who Teach As Adjunct Professors
“Despite teaching seven classes a week, I was ineligible for health benefits. I had no job security and no time to look for other...
Burying Art, Hiding Books, Smuggling Movies: Afghans Fearfully Prepare For The Taliban’s Cultural Police
The Islamists now in control in Kabul have not yet stated any cultural policies other than that any art, music, publishing, film, and the...
The Little-Known Cave Art Of The American Southeast
Outdoor rock art made by ancient Native Americans in the Southwest is familiar to many; not so with the underground pictographs in the southern...
Drama League’s Directors Project To Get Multimillion-Dollar Overhaul
"The broadened Directors Project will offer fellowships for early-stage directors, programs to help mid-career theater directors transition into film and television, and assistantships for...
