Let’s Talk About Green Things In Movies (Fascinating)
What makes a good greensperson? The best of them know how and where to get things, no matter how rare or obscure or out...
How The Pandemic Has/Is Changing The Ways We Look At Art
What I did not expect was how these installations would speak to one another, and to me, about the pandemic. - Artnet
Why We Need Distrust In Our Civic Discourse
Sometimes distrust is not only appropriate but is also a way to initiate the conversation that’s needed for civic friendship. Distrust, in a democracy,...
No Surprise: European Movie Box Office Down 70 Percent Last Year
The European box office plunged 70.4 percent last year, down $6.04 billion (5.1 billion euro) from $8.5 billion (7.2 billion euro) in 2019 to...
Florida Man Says He’s The One Who Invented Invisible Sculpture, May Sue Artist Who...
In early June in Milan, conceptual artist Salvatore Garau auctioned off an "immaterial sculpture" for €15,000. Now performance artist Tom Miller points out that...
An NFT Of The Internet’s Source Code Sells For $5.4 Million
With bidding starting at $1,000, a total of 51 collectors competed for the NFT during a sale titled “This Changed Everything.” The winning bid...
The Maestro Who’s Bringing Period Instruments To Ravel, Mahler, And Stravinsky
François-Xavier Roth and his orchestra, Les Siècles, like to play concerts with Rameau in the first half and Ravel in the second, or Debussy...
Memory Champ: Trick Your Brain To Remember
This technique of linking images with places is called the memory palace, and it’s particularly useful for remembering the order of certain elements. -...
Lucinda Childs At ’81 On Paper’
"She's most associated with the Judson Dance Theater and New York's downtown arts scene of the '60s and '70s, a hub of radical musicians,...
How Ancient Humans Adapted To Be Smart
One of the things we’re learning from new fossil discoveries is there appears to be these different species of early human, or hominin, coexisting...
Let’s Give Mae West Credit As The Auteur She Was
She doesn't get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and...
Banksy “Adjustment” Of Mount Rainier Painting Sells For $6 Million
Banksy added an asterisk and a tiny bit of corporate-speak to the painting’s bottom right-hand corner: “*Subject to availability for a limited period only.”...
‘La Madre De La Telenovela’, Delia Fiallo, Dead At 96
She started out writing radio serials in 1940s Cuba, switched to TV, fled the Castro regime in 1966 and started over in Miami —...
New York’s First Queer History Museum Will Be Hosted By New York’s First Museum...
As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire...
Steady And Strong: The State Of Public Media Over The Past Decade
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership...
Co-Founder Of Philly’s Wilma Theater To Depart After 40 Years
Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she...
This Is The Reason Bill Cosby Got To Walk Out Of Prison
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star's 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here's a...
San Francisco Ballet’s Executive Director Up And Quits
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from...
Here’s What Will Be At The First Post-COVID Edinburgh Fringe
It's 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there's still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors,...
A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses
“The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated,...
How To Tell If You’re Part Of A Cult
It is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least...
Artworks Leaving UK As Museums Deal With Cash Shortage
UK museums can hardly try to buy multi-million-pound works of art when they are making large numbers of staff redundant as a result of...
James Cuno Steps Down As Head Of Getty
In 2011, Cuno was appointed to lead the Getty Trust, which manages four Los Angeles–based organizations: the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the...
How People Come To Deny Science
People live in information filter bubbles created by powerful algorithms. When those in your social circle share misinformation, you are more likely to believe...
What To Do With All Those Empty NYC Storefronts? Put Art In Them
Last June Barbara Anderson founded Art on the Ave, which creates free exhibits in New York City neighborhoods by using empty storefronts as gallery...
