Twitter Sues Indian Government Over Orders To Remove Tweets
"Twitter's suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, challenges a recent order from the Indian government for the company to remove content...
It Took War For North Americans To Learn About Ukrainian Music
There has been little known in the West about Ukrainian composers until recently, especially in Canada and the U.S., according to experts. “North Americans...
CBC News Is Launching A New Streaming Service. But Aren’t They Providing Us Enough...
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel"...
Japan Is Conflicted About Resuming Tourism
Japan's opening up to mass tourism over the last decade brought an economic boost — a record 32 million tourists visited in 2019 and...
Pay Equity Is Great, But Can Theater In America Afford It Without Shrinking?
Jesse Green surveys the unpaid and underpaid work that has always been part of making theater in the US, especially early in a career...
Why We Need To Cultivate Toleration
Toleration involves putting up with something that you would rather not be the case. This doesn’t have to involve moral disapproval: perhaps you just...
Sounds Like They’ve Finally Fixed The Acoustics At The Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall
Ever since the landmark building opened in 1973, its Concert Hall's acoustics have been notoriously bad — and resistant to improvement. Now, a 2½-year,...
A Second Staff Rebellion In Two Years At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater
This round of upheaval, sparked by the unexplained placing of the artistic director "on leave," has seen the last candidate for executive director withdraw,...
Whistleblower Group Calls For Detroit Institute Of Arts To Lose Accreditation
The founder of the organization Whistleblower Aid says that the museum has "broken IRS rules, Michigan state laws; they've broken their employment policies, their...
Librarians Get Trapped, And Even Targeted, In The Culture Wars
"Accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities, (they) have found themselves … labeled pedophiles on social media, called out by...
US Museum Attendance Hits A Post-Pandemic Plateau
"Recent data collected by Artnet from more than a dozen museums around the country suggests that attendance recovery has slowed, with some cultural institutions...
Over 1,500 Edinburgh Fringe Participants Demand Reform
"Hundreds of artists, performers, venues and promoters say it is becoming 'increasingly difficult' to justify the expense of taking part in the event, which...
In Response To Highland Park Shooting, Ravinia Festival Cancels This Week’s Concerts
The festival campus is just a couple of miles away from the site of the murders at Monday's Fourth of July parade. - MSN...
Bumping Up On The Limits Of Wellness Culture
Experimental psychology and data science would be used to develop clearer (and sometimes counterintuitive) recommendations for improving users’ lives. Bestselling books were written in...
UK Schools Delete Irish Writers In Bid To Diversify Curriculum
Irish writers have been dropped from the exam curriculum in British schools in favour of writers from more diverse backgrounds. Poets Seamus Heaney and...
How The Pyramid-Builders Lived
The portrait these documents convey is of resourceful workers who roamed from the country’s sacred core to some of its most remote precincts gathering...
How Social Media Platforms Decide Which Ideas Are Allowed
Platforms often claim that they are not in the business of creating the content that appears on their platforms, and that’s usually true. But it doesn’t...
The Remarkable Turnaround Of The Atlanta Symphony
The ASO has announced a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with its musicians, and its eighth consecutive year with a balanced budget. The orchestra...
The Peril Of Being Surrounded By Admirers
Admirers agree with you “even if you say something totally crazy.” And that’s bad: “You need people who can tell you what you don’t...
The “Insignificant” Details That Bring Historical Writing Alive
As a writer, the key is not so much assembling reams and reams of material, but finding the details that make a period or...
As AI Software Learns To Write Prose, Create Art, And Make Conversation, We Might...
"Current AI systems hold up a mirror to our online minds. Like Narcissus, we can get lost gazing at the reflection, even though it...
How Design Can Cause People Not To Use Public Space
In cities around the globe – from Algiers, Auckland and Chicago to Hanoi, Mexico City and Seoul – research shows that transforming public spaces markedly affects the diversity of what...
Harold Rosenberg Was A Towering Critic. How Did He Disappear?
One of Rosenberg’s most celebrated essays skewered those whom he dubbed “The Herd of Independent Minds”: scholars and critics who roundly dumped on an...
Ridley Scott Called These Studios “The Finest Facilities In The World”. The EU Shut...
"One of Spain's most notorious and costly white elephants, the Ciudad de la Luz (City of Light) film studios in Alicante, is to get...
The Young Conductor Who Replaced Muti On A Moment’s Notice And Wowed The Chicago...
“I wasn’t expecting it, but somehow, I took more notes than usual on the Brahms that day,” she says. - Chicago Tribune
