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The artifacts were on loan to a Dutch museum when Russia invaded in 2014. Ukraine argued that they must be kept out of the aggressor’s hands.

A new “Pal Joey” at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.

Source: Joey Evans Is Back. This Time He’s a Struggling Artist

The Spanish police seized gold pieces believed to be Greco-Scythian artifacts, dating back centuries, and arrested the people selling them. But archaeologists are not so sure of their value.

Source: Ukrainian ‘Artifacts’ Seized in Spain May Not Be Treasures, Experts Say

Vault’s Solana NFT music platform is spinning up a fantasy sports-like experience around emerging artists. Can it push them to prominence?

Source: Can a FanDuel Co-Founder's 'Fantasy Music' Game Help Discover the Next Taylor Swift?

Jeanette Winterson at The New Statesman:

Invisible Cities is built like a Boolean Truth Table. The mathematical table shows all possible combinations of inputs, and for each combination the output that the circuit will produce. It’s a logic operation. The categories we find in Invisible Cities – Hidden Cities, Cities and Desire, Cities and Memory, Thin Cities, Dead Cities, and so on – aren’t random. Once chosen, these “inputs” will reveal their “outputs”. Think of a Truth Table as including a column for each variable in the expression and a row for each possible combination of truth values (or cities in our case). Then add a column that shows the outcome of each set of values. That’s the dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan.

The mapping out of possible truth values is the hot debate sparred back and forth across the space the two men occupy whenever they meet. At first, Polo’s space is offered as places he has seen and been. Gradually, the emperor begins to describe the cities, and Polo must tell him if they are real – moving carefully around what the word “real” means.

more here.

Source: Italo Calvino’s Imaginary Worlds

Luke Korem’s documentary retraces the manufactured pop duo’s rise and fall, while asking pertinent questions about the price of stardom.

Source: ‘Milli Vanilli’ Review: Blame It on the Fame

Every October, hundreds of revelers in witch costumes float on lakes and bays, ponds and harbors. Instead of brooms, they opt for paddle boards.

Source: Paddle Boarders in Witch Costumes Welcome Halloween

Candid memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos reveal how lucky breaks — and Yale training, and a curling iron — made them into household names.

Source: New Memoirs by Henry Winkler and John Stamos

Air Conditioning Appliances - GaoMon The Bazaar, the latest New York restaurant from the chef and humanitarian, tends to foreground spectacle over satiety.

Source: José Andrés Puts On a Show

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Source: Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of October 22