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The Most Revealing Bits From Franz Kafka’s Uncensored Diaries
Max Brod, the friend who disregarded Kafka's dying request to burn all of his writings, heavily bowdlerized the author's personal journals before he published...
The Beloved Walk-Through Heart At Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Is Closing For Six Months
"Don’t worry, this sudden cardiac arrest is not in vein. The Giant Heart will reopen in November as the centerpiece of a new, permanent...
A Week With A Youth Orchestra And Gustavo Dudamel
The superstar conductor, currently of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soon to be of the New York one, spent spring break week with a...
The Resurrection Of “Death, Sex And Money”
Last year WNYC cancelled the popular podcast and laid off its staff, which actually planned out a sort of funeral. But Slate picked up...
Someone Is Stealing Rare Editions Of Pushkin From Libraries And Replacing Them With Copies
"Since 2022, more than 170 books valued at more than $2.6 million ... have vanished from (national and university libraries across Europe). The books...
Biden Cancels Billions In Student Debt To Bankrupt Art Institute Chain
"President Joe Biden has cancelled $6.1 billion in loans taken out by students at the Art Institutes, the network of for-profit colleges that shuttered...
EU Court Approves Italy’s Attempt To Seize Looted Greek Statue From Getty Museum
"'Victorious Youth,' a life-sized bronze dating from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., … was pulled from the sea in 1964 by Italian fishermen and...
Texas School Superintendent Who Tried To Cancel Production Of “Oklahoma!” Is Ousted
The Sherman, Texas school board finalized a separation agreement with former superintendent Tyson Bennett, who had forbidden a high school production of Oklahoma! that...
House Republicans Launch Investigation Of NPR For Alleged Political Bias
"Funding of public radio has long had critics in conservative circles, but the recent controversy involving allegations of political bias at NPR is giving...
New York Philharmonic Musicians Suspended Over Sexual Assault Allegations Sue Orchestra And Union
"The orchestra’s associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang, are each suing the Philharmonic and the musicians’ union Local 802...
So What’s The Deal With Actors’ Superstition About Saying “Macbeth” Inside A Theater?
Well, turns out there's a history of very bad things happening during productions of "the Scottish play" going all the way back to Shakespeare's...
Why Cathy Marston Turned Ian McEwan’s Novel “Atonement” Into Ballet
"Briony’s idea of being able to rewrite someone’s life for the better is, for any sensible brain, a ridiculous notion. Yet there's scientific evidence...
With “Illinoise”, Justin Peck Has Expanded The Idea Of What A Broadway Musical Can...
"The 37-year old’s directorial debut is the result of a three-force collaboration: the dance is by Peck himself to Stevens’s introspective coming-of-age album with...
Puccini The Modernist?
"Puccini is typically seen as representing the end of a tradition, but might he actually have sown the seeds of a variety of new...
Well, Here’s What Happened When Another Large Country Banned TikTok
"After (a 2020) border skirmish, the Indian government banned the app. … As the app's 150 million US users swipe through videos in limbo,...
One-Quarter Of Young-Adult-Lit Readers Are More Than 28 Years Old
"According to the report (commissioned by HarperCollins), 74% of YA readers were adults, and 28% were over the age of 28. The research suggests...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals In Paris Arrested Before They Could Vandalize Art
"Two people were arrested on Sunday morning at the entrance of the Musée d’Orsay for being suspected of attempting to damage classified property. …...
When James Baldwin Went To Hollywood
He loved cinema all his life and wrote some genuinely great film criticism. Yet, says one Baldwin scholar, he "craved an Oscar almost as...
State Of The Arts In The US: Cultural Organizations’ Staffing Levels Post-COVID
"On average, organizations retained their full-time staff through pandemic shutdowns. Average staff size has grown over the last two years (2022 to 2023) through...
Author Paul Auster Dead At 77
"Called the 'dean of American post-modernists' and 'the most meta of American meta-fictional writers,' Auster blended history, politics, genre experiments, existential quests and self-conscious...
Toronto’s Largest Art Museum Reopens After Monthlong Strike
"The Art Gallery of Ontario, which closed to the public on March 26 as more than 400 unionized workers went on strike, (reopened) on...
Why Was Penguin Books Named After A Flightless Antarctic Waterfowl?
"Inspired by the existing Albatross Books, (Allen) Lane’s nascent company wanted an animal for (a) mascot. Many years (later), designer Edward Young explained that...
Nigeria’s New Museum Of Yoruba Culture Is Not Like Other Museums
Architect Seun Oduwole: "This museum pops with colour and sound." Curator Will Rea: "It is very different to a European museum, you walk in...
John Adams On Assembling The Libretto For “El Niño”
"We had the framework of the Nativity story, so we didn’t have to worry a great deal about devising a new narrative structure. …...
Previously Unknown Details Of Plato’s Life And Death Discovered In Herculaneum Scroll
The document, carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 CE and deciphered using advanced imaging techniques, recounts the last evening of the philosopher's...