Pittsburgh Symphony Keeps Manfred Honeck For Six More Years
The 63-year-old Austrian conductor has extended his contract as the orchestra's music director through the 2027-28 season, which will be his 20th at the...
How A Hit Song Behaves Like A Viral Infection
"When a disease breaks into a population you tend to see a sharp increase in infection cases and eventually it will peak at some...
What, Exactly Is “Distinctly British” TV?
Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British”...
What Happened To Books? Well…
"They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class dissatisfied with – and powerless to change – the mindless,...
Science as A Value-Free Enterprise
It is central to science, and its claims to objectivity, that values do not override facts. An important feature of this view of science...
Behind Yale’s Failed Singapore Venture
Singapore has followed its dismissal of Yale's liberal education by introducing a Foreign Interference Act that, "under the guise of defending national sovereignty, will enable...
Yusef Cat Stevens Is Back. What Do We Think About That?
For devotees of Stevens’s classic material, it can feel as though he’s making amends for having walked away from his music all those years...
Blockbuster Hollywood Talent Deal: CAA To Buy ICM
Creative Artists Agency is acquiring its rival ICM Partners in a blockbuster deal that will consolidate the ranks of major Hollywood agencies as the representation industry...
Ban Critical Arguments About America’s History? It’s A Familiar Tactic
We found the same arguments used by anti-radical activists as they sought for years to ban from public schools and universities Howard Zinn’s best-selling...
Now Stabilized, Could Notre Dame Reopen In 2024?
“We’re officially saying that the cathedral is now saved, that it’s solid on its pillars, that its walls are solid, everything is holding together....
How Digitization Is Changing The Essence Of Collecting Culture
The collector is the only one who decides how to arrange her possessions, ordering books by author, title, theme, or even (unfortunately) color of...
A Tonys Ceremony Full Of Apprehension
What you had all night was a temporal mash-up: Broadway’s past jockeying for space with Broadway’s future — a future that at the moment...
A Subway TikTok Artist Realizes His Dream
That might sound like a word salad, but portrait artist Devon Rodriguez's 20 million followers on TikTok really did bring him fame, money, and...
Slave Play Was Shut Out Of The Tonys
Playwright Jeremy Harris tweeted that the play had a massive impact anyway. He added, "I told my mom this was gonna happen this morning bc...
Recreating Real Life – Including Homelessness – In Video Games
Games like The Sims can get boring, so content creators add virtual challenges to keep themselves, and others, engaged. - Wired
Two Of The Nepalese Works At New York’s Rubin Museum Identified As Looted
"Though Nepal banned the export of ancient statues of deities through the Ancient Monuments Preservation Act in 1956, these and other objects of cultural...
Jagged Little Pill’s Producers Apologize For Problems With Trans And Nonbinary Actors
The producers apologized and said they had "hired a new dramaturgical team (which includes nonbinary, transgender and BIPOC representation), to revisit and deepen the script"...
What Is This Magical Streaming Gift?
It's a £5 video of Olivia Colman performing a translated lecture by Elena Ferrante, of course. - LitHub
When GBBO Met Billy Elliott
Their sensibilities, plus a true story of a Liverpool bakery's travails, ended up as Home Baked: The Musical. - BBC
Eileen Atkins Thinks Her Memoir May Disappoint Fellow Dames Maggie Smith And Judi Dench
Atkins had been thinking for years about writing a memoir. "But it was only once the pandemic hit ... that she was able to...
The Queer, Indigenous Creatives Behind Reservation Dogs
Screenwriter Tommy Pico on what that adds to the show: "Humor is a tool — a marker of resilience, a willingness to heal and...
Marina Abramovic Says She Thinks Often About Dying
As in, every single day. All the better to celebrate life, says the performance artist. "You have to think about what you’re going to...
Haile Gerima Rejected Racist Hollywood
But his 1993 classic Sankofa is finally coming into its own. - Los Angeles Times
Video Game Music Can Also Truly Be Symphonic
Consider the music of Final Fantasy at Royal Albert Hall: "The two worlds of gaming and classical music merged, and while some concertgoers wore...
If You’re An Artist Who Likes ‘Rugged’ Places, Social Media Might Be Ruining Your...
Ah, the (literally spilling over the hills, dales, glades, and coasts) humanity. - The Guardian (UK)
