Is Social Media Like Alcohol Addiction?
To me, it sounds like alcohol—a social lubricant that can be delightful but also depressing, a popular experience that blends short-term euphoria with long-term...
Wave Of New Plays By Black Playwrights…
The plays are arriving at an existentially challenging moment for Broadway, when theaters have been closed for a year and a half, when the...
Science Works On Explaining How Much Sleep We Need
Although great progress has been made in developing sophisticated models and explaining phenomena such as circadian rhythms, jetlag and details of EEG recordings of...
Body-Shaming In Opera
“Diversity applies to pretty much everybody except fat people,” opera critic Uwe Friedrich tells me. The pressure to conform to a societal ideal of...
Researchers Explore What Juices The Echo Chamber
“You really don’t know whether this person making a good-sounding argument is really smart, is really educated, or whether they’re just reading off something...
What’s Even The Purpose Of Political Writing Anymore?
Osita Nwanevu: "The morsels of rage and misery we offer might not have much political effect, but they do feed an online writing economy...
How The Pandemic Is Changing How Lincoln Center Works
Usually, our work requires a year or two in advance planning. But now we’re building the plane as we’re flying. So it’s really shown...
A New Movie Revives A Surprisingly Old Genre: Black Westerns
Just as there really were African-Americans in the Old West, Westerns with Black casts (first shown to segregated audiences) were made from the 1930s...
Osage Nation Decries Sale Of Important Prehistoric Cave Art
The two-cave system is nestled within a 43-acre stretch of land in Missouri, about 60 miles west of St. Louis. Scholars have called it...
Afghan Singers Recount Their Flight From The Taliban
The BBC interviewed half a dozen musicians who have had instruments smashed, relatives killed, and threats issued since the extremists took over Afghanistan last...
School Mural Altered In LA After Community Complaints
The artwork was part of a 2016 project to place murals around the campus. Two years later, the Wilshire Community Coalition, a group led by...
In Crimea, Russian Government Is Trying To Wipe Out Tatar Heritage: UNESCO Report
"The report ascribes a goal of erasing traces of their cultural presence on the peninsula and weakening 'the fundamental role of the indigenous Muslim...
Why This Musicologist Quit Academia
In recent years the dogmatic mode of thinking, in which uncritical commitments are enforced by mechanisms involving public humiliation, no-platforming, and attempts to have...
Myanmar’s Arts Community Is Caught Between Military Dictators, Floods, Economic Turmoil, And COVID
"People are focused on survival … and caring for their loved ones," says one artist in Yangon. Adds another, "It's dangerous to do a...
Why This Filmmaker In Myanmar Is A Fugitive From The Junta
Director Na Gyi and his wife (and leading actor) would be in hiding even if their latest film weren't about a lesbian romance: they...
Jane Powell, Wholesome Star Of Classic Movie Musicals, Dead At 91
"An actress and singer who first appeared in movies as a teenager, (she) became a sunny stalwart of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and...
Here’s The First-Ever Piano With 108 Keys
The instrument, designed and handmade by Wayne Stuart of Stuart & Sons in Australia, has a nine-octave range, two octaves more than a standard...
Stephen Sondheim, At 91, Is Working On A New Musical
As he told Stephen Colbert this week, "I've been working on a show for a couple years with a playwright named David Ives, and...
A Previously Unknown Van Gogh Is Now On View In Amsterdam
"Study for 'Worn Out,' as the drawing is being called, has lived in a private Dutch collection since the first decade of the 20th...
Paris’s Musée d’Orsay ‘Can No Longer Be A Tourist Factory,’ Says Its New Director
That would be Christophe Leribault, until now director of the city's Petit Palais and, before that, of the Musée Delacroix. He replaces Laurence des...
Dudamel’s Conducting Fellowship Program Is Paying Off Big Time
The main thing these former fellows may take home from L.A. is indoctrination. New music here is part of the daily diet. Dudamel’s curiosity...
See The Six Architecture Finalists for This Year’s Stirling Prize
A bridge, a museum, a mosque... Here's where the best of UK architecture is in 2021. - BBC
Report: Hollywood Streaming Companies Hire More Women Than Traditional Studios
The long-running industry report card finds that in the 2020-21 television season, women accounted for 52% of major characters on streaming programs were women,...
Our Notions Of Privacy Are Ancient. Do They Fit In Our Modern World?
The evolutionary biologist E O Wilson once said of the source of human challenges in the 21st century that ‘we have palaeolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology’. - Psyche
Minoru Yamasaki – The Architect Weighed Down By The World Trade Center
His long career has become, for many, a caricature or outright failure, the stuffing wedged between the two disasters of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex...
