This May Be The Most Innovative Public Library In The U.S.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis hosts "financial literacy seminars, jazz concerts, cooking classes, and many other events — more than 7,000...
Seriously? Send Your Art To Space?
Uplift promotes ‘Constellation Vault’: ‘a platform for commercial promotion and exhibition in low Earth orbit’. ‘The Constellation Vault will offer patrons the exclusive opportunity...
The “Immersive Transcript”, A New Way To Make Podcasts Accessible To Deaf Audiences
"Transcripts are hardly uncommon in podcasting but they're often an afterthought, littered with omissions and inaccuracies thanks to automated transcription. … For their new...
The High-Tide Flooding In Venice Is Only Getting Worse
Says the chief caretaker of St. Mark's, which sits at the city's lowest point, "I can only say that in August, a month when...
Unknown Arshile Gorky Painting Discovered Behind Later Artwork On Paper
The newly discovered work, called Untitled (Virginia Summer) and dated ca. 1946-47, was found when the Arshile Gorky Foundation sent out The Limit (1947)...
Pianist Yundi Li Arrested On Immorality Charge In Beijing
Li, who earned fame in the West in the '00s and became a household name in China, was arrested with a sex worker —...
Alec Baldwin, Firing Prop Gun On Set, Kills Cinematographer And Wounds Director
While filming a scene on location near Santa Fe for the feature Rust, which he co-wrote, is producing and stars in, Baldwin discharged a...
Bernard Haitink, Revered Conductor, Dead At 92
Known especially for his Mahler and Bruckner, Haitink had long tenures at the helm of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, Royal Opera...
Facebook Agrees To Pay News Outlets In France For Content
"Facebook said Thursday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that...
Robot Artists Detained By Egyptian Authorities Over Security Concerns
A robot artist made it to an exhibit at Egypt’s pyramids after its British maker said airport security held his creation for 10 days...
Chicago Art Institute Fired Its Docents. But The Story Isn’t So Simple
James Rondeau, the Institute’s director, said that the docents program had long been viewed as logistically unsustainable, and that the Institute had stopped adding...
How The Big Resignation Is Remaking America
This is a moment of fascinating decentralization. The U.S. economy lost its mojo. We had less quitting, less moving, and less entrepreneurship than in...
The New York Times Long History (And Ambitions) For Books
It all started in the very first issue of The New York Daily Times on Sept. 18, 1851. In an article on Page 2...
Exploring: The Culture Of Music Genres
“It’s not untrue that these genres are a kind of record company plot to sell us music but there’s a reason why this conspiracy...
Vinyl Records Are Popular — Too Popular To Keep Up
Left for dead with the advent of CDs in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format,...
What Monica Lewinsky’s Documentary About Public Shaming Completely Misunderstands
In HBO's 15 Minutes of Shame, Lewinsky — the prototype victim of worldwide public humiliation via the media — argues that today's Twitter-driven pile-ons...
Reconsidering The History Of Humanity
Humanity was not restricted to small bands of hunter-gatherers, agriculture did not lead inexorably to hierarchies and conflicts and there was not one mode...
Is This 12 Hours Of Documentary Theatre Or Is It Displaying People As If...
The show 12 Last Songs at Leeds Playhouse consists solely of dozens of people talking about, or actually doing, what they do for a...
A New Shakespeare-Style Theatre In The UK North
Shakespeare North Playhouse is on course to open next summer, joining only a handful of historically accurate, wooden-framed theatre auditoriums in England. - The Stage
Tribute Or Marketing Stunt (Or Both)? Secretive Seattle Street Artist Stalks Manhattan Recreating “Shadowman”
Richard Hambleton painted his dark silhouette figures around the Lower East Side in the 1980s, becoming "the godfather of street art." The artist known...
25 TV Shows That Are Defining/Reflecting The 21st Century
These are the series that are both influential and significant, that have broken new ground, that have reflected life specifically in this century, or...
Picasso Lived His Entire Life In France Under Surveillance
"For more than 40 years, his Catalan connections, his communist leanings and his celebrity made him a suspect in the eyes of the French...
What Fuels Conspiracy Theories
New research suggests that it’s not just negative emotions that contribute to the appeal of conspiracy theories. People can also find conspiracy theories entertaining – and...
With His “Team TERF” Routine, Dave Chappelle Dishonors A Long Line Of Great Black...
Artists from Richard Pryor to Moms Mabley to Ma Rainey "took big risks to affirm LGBTQ people and be honest about their own sexuality....
Disgraced During #MeToo, Garrison Keillor Tries For A Comeback
Five years after he retired from A Prairie Home Companion, four years after accusations led public radio and publishers to drop him, Keillor is...
