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A new book by classicist and historian Andrew M. Riggsby investigates the types of information technologies (IT) drawn, painted, and inscribed on the surfaces of the ancient Roman world and …
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm assembled their book of stories as folklorists, not children's authors, and they intended their book for adult students of German culture, not for parents to read to …
The two unopened scrolls that will be probed belong to the Institut de France in Paris and are part of an astonishing collection of about 1,800 scrolls that was first discovered in 1752 duri…
As social beings, we are hard-wired to interpret breaks in the flow of human communication. We recognize the pregnant pause, the stunned silence, the expectant hush. A one-beat delay on an a…
Marrow was a lifelong champion for the arts. She began working at the Getty in 1983 as a publications coordinator, and went on to serve in various high-ranking roles. Her longest and most su…
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim looks at the uses of well-placed pauses for the purposes of acoustical clarity, rhetoric, drama, surprise, and even humor, traveling from chanting monks and Monte…
Spoken-word artist and author Abd el Malik is staging Camus's The Just Assassins, now considered a classic play in France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet with R&B and hip-hop accompan…
At the city's major museum for Tibetan and Himalayan art, "staff will be reduced by 25%, going down from 89 to 67 employees, across operational and curatorial departments. Starting in Januar…
Jerry Saltz: "Much of modernism and its concerns now feel long ago, forged in a time of rapid industrial change when white European males assumed they ruled the world. The demands of our tim…
Major publishers will do right by their cookbook authors, who are usually already established, but there's a larger set of small publishers who work with newer writers. "With these smaller p…
Mark Swed: "He's been an unstoppable powerhouse, and, in the end, we may very well have to conclude that he's human, and that maybe he couldn't have done all the great things he did without …
"A full-length ballet is 'like a Broadway show,' according to [the company's artistic director]. It's generally a big, splashy production with elaborate sets and costumes, familiar music, an…
"Now, with Madea behind him " he was fed up with playing her " Perry's cultural legacy remains complex, ever evolving, and dependent on what he does next. In the short term, that means openi…
"Kancheli's work became known in the West as early as the 1970s " his Fourth Symphony, "In Memoria di Michelangelo," was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1978 " but it was in the 1…
"The RSC announced that after months of deliberations and a vociferous campaign from artists, the public and environmentalists, it had decided to curtail its eight-year relationship. The mov…
"If board members can be forced out because of what they do for a living, what does that mean for cultural institutions that depend on their generosity to survive? … Anyone who scans the f…
"Over the next few weeks voters will face a deluge of information aimed at swaying them for or against a quarter-cent sales tax hike in Mecklenburg County. The controversial measure would br…
"A fault concealed is presumed to be great." Martial, Epigrams
Jersey City is seeking partners capable of developing and operating an innovative, world-class cultural destination that reflects the energy and diversity of Jersey City.
In case you are unaware, video games and video game music have come a long way from the 8-bit MIDI sound effects of Donkey Kong. Â It's a musical realm that has produced its own roster of …
Published in September, Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept tells of how the CIA planned to use Doctor Zhivago as a propaganda tool during the cold war. But Anna Pasternak revealed in the Su…
"Recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an atmosphere in which my ability to serve this company that I so love has been compromised," he wrote in a state…
The report describes the EU as being at a "turning point" due to societal and political challenges such as social cohesion, rising extremism and populism, global competition and "environment…
Paying attention is not easy to do. It demands "a state of openness that assumes there is something new to be seen", and the discipline to "resist our tendency to declare our observations fi…
Celebrities have always used their social-media accounts as confessional booths, but at some point in the past year Instagram stars began interrupting their otherwise aspirational feeds with…
