"Showy individualism is typically rejected in favor of tradition. Almost every dancer studies at the Paris Opera Ballet School, leading to consistent training that must be maintained throughout a...
New discoveries in German caves say early modern humans - that is, those around between 40,000 and 45,000 years ago - played the flutes and perhaps sang around their campfires at night. Discovery 05/...
Malcolm Sinclair: "The almost lethal combination of the economic crisis, our industrys globalisation, rapid developments in new media and the consequent shrinkage of earnings and opportunities fo...
"The terrifying thing is not just how much art was lost in this earthquake. No - the scary thing is that world culture got off lightly. The epicentre of the quake is close to so many irreplaceabl...
During NATO protests, who could see Chicagos art? Very, very few. Downtown sculptures got boarded up and guarded, and "the directors of the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Institute and the F...
Poetry and nonfiction sales climb after the prizes; each of the three finalists in fiction sees a hefty bump in sales as well. Publishers Weekly 05/25/12
"Heres why its so important for ensembles to make sure they keep living composers apprised of performances of their own works: performances are as much the bread and butter of a composers career ...
At least, thats the way it is in Estonia, where a candy bar popularized during the world cocoa shortage of 1976 has made a stunning return from the dustpan of history. "For seniors, it represents...
On Facebook, of course - with a few LOLs. Los Angeles Times 05/24/12
"Michigan Opera Theatre officials are breathing easier after the bank consortium that holds its $18-million debt agreed to shift its deadline for payment from May 31 to June 30." Now they hav...
Morrisons new book, Home, treats what she thinks of as the real era: "I think we have erased the truth about the 50s, which was the Korean War -- which was never called a war, we called it a poli...
The BBC lets the secret Wales connections out - including a telling detail about the Church of Jediism. BBC 05/25/12
This year, sort of: "Overall, women were responsible for 32 percent of the pilots produced in 2012. According to Swanson, this is a decrease of three percent from the highs of 2011, but represent...
During the Delacortes 50-year history, millions of people - and more than a few wild animals - have watched Shakespeare and other classics in Central Park. Liev Schreiber: "I used to think we wer...
Ashleigh Wilson, on Douglas Day Stewarts attack on The Australians critic for panning his musical An Officer and a Gentleman: "And some say theatre critics no longer have the power to provoke....
James Millar: "Suck it up, buddy. She just didnt like it." The Australian 05/25/12
"During the Ben Ali era, Tunisian customs services prevented the importation of books that could harm the governments reputation. These books were confiscated at the airport ... Now, this form of...
"Over the past half-century, pop hits have become longer, slower and sadder, and they increasingly convey mixed emotional cues, according to a study just published in the journal Psychology of Ae...
"Jennifer Egans last book, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. There is no Pulitzer yet for fiction published on Twitter, but thats where shes taking a couple of her ...
"Almost a year ago, after years of negotiations, Dia bought the former Alcamo Marble building at 541 West 22nd Street in Chelsea for $11.5 million. The purchase was a coup for Dia because that bu...
The 27-year-old Muscovite, who has been a principal at the Berlin State Ballet for the past decade and first danced with ABT as a guest only last year, will become a full-time principal with the comp...
"Glenn Dicterow, the longest-serving concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic, has decided to step down ... following the 2013-14 season, after 34 years, and will become a professor of strings ...
"In its 54 years in operation, [UMP] has published approximately 2,000 titles ... on the topics of American and world history; intellectual history; biography; journalism; African American studie...
Despite the show trial he underwent in 1964, "inwardly Brodsky resented and rejected his identification as a dissident, and fought it for the rest of his life - not because he disliked or disappr...
Terry Teachout: "Mr. Fischer-Dieskau was also one of the most controversial artists of his age, or any other. For every vocal connoisseur who praised him to the skies, another dismissed his singi...
"Sudden, unannounced memories might help people make connections between disparate ideas more quickly - but they might also be the building blocks of hallucinations." Scientific American 05/2...
"The frenetic, high-drama preview promises sweeping shots of Jay Gatsbys West Egg soirées, immaculate set design, and period-perfect costumes - but also what appears to be a hyper-stylized...
"Z is a nice letter, and I am glad it is not Y, I do not care for Y, why, well there is the reason why, I do not care for Y, but Z is a nice letter. I like Z because it is not real it just is not...
"The director of a China-based art shipping company that had two employees detained by Chinese customs officials at the end of March says he is concerned for their health and has not heard from t...
"Picture what Pixar and DreamWorks are doing, but on a fraction of the budget, using a scrappy team and a startup mentality, and a decidedly Latin American flavor." And soccer, of course. Gig...
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