The Age Of Cultural Dopes
A cultural dope is someone like me or you, a consumer of culture or a “creative content provider” who produces, or consumes, the preexisting...
The Wages Of Information
We have established a culture that expects us to have opinions on everything, and even rewards us for unexpected and implausible ones. Those of...
This Year’s Turner Prize Finalists
Four artists—including three women and one non-binary artist of diverse age ranges, racial and cultural backgrounds—have been shortlisted for this year’s Turner Prize, Tate...
Charlotte Ballet Appoints A New Artistic Director
"The dance company announced Thursday that Alejandro Cerrudo, 41, will be its next leader. Cerrudo has worked as a dancer and choreographer for 24...
The Woman Who Would Bring Stability To LA’s MoCA
The remarkable rate of leadership churn is widely seen as having hurt MOCA’s credibility with donors, artists and the public at a time when...
She’s Turned A Little RV Into An Eight-Seat Touring Cinema
"Until fairly recently, Kerry Jones's caravan lay rotting and forgotten about in her garden in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders — a home for...
We Thought War Was Over For The Modern World. Now We Have To Rethink
Russia’s assault on Ukraine is shocking, therefore, not only for its violence, but for the fact that it reopens the question of war as...
This Spanish Artist Gave An Empty Medieval Chapel An Flamboyant Makeover — Without Asking...
After being hit by "intense inspiration," Jesús Cees has spent much of the past two years painting vivid murals on the previously blank walls...
Why Computers Will Never Think Like Us
Human consciousness, in other words, in part consists of understanding abstract and indirect meanings. And it is precisely this sort of understanding that artificial intelligence...
Outgoing Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada Abruptly Quits His Other Orchestra
Citing "insurmountable differences" with the orchestra's superintendent, Orozco-Estrada announced his immediate resignation as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony, a job he started only...
What NFTs Have To Do With Dance
The disparities between the dance and tech communities can seem pretty vast, yet the two have found an odd, contemporary synergy in NFTs: non-fungible...
Studio Space For $1 Per Square Foot — Where? And How Is It Possible
Western Avenue Studios & Lofts, a former textile mill in Lowell, Mass. (about 25 miles from Boston), was purchased last month by the Arts...
Arts And Culture Issues In The French Presidential Campaign
The subject has been largely skipped so far, though far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has said she plans to privatize the French public broadcasting...
Connecticut Man Pulls Artworks Out Of The Garbage, Finds They’re Worth Big Money
When Jared Whipple first picked up the works, which came from an abandoned barn in Watertown, he figured he could use them in a...
“Sarah, Plain and Tall” Author Patricia MacLachlan Dead At 84
"Mrs. MacLachlan wrote more than 60 children's books during her half-century career, ... (and is) known to millions of young readers (for her) novel...
Boston Symphony Cancels May European Tour As COVID Strikes Yet Again
BSO management says that 31 musicians (so far) in the orchestra and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus have recently tested positive for the virus. The...
Publishers Get Final Win In Suit Against Maryland’s Library E-Book Law
The statute required any publisher selling e-books in Maryland to make those e-books available to libraries "on reasonable terms." The American Association of Publishers...
“Cabaret” And “Life Of Pi” Sweep London’s Olivier Awards
The revival of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley won seven awards, including Best Musical Revival, Best Director, and all four acting categories...
Why America’s Teens Are Depressed
Almost every measure of mental health is getting worse, for every teenage demographic, and it’s happening all across the country. Since 2009, sadness and...
Who Gets To Tell History?
History writing is based on the faith that events, despite appearances, don’t happen higgledy-piggledy—that although individuals can act irrationally, change can be explained rationally. -...
Can The BBC Survive Its Government Overlords?
The BBC will always be stuck in the complex embrace of the British state. The corporation operates under a royal charter, which is updated...
Museums Are Using Virtual Reality To Preserve Holocaust Testimonies
For example, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, you can slip on a virtual reality headset and enter the world of survivor...
The Ancients Had A Better Way Of Removing Monuments They No Longer Honored
The ancient Romans are even more famed for the deliberate destruction of images, thanks to their habit, dubbed damnatio memoriae by modern scholars, of destroying all portraits of...
Time To Do Away With The Scientific Paper?
This system comes with big problems. Chief among them is the issue of publication bias: reviewers and editors are more likely to give a scientific...
Are You Gaslighting, Correctly?
Although in most cases the word serves to expose implicit power dynamics and level the playing field, it can also be used to do...
