The Woman Who Saved Samba, Back When It Was Outlawed
"A century ago, samba becoming synonymous with Brazil's cultural identity would have seemed impossible. In the early 20th century, Rio's ruling elite were ashamed...
How Big Tech Subverted The Public Square
"A functioning market required transparency, a mutual understanding of exchanges and a shared moral framework. And, as Rana Foroohar puts it in this brief...
Boston Symphony Finds Its New CEO At The LA Phil
More than a year after it began its search for a new president and chief executive, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expected to announce...
Why It’s Important To Make Art With Your Kids
"When young children make art together with their caregivers, they share a new experience which can reinforce bonding. Creativity is an extension of babies’...
U.S. Newspapers Are Starting To Accept The ‘Right To Be Forgotten’
Back in 2014, when the EU passed a law allowing people to petition Google to de-index old news stories about them (e.g., criminal convictions...
Research Paper Linking Violence To Video Games Is Retracted
"Zhang and his co-authors reported high levels of statistical significance for their finding, but the reported differences in the effects of violent games versus...
Why It’s Time To Reopen Movie Theaters
"Despite being indoors (a red flag), the sort of behavior engaged in at the movies is, relatively speaking, benign. Patrons who can and should...
For First Time, Boston Symphony Will Have Female CEO
"In picking , the orchestra looked west, to one of the most successful American orchestras of recent years" — the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where...
Marfa, Texas Is Getting An(other) Arts Center
"For the last year, Michael Phelan — a contemporary artist who has lived in Marfa full time since 2014 — has been quietly planning...
UK’s National Theatre Ends Tours To Europe
Yes, it's because of Brexit: a statement from a company spokesperson said that "the potential additional costs for visas and current uncertainty around social...
Did The Louvre Just Ruin Its Cy Twombly Mural?
"After a renovation of a storied gallery at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Cy Twombly Foundation has claimed that a monumental ceiling painting...
This Summer’s Glyndebourne Opera Festival Will Happen (Almost) As Normal
Says managing director Sarah Hopwood, "We are determined to present a festival this summer in whatever form is possible. We consider this essential to...
‘Like The Metro At Rush Hour’: Vatican Museums Reopen To The Public, And It’s...
"Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last...
Indianapolis Museum/Newfields CEO Resigns After Week Of Outcry
"We are sorry. We have made mistakes. We have let you down. We are ashamed of Newfields' leadership and of ourselves," the board said...
YouTube Chief Talks About What’s Next, Misinformation, And New Features
YouTube is planning an official rollout for “Applause,” a feature—already in testing—that lets viewers make cash payments to their favorite creators by initiating an...
AI Researchers Are Increasingly Worried About The Ethical Implications Of Their Work
Just as some computer scientists seem oblivious to ethical concerns, others appear to be trigger-happy with their moral outrage. - The New Yorker
Can Historians Be Traumatized By What They Study?
"The phenomenon of the historian traumatized by history remains unstudied and is not widely known. Yet anyone who has documented depravity knows the symptoms....
Study: Are “Minor” Literatures More Nationalistic?
"Our data consists of digital editions of 200 works of prize-winning fiction, divided into four subcorpora of equal size: U.S.-American, French, German, and a...
Struggling With The Meaning Of Cultural Appropriation
"Your poem was meant to be a complex double portrait of both the Black caregiver and your white grandmother, and the racist logic and...
Getting A Grip On Australia(s) Through Graphic Novels
"Comic creators have been wrestling with contemporary Australia and its identities in a series of publication coming out this year. What they show is...
The Five Flavors of Strategy
As the chaos and confusion of the global pandemic shows distant glimpses of something less chaotic, the question of “strategy” is emerging once again....
Now We Know What New Orleans Without Mardi Gras Music Is
His city—our cities—aren’t empty now. They’re just pretty much shut down. There’s a social media campaign attached to the Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s new...
How The Bay Area’s Hip-Hop Dance Crews Have Kept On Through COVID
"When the first COVID-19 lockdown rippled across the Bay Area last March, the dance community reeled. … But as the pandemic unfolded, the crews...
Martin Scorsese: How Streaming Is Killing The Movie Art
Scorsese acknowledges streamers benefit his career (without Netflix there would be no “The Irishman,” and without Apple there would be no “Killers of the...
Paul Ganson, Who Saved Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, Dead At 79
The Detroit Symphony's assistant principal bassoonist from 1969-2004, he had been with the orchestra one year when he launched the Save Orchestra Hall campaign,...
