Angelica Frey surveys the subject from the 12th century to the 21st, looking at how the bloody Biblical tale has been used to symbolize "womanly virtue" and modesty, defeating a larger and m…
"Radio IndÃgena (indÃgena means indigenous in Spanish) is one of the first indigenous Mexican radio stations in the United States. The community-run station [in Oxnard] boasts 40 hours…
"Must we change our lives? Honestly, I don't know. I am certainly changed by this work, call it art or god or"what we care about at Common Good"dignity. But I'm not much convinced by this po…
"Fiscal mismanagement, as well as recent sexual misconduct allegations leveled at former board chairman and former West Hollywood Mayor John Duran (accusations that Duran denies), have left …
"Her imaginative [metal] sculptures sometimes carried a Surrealist touch, such as Pomme d'Hiver (2008), a large-scale bronze apple, Choupatte Géante (2016), a cabbage with chicken feet, and…
A Q&A with Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, author of P.Y.G., or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle (two black rappers are Henry Higgins to Bieber figure's Eliza Doolittle), and Psalmayene 2…
"Titled 'No More All-White Seasons,' the [open letter on Facebook] praises the [Philadelphia Theatre Company's] current 2018-19 season for its diversity " then condemns a lack of it in the t…
"The Libro de los EpÃtomes manuscript … contains more than 2,000 pages and summaries from the library of Hernando Colón, … who made it his life's work to create the biggest library…
The "Santa Cecilia" violin " so named because it was developed in the instrument-making program at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome " makes its debut on Thursday at a confere…
"[The] Oscar-winning actor … has been awarded $850,000 [Aus] in damages and will receive further damages for economic loss after he won his defamation case against Sydney tabloid The Daily…
"The ballet academy at Vienna's renowned State Opera was hit Wednesday by allegations of serious physical and mental abuse against its students, as well as sexual assault. The weekly Falter …
"The Federal Bureau of Investigation's art crime team is seeking help to return thousands of objects, works of art and Native American human remains that it seized in 2014 in Waldron, Indian…
"The European Council yesterday adopted new rules to clamp down on the illicit trafficking in cultural goods, including a requirement for import licences on artefacts more than 250 years old…
"Centered on Karan (Arjun Mathur) and Tara (Sobhita Dhulipala), two friends who run a wedding-planning business, [Made in Heaven] takes on a wide array of issues that a burgeoning generation…
"When German book wholesaler and distributor Koch, Neff and Volckmar (KNV) filed for bankruptcy in February, Europe's largest book market was deeply shaken. Coming hot on the heels of a cont…
"For the last year or so, the Theatre Royal [in the English city of York] has not only been asking its audience what they think of their shows " it has invited them to make programming decis…
"On this episode of Women in Charge, Allison Benedikt talks to Virginia Johnson, artistic director and founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem. They talk about how she shifted from princi…
Of the six authors and six translators up for this year's £50,000 award, only one author (Juan Gabriel Vásquez of Colombia) is male. Arguably the most prominent name on the list is Pol…
"Laboulaye's creative work has been eclipsed by his political career" " a judge during France's Second Empire, he was committed to women's rights and the end of slavery " "but in his day he …
Chip Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, in a New York Times Op-Ed: "Repatriation can turn museums from places of colonialism into mediating s…
Which is to say that, like Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, it was eagerly anticipated, took decades to get done, got stopped immediately before a premiere screening by a lawsuit, a…
"It is a very peculiar revolution because, in order to succeed at all, it has to have as its aim the reestablishment of the Union. And a great, radical shift in American mores, in the Americ…
"The Hungarian State Opera has asked the nearly all-white cast … to sign a statement declaring that 'African-American origin and identity is an inseparable part of my identity' and made be…
The Fusion Arena, a $50 million, 65,000-square-foot venue dedicated to esports, is set to open in 2021 in Philadelphia's sports district. Primarily, "[it] will host home games for the Philad…
Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! all-star and an alum of Brigham Young University's quiz bowl team (and a fine writer), gives a look inside what's become quite a youth subculture: "Quiz bowl: molding…