Howard University Is On A Mission To Preserve The History Of Black American Newspapers
The project is digitizing U.S. newspapers that are are now in the public domain (after 95 years). The center also has permission to place...
Disney Hits A Wall With Its AI Ambitions
Even as other industries — from technology to publishing — proceed to incorporate AI to cut costs and replace jobs, media companies have bumped...
This Playwright Enlisted Anorexic Actors: The Ethics Of Who Portrays What
Theater makers have long depicted health struggles onstage, including the realities of living with H.I.V. and cancer, but the debate around this production, titled “Jeanne Dark” and running through...
Norwegian National Ballet Did A Piece About Sami History By A Sami Choreographer. Oslo...
That question worried the choreographer, administrators, and the dancers, none of whom are Sami themselves. What’s more, the piece was about a particularly sensitive...
The GLP-1 Era Is Changing How We Think About Self Control
Although scientists are just beginning to study food noise as a concept, individuals who have taken a GLP-1 drug often report that it significantly reduces this distracting, ruminative thinking about...
This Year’s Worldwide New Building Of The Year
The Holy Redeemer Church and Community Center of Las Chumberas, designed by Spanish architect Fernando Menis, has been named as the World Building of the Year at the...
Pope Leo: Movie Theatres And Cathedrals
There's "an inner peace that comes from entering the sanctum sanctorum of those movie palaces with the wall-sized screens.2 Don’t take it from me. Take...
Wagnerian Tenor Gary Lakes Has Died At 75
A veteran who performed at the Metropolitan Opera 106 times and at many other companies, he was known for such challenging roles as Tannhäuser,...
La Jolla Playhouse Appoints Jessica Stone As Artistic Director
As of early next year, the two-time Tony nominee (for her direction of Kimberly Akimbo in 2023 and Water for Elephants in 2024) will...
Well, If We Thought The Color-Blind Casting Debate Was Settled, We Were Wrong
“It can now be hard to remember that colorblind casting was once an inflammatory proposition. … But the triumphal march of colorblind casting — hiring...
Alabama Public Television Decides Not To Break Up With PBS (Yet)
“Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted Tuesday to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort —...
Gustav Klimt Portrait Is Now Second-Most Expensive Artwork Ever Auctioned
The six-foot-tall painting, Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16), shows a young heiress and daughter of Klimt’s patrons draped in a Chinese robe. Its sale...
Two Of New York’s Biggest Arts Philanthropists Died This Year. Will Anyone Follow In...
As one former museum director put it about Leonard Lauder and Agnes Gund, “They could open doors, they could bring people together, they would...
Giller Prize 2026 Goes To “Pick A Colour” By Souvankham Thammavongsa
This is the second time that the Laotian-Canadian author has won Canada’s top literary award; she is only the fourth author to do so,...
Is The World Really Getting Dumber? “Yes, And We All Know It.”
Across the developed world, since the 1930s, there’s been what’s called the Flynn effect: IQ scores overall have been rising by about three points...
The Icelandic Language Is In Danger Of Dying Out
“Having this language that is spoken by so very few, I feel that we carry a huge responsibility to actually preserve that. I do...
Conceptual Frame: An Art Installation You Have To Really Commit To See
The Frattini Bivouac is not staffed, ticketed or mediated. Anyone can enter it, but only after a six-to-eight-hour ascent on foot across scree, moss...
How Software Has Changed Choreography, And How AI Could Change It Further
Julie Cruse is a pioneer of “computational choreography”: in 2007 she created a piece titled Choreobot in which she used software she coded to...
English National Opera Chief Leaves To Run Roundhouse
Jenny Mollica will step down from her current role in summer 2026 to become CEO of London music and arts venue Roundhouse. Mollica will succeed...
Warning: Florida’s New Education Dictates Are A Return To McCarthyism
“History should never be rewritten to match the politics of the day, as history has valuable lessons to teach.” - APNews
We Live In An Age Of Self-Optimization. Where Did This Notion Come From?
This culture of self-quantification in the pursuit of self-improvement long predates social media, algorithms and targeted advertising. In fact, we can trace its roots...
India Could Be Poised To Develop Its Own Musical Theatre
“If authentically delivered, the potential is colossal. India’s population of 1.4 billion includes a fast-growing urban middle class … (with) a rising appetite for...
Education Is Flapping Around Trying To Figure Out AI’s Role In Teaching, Learning
Even as a significant proportion of their students are submitting AI-generated work, they proudly reassure each other that their courses are too demanding or...
Michael Andor Brodeur Analyzes The 2026 Classical Grammy Nominees
Most notably, composer Gabriela Ortiz, who won three Grammys last time, could do it again, as she’s a triple nominee this year. Overall, in...
Here Are The Classical Grammy Nominations For 2026 (In Case You Missed Them)
And, unfortunately, they’re easy to miss, since they’re always stuck all the way down at the end of a very long list of categories....
