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We can calculate what gravity does " whether to a cup elbowed off the edge of a table or the disk of light bent around a black hole " but we still don't have a clue what causes it. " Washing…
From one year to the next, he manipulated the Comédie-Française, selecting plays and scheduling performances on or around his birthday (which fell, conveniently, on a major Catholic feas…
A big part of the 1969 festival's legend is that no one involved had any idea how big it was going to get and how many people would show up, and the organizers were utterly unprepared. "Wood…
In the enduringly expensive world of the multi-day music jamboree " where power bills alone can reach £100,000 for a 10,000-capacity event " ticket refunds are just one problem. " The Gua…
Payal Kadakia, New Jersey-born daughter of two Indian immigrant chemists, got a degree from MIT while setting up one Indian dance group and worked a professional job at Bain & Company wh…
Linguistic decline is the cultural equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, except the wolf never turns up. Perhaps this is why, even though the idea that language is going to the dogs is wides…
"[He] dedicated a lifetime to writing and anthologizing poetry for children, amassing troves of verse" " 120 volumes by the time he died " "to help young people navigate the unknowns of life…
"Artist studios get filled up pretty quickly," he said. "And people are getting priced out." " Artsy
"The characters were laid out on sheets of paper, frozen in dramatic poses … [and] the sets [were] storybook illustrations of extravagant palaces and howling wildernesses, to be slotted in…
Roughly 100 people, most of them St. Louis Public Radio members and supporters, paid $120 to attend. They visited St. Louis Public Radio's community room in the city's downtown Grand Center …
El Corazón Nunca Se Equivoca ("The Heart Is Never Wrong"), produced and set in Mexico City, is a spinoff of the popular Mi Marido Tiene Más Familia ("My Husband Has More Family"): two …
"The New Colossus" ("Give me your tired, your poor, …") was not mainstream American sentiment when Emma Lazarus wrote it in 1883 (one year after the Immigrant Act and the Chinese Exclusion…
The person who gave that quote actually meant it. Tim Jonze talks to three professional figure models about the worst and best parts of their jobs. " The Guardian
Says one who was wounded in the 2016 shooting, "They're talking about a theme-park environment where you buy memorabilia." Of the club's owner, who runs a foundation (which pays her a six-fi…
Carolina Miranda: "If ever there were an urgent moment for the various culture industries " film studios, theater companies, art museums and TV production companies " to act on issues of div…
"The State and Cathedral Choir of Berlin, founded in 1465 by the ruler of Brandenburg, Fredrick II, promotes 'free musical education for boys.' … Since then, the choir, now part of Berlin'…
Here's a look at the some of the design features " often touted as amenities " that keep people from lingering, stretching out, or even sitting down in various public (or should that be "pub…
"It took seeing the museum's powerful survey of Bill Viola's rich, deep and deeply moving video work to fully understand what is so hollow and dispiriting about the main galleries of the col…
"Such a document tries to persuade you to believe (that it is right to do) something because many people, some of whom are authorities, believe it (is the right thing to do). It is not alway…
Despite it being a show that satirised the appropriation of disabled roles by non-disabled actors, few assumed someone with cerebral palsy might have staged it. That he did " and so well " f…
The one art form that interests Mr. Trump is the art of the deal, though the book about it published under his byline was ghostwritten by someone else. Its only reference to music is hostile…
So many of the metaphors which we use to describe art are biological in nature, from calling a work "my baby" to William S. Burroughs' contention about language's viral nature. How some peop…
"Why Leonardo abandoned this first composition still remains a mystery. Handprints resulting from patting down the priming on the panel to create an even layer of more or less uniform thickn…
"It may now seem inevitable that the world's most glamorous conductor ended up leading what may be the world's most admired orchestra, that a young Latin American hero would settle in a Lati…
His movies earned 21 Oscar nominations over his four-decade career, and he garnered one himself for Best Picture for Costa-Gavras's 1982 film Missing. But he's best remembered for breaking t…
