Nothing Virtual About Virtual Reality. Reality Is Reality
“A common way of thinking about virtual realities is that they’re somehow fake realities, that what you perceive in VR isn’t real. I think...
A Century Later, Russia Opens Czar Nicholas’s Restored Palace
In 2011, the Russian state decided to recreate the czar’s private suite — which had been furnished in the Art Nouveau style and was...
In What Language Do You Think?
No-one thinks in any natural language; not in English, or Italian, or whatever, but in a language of thought, an abstract, unconscious and moreover inaccessible,...
Who Was Lorraine Hansberry? A Black Lesbian Communist Who Became A Darling Of Mainstream...
"She achieved literary celebrity but called herself a 'literary failure,' was supported in a marriage that ultimately collapsed, resisted her family but didn't denounce...
London’s National Theatre Sees Precipitous Decline In Revenue And Staff
Income at the National Theatre dropped by £50 million and the organisation lost just under a quarter of its staff in the first year...
“Hopepunk” — Dystopian Sci-Fi Gets An Antidote
"'Cautionary tales are very important,' says Becky Chambers, one of the leading authors associated with the hopepunk movement, who has won a much-coveted Hugo...
Why Does Classical Music Stay Mired In The Hits?
Over the previous couple of generations, the canon has changed but it has consistently seemed to have been limited in scope and dependent on...
What’s The Secret Ingredient That Makes UCLA Gymnastics Team Videos Go Viral? The Choreographer
"In her first two years as UCLA's choreographer, Bijoya 'BJ' Das has set the internet aflame with three viral floor routines. … Breaking the...
How Animals Process Music
First, it’s important to note that our furry friends process sound somewhat differently than we do. Human society is largely sight- and touch-focused. Domesticated...
The British Are Champions Of Classic Theatre — So Why Do They Shortchange This...
Michael Billington: "In France the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with...
The $500M Villa In Rome Where Galileo Walked — It’s For Sale
In past centuries, it had some notable visitors: Galileo, Goethe, Stendhal, Gogol, Tchaikovsky and Henry James. At the top of the hill stands the...
The World’s First NFT Musical (You Just Knew It Was Coming)
The set of digital collectibles offered by the producers of Ross Golan's The Wrong Man "will be a mix of music, graphics, and film,...
Indigenous Curators Are Helping Museums Reframe The Entire Story Of American Art
"With the aid of curators and artists from Native American backgrounds, curators across the U.S. are broadening narratives, questioning stereotypes, and collapsing categories." -...
Special Grants Let Bay Area BIPOC Arts Groups Get One Of The Most Important...
And that is? Their own real estate. A $3 million Performing Arts Acquisition Fund from the Hewlett Foundation has enabled five community-based groups buy...
CNN+, The Upcoming Streaming Service WarnerMedia Is Hurling Cash At
The news giant has already poached Audie Cornish from NPR and Chris Wallace from Fox for CNN+ (rumor has it they dangled $20 million...
Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is...
It's the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that...
Hamburg’s Massively Expensive Elbphilharmonie Has Proven A Massive Success
By the time the concert hall opened in 2017, it was six years late and had cost €866 million, ten times the initial budget....
The Louvre Threatens To Sue Marine Le Pen For Using Its Image In A...
The far-right National Rally party released a 3½-minute video this weekend showing its presidential candidate speechifying to the camera while walking back and forth...
Ted Gioia Remembers Terry Teachout
"I always appreciated that warmth and compassion, but again I was hardly surprised. I had experienced it myself." - Ted Gioia
YouTube Removes “Dislike” Buttons And Engagement Goes Down
YouTube’s controversial move to remove public dislike counts in November was aimed at shielding smaller creators from harassment campaigns but has already started to discourage certain...
Vicious Book Review Are Back With A Vengeance
If the hatchet job ever died, it is — like Gawker — back with a vengeance. In fact, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that...
Why It’s So Difficult To Predict The Future
There is an assumption that the more scientific the approach to predictions, the more accurate forecasts will be. But this belief causes more problems...
Audio Books That Become Inseparable From Their Readers
With audiobooks, voice narrators are (almost) everything. They can make a great story greater and a bad story better. This is especially true with...
What Qualities Ought The Next Music Director Of The Kansas City Symphony Have?
The Symphony board could make a statement by requiring, for one thing, that Michael Stern’s successor take up full-time residence in Kansas City. - KCStudio
IRS Wins: Prince Estate Worth Twice What Executor Claimed It Was
The process came to a head earlier this month when the IRS, the US tax agency, asserted that the estate was worth $163.2m, twice...
