What Reality TV Shows Us About How Very Limited People Are About Motherhood
We've got an issue with mothers, and let's note that "the idea that they should be constantly emotionally available to their children, monitor them...
Reclaiming A More Complex Music History For, And In, Nashville
"Authoritative tellings of Nashville's music history have centered institutions like the Grand Ole Opry and Music Row. ... But that focus neglects a world...
What Should A Museum Do With Its Collection Of Vital, Fragile Works On Paper?
Ask the Hammer Museum at UCLA, where not only more study access but a new gallery space will show off, in careful rotation, the...
Dear Museums, Stop Building New Wings, And Build A New Staff Instead
Museum donor money could go someplace it would make a real difference - hiring, and keeping, a more diverse staff. - Fast Company
Meet The Teens Who Formed A Book Club To Read Banned Books
As conservative U.S. adults go on absolute orgies of book objections and attempts to censor and ban books by or about LGBTQIA+ people, Black...
Boston Has Been Without A Concertmaster Since 2019, And Its Search Is Being Conducted,...
Boston music lovers are curious because "the Boston Symphony Orchestra has been quietly searching for its next concertmaster. Whomever they appoint to this coveted...
Welcome Rituals And The Meaning Of Land Acknowledgments
Native land acknowledgements may sound to some like newfangled expressions of liberal guilt, but they have their origin in the centuries-old welcoming practices of...
Stephanie Selby, Known To Millions As ‘A Very Young Dancer,’ Has Died
The book that inspired thousands of aspiring dancers caused the subject serious issues. "Stephanie was not just another young woman who decided that the...
This 45-Year-Old Album Has Been On The Charts For 926 Weeks
That's right: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours has been selling well for longer than any Millennial has been alive, and now it's selling more copies on...
A Statue Of A Racist Former Governor In Mississippi Is Now Stashed In A...
Mississippi House Clerk Andrew Ketchings "said he had been bothered by the statue for years 'because of everything he stood for. ... It was...
The New MoviePass Wants In On The Metaverse
What does that mean? Well: "You don’t need fake popcorn; you don’t need tomatoes; you don’t need other things that are in there. And...
The Black Authors Shaking Up Brazil’s Literary Scene
"Until recently Black authors had a hard time getting book deals from mainstream Brazilian publishers," when a few authors decided to change things: "They...
We Don’t Understand The Past, And We Don’t Have Any Idea What’s Coming
Or so says historian and science fiction author Ada Palmer. "As she sees it, societal progress may be stochastic, unpredictable, but certain constants shape...
Admit It: Jimmy Kimmel Has A Point About The Oscars
OK, he sounded a little like a frat boy while dissing The Power of the Dog, but "the thing that Kimmel was getting at...
Why Does A C Look Like A C?
Or any letter at all - what's the reasoning behind letter shapes? Turns out it might not be as random as linguists thought, and...
Finding A Balance In Opera Performance
Soprano Marlis Peterson: "In the beginning of my career, the singing was most important. ... Then the music became as important as the text,...
No Shock That In-Person Library Use Plummeted In Early 2021
But, in the UK at least, there was a corresponding gain in e-usage. But "borrowing of physical books had returned to around 84% of...
The Case For Translators As Collaborators
For Jennifer Croft, the campaign to bring greater recognition to translators isn’t just a plea for attention and credit, though it’s partly that. Croft...
The Case Against The Contemporary American Essay
Explanations for the twenty-first-century personal essay boom are as various as the answers to an inkblot test, and nearly as revealing. - The Drift
A Warning That The Bamiyan Valley Will Collapse Within Ten Years
In 2003, the area was put on Unesco’s World Heritage in Danger list. Now rapid building work and digging under the new rule of...
Australia Arts Groups Feel The Freeze
The lack of CPI (which rose by 3.5% in the 12 months to December 2021 according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data) coupled with no increase...
How Fringe Theories Multiply
Devotees of a fringe theory are usually committed to more than one. They might start with just one, but fringes have a way of...
Belgian Museum Returns Nazi-Stolen Painting After 80 Years
After years of research, the painting has been returned, the first restitution of any artwork looted from a Jewish family in the second world...
The Extravagantly Painted Chapels Of Michoacán
The walls and ceilings of these old places of worship, some of them dating back to the 1600s, illustrate Catholic stories and teachings and...
The “Most Important Archaeological Find In The UK” In A Century
A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture discovered in east Yorkshire, due to be displayed at the British Museum, has been described as the most important piece of...
