India’s Top Documentary Filmmaker Can Barely Show His Work There Anymore
" Patwardhan views his filmmaking practice as comprehensive — not just researching, shooting, and completing films, but also taking them on tour and holding...
Paul Schrader: The End Of The Movie Feature As We Knew It?
"The two-hour format which was so ideally suited to theatrical, we’ve now trained young people for fifteen months not to see that as a...
‘Damn! This Is A Caravaggio! Where The Hell Did You Find It?’ (The Inside...
"It took all of six minutes for Massimo Pulini to realise that the small oil painting due to go under the hammer in Madrid...
Researchers Use AI To Analyze Dead Sea Scrolls
For their study, the researches utilized artificial intelligence technology to examine the writing on the scrolls, comparing the look of certain letters and analyzing...
In Defense Of The Art Of Broadway
"If you live and die at the box office, as does Broadway, you are not rewarded for indulgence or self-involvement. More importantly, you often...
The World’s Bravest Opera Boss Talks About The Challenges At His Latest House
Stéphane Lissner has been the superintendent/general director at the two most notoriously contentious companies in the world: La Scala and the Paris Opera. Now...
Ten Trends In Architecture To Combat Climate Change
From reducing waste and maximising urban greenery to collaboration and lobbying for change, solutions to reduce pressure on the planet are now taking centre...
The Mighty Battle Of The Getty Museum Versus The Webbing Clothes Moth
It seems that, in many places, a multitude of vermin took advantage of the lack of traffic in museums during the pandemic to stage...
In Florida, It’s Now A Felony To Damage A Confederate Monument
While the "Combating Public Disorder Act" just signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis is most notorious for its provisions aimed at street protests (classifying blocking...
NPR And PRX To Offer Paid Subscription Option For Podcasts
NPR will give listeners the choice to pay — via its own platforms, Apple, or Spotify — a yet-undetermined monthly fee in order to...
When Right-Wingers Accuse Online Booksellers Of Censorship, They May Have A Point (But Not...
"Unlike the cozy bookstore in your town, online booksellers don't choose each book they're offering. The role of curator — if it exists at...
Bankrupt One Year Ago, Cirque Du Soleil Begins Reopening
"Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, which emerged from Chapter 15 protection after a sale in November, announced on Wednesday that it is restarting four...
Bob Porter, Producer And Broadcaster Who Rescued Jazz History, Dead At 80
"As a record producer guided the reissue of vast swaths of the classic jazz canon, and … as a broadcaster helped build...
Dancer Who Sued Berlin State Ballet For Racial Discrimination Gets Settlement, New Contract
"Chloé Lopes Gomes filed a lawsuit in 2020 against the expiration of her temporary contract. She discriminated against because of the color of...
I Miss Chitchat
In our pandemic world, casual conversation has been all but eliminated. The closest thing I get these days is saying “thank you” to a...
How Those Algorithms Manipulate Your Behavior
University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein popularized the term “nudge” in 2008, but due to recent advances...
The Contentious History Of Grammar Books
In that era, a Grammar was second only to a Bible as a necessary object in a God-fearing household. While the Bible provided moral...
Microsoft: Back-To-Back Video Meetings Are “Unsustainable”
“Our research shows breaks are important, not just to make us less exhausted by the end of the day, but to actually improve our...
Jerry And Kenny’s Excellent NFT Adventure
Jerry Saltz and Kenny Schachter team up to "test" the NFT market. "To be clear, NFTism doesn’t necessarily disrupt anything but rather presents a...
Choreographer Cathy Marston, Making New Story Ballets Cool Again
The 46-year-old Briton, who has continued to work remotely even as her big U.S. premieres planned for last year (Of Mice and Men at...
How Do We Structurally Change Theatre Criticism?
“The answer is not more diverse critics because what the fuck does that mean? More diverse critics and then they go where? More diverse...
Size Matters: Of Novels And Novellas And Their Fluctuating Lengths
Novels started out long in the 18th and 19th centuries, got shorter in the early 20th century, and really started bulking up (especially genre...
How To Fight Online Disinformation
"The trend of people celebrating and posting photos of themselves or loved ones receiving the vaccine has been far more effective than any attempt...
Tempest Storm, Last Of The Great Old-Time Striptease Artists, Dead At 93
"Routinely named in the same ardent breath as the great 20th-century ecdysiasts Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr and Gypsy Rose Lee, Ms. Storm was...
Historian Pinpoints The Worst Year In Human History
The year was terrible due to cataclysmic eruptions that blocked out the sun and the spread of the plague. It ushered in the coldest...
