Museum Employees Are Unhappy. Is It Getting Better?
Fifty-four percent of museum employees have considered quitting their jobs in the last five years, and more than one-quarter of full-time workers earn salaries...
What We’re Losing In A Post-Literate Culture
By now we’ve moved beyond a post-literature culture into what some are calling a post-literate age, taking us back several thousand years to communication...
A Dramatic Decline In Thinking?
If we consider literacy not as the ability to parse simple sentences but as the capacity to comprehend and enjoy complex texts, and ultimately...
Why So Many People, Including New York’s Governor, Mispronounce Zohran Mamdani’s Name
John McWhorter: "Mispronouncing someone’s name certainly can be a form of ridicule or dismissal. … But malice is not the only possible explanation for...
Doctors May Now Prescribe Attendance At A Montreal Symphony Concert
“Physicians will get prescriptions that they will give to patients. ... And we will give each patient that calls us two tickets for free,”...
Some Of The Loot From The Paris Treasure Heist — The One Last Year...
Last November, thieves used axes to break into the Musée Cognacq-Jay and steal seven antique snuffboxes, all highly bejeweled and all on loan from...
Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of The Year Is — Well, Is It Even A Word?
Boomers, X-ers, and most Millennials will just see it as a pair of numbers. Gen Z-ers may recognize it as what their younger relatives...
Sotheby’s To Auction Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet (Wait, Didn’t That Get Stolen?)
Yes, one copy of the 18-karat commode was purloined from an exhibition in England last year. That was the one first displayed at the...
Alabama Public Television Considers Dropping PBS Entirely
With APT having lost well over $2 million in support from the now-defunded Corporation for Public Broadcasting, some board members see PBS dues as...
It’s True: Ticket Sales Have Nosedived At Kennedy Center Since Trump Takeover
“Nearly nine months after Trump became chair of the center and more than a month into its main season, ticket sales for the Kennedy...
Meet New York’s Seniors-Only Precision Dance Troupe. It’s Called The Pacemakers.
“The team performs for hundreds of thousands of fans each year, appearing frequently at sporting events, community centers, festivals and conferences across the Northeast....
New JFK Terminal Will Be Full Of A-List Art
The swish new $9.5 billion terminal currently in the works at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Port Authority of New York...
I’m A James Baldwin Chatbot. Ask Me Anything.
At an “unlikely creative hub” in New York’s financial district, there’s an old electric typewriter which has been attached to a chatbot trained on...
Chicago’s Grant Park Music CEO Is Stepping Down After Transforming The Festival
Paul Winberg is credited with tripling the festival’s annual contributions, bolstering its administrative infrastructure and overseeing a key change in artistic leadership last year....
What Does The Philadelphia Museum Of Art’s Rebrand Signal?
The change may seem cosmetic, but as a marketing scholar at Temple University whose research focuses on branding and digital marketing strategy, I know that in...
Complexity: How Do You Measure AI?
AI measurement is a new field, and everything is still under contention—not just how we test but what we should be testing for. - The...
U.S. Media Went All-In On Diversity A Few Years Ago. Now It’s Backing Away...
“Last week, NBC News gutted all the reporting groups aimed at the stories of underrepresented groups. And they're hardly alone. … As more media companies...
How We Know What We Know: What Is Common Knowledge?
Common knowledge — awareness of mutual understanding — can explain the emergence of social-media shaming mobs, academic cancel culture and revolutions that seem to erupt...
1000 Artifacts Stolen From Oakland Museum In Early Morning Heist
Stolen items include Native American baskets, jewelry, laptops, historic photographs and intricately carved ivory tusks. - Los Angeles Times
LACMA Employees Unionize
Employees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced Wednesday that they are forming a union, LACMA United, representing more than 300 workers...
W.H. Auden Became Close Friends With The Sex Worker Who Robbed Him
“A ‘once in a century’ discovery of a cache of long-lost letters has revealed how the English poet WH Auden developed a deep and lasting friendship...
Our Post-Reading Generation
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft...
Listening To Music On Headphones Has Disrupted Our Culture
The power of music has long been its ability to soundtrack a generation—to evoke emotion, as well as summon a specific time and place. Headphone...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images
Their whole lives, they had heard people talk about picturing, and imagining, and counting sheep, and visualizing beaches, and seeing in the mind’s eye,...
Ronald K. Brown On 40 Years Of His Dance Company And How To “Make...
“Dance is already abstract, and so the role of us as artists is to be as specific as possible with what we want to...
