How Music For The Movies Is Evolving
Film music may be a genre, but all that means is music used in a film. Other than that, anything the director will let...
With Big Ceremony, Egypt Reopens Ancient Avenue Of The Sphinxes
The road, also known as Road of the Rams, dates back 3,400 years, Reuters reports. However, it was first discovered in the late 1940s,...
Magnus Carlsen Has Been World Chess Champion Since His Teens. The World Of Chess...
Computer-assisted preparation makes it ‘harder and harder’ to demonstrate the superiority of his intuition and strategic thinking in classical games. Players with good memories,...
Shortened Comic-Con Returns, But Many Dealers Won’t Attend
No matter the time of year, the energy of Comic-Con thrives in Southern California’s comic book stores — spaces deeply entwined within its culture....
Labor Unrest Grows: Near-IATSE Strike Is Sign Of Things To Come
Union members have grown impatient with worsening working conditions and IATSE’s long tradition of avoiding nationwide walkouts. IATSE members in October overwhelmingly supported a strike...
End Of Times – Identifying The Anthropocene
In the face of such debilitating immensity, we cannot merely shrug and take a selfie. We cannot allow the scale of the crises we...
The Spanglification Of Languages
It is becoming clear that the mixed nature of Spanglish represents a general phenomenon. Among people born in and growing up in neighborhoods like...
Our Ancient Attraction To Glass
In a world filled with the buff, brown and sand hues of more utilitarian Late Bronze Age materials, glass — saturated with blue, purple,...
Nope: Tolkien Estate Blocks Crypto Coin “JRR Token”
The developer said in response that JRR Token was intended to reference “a unique form of digital currency”, rather than the late fantasy author,...
Kafkaesque US Visa System Wreaking Havoc With The Arts
The amount of paperwork required by the USCIS (United States Citizen and Immigration Service), says Nicki Harper, Los Angeles Opera’s director of artistic operations, plus all...
ABT Taps Beyonce Entertainment Exec As Its Next Executive Director
Janet Rollé, general manager of Parkwood Entertainment, Beyoncé’s media and management company, will in January assume the role of chief executive and executive director...
This Virtuoso Horn Player Works The Valves With His Left Foot
Felix Klieser, 30, was born without arms. Even so, he graduated from a German conservatory and made a recording at age 22 that won...
The Real Threat To Academic Freedom Isn’t Cancel Culture, It’s This…
With the privatization and commercialization of higher education, universities are run like businesses, in which a degree becomes a product, students become customers, and...
How The Temple Dancers Of South India Fought Back Against “Moral Reform”
In the 19th century, prompted by the disapproval of Protestant missionaries who wanted Hindu temple dancing banned, some Tamil reformers campaigned for the performers,...
School Protests From A Century Ago Set The Tone For Today’s Controversies
Telling parents you don’t want their kids to have the best possible public schools is never good politics. A full century ago, the most...
Using Medieval Mystery Plays To Revive The Cornish Language
This year was the third full production in modern times of the Ordinalia, a cycle of three 14th-century mystery plays originally written in the...
African Diaspora Music Project Collects 1,200 Symphonies By Black Composers
Louise Toppin is on a mission to recalibrate who, what, and how we program our concert seasons to enable a more equitable representation of music...
The Problem With Piling Prosthetics On Actors To Make Them Look Like The Famous...
"These inspired-by-real-life prosthetics are meant to bring authenticity, but they have a perverse way of achieving the opposite. … Playing people as heavily televised...
True Crime: Manhattan’s Art Theft Police
The unit has impounded more than 3,600 antiquities, valued at some $200 million. They’ve raided art fairs on Park Avenue, and Christie’s in Rockefeller Center. They arrested...
Anderson Cooper Visits Caligula’s Pleasure Garden
A gay silver-fox fantasy come to life? Nope, sorry. In 2006, workers excavating for an underground parking garage found what archaeologists determined was a...
Japan’s Grand Old Man Of Anime Is Making One Last Film
Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli said in 2013 that he was retiring. Now, aged 80, he's back at work, the film titled How Do...
He Was A Child Laborer, Then A Homeless Migrant. Now He’s A Prizewinning Filmmaker...
P.S. Vinothraj worked in a flower market at age nine and a sweatshop at 14. At 19 he ran to the big city (Chennai)...
How Right-Wingers Tried To Turn Thanksgiving Into A Celebration Of Free Enterprise And Rejection...
This was not some scheme dreamed up by Fox News or Rush Limbaugh or even the Cato Institute: this particular intellectual endeavor goes all...
This AI Algorithm Could Help Us Figure Out Shakespeare
No, not his actual identity, we're afraid. But, if not the definitively correct version of the text of a play or poem, at least...
Italy’s “Netflix For The Arts” Is Now Open Across Europe
"ITsART … was rolled out across 26 European countries on Tuesday, with plans to expand into the U.S. and China next year. … Prices...
