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And the results are almost in; the museum reopens on Monday, with much pomp, a lot of new paint, and a ton of QR codes. " BBC
Euzhan Palcy's A Dry White Season earned Marlon Brando an Oscar nomination, but that didn't impress Hollywood executives, she says. When she pitched other films with black leads, "'They were…
The Yorkshire greeting card company said it wasn't trying to own his work, but "Banksy claimed he had been forced to open a shop in Croydon, south London, this week, as a result of the dispu…
There's a lot of glitz going on in the college library funding race. A media room! A media room with a green screen! No, a Maker Space! And " perhaps the best idea of them all " a library es…
Is this the most discouraging development ever, or is it just a sign of how many writers are forgotten as the relentless pressure of the new takes hold? Nancy Hale holds the record for the m…
Long before tourists came to Dijon in search of mustard ("Dijon" mustard actually comes from Canada, but never mind), pilgrims were heading to the area temple to buy mass-produced icons of a…
Carroll was the first Black woman to star in a non-servant role in a TV series in the U.S. "NBC executives were wary about putting Julia on the network during the racial unrest of the 1960s,…
The last time The Beatles' Abbey Road was #1 on the charts, a U.S. president was laying the groundwork for his later impeachment, and Harold Wilson was Prime Minister of the UK. This return …
If you're tired of other people's "Month of Gratitude" posts on Facebook, sorry to tell you this, but that's the secret " gratitude. Wildly, if you want to save for retirement or something, …
Though many in France said Koons' sculpture "donation" " more on that in a minute " was "opportunistic and cynical," the artist said "he hoped his tulips would become part of the local lands…
Jane Campbell, who died in March at 87, served as the managing director of Honolulu Theatre for Youth for more than four decades. "At a time when theatre for children was seeking a place at …
The National Theatre joins the Royal Shakespeare Company, which had been deliberating for quite some time before ending its longtime "relationship" with BP (formerly British Petroleum). Pres…
And for the big sequel, Before Sunset, Delpy got half of her co-star's salary. For the third movie in the trilogy, Before Midnight? She refused to do it without equal pay. " Variety
Argentine feminists are fed up with the patriarchal, rigid roles of traditional tango, and they've published a new protocol that breaks old rules " and reinforces new ones. "The protocol pro…
People love museum selfies, and here's the logical conclusion of that love: A museum designed expressly for uploading cute artsy self-portraits to Instagram. The museum in Vienna "joins a nu…
The French architect also designed the Olympic Pool and the vélodrome for the Olympics, a building that has become the Montréal Biodôme. The stadium was controversial at the time, and h…
Giordani sang hundreds of performances at the Met and, at a relatively young age, stepped back from the spotlight and began to mentor younger singers. He was the son of a prison guard who ow…
There's a sliver of space where audience members can start to consider societal change. "I keep coming back to the idea that, as theatremakers, our greatest weapon in the fight against clima…
Silicon Valley (and all of the tech people who inhabit it and its environs, on- and offline) doesn't have a political point of view, really. It's not conservative nor liberal. It's only alwa…
Bernheimer, who was the music critic for the LA Times for more than 30 years, "was renowned internationally for the strong opinions he voiced in his reviews combined with a singular wit and …
Whoa. For the new movie Abominable, Asian American and other actors of Asian descent play the Chinese cartoon characters. This, says a critic, is "an occurrence as rare as a solar eclipse.Â…
Mary Wilson says that those who weren't there don't quite understand that Motown "really was like walking into a Disneyland. All these creative people. People say: 'Motown, it was this big b…
It's been literally half a century since the show began trying to teach little kids not only the alphabet song but also how the alphabet corresponds with letters in their lives. Now Sesame S…
Seriously, how has It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which started its life during the George W. Bush administration, survived? "The show strips away innocence for every character that gets…
In this video, "the museum is using high-tech methods to carry out a forensic examination of exactly how Rembrandt painted the picture." What's the most 21st century thing about the research…
