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When the creek does rise, can music survive?

Saturday, November 12, 2022

How does a scene survive when disaster strikes its venues, music schools, rare instruments and priceless archives all at once? The musicians of flood-ravaged eastern Kentucky have a few answers.

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New Louisville museum exhibition highlights Helen LaFrance's 'memory paintings'

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Helen LaFrance was best known for her "memory paintings" depicting Black life in rural Kentucky. Now there are hopes her work will receive wider recognition with a retrospective in Louisville.

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Outdoor theaters have to compete with a lot of noise — including low-flying planes

Saturday, July 23, 2022

An outdoor Shakespearean theater in Louisville, Kentucky, needs to work around airplane noise. An expert says people also had to work around a lot of noise in Shakespeare's time.

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Outdoor theaters have to compete with a lot of noise including low-flying planes

Thursday, July 21, 2022

An outdoor Shakespearean theater in Louisville, Ky., needs to work around airplane noise. An expert says people also had to work around a lot of noise in Shakespeare's time.

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'Filled With Her Spirit,' A Louisville Art Exhibition Honors Breonna Taylor

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Just over a year after police officers shot and killed Taylor in her home, the Speed Art Museum has opened a show in her memory. "To see it all come together is just a blessing," says Taylor's mother.

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Katherine Jackson French's Ballad Collection Published 110 Years Later

Tuesday, January 05, 2021

Katherine Jackson French traveled the Kentucky mountains in the early 1900s searching for traditional ballads that were disappearing. Her work was never published — until now.

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2 Officers Shot After Charges In Breonna Taylor Case Spark Protests

Thursday, September 24, 2020

In Kentucky, two police officers in Louisville were shot during protests Wednesday night in reaction to the charges filed earlier in the day in the Breonna Taylor shooting.

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The 2020 Kentucky Derby 'Unlike Any Other'

Saturday, September 05, 2020

The Kentucky Derby was delayed because of the pandemic, now demands are being made that Churchill Downs use this moment to make lasting changes and to take a stand against racial injustice.

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Amid Protests For Racial Justice, Activists Ask Kentucky Derby To Take A Stand

Saturday, September 05, 2020

This Kentucky Derby day was delayed because of the pandemic, now demands are being made that Churchill Downs use this moment to make lasting changes and to take a stand against racial injustice.

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Louisville Ballet Dancers Return To Work For A Season Like None Other

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

For the audience, Louisville Ballet's 2020-2021 season will be entirely virtual. But the dancers have already started rehearsing in person — with masks, and lots of new safety protocols.

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'Somebody Knew Them': New Monument Will Honor '(Un)Known' Enslaved People

Saturday, August 01, 2020

As monuments come down around the U.S., a group in Louisville, Ky., is putting one up. An artist-run nonprofit is planning a memorial dedicated to Black people whose names have been lost to history.

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How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully

Sunday, January 05, 2020

Some 120 paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet are on display at the Denver Art Museum. They're on loan from all over the world — and getting them from place to place is a lot of work.

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Dancer Preserves The Work Of Black Choreographers, In One Video At A Time

Sunday, July 08, 2018

When she was in her 20s, dancer Gesel Mason started emailing choreographers she admired, asking them to create a solo for her. To her surprise, many of them said yes.

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