Following conservation work that included removing centuries' worth of dust and debris, archaeologists have fully revealed the intricately colored engravings on the walls of the Temple of Esna in Luxor, along with a striking set of painted reliefs on the ceiling. - ARTnews
What if a disease transforms your mind, impairing your memory or causing radical personality change? Would this new ‘you’ be a different person entirely than the one who existed before the transformation? - Psyche
Five years after "The Greatest Show on Earth" closed down (it said) permanently, performers are being recruited and rehearsals and logistics are being planned for a 50-something-city tour to begin in September of next year. And it's confirmed: there will be no animals. - The New York Times
It's not only that "theater is a team sport." It's not just that some shows (this season, for instance, Six and Take Me Out) simply don't have lead roles. It's that even star turns can't truly sizzle if the rest of the cast isn't cooking, too. - The New York Times
"Russian culture is about the fragility of life," says the award-winning stage and film director. "It's about people who are under oppression. Who are fighting for truth or justice. That's real culture. Not ideological culture. Not propaganda. I think it's not good to boycott this kind of culture." - Variety
Says one who is leaving, "I can't see how I can be part of a community that will be charged with ideological tasks and has to comply." Many observers believe Putin's government will ramp up production of the sort of films that the Soviet industry used to make. - Variety
With rumors flying of Vladimir Putin's deteriorating health, it could happen: going back to the earliest days of Soviet television, the unscheduled appearance of the Tchaikovsky ballet on the airwaves meant something extremely serious, like the death of the leader (or, in 1991, an attempted coup). - Newsweek
The Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which will be the home of the Czech Philharmonic and the FOK Prague Symphony, will have auditoriums of 1,800, 700 and 500 seats (acoustics by Nagata, Yasuhisa Toyota's firm) as well as a major hub for the Czech capital's public library system. - Prague Morning
A year and a half after the school acquired the management agency Opus 3 Artists, it has done the same with Pentatone Music, an audiophile classical-music label launched in the Netherlands in 2001 by execs who left Philips Classics after it was acquired by Universal. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some NFTs, 50 artists you’ve never heard of, and then three artists who actually should be in an evening sale. - The New York Times
Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time — before the end of the universe, say. If not, they are simply far too difficult. - Quanta
Just like with classical music, physics has been populated by architects and dreamers, careful workmen and inspired explorers, bursts of geniuses and sustained acts of creativity. It is worth spending some time discussing what the word “style” might even mean. - 3 Quarks Daily
While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, we need to understand that scores of talented deaf writers and creatives have always been there, and have always deserved to be heard. What’s changing now is the hearing world’s willingness to listen. - The Guardian
“It’s something way beyond a conventional studio, where it’s just an artist working on paintings. They’re walking through each other’s studios, they’re promoting each other.” - The New York Times
