Indie Bookstores Used To Hate Barnes & Noble. Now They’re Rooting For It.
So's the entire publishing industry. "(The chain's) unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested...
Are We Finally Done With Prestige TV?
Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications...
Minutes? Hours? Who Needs Them? We Need A New Time Measure
Weeks, days, hours, minutes—especially minutes—are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology’s lesser sibling. In the globalized information...
Department Of Untruths: Careful Who You Call A Liar
We should hesitate to call someone a liar because we are not privy to other people’s motives or states of mind. That a statement...
Should Readers Be Allowed To Return E-Books Even After They’ve Read Them?
This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even...
David Mamet Returns To Broadway, Politics In Tow
He wrote last year on the website UnHerd that he had been “elected a non-person by the Left many years ago,” and added: “It’s uncomfortable, and...
Peter Gelb On Canceling Putin
In the past, even when political tensions between nations grew ugly, artistic endeavors rose above the din. But Putin’s murderous actions are the playbook...
A Brief History Of IMAX
"Born in the late 1960s in the minds of two Canadian filmmakers looking to improve the documentary film-watching experience on the festival circuit, IMAX...
What Manner Of Beast, This BBC?
For historians the BBC represents both a fantasy object and a Borgesian nightmare. As an organisation, it has been one of the great record-keeping bureaucracies in...
The Disappearing Art Of Thai Royal Porcelain
Hand-painted benjarong was a super-luxury product in the 18th and 19th centuries, and early 20th-century Buddhist temples were clad in benjarong shards. Yet the...
Seattle Arts Organizations Come Out Of The Pandemic With New Support Models
“You truly know exactly the kind of organization you’re funding through this model, as well as how big of an impact you actually make.”...
Confessional Theatre Is Having A Big Moment Just Now. Why So?
"While hardly a new genre, confessional theatre is unique in its focus on the true stories of its creators and its intimate insights into...
Time Out London To Quit Its Print Magazine
The magazine began life in 1968, peaked in the late 1990s, but has seen numbers dwindling since changes to the publishing business as a...
Ex-CEO Of Sydney Symphony Claims She Was Fired For Investigating Sexual Harassment
Emma Dunch was sacked by the orchestra's board in December, allegedly because of problems with her leadership style and relationships with funders. Court filings...
Did Movies Really Become The World’s Dominant Art Form In The 20th Century?
LACMA is telling us that movies toppled painting and sculpture to became last century’s “greatest art form”? Hollywood is no slouch in the grandiosity...
Putin Impersonator And Kim Jong-Un Impersonator Help Zelensky Impersonator Escape Ukraine
The Ukrainian president has remained in Kiev, but for Umid Isabaev, the entertainer who looks like Zelensky (and played his body double on Servant...
Being A Comedian May Be An Ideal Background For A World Leader
"Imagine if Zelensky's hit show had been not Servant of the People, but Fury Force 5 or something similarly over-the-top, and Zelensky's career had...
How Intimacy Directors Work In Ballet
"Intimacy work for screen and theater doesn't entirely translate to dance. In those fields, intimacy directors choreograph sexually charged scenes by setting the performers'...
700-Year-Old Passover Manuscript At Center of Lawsuit Against Israel Museum Over Nazi Looting
The so-called Birds' Head Haggadah (ca. 1300) belonged to German parliament member Ludwig Marum, one of the earliest Jews to die in the Holocaust....
Does The Spanish Language Explain The “Hispanic Paradox” In Health Outcomes?
The "paradox" is that Hispanics in the US tend to have less heart disease and longer lifespans than non-Hispanic whites despite having higher risk...
Dr. William G Hamilton, Who Pioneered Dance Medicine, Dead At 90
"Ballet dancers may be the 'athletes of God,' as Albert Einstein supposedly said. But until Dr. Hamilton came along" as New York City Ballet's...
CNN’s New Streaming Network Is About To Get Massive Budget Cuts
"The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service, CNN+, over the next four years. Hundreds of millions of...
Library Of Congress Picks Recordings To Preserve
The list usually includes what the LOC calls "sounds of history," and this year, those selections include the complete presidential speeches of President Franklin...
2000 Irish Artists To Get Basic Incomes
“It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time...
Margaret Atwood: Feelings As Explanation, Not Excuse
Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not...
