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The artist "repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls, 'marrying' two of them and fathering children," reads the wall text. "Gauguin undoubtedly exploited his position as a p…
For all that composers like Jerome Kern hated jazz and pop interpretations of their work " work generally created, after all, for specific scenes and characters in specific musical plays " R…
It's often said that we are also witnessing a crisis of liberalism: liberal norms are being eroded, institutions are under threat, and across Europe, parties of the centre are haemorrhaging …
On 12 November, its first day live, people had technical problems and many complained on social media. Others said they were locked out of their accounts, and since they contacted Disney the…
Did Banksy or Banksy's associates re-steal the 'kidnapped" statue? Why aren't the police interested? And how did those who are selling it at Sotheby's get into the artist's garden? " The Obs…
Whew. All of this: "The response has been that there's been a couple of very successful books about Trump, but if you're not writing about Trump, you know, where does that take you? What do …
Right after two writers on Carol's Second Act spoke with HR about inappropriate behavior from executive producer David Hunt (who is married to the star of the show), "they were told that goi…
Disney is planning to raise the price of Hulu Live by $10 per month, which might not seem like a lot, but it " and AT&T " are bellwethers as "the cost of watching live TV via streaming i…
O'Neill photographed everyone from the Beatles to Brigitte Bardot, but, he said, the Queen was the only person who ever made him nervous. "I researched some horse-racing jokes to break the i…
A researcher in the 1940s suggested that the tablets had recipes on them, but " shocker! " her fellow researchers didn't believe her. And yet, she was right. "So far, the cooking team " whic…
And the problem is that men somehow still think that no matter what women write about, it's "domestic." One playwrighting contest judge: "There is still an element of surprise when a woman w…
Marion Stokes, a former Communist activist who turned into a recluse, recorded MSNBC, CNN, FOX News and many other news programs, more than 70,000 of them, on Betamax and VHS tapes. "Stokes …
It's a holiday miracle: People willing to part with their money for a classical music-prog rock mashup, especially at the holidays. But how did we get to this elaborate two-band tour setup t…
The writer/director of the hit indie, which played to surprisingly robust crowds this summer, says that it was a difficult process to get her film made " no one could figure out where to cat…
Various forms of the records-that-changed-my-life meme have been making the rounds lately, so I came up with my own version, which I call "The Twenty-Five Record Albums That Changed My Life.…
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau sings "Der Leiermann," a song from Franz Schubert's Winterreise, accompanied by Alfred Brendel. This performance, subtitled in English, was taped for German TV in…
"It occurs to me that of all Shakespeare's plays King Lear is the one I have been and continue to be most moved by. It is probably the bleakest of the plays, the most unconsoling." Ant…
That's right, the Colorado Ballet has turned to crowdfunding to get new Nutcracker costumes; the old ones were created for the San Francisco Ballet in 1986, and Colorado Ballet bought them i…
Spearheaded, and named, by Dorothy L. Sayers, the name of Mutual Admiration Society "both captures the spirit of the group and misrepresents it. They supported each other boldly and emphatic…
Art historian Chaédria LaBouvier, who was the first solo Black woman curator in the museum's 80-year history, said that she was cut out of her own show, "Basquiat's 'Defacement': The Untold…
The Clockenflap festival was supposed to run Nov. 22-24, but after yet another death in the protests (and no signs of that stopping), the organizers canceled one of the most high-profile mus…
A small art nonprofit, LAXart's mission includes social consciousness. The protesting workers were laid off after they unionized and the Marciano Art Foundation abruptly closed. They asked L…
The new laws also criminalize all kinds of antiquities theft. "Earlier this year, an Egyptian man climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, removing parts of a 19th-century wooden …
"Much of [Mary Frances] Whitfield's work depicts these stories from the days of slavery] " of picking cotton, singing songs, and other images of life for black Americans in days past. But Wh…
"With wall-sized scrolls of coloring-book panels, [RYAN! Feddersen] shares her modern take on traditional Native American Coyote stories. (Coyote is addicted to technology; Coyote gets caugh…
