Monthly Archives: May 2024
Universities’ Free Speech Crisis Is A Problem Of Their Own Making
The challenge universities are confronting is not just the law but also their own rhetoric. Many universities at the center of the ongoing police...
Why It’s Impossible To Get Restaurant Reservations In New York City
In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore... Reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of...
A Week With A Youth Orchestra And Gustavo Dudamel
The superstar conductor, currently of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soon to be of the New York one, spent spring break week with a...
The Complications Of Collecting Rare Books
A book’s demand, condition, publishing history, whether it is signed or inscribed, and even the timing of when a book enters the market are...
The Resurrection Of “Death, Sex And Money”
Last year WNYC cancelled the popular podcast and laid off its staff, which actually planned out a sort of funeral. But Slate picked up...
Someone Is Stealing Rare Editions Of Pushkin From Libraries And Replacing Them With Copies
"Since 2022, more than 170 books valued at more than $2.6 million ... have vanished from (national and university libraries across Europe). The books...
Biden Cancels Billions In Student Debt To Bankrupt Art Institute Chain
"President Joe Biden has cancelled $6.1 billion in loans taken out by students at the Art Institutes, the network of for-profit colleges that shuttered...
EU Court Approves Italy’s Attempt To Seize Looted Greek Statue From Getty Museum
"'Victorious Youth,' a life-sized bronze dating from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., … was pulled from the sea in 1964 by Italian fishermen and...
Texas School Superintendent Who Tried To Cancel Production Of “Oklahoma!” Is Ousted
The Sherman, Texas school board finalized a separation agreement with former superintendent Tyson Bennett, who had forbidden a high school production of Oklahoma! that...
House Republicans Launch Investigation Of NPR For Alleged Political Bias
"Funding of public radio has long had critics in conservative circles, but the recent controversy involving allegations of political bias at NPR is giving...
New York Philharmonic Musicians Suspended Over Sexual Assault Allegations Sue Orchestra And Union
"The orchestra’s associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang, are each suing the Philharmonic and the musicians’ union Local 802...
LA Philharmonic Taps Dallas Symphony CEO As Its New Leader
Kim Noltemy’s appointment comes at a pivotal time for the L.A. Phil, which must find someone to take the reins as the organization’s music...
Has Taylor Swift Transcended Critics?
There has long been a disconnect between how music critics and Swifties consume Taylor Swift’s work, but never before has that split been so...
Rather Than Something To Be Avoided, Anxiety Helps Focus Our Creativity
Even if we are fated to anxiety by our very nature, we needn’t be anxious about being anxious. Contra those who would abolish every...
What Matters In The Age Of Distraction
For years, we have heard a litany of reasons why our capacity to pay attention is disturbingly on the wane. Technology hounds us. Modern...
What Does The Rise Of AI Writing Suggest About Human Creativity?
If a computer can write like a person, what does that say about the nature of our own creativity? What, if anything, sets us...
Astonishing Ancient Construction Found In France
Researchers from the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (INRAP) unearthed the monument while excavating a prehistoric site in the eastern commune of Marliens. - Smithsonian
Art Gallery Of Ontario Strike Revealed A Class Divide
If the union made scant material progress, the strike looks mainly like a huge strategic error on the AGO’s part. -- The Globe & Mail
So What’s The Deal With Actors’ Superstition About Saying “Macbeth” Inside A Theater?
Well, turns out there's a history of very bad things happening during productions of "the Scottish play" going all the way back to Shakespeare's...
How Daniel Radcliffe Got Past Harry Potter
When he’d auditioned for a British TV adaptation of David Copperfield, it was less out of great hope or ambition than because he’d been having...
Why Cathy Marston Turned Ian McEwan’s Novel “Atonement” Into Ballet
"Briony’s idea of being able to rewrite someone’s life for the better is, for any sensible brain, a ridiculous notion. Yet there's scientific evidence...
What Scientists Are Telling Us About Our Relationship With Music
More and more, science is allowing us to understand our attraction to music and what it does for us — and consequently, what makes...
With “Illinoise”, Justin Peck Has Expanded The Idea Of What A Broadway Musical Can...
"The 37-year old’s directorial debut is the result of a three-force collaboration: the dance is by Peck himself to Stevens’s introspective coming-of-age album with...
Australian Arts Organizations Struggle With Inflation In Costs
Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising...
Puccini The Modernist?
"Puccini is typically seen as representing the end of a tradition, but might he actually have sown the seeds of a variety of new...
