In The Attention Economy, Our Inner Lives Are Shrinking
Roughly speaking, globalization flattens space and pares away cultural particularity; neoliberalism flattens value, reducing everything to its going rate on the market; the internet,...
No Master Thieves Here: Louvre Bandits Were Petty Criminals, Police Say
“This is not quite everyday delinquency … but it is a type of delinquency that we do not generally associate with the upper echelons...
Is Marseille Becoming A Dance Capital?
“The Ballet National de Marseille has also taken a bold new direction under the leadership of the experimental collective (LA)Horde, producing edgy performances drawing on...
Book Publishing’s Horror Genre Is Breaking Records
2024’s total figure of 836,199 was its biggest volume performance since 2009 and, so far in 2025, we have seen 628,431 books pass through the...
NYC’s Joyce Theatre Gets $15M Boost For Dance
Two of New York’s most prominent dance philanthropists are donating $15 million to the Joyce Theater, a leading dance stage in Manhattan, helping to...
A Non-Profit Is Crawling Paywalled Content And Supplying It To AI Companies
Common Crawl has opened a back door for AI companies to train their models with paywalled articles from major news websites. And the foundation...
Librarians On The Front Lines Of Civilization
The librarian is a seeker and keeper of truth, and that makes her a dangerous figure in the eyes of those who fear the...
DJing As Therapy For Ukrainian War Veterans
“At the Superhumans Centre, near Lviv, … the most critically war-wounded are treated with prosthetics and reconstructive surgery, and psychological support is given to...
Trump’s Skill With Imperial Images
Trump’s aggressive moves to accumulate political power — deploying National Guard troops, invoking massive tariffs —have prompted protests and lawsuits as well as plaudits....
Warning: BBC Is A Titanic On Collision Course
“The way that consumption habits have shifted over the last five years is almost more drastic than it was in the previous 50 years....
Art Institute Of Chicago Is Building $50 Million Conservation Center
“The 25,000-square-foot facility, to be known as the Grainger Center for Conservation and Science, will contain conservation laboratories, offices and a study center as...
Historic Philadelphia Theater To Become Cicely Tyson Performing Arts Center
The former Logan Theatre, a 1923 movie palace on Broad Street in North Philadelphia which has been empty since 1992, will undergo a $10...
Grade Inflation At Elite Colleges: Students Are Obsessed With “Points Taken Off”
Harvard administrators have released a statement saying that grade inflation has crossed a catastrophic threshold. Many Harvard undergrads treated the statement as a catastrophe...
It’s Official: The Big, Weird, Brutalist Fountain In San Francisco Will Be Removed
“A divided San Francisco Arts Commission on Monday approved a plan to at least temporarily remove the Vaillancourt Fountain from Embarcadero Plaza, a final...
For First Time, Diary Collection Wins Baillie Gifford Prize For Nonfiction
“How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner charts the Australian writer's life from her early career in bohemian Melbourne to raising...
Prix Goncourt, France’s Top Literary Prize, Goes To 20th-Century Family Saga “The Empty House”
“Laurent Mauvignier Tuesday won France's top literary award, the Goncourt, for his family saga spanning the 20th century and recounting the story of his grandmother...
Medieval Tower In Rome Collapses, Kills Worker
During renovations on the 13th-century Torre dei Conti, the structure started to collapse, trapping two workers. During the 11-hour rescue operations, passersby watched as...
Some Folks Are Not Happy About Philadelphia Art Museum’s Rebrand, And That Includes Some...
“Critics say the new logo and its angular griffin look severe — more like a soccer team, a clothing brand, or a beer label...
Opera America Names New President And CEO
Michael Bobbitt comes to OPERA America from the Mass Cultural Council in Boston, MA, where he served as Executive Director since 2021. - BroadwayWorld
Anne Sexton’s Horror Short Stories, Rejected By The New Yorker
Editor Roger Angell called the three stories “interesting and wholly original” but said “they seem to work in very different ways on different readers.”...
Meet The New Head Of The UK Opera Association
“The perception that opera is only for posh people, with which I fundamentally disagree, has taken a grip on a lot of decision-makers,” Thangam...
Choreography By AI?
AISOMA is a Google AI-powered choreography tool that acts as a creative catalyst by generating new, original dance rooted in my choreographic language. -...
Sasha Suda Fired As Director Of Philadelphia Art Museum
Suda, who has been leading a change campaign at the museum since she arrived in 2022, reportedly has both supporters and detractors on the board. -...
The Persistent, Pernicious Myths About Shakespeare And Marlowe
The Romantic ideal of a singular creative genius remaking the rules of his era doesn’t really match William Shakespeare, who was (for a theater...
Spotify Reports Strong Subscriber Gains, Record Profits
Music streamer Spotify saw third quarter operating profits grow a cool 28%, as its paying subscribers hit 281 million. - Deadline
