How Thomas More And Thomas Cromwell Ended Up Glaring At Each Other Across A...
That fireplace is at The Frick Collection in midtown Manhattan, and on each side of it are Hans Holbein's famous portraits of Henry VIII's...
Cities Not Working? Why Not Build New Ones?
At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. - Bloomberg
Nature Writing Should Be As Unsentimental As Nature Is
"Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn't all look at them too closely,...
Broadway Box Office Stays Steady
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the...
Spoilers And Their Relationship To Relentless Capitalist Excess, Explained
In which Emily St. James argues that the culture's arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which...
Report: Pre-K School Causes Short-Term Gains, Long-Term Harm
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. -...
In Australia’s Election, Nobody’s Talking About The Arts. So What Are The Parties’ Arts...
"Just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ... By examining a party's record, we can assess the values that...
Police Play Copyrighted Music To Thwart Viral Video
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social...
Watching “Servant Of The People” Now That Volodymyr Zelensky Is Actually President
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in...
Russian’s Rich Lexicon Of Profanity Has Become A Tool In Ukraine’s Resistance
"Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has...
Dance Salad, A Festival “Born In Brussels, Brought Up In Houston”
For 25 years, an enterprising Texan named Nancy Henderek has been bringing major artists to her hometown for a three-day festival with "bite-size samplings"...
A Group Of Napoleon’s Personal Effects, Stolen Years Ago, Were Found On eBay
The items — portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, locks of the emperor's hair, and his inkwell set — were stolen from a historic house...
Arena Stage’s “Toni Stone” Was Cancelled Mid-Run Because The Lead Actress No Longer Felt...
"Santoya Fields said it wasn't an illness that led to her being unable to take the stage; it was the impact of what she...
Largest Van Gogh Exhibition In U.S. In 20 Years Opens This Fall
"The coming Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts will include 72 Van Goghs, with 56 paintings and 16 works...
Long Beach Opera Wasn’t Racist Or Sexist, Just Poorly Managed: Investigation
When three staffers resigned last month, they claimed a culture of racism and misogyny kept them from being able to do their work, and...
How Poetry Can Aid Science
When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all...
Nicolas Berggruen And His Ideas
e established the Berggruen Institute. A prolific networker, Berggruen has recruited so many prominent names to the institute’s roster of supporters and advisers that...
What Happened When Researchers Paid Fox News Watchers To Watch CNN Instead
Two political scientists paid a group of regular Fox News viewers to instead watch CNN for a month. At the end of the period, the researchers...
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...
