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A look at how Leonard Bernstein's score has functioned on Broadway, in opera, through recording and, once more, in feature film.

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Thessaloniki Doc Fest Selection Explores Life Under Lockdown in Athens Nursing Home Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail During the first lockdown in the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic began spreading throughout Greece, the director of an elderly care home in the suburbs of Athens and his staff decided to seal the home from the outside world, in order to prevent the possibility of infections amongst his vulnerable residents. When he heard the news, director Chris...

Heres our list of all the good stuff happening this coming week in the Tristate area.

Katerina Gregos appointed Artistic Director of National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens Katerina Gregos is an art historian, curator, and writer. Photo: Panos Kokkinias. ATHENS .- The Greek-born internationally recognized curator, art historian and educator will take up her post as Artistic Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, on July 1st this year, marking a new era for the museum. Also on Artdaily EMST, which was founded twenty years ago, reopens its doors today May 1...

Susan Crossett Arbor Day — today here though already celebrated last Sunday in Australia and New Zealand — seems like the perfect time to talk about trees. That’s one thing we can probably always enjoy in common. When I lived in Warren I had a normal-sized house on a normal-sized lot (except the lot dipped way down in back). Though being as intrigued with trees back then, I tried to count all those in my backyard (I don’t remember there being any out front). I confess I always gave up �...

Introduce Your Kids to These 8 Powerful Women No One Learns About in History Class SheKnows 3/9/2021 © AP. History contains so many stories, and so many people who alter the course of the world. But so many of those world-altering acts don’t make it into history books at all, especially when the people behind them are not male and not white. Sometimes that’s on purpose, but sometimes, parents and educators just need a bit of help to ensure that our history is more well-rounded. This Wom...

The Cathedral of Art (1942–1944, unfinished). Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four monumental paintings devoted to New York’s cultural, social, and economic temples. Identical in scale, each painting measures five feet tall by just over four feet wide.  The series, which includes  The Cathedrals of F...

LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/t-magazine/latoya-ruby-frazier-photography.html LaToya Ruby Frazier, American Witness A marriage of art and activism, the artist’s searing photographs reveal the human toll of economic injustice. LaToya Ruby Frazier in her Chicago studio, photographed on Dec. 28, 2020.Credit...Naima Green By Zoë Lescaze Published March 1, 2021Updated March 4, 2021 WHEN GENERAL MOTORS announced plans to slash its domestic work force in 2...

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