Royal British Columbia Museum To Close Indigenous Galleries, “Decolonize”
The Becoming B.C. gallery, which focuses on the story of European settlement in B.C. and has been widely criticized for pushing a colonial narrative, will...
Why “Mistakes” In Language Are Actually Progress
Someone in my line of work hears around him a linguistic feast, where many just hear the English language going to the dogs. -...
The Impossibility Of Translating
To put it less politely, translation is a bitch. - Granta
Edinburgh Fringe Once Again Feeds The West End
There remained no shortage of quality work presented at the fringe, but its own aesthetic had changed over this time, contributing to making it...
Why Museums Should Cut Down On The Art In Storage
Museums should downsize storage for commercial, environmental, social and ethical reasons. Post-pandemic with their revenues ravaged, they need to take a hard look at...
How Shondaland Became An Empire
In Shonda Rhimes’ renewed pact, the bullet points specify that Shondaland will now be, as Rhimes puts it, a “one-stop shopping” source for Netflix...
What’s The Secret Of Poetry’s Power? It’s The Rhythm, Baby
"Poems meet the raw needs of our most vulnerable inner selves in a disarmingly primal way, using a simple tool no other sort of...
A Reason To Invest In The Arts In The South?
A recent study found that a person living in the South received only $4.21 in arts and culture funding from philanthropy, compared to the national average...
The Art World’s Most Wanted Criminal (No, Not Inigo Philbrick)
"Not so long ago, Christian Rosa was a buzzy young artist on the rise. Now he's facing a series of charges related to alleged...
A First: Big Museum Opens Its Entire Collection To Visitors
Normally, only some six to ten percent of collections at major museums around the world, the rest kept in closed storage depots. That will...
How Did 21st-Century TV Comedy Get So Dark?
"BoJack Horseman, Fleabag, Veep, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are among the comedies that have left the traditional sitcom form in the dust. … The laughs...
Now AI Is Formulating Hypotheses Scientists Haven’t Thought Of
Creating hypotheses has long been a purely human domain. Now, though, scientists are beginning to ask machine learning to produce original insights. They are designing neural...
A LinkedIn-Style Platform Built Specially For Casting Dancers
"Choreographer Amy Gardner used to consistently run into the same problem: When jobs popped up in different cities, whether for Nick Jonas or Neiman...
Why Are AI Data Sets Disappearing From The Internet?
All together, about a dozen AI datasets vanished—hastily scrubbed by their creators after researchers, activists, and journalists exposed an array of problems with the...
Jazz Trumpeter Irvin Mayfield Sentenced To Prison For Stealing From Post-Katrina Charity
Mayfield, who became a symbol of the survival of New Orleans, and his business partner, pianist Ronald Markham, were given 18-month sentences for diverting...
Attendance At US History Museums Was Down By More Than Two-Thirds Last Year
"This (finding) contrasted (with) surveys in prior years, which indicated strong visitation growth for history museums — especially small, local ones." - Hyperallergic
Desperate Staffers Start A Wave Of Unionization At US Museums
“(The movement is) confront(ing) conditions that workers — from archivists and curators to those selling T-shirts — say are untenable: minimal wage increases, draining...
These Ruins Could Be Of One Of King Herod’s Roman Temples
The ancient Jewish historian Josephus reported that Herod (reigned 37 BC-4 BC) built four temples: the Second Temple of the Jews in Jerusalem and...
Another Major Theatre Company In The Berkshires Changes Leadership
Less than a week after news broke of Mandy Greenfield's departure from the Williamstown Theater Festival following reports of poor working conditions, co-founder Julianne...
Chicago Symphony Comes Through Lockdowns With A $1.4 Million Surplus
"(The orchestra) turned a $4.4 million operating deficit into a $1.6 million surplus by cutting expenses deeper than revenue fell during the pandemic-struck fiscal...
For The First Time, A Black African Author Wins France’s Top Book Award
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr of Senegal has won the Prix Goncourt for La plus secrète mémoire des hommes (The Most Secret Memory of Men), which...
How Korea Became A Major Cultural Exporter
Once streaming services like Netflix tore down geographical barriers, the creators say, the country transformed from a consumer of Western culture into an entertainment juggernaut...
This Year’s Booker Prize Winner:
Booker judges pronounced Damon Galgut the winner, praising his novel for its “unusual narrative style that balances Faulknerian exuberance with Nabokovian precision, pushes boundaries,...
DC City Council Approves Two New Arts Commission Members Over Objections Of Its Chairman
The controversy comes as the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has dramatically reshaped its policies to focus on diversity and equity and to broaden...
Jazz Guitarist Pat Martino, 77 — Overcame Amnesia To Perform Again
In 1980, brain surgery left him with no memory, but he painstakingly relearned the instrument, and his own past, and went on to three...
