“The Philippines is to launch a crowd-sourcing website to seek public help in a fresh attempt to track down up to 200 missing artworks, including several masterpieces, that were last believed to be in the possession of Imelda Marcos … [who] has indignantly insisted that the works were gifts rather than acquired with stolen state funds.”
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The Secret Tantric Murals Of The Dalai Lama
“On an island in a pond behind the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet sits the Lukhang Temple, or ‘Temple to the Serpent Spirits,’ a secret meditation space created by the Dalai Lama in the 17th century. … Vibrant murals covered its walls, depicting yogis in impossible-looking poses, gurus and kings, crystals surrounded by rainbows, and the vagina that gave birth to the world.”
The Problem With African ‘Message Movies’
“Because most of these films are targeted at an international audience, which is already saddled with its own preconceptions of Africa, well-meaning message movies can ring false. Why tie the film so explicitly to a cause that ‘needs immediate attention,’ whether through the plotting or promotion, if not to profit on the outdated idea of that there is a foreign land that needs saving?”
ABT Makes A Big Move Into Southern California
“Balletomanes practically had to rub their eyes over the news this past year that ABT was permanently moving its annual Ratmansky Nutcracker from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and concurrently starting a West Coast branch of its education division, also to be housed at the Costa Mesa arts center.”
What Drives People Nuts About Waiting In Line Isn’t Really How Long They’re Waiting
“Researchers began to realize that there were subtler factors influencing people’s experience of waiting in line, including ideas of fairness, mismanaged expectations, and the strange and inaccurate way that most people perceive both time and pain.”
Eldzier Cortor Painted The African-American Social Life Of Chicago’s South Side
“With money from the W.P.A., he helped found the South Side Community Art Center in Chicago, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year.”
So It Begins: The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books Of 2015
And it’s full of literary fiction, poetry and nonfiction, with the occasional genre book tossed in.
Hollywood’s Gender Gap Is Really Unthinkable In 2015, But It’s There: Why?
“At the moment it’s easier for my daughter to go and be a brain surgeon than to direct TV. How insane is that?”
A Ballet School In Rio De Janeiro’s Favela Gives Girls A Chance
“‘For the girls here, ballet is a life experience,’ said 20-year-old instructor Tuany Nascimento, who started the ‘Na Ponta dos Pés’ project in 2012. … ‘Every plié and jump they make is a step closer to entering college, or getting their dream job.'”
The Man Who Makes ‘Hamilton’ Sound Good
“You would never expect to find a banjo in a hip-hop band, but ‘The Room Where it Happens’ just cried for it. That to me is probably my single greatest idea in the whole show, only because it’s so quirky and is so of the style of the music. It’s so Kander and Ebb-y, Dixieland, so I just sat down to orchestrate it, and I’m thinking to myself, ‘What can the guitar do?’ And literally in a flash of light, I’m like, ‘Oh my god, it could be a banjo!'”