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What can we know about ancient dance? Why did European avant-garde artists look to antiquity at the beginning of the twentieth century? With an array of ancient representations of dance, Hymn to Apollo: The Ancient World and the Ballet Russes explores both the role of dance in ancient culture and the influence of antiquity on the...

The New-York Historical Society is building its first-ever accessible archive of electronic material in all formats with a new, $1,000,000 award from the Leon Levy Foundation.  Taking place over the course of five years, this project will both document the last three decades of the New-York Historical’s history, and implement best practices for digital archiving—a new...

The annual Leon Levy Foundation Archives Roundtable once again brought together New York's top Archivists to discuss the latest trends and best practices of archiving, as well as the future of preserving ever-increasing digital information.  Since 2005, the Leon Levy Foundation has awarded about $22 million to more than 40 arts and humanities organizations to help...

NBC Today - During the last century, ancient pieces of parchment were found in the Dead Sea that turned out to be biblical texts. NBC’s Keir Simmons finds out how researchers are still discovering them using modern technology that’s essentially writing history.

Move over, range maps. A new series of dynamic bird maps from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology reveals unprecedented details not only about where the birds are, but how their numbers and habitats change through the seasons and years.

The New York Times - A new civic-education project in a Manhattan federal courthouse gives teenagers a positive experience with the law. 18 students from John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens were the first to test-drive Justice For All: Courts and the Community, a the new center which...

The New York Times - “Devotion and Decadence: The Berthouville Treasure and Roman Luxury From the Bibliothèque Nationale de France" at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World displaying the remarkable "Berthouville Treasure" acquired by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, providing a respite from carols and crowds.

The Wall Street Journal - The ancients knew about amassing treasure. How they did it, their stories and secrets—the historical revelations—are part of the bounty they leave us down the ages. All of the above holds true for the rather wondrous current show at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the...

The New York Times - Has a politician who wrote 18 books, who cut a conspicuous figure at 6-foot-5 in a bow tie and who was known for his colorful phrasemaking left too small an impression on the American popular imagination? That’s one takeaway from “Moynihan,” a conventional but entertaining rundown...