Are You Stuck In “Goblin Mode”?
“Goblin mode” is taking the current pandemic-ridden world by storm. This state of being is defined by behaviours that feel reminiscent of deep lockdown days –...
How To Stop DoomScrolling
“Doomscrolling is essentially an avoidance technique used to cope with anxiety, so wherever you are vulnerable to anxiety, doomscrolling can become an unhealthy coping...
Scientist Proposes That Information Might Be The “Fifth State Of Matter”
The mass-energy-information equivalence principle Melvin Vopson proposed in his 2019 AIP Advances paper assumes that a digital information bit—used for digital data storage today—is not just physical, but...
Why Australia Needs A Ministry Of Culture
There is abundant evidence to show the government’s financial support for the arts and culture has been significantly reduced over many years. Today the arts don’t...
Time For Hollywood To Rethink Its China Strategy?
In 2021, just 20 revenue-sharing U.S. titles were released in Chinese cinemas, compared with 31 U.S. tentpole releases before the pandemic, in 2019. -...
Charo Is Not A Ditzy Cuchi-Cuchi Woman, She Only Plays One. She Is A...
She studied with Andrés Segovia and is a virtuoso in classical and flamenco styles. "At her shows, after she sings and gyrates to a...
Conservative Media Groups Says It Will Spend $100 Million On Kids Programming (To Counter...
“Americans are tired of giving their money to woke corporations who hate them,” said Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing in a statement. - Axios
Meet The Guy Who Plays The Western Villains In Chinese Movies
Almost nobody knows him back home in England, but in China — thanks to a chance meeting while waiting to renew his visa —...
NY Public Libraries Ended Late Fees. Old Books Began Rolling In
“I can’t tell you how stressed out these fines made our customers,” said Tienya Smith, a librarian who runs the branch in Long Island...
Ashton Hawkins, 84, The Man Who Made The Met Work
If his name was less well known to the museumgoing public than those of Met directors like Thomas Hoving or Philippe de Montebello, two towering figures under...
The Racy Roots And Louche Beginnings Of Kabuki Theatre
It's now an elaborate, rarefied classical art form, but kabuki got its start in the red-light district across the river from Kyoto in 1603,...
Mikhail Baryshnikov On The Russian War On Ukraine
“From the start of the invasion of Ukraine by the armies of Vladimir Putin, I’ve felt deep dread and a certainty that this will...
The Medieval Manuscripts That Offer Health Care And Household Tips
Compiled by a French noblewoman circa 1256 and copied across Europe over the next two centuries, the Régime du corps ("body regimen") survives in...
YouTube’s Most Notorious Stars Seem To Be Burning Out Or Growing Up
"Many of them seem tired of the demands of online celebrity and seem to be moving on from pushing for ever more shocking videos....
Facebook And Instagram Hired Republican Strategy Firm To Trash TikTok In The News Media
Meta, Mark Zuckerberg's umbrella corporation for Facebook and the companies it's bought, has been paying conservative consulting group Targeted Victory to place letters to...
Classical Radio In The US Has Done Astoundingly Well Through The Pandemic
"Stations rose to the occasion to provide refuge from a world that felt scary and uncertain. That has translated into ratings records" — WDAV...
Russian Artists Abroad On Putin’s War And Oppression And The Prospects Of Returning Home
Sarah Kaufman talks to performers who've been expatriates for decades but sometimes work in Russia (such as conductor Vladimir Jurowski) and one (theater director...
$1.3 Million Worth Of Looted Asian Art Impounded From Ivy League School
"More than a dozen artifacts linked to infamous antiquities trafficker Subhash Kapoor were seized from an (unnamed) Ivy League school's art gallery on Wednesday...
The Protestors Who Have Been Protesting Russian Performers For Years
Even as the annexation of Crimea faded from the media, Signerbusters kept showing up to concerts, draped in Ukrainian flags, equipped with signs and...
Just Where Do You Put Street Dance?
Neither the art world nor the world of noncommercial dance is much more hospitable to an improvising street dancer, at least not one with...
Study: Women Woefully Under-represented In The Music Industry
Over the past decade, women only make up 12.7% of songwriters. The study also counted producers of select years, and found that women made...
Welsh National Opera Working With Sufferers Of Long COVID
Welsh National Opera performers are teaching breathing and vocal techniques to help overcome the long-term effects of the virus. - BBC
How Marshall McLuhan Became Prophet Of The Digital Age
It is fascinating to realize that McLuhan only becomes more of a prophet the further our world turns to the digital. As Paul Levinson...
The Academic Press With Crossover Appeal
Duke has become known as a press that blends scholarly rigor with conceptual risk-taking, where high and low art boldly intermingle on principle. -...
There’s Still One Small Newspaper That’s Printed With Old-Time Linotype
Every week, up in the Colorado Rockies, editor and publisher Dean Coombs prints roughly 400 copies of The Saguache Crescent on a Mergenthaler Model...
