Why Is Russia Looting Ukraine’s Museums? It’s Not Just Greed
"These latest thefts are in keeping with Putin's attempts to erase Ukraine's independent history and promote his own expansionist model of a new Russian...
Only At Disney World Could Live-Action Role-Playing Become This Elaborate
"For more than a decade, Imagineers — Disney designers and researchers — have been looking into LARPs and interactive theatre, and running 'playtests' in...
Kevin Spacey Charged With Four Counts Of Sexual Assault In The UK
"British prosecutors said Thursday they had authorized police to charge actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men, an announcement...
Former Director Of The Louvre Is Officially Indicted For Complicity In Fraud And Money...
The charges against Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down last year, concern five antiquities allegedly taken illegally from Egypt and sold to the Louvre Abu...
For The First Time, An Indian Novel Wins The International Booker Prize
The £50,000 prize for Tomb of Sand will be split equally between author Geetanjali Shree and translator Daisy Rockwell. - BBC
Actor Ray Liotta Dead At 67
Best known for Something Wild, Field of Dreams, and Goodfellas, "in a decades-long, genre-spanning career, Liotta played criminals, cops, a baseball star, a preacher...
Denmark Imposes Tax On Streamers To Support Local Programming
Lawmakers in Denmark have agreed global TV streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, and Disney, must pay a levy of 6% of their revenue...
Meet Glimmerglass’s New Director
Robert Ainsley succeeds Francesca Zambello, who led Glimmerglass, a summer festival of opera and theater, for more than a decade. In an interview, Ainsley...
New Technology Makes Lost Cities Of The Amazon Visible From The Air
Perched in a helicopter some 650 feet up, scientists used light-based remote sensing technology (lidar) to digitally deforest the canopy and identify the ancient...
Do The Words We Use Really Change The Way We Think?
John McWhorter: For example, the pathway from “crippled” to “handicapped” to “disabled” to “differently abled.” New words ultimately don’t leave freighted ideas behind; they...
Of Funding, Arts, And Innovation
Pre-COVID, Boston’s arts organizations had a pragmatic approach—they prioritized ticket sales over experimentation. As a result, Boston’s arts sector produces fewer new works than...
Melding Indigenous Music With Avant Garde Experimenting
The record is an unusual proposition: A rare fusion of pow wow—an Indigenous culture of music and dance—and experimental electronic production. Holding it all...
Even Sleeping Sickness Can Be The Subject of An Opera
Composer Tobias Picker and librettist Dr. Aryeh Lev Stollman have written Awakenings, based on the late neurologist Oliver Sacks's memoir/case study about treating encephalitis...
Casualty Of War: Russian Artists, Scientists, Creatives, Are Leaving
How low has Putin driven Russian culture? Here are two indications. Thousands of scientists and other intellectuals along with hundreds of ballet dancers and other...
Inigo Philbrick — The Rise And Ruin Of A Talented And Charismatic Art Dealer
He had knowledge, taste, charm; two high-profile galleries; a beautiful partner and baby daughter. Now he's in prison for fraud, internationally reviled, and owes...
Brilliant Scientific Breakthroughs Are The Product Of Their Context And Culture
The scientific revolutions of the last four centuries took place not just at the same time as political and religious conflict, invasion and enslavement,...
Here’s The Guy Who Oversees All Of Netflix’s Standup Comedy Shows
Robbie Praw, who spent 12 years as programmer at Just for Laughs in Montreal before joining Netflix in 2016, talks about how he chooses...
Basquiat Was A Subversive Artist. Now He’s Just A Brand
Sanitized and caricatured by corporate marketing schemes, Basquiat’s work has been defanged. Today, Basquiat the artist has become Basquiat the brand. - Jacobin
A New Festival To Showcase A Midcareer Playwright New York Ought To See More...
Volt, an annual project whose first featured writer is Karen Hartman, is meant to spotlight, as founder Val Day put it, "somebody who (is)...
It Appears That Chimpanzees Have Their Own Language, Complete With Words And Simple Sentences
Researchers have found that a troop of 46 chimps in the Ivory Coast has 390 unique vocal sequences that they use among themselves. They...
The Art, And The Power, Of Volodymyr Zelensky’s War Videos
"They serve as field reporting, pleas for weapons, arias that glorify Ukraine. But the videos have done more than win Ukraine moral and military...
After 27 Years, The Opera About Harvey Milk Has Been Completely Reworked
Composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie have removed 70 minutes, and many cameo roles, from Milk, and made arrangements for orchestras of 66...
“We Need A National Memorial To Gun Violence, Now.”
"It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. ... After every mass...
Ex-Director And Curators At The Louvre Detained For Questioning In Antiquities Trafficking Case
Jean-Luc Martinez, who stepped down as director last year when his contract wasn't renewed, as well as the head of the museum's Egyptian art...
Bèlè, Martinique’s Very Own Dance Of Emancipation
An Afro-Caribbean repertoire of quadrille square dances (accompanied by drumming and singing) that combines a complicated vocabulary of symbolic movements with improvisation, bèlè is...
