What Happens If An Archivist Sneezes On A Centuries-Old Manuscript?
First, for God's sake, he shouldn't wipe it off himself. (This lesson was learned the hard way.) Beyond that, there are ways of...
Pornhub Is Now Offering Virtual Museum Tours
The website has launched "Classic Nudes", a curated selection of NSFW art at the Louvre, the Met, the Prado, etc. View the works online...
California Budgets $50 Million In Pandemic Relief For Small Theaters
"The subsidy came after intense lobbying from small theaters concerned about their future after a 15-month shutdown. Compounding the effects was the prospect of...
Court Throws Out Judge Roy Moore’s Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen
The former Alabama jurist and Senate candidate sued the actor/mockumentarian over the scene in the Netflix series Who Is America? in which Baron Cohen's...
Meet Spoleto Festival USA’s First New General Director In 35 Years
Succeeding longtime chief Nigel Redden in October is Egyptian-American musicologist Mena Mark Hanna, a teacher, composer, Coptic Orthodox cantor (!), and former administrator at...
Can The Metropolitan Opera Start Its Season On Time? It’s Up To The Musicians’...
The company, which was having money troubles even before the pandemic, finally has agreements with the unions for onstage (AGMA) and backstage (IATSE) workers....
Italy Bans Cruise Ships From Venice (And They Mean It This Time!)
An announcement to this effect was made earlier this year, but the mammoth passenger boats turned up anyway. But now the national government, eager...
Security Guards Curate Baltimore Museum Show
“I was struck and moved by the extraordinarily personal, cogent arguments that each officer made for their selection, which was so different from the...
A Music Critic Reconsiders The Star Spangled Banner As A Piece Of Music
What if, after 90 years, we took a diagnostic check on this venerable musical document to see whether it still works as intended? -...
What Jerry Saltz’s Rejection Of Substack Really Means
"Some more enterprising major-media columnists sometimes compare Substack to the broadsheets of journalism’s early decades in the 1800s, though they do this, invariably, as...
How Mathematical Models Gave Us An Advantage With COVID
Enormously useful mathematical tools that have been put to work during the pandemic—from classical differential equations to more recent techniques such as Monte Carlo...
Oklahoma City Ballet Sues Insurance Company Over Denied COVID Claims
“An all risk policy is to cover any loss that you have during the policy period, unless it is specifically excluded.” - KFOR
France Fines Google $593 Million Over News Sharing
It is "one of the first attempts to apply a new copyright directive adopted by the European Union intended to force internet platforms like...
The Man Who Saved The Slovenian Language
Over six centuries in the Habsburg empire and most of another in Yugoslavia, the tongue of this tiny Alpine land might well have faded...
They Said COVID Would Kill Cities. Clearly It Hasn’t
What is so alluring about the perpetually imminent End of Cities? Why won’t that idea itself die? - The New York Times
British TV Has Become A Major Worldwide Export
And it isn't just Downton Abbey and Killing Eve: MasterChef and Naked Attraction air in dozens of countries. In fact, other nations are now...
The Arts Have A Class Problem
Our research found that a complex blend of social inequalities, labour market failures, and outright discrimination are making these jobs so exclusive and keeping...
Robots Are Now Sculpting In Carrara Marble
AI software isn't designing the sculptures in the Italian quarry town (yet), but it is controlling precision machines that do the strenuous grinding and...
Movie Theatre Stocks Down As Industry Realigns
“Imagine being a theater owner and realizing studios need you less and less every day. Leverage is shifting rapidly in the streaming era toward...
Wayne McGregor: ”We Need, In Dance, To Slightly Rebalance What It Is We’re Watching...
"The more we see diverse body types on stage, the more people understand that dance as an expressive art form can have this wide...
Warner (Seeing Easy Money) Introduces “NFTs For The Masses”
Nifty’s, which launches on Monday, is all about making NFTs more accessible to the average person who may not want to spend money (let...
The Play For Our Moment? A Harold Pinter One-Act From 1960
Charles McNulty: "The Dumb Waiter lampoons the subservience to authoritarian power by focusing on the behavior of the stooges. Pinter humorously captures their moral...
Master Bluegrass Fiddler Byron Berline Dead At 77
"Weaving elements of pop, jazz, blues and rock into an old-timey approach to his instrument, Mr. Berline contributed instrumentals" to recordings by Bob Dylan,...
‘Voice Cloning’ — AI-Generated Copies Of Individuals’ Speech Intrigues And Worries Voice Actors
Artificial intelligence software can now create very convincing reproductions of people's vocal timbres and speech patterns. Could this be a tool to let voice...
Jerry Saltz Turns Down $250K Substack Offer To Stay At New York Mag
The Pulitzer-winning art critic said tweeted, "I think it's fishy to always be barking to your readers to subscribe. … I like being in...
