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Back in 2009, the NFL itself was wondering about that very question. So they asked Ben Zimmer, America's most famous lexicographer, to look into it. Turns out that "hut" in particular is ver…
There are the endless literary takes. There are Anthony Horowitz's sequels, or Andrew Lane's tales of a teenage Holmes. Star basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written novels about Ho…
Booksellers often distrusted Voltaire, because by modifying his texts and multiplying the editions, he alienated their customers. No one wanted to pay good money for a slightly new version o…
The documentary will feature interviews alongside select footage of Tharp's more than 160 choreographed works, "including 129 dances, 12 television specials, six major Hollywood movies, four…
In September the EU launched "an ambitious and historic initiative to fund innovative scientific and artistic endeavours to abate climate change and allow Europe to meet its goal of zero net…
The actor went through a particularly fertile creative period in his golden years, receiving his first Academy Award at the age 82 for his heart-warming supporting turn as a widower who embr…
Linda-Denise Fisher-Harrell dropped out of Juilliard at age 19 to join the company, where she danced for three years before moving on to 13 years with Ailey. After retiring from the stage in…
Two different studies " one by the Louvre, the other by an independent art historian and her AI researcher husband " find that the Christ figure's hand raised in blessing was added to the ot…
"'My hunch is that, for some women, having me present means they have to examine their past experiences on set without an intimacy coordinator,' said Mia Schachter, intimacy coordinator on A…
Performances for kids in schools are the only ones allowed under current COVID restrictions, so puppet shows are the only live theatre happening in France now. "The situation for French pupp…
Britain's relief package for businesses closed by COVID provides 80% of a furloughed employee's salary, even if that salary is only minimum wage. Workers at the country's most popular bookst…
"The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles was privately warned in 2002 that a Gauguin sculpture it had just bought for around $4m was a fake. A few months later the museum sent a researcher f…
When PostClassical Ensemble undertook our world premiere recording of the 1944 radio play Whitman, we did so believing that Bernard Herrmann's Whitman setting is a singular addition to the r…
At this point I would implore arts organizations not to return to pre-pandemic practices with nothing more than modest tweaks. This is a time for serious reconfiguring. So let me suggest thr…
In today's Wall Street Journal, I review regional webcasts of Doubt and The Niceties. Here's an excerpt.
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Some plays are so obviously well-suited to socially distanced web…
Meryl Streep and Viola Davis in a scene from the film version of John Patrick Shanley's Doubt: A Parable, directed by the author:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-relate…
"I think there is in the heroic courage with which man confronts the irrationality of the world a beauty greater than the beauty of art."
Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook
Continue re…
Named The Helix, the glass spiral tower will be part of a complex of three office buildings that will make up Amazon HQ2. " Dezeen
On Tuesday, Serebrennikov hosted an event at the Gogol Center " which he has directed since its opening in 2012 and which has become one of the Russian capital's hottest theaters " revealing…
The 42″-by'28" bas-relief of a golden eagle, carved from a reddish volcanic rock called tezontle, was found by archaeologists at the Templo Mayor, the Aztecs' main religious site in wh…
Gregg Whiteside, who for 17 years hosted weekday morning programming and the Philadelphia Orchestra concert broadcasts at WRTI, abruptly disappeared from the air last month, with only a brie…
"[The prestigious journal] has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition dedicated to incarcerated poets, telling critics that '…
The collection of ornate medieval reliquaries is now held by Berlin's state museums; the American heirs of German Jewish art dealers, claiming that the objects were sold to the state under d…
"Two Polish historians are facing a libel trial over a book examining Poles' behaviour during the Second World War, a case whose outcome is expected to determine the future of independent Ho…
The short answer is that it couldn't work the way it did in the 1930s: the legal and theatrical landscape then was too different. (For a start, there was no such thing as not-for-profit thea…
