She Was The First Englishwoman Ever To Earn A Living Writing. She Was Also...
She traveled to the Low Countries and Suriname on missions for King Charles II, and she took up writing to support herself because he...
140 Filmmakers Blast PBS For Over-dependence On Ken Burns And Lack Of Diversity
"The decades-long interdependence of PBS decision-makers, philanthropists, and corporate funders with one white, male filmmaker highlights the racial and cultural inequities perpetuated by this...
What A Raga Is, And What It Is Not
"I should say that a raga is not a tune. It's not a note, not a scale, not a composition — although the raga...
A Wilting Critique Of Meritocracy
The story of the concept of ‘meritocracy’ has been well rehearsed in recent times, largely because of the way in which inequality and precarity...
‘Follies’ At 50: Why Sondheim’s Musical May Be The Most Important Flop Ever To...
"It was supposed to be a murder mystery: two couples, four motives, one gun. What it became was a different kind of mystery entirely:...
Ian McKellen On Playing Hamlet At Age 81
"I can't pretend I'm 20. No one's going to believe it. But I can feel that I'm 20. … One advantage is, when I...
Maybe Public Radio Stations Should Cut Two-Thirds Of Their Weekend Programming
Eric Nuzum: "The average number of unduplicated shows aired over Saturdays and Sundays is 25. Do all those programs help build audience? Station listeners...
Where The Candidates For Mayor Of New York City Stand On Arts And Culture
"New York City is heading into one of its most consequential elections in decades. … For the purposes of this inquiry, we asked eight...
How A Gang Of Wall-Climbing, Web-Slinging Rare Book Thieves Was Brought To Justice
In January of 2017, a group of skilled, acrobatic robbers began a series of daring break-ins — climbing walls, breaking through skylights and barriers,...
It Was Inevitable: New NFT Of ‘Salvator Mundi’ Holding Fistful Of Benjamins
"It sounds like an April Fools joke, and it both is and isn't. Author and art historian Ben Lewis has created a real non-fungible...
Venice Finally Bans Big Cruise Ships From Lagoon And Historic District
"For years, campaigns to oust cruise ships from the lagoon have been gaining traction, with locals claiming that the ships' massive structures erode the...
UK Theatre Returns To Stages, Having Learned Some Things During Lockdown
Shakespeare’s Globe has announced a mid-May reopening, albeit with a capacity of up to only 500 in a popular auditorium that can hold as...
Experimental Film Captures Dance In The Wild
“We were demonstrating that we were still there, that we were still dancing, that we still wanted to dance, that we were still those...
What Music Festivals Could Look Like This Summer
Certainly with international travel likely to be restricted in some form for a while, the chances are that international and local demand for festivals...
What Good Is Criticism After Something Bad Happens?
Every day I’m thankful for the work I get to do. I am paid to watch, to think, to write. But this week, like...
Big Claims For The Kind Of Art AI Will Make
Miller argues that AI-fueled art gains independence from its algorithmic parents and takes flight in works that bear the hallmarks of creativity and genius...
In Search Of Classical Music From Africa
Cellist Julian Lloyd Webber writes about his colleague Rebeca Omordia, a pianist of Romanian and Nigerian parentage who, since 2013, has been pursuing a...
Web Streaming and Book Publishing: Two Bright Spots for the Cultural Sector During COVID-19?
Compared with the average annual growth rate of arts and cultural industries as a whole (+3 percent), web streaming and web publishing surged by...
Syracuse Musings: Words of Wisdom (or not) from Panelists at the Deaccession Symposium
Here are some lessons from old-school conference speakers who acknowledged the need for progress, but defended what former Metropolitan Museum director Philippe de Montebello...
Nobel Prize: Sweet!
Lucky in Manhattan to have a Japanese market nearby, and because I’m enticed by anything in a post-Pop package, I fell for Nobel’s Super...
Now Clear: How Brexit Is A Disaster For UK Artists
“It is being slightly masked by Covid, but we are already seeing individuals losing their jobs because they don’t hold an EU passport. People...
Podcasts By Retired Sports Stars Are Becoming Big Business
"If athlete-driven podcasts were once shoestring affairs, they've now been absorbed into the sports-media economy. Last year, The Ringer was acquired by Spotify...
How Big New Money Is Ripping Up The Art Market
The traditional hierarchies of the art market, where values, both monetary and aesthetic, were established and policed by art historians, curators and museums, are...
What If Elena Ferrante Is Really A Man?
Over the past few years, a series of stylometric analyses, employing both human brains and AI software, has found that the true identity of...
London’s National Gallery Creates First Exhibition Designed For Mobile Phones
The mobile experience will allow people to zoom in on the details. It will include six poems in the voice of Balthasar, the black...
