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There Is No Such Thing As Renaissance Philosophy
The facts just don't bear it out. "It’s questionable that there ever really was a ‘movement’ other than in the mind of 19th- and...
Lois Ehlert, Illustrator Of Colorful Books Like Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, 86
Ehlert created 38 books for young children as an author and illustrator. Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, which she illustrated with her signature collages, has...
Los Angeles Is The United States’ Largest City-State
Or else it's something else. But it's no mere city. "Los Angeles fits the city-state frame well, certainly better than it does a lot...
The Two Women Who Preserved The Stories Of The Tulsa Race Massacre
The first, Mary E. Jones Parrish, was a relative newcomer to Tulsa when the events of May 31, 1921, went down. She was an...
Some Indoor Theatres Have Migrated Outside For Their First Reopening Season
The earliest decision-makers were not at all sure this was the direction to go. Ask then-newly installed interim director Shirley Serotsky at the Hangar...
Opera Singer Adrian Angelico Says The Art Form Helped Him Come Out As Trans
Angelico specializes in trousers (or pants, in the US) roles. He says that one day, he finished a rehearsal at covent Garden and realized...
Ai Weiwei’s Thoughts On China, Colonialism, And Controversial Statues
On culture wars as a symbol of democracy: "It’s not only democracy, it’s about art as symbols of our existence. You know, whenever we...
One Potential Fix For That Cecil Rhodes Statue At Oxford
Turn him to face the wall in shame. That way, those who demand the statue stay get their demand met, but the implication is...
Swiss Ballet School Fires Director And Manager, Suspends All Classes
An investigation reveals psychological abuse, abuse of power, nepotism, and "serious pedagogical dysfunctions" at the Rudra Béjart School, "leading the Board to terminate the...
Hollywood Producers Want A Union, Too
Can a producers' union ever work in the biz? They need it. "More than 100 feature film producers ... recently ratified the constitution for a...
Could Museums Become Like Libraries?
That is, welcoming to all, free, and more a central part of public life? There's a little problem with this idea, which former Queens...
Why A Photographer Asked Her Subjects To Pose In Victorian Dress
Zimbabwe-based photographer Tamary Kudita has her contemporary subjects pose in Victorian outfits - often made with contemporary fabric, by designers - to show links between...
How Eataly Has Changed Our Understanding Of Italian Food
Eataly is not actually Italy, despite the advertising tagline. "Eataly celebrates agricultural life, but its urban stores feel miles away from a rural idyll....
New Research Says That Sleep Evolved Before Brains
This is an entirely new concept for many researchers. "For more than a century, researchers who study sleep have looked for its purpose and...
Can The Movies Recover From The Pandemic?
Well, A Quiet Place II's boffo box office seems to indicate that people are sick of their living rooms and, one hopes, fully vaccinated...
Chi Modu, Photographer Who Shaped Rap’s Visual Identity, 5
"In the early and mid-1990s, working primarily for The Source magazine, at the time the definitive digest of hip-hop’s commercial and creative ascendance, Mr. Modu was...
Forget Art And Gems, The Real Money’s In The Library
How many archives are being plundered for private profit? Probably quite a few - and only librarians and academics seem to care. - The...
The Specialized Bacteria Cleaning Michelangelo’s Masterpieces
A top-secret project made the Medici Chapel gleam anew: "In the months leading up to Italy’s Covid-19 epidemic and then in some of the...
A Sound Check In Inglewood
How'd the dry run for the YOLA concert hall go? "It would be hard to imagine a less proper acoustic assessment, or a better...
Barcelona’s City Council Rejects A Proposed Branch Of The Hermitage
It's not a simple no, however: "The port authority, which owns the site of the proposed museum, gave the green light but the council...
The Food Design Of Mare Of Easttown
Honestly, among fans, the food is famous. "HBO is aware of the series' reputation, and continues to tweet things like 'The Mare of Easttown food pyramid:...
A Choreographer Finds Her Voice
Leslie Cuyjet has recently created a dance "so conceptual and personal. Moriah Evans and Yve Laris Cohen — who curate Dance and Process, an...
The Washington State Choir Whose Rehearsal Proved Singing Can Be A Superspreader Event Wants...
To be fair, the Skagit Valley Chorale (the one where 52 of 61 singers eventually got COVID from a single rehearsal in March 2020)...
How Italy’s Art Police Turned The Tide On Tomb Raiders
It takes extraordinary measures to deal with the thieves. "Looters have been plundering Italy’s cultural sites for decades, but since 2012 their trade has...
Call My Agent’s Liliane Rovere Explains How Her Life Created Her Character
Rovère's character "Arlette has struck a chord as everyone’s ideal disreputable aunt with a repertoire of outrageous stories that she just might tell if...