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"The anti-slam was created by British performance artist Paula Varjack, inspired by poet Jamie DeWolf's self-reflexive and satirical performance piece, The Worst Poem Ever. In DeWolf, Varjac…
What '60s science fiction did do was establish one of the wildest, widest, most stylistically and conceptually various commercial spaces for writing (and reading) fiction in the history of f…
"This episode [of Jad Abumrad's Dolly Parton's America podcast] delves into the controversy surrounding Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly known as 'Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede') " a dinner…
"We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world's population for the first time. It was 60 per…
Okay, Lois Smith is only 89 " and she's currently on Broadway in The Inheritance. Estelle Parsons, 92, is at the Public in Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day. Vinie Burrows is 95 and be…
"As a transgression, plagiarism comes with a fully operational stigma attached. Not so with self-plagiarism. It can be forbidden but without the benefit of shame as a reinforcement. I did fi…
Just about anyone who knows a bit of ballet history has heard of Marius Petipa, the man behind Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker. Yet not many people know just how he came to en…
"Hollywood started as a green industry and then became brown. Everything was used repeatedly; nothing went into storage. Then when studios began to decline, they got rid of everything, sold …
"The Czech State Opera hoisted an ornate curtain on Thursday as a three-year project to restore the 19th-century opera building to its original glory neared completion ahead of a planned reo…
"Researchers from University College London (UCL) found that people who engaged in the arts more frequently " every few months or more " had a 31% lower risk of dying early when compared to …
"Archivist Anna Rimel came upon the four pieces, executed in watercolor, ink, pastel, and tempera paint, in a manila envelope while sifting through the [Smithsonian American Art Museum's] Jo…
In today's Wall Street Journal I review the off-Broadway premiere of Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Stephen Adly Guirgis' new play. Here's an excerpt. *Â Â *Â Â * Stephen Adl…
Shirley Temple is interviewed by Michael Parkinson on Parkinson. This episode was originally telecast by the BBC on July 22, 1972: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-rel…
"When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are t…
Like many of us today, the Soviet leaders misunderstood what humour is and what it actually does for people. Telling a joke about something is not the same as either condemning or endorsing …
Good listening is not a matter of technique but of having the willingness to enter into another person's life. Many bad listeners can't be there for someone else because they are too locked …
"In the more than 50 years since its debut, the animated special, directed by Chuck Jones and Ben Washam, has become a holiday classic and turned into a live-action movie, a Broadway musical…
There was a cultural difference between pre-boomer collectors, motivated by "connoisseurship and aesthetic appreciation," and subsequent generations, who had "more of an awareness of the fin…
The country's first parliamentary inquiry into its arts funding system concluded the Government should aim to commit at least 1% of its £425bn national budget towards culture. "Public fun…
A US Department of Agriculture spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test. The department's online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list o…
"To survive, opera has to confront the depth of its racism and sexism point-blank, treating classic operas as historical artifacts instead of dynamic cultural productions. Opera directors sh…
John Foxwell's research found that 69 percent of authors hear voices of their characters, and 42 percent can enter into dialogue with them. Sixty-five percent say they can act on their ow…
Ty Bur: "You've heard of the "uncanny valley" effect? The eeriness or revulsion felt when looking at a humanoid figure that's not quite human? The digital era has given us many examples of t…
We shouldn't be surprised that Rieu is a box office sensation. In an era when, we are told, nobody sells DVDs and CDs anymore, Rieu has sold more than 40 million of them. Last year, the Dutc…
Viengsay Valdés: "I will always defend classical technique as the artistic base for a good dancer, and from there one can grow into other types of choreography. What we must do is enrich wh…
