The Comics Industry Seems To Be Diversifying
Graphic novels by Black, Indigenous and other people of color in the 2020s are moving beyond realistic stories and memoir to fantasy and tales...
The Postal Museum Reopens Without A Quote From A Former VP, A Big Proponent...
John C. Calhoun's words about the Postal Service are, after complaints about the former VP's odious beliefs and a museum redesign, gone from the...
The Funny Thing Is
Asian American stand-ups fight back against violence and bigotry with ... comedy? - Los Angeles Times
How Safe Are Music Concerts?
Ask Sweden. But also, ask Delta. And keep up the safe behavior: "From an infection prevention standpoint, it is still the safest to gather...
Who In Their Right Minds Would Pay 8 British Pounds To Climb A Cruddy...
The Westminster City Council believes people will. Architect critic Rowan Moore begs to differ. - The Guardian (UK)
Spike Lee Revises September 11 Documentary After Fierce Blowback
The final episode of the documentary series on HBO gave airtime and credence to a widely discredited conspiracy theory group. Instead of simply removing...
Time’s Up President Resigns After Cuomo Information Leaks
Tina Tchen, the president and CEO of the organization, which was founded to support safety and equality for everyone in the workplace, stepped down...
The Forgotten History Of The World’s First Restaurant
It opened in 1765 in, of course, France, with a Latin phrase inscribed on the front that translates as, "Come to me, those whose...
Westerns Have Nearly Unbounded Literary Potential
The history of the genre is problematic at best. "Any writer writing a Western—even a literary Western—knows that they stand on the threshold of...
A Philanthropist Who Cares A Lot About The Arts
MacKenzie Scott's billions of Amazon dollars worth of donations came at a seriously good time. Why is her focus a surprise? Because "museums, musicals...
Making The Move From TikTok To TV
Is it possible? Is there even a difference between the two now? - The New York Times
Famed Music School Falls Silent As Taliban Take Afghanistan
"The students are very fearful about their future - not just of their education and their programme, but also about their life. They...
America’s Founding Colonial Stories Are Nice Fairy Tales. The Reality Was Less Flattering
The political leaders and famous personages that tower over our imaginations are condensed to life-size. They make grubby, horrid choices; they bumble, fumble, and...
The Quiet Value Behind The Enduring Success Of “Antiques Roadshow”
In a show whose segments are punctuated by dollar amounts, there’s actually a quiet, persistent suggestion to direct our aspirations somewhere else: history, family,...
Our Misperceptions Of How The Brain Works
“Scientists have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other everyday experiences." But these "are poor guides for understanding...
How The Counterculture Became The Main Culture
It’s a truism that high culture, as it used to be known, has been steadily losing its authority since the rise of mass culture...
Eventually, One Gets Old Enough To Really Appreciate Proust
"Like Marcel, we've spent decades building our models of the world, and like him we're starting to see them for the gimcrack that they...
How Publishing Literature Has Changed
Most authors have day jobs, which is nothing new; Herman Melville worked as a customs inspector. The difference in 2021 is that traditional side...
Thanks To Streaming, Indian TV Is More Daring Than It’s Ever Been (Or Is...
Certainly one encounters more kissing, bare skin, and profanity today than when there was a single, state-owned channel. (More high-quality scripts, too.) Studios like...
Data Science: The Creepiest, Most Ominous Word In Macbeth
It turns out that Macbeth uncanny flavor springs from the unusual way that Shakespeare deploys one particular word, over and over again. - OneZero
At Last, Dorothy Parker Has A Tombstone, Complete With Epitaph
"Leave for her a red young rose,Go your way, and save your pity;She is happy, for she knowsThat her dust is very pretty." ...
Was The Nuclear Family As Our Primary Social Unit A Mistake?
If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life...
Nocturnes — The Best Music To Help With Your Pandemic-Induced Insomnia
From the first Nocturne ever published (by John Field in 1814), to Chopin and Debussy and Britten, on to Max Richter's "eight-hour lullaby" Sleep,...
How Finland Gets Support For The Arts? Make Politicians Museum Interns
During the internship day, decision-makers will familiarise them them with the workspaces of museum professionals, the researchers' rooms, archives and, for example, the reception...
This One Weird Trick Changed Medical Illustration Forever
The carbon dust technique — basically, painting with dust ground from the graphite of a pencil — enabled illustrators to show details of texture...
