Why Conspiracy Theories Are So Attractive
Are conspiracy theories truly more prevalent and influential today, or does it just seem that way? - NiemanLab
What It Took To Program Robots To Dance The Twist And The Mashed Potato
A video which became a viral hit last month "shows two of Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas research robots doing the twist, the mashed potato...
Amazon Sued For Price Fixing
The suit "alleges that the publishers pay high commissions and other costs to Amazon, which in turn increases the retail price of e-books sold...
Why I Make Undergrads Read Unfinished Novels
Matthew Redmond teaches this class at Stanford in part "to disrupt what seems an obvious distinction between development and result, closure and continuity. On...
Hollywood Rediscovers The Limited Series
Once thought of as a relic of yesteryear, the limited series—or miniseries, depending on which generation you belong to—has rapidly shifted back into focus....
The Lonely, Mysterious Death Of A Science Fiction Pioneer
"This past Saturday, about a dozen people from across the United States and Canada held a Zoom memorial for a man whose remains have...
One Composer’s Long Slog To Make A Giant TV Network Pay For Using His...
Unbeknownst to the composer, waiting beyond a YouTube search for his name was a seeming subindustry that consistently used Kerry Muzzey’s music without his...
Pandemic Lockdowns Were Supposed To Be A Chance To Rethink The Ways Theatre Operates....
To an extent, yes, it has. Reporter Natasha Tripney talks with theatremakers around Britain about the positive developments — the success of streaming, increased...
Georgia Towns Sue Netflix To Make Them Pay Cable Fees
Three municipalities in Georgia are suing Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming video providers for as much as 5 percent of their gross revenue in...
Mirga Will Leave City Of Birmingham Symphony After Next Season
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, the young Lithuanian woman whose considerable reputation began developing while she was an assistant conductor at the L.A. Philharmonic, became music director...
Audiences Won’t Come Back Until Folks Are Vaccinated (But They Still Want Masks): Study
The survey of 3,300 frequent attenders (most over 60 and almost all over 40) found that, now that COVID-19 vaccines are being given to...
Manet Painting Unseen For 140 Years Headed To Auction
"The oil on canvas painting, named after the dog, a griffon called Minnay, is one of a series of eight dog paintings Manet produced...
Salonen And San Francisco Symphony Open Streaming Platform
"The new on-demand streaming service, dubbed SFSymphony+, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 4 with a chamber program curated by Salonen as part of...
Biden Axes Trump’s ‘1776 Commission’ On History Curriculum
"President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order to dissolve the 1776 Commission, a panel stood up by President Donald Trump … as...
Art Basel Postponed To September 2021
"In another blow to Art Basel and its owner, MCH Group, the art fair's organizers have postponed its flagship edition in Switzerland for the...
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Will Happen, But May Be Postponed To July
"With the Cannes Lions still on track to run June 21-25, it’s feasible that the Cannes Film Festival could be assembled in time...
Meet Maya Phillips, The NYT’s Newest Critic-At-Large
"There have been a lot of bad things happening this year, obviously. But the good thing about being a critic during this pandemic is...
Wikipedia @20: A Little Piece Of Utopia Left On The Internet?
As more and more of the internet is consolidated, discredited, and co-opted by capital, Wikipedia begins to look like a vestige of a bygone...
The Historian And The Nazi Art Thief
“The paper trail for these art plunderers, as for most second-rank figures in Nazi Germany, largely dried up after their interrogations and de-Nazifications in...
The Man Saving Cities One Historic Building At A Time
“These once-dead buildings are now living spaces where people work, eat and carry out their lives,” says Luis Martín Bogdanovich, the general manager of...
Mattel Rolls Out A New “Maya Angelou Barbie”
The new Barbie, whose face is “sculpted to Dr Angelou’s likeness” and who is wearing a head-wrap, jewellery and floral print dress on its...
The Power Of Jigsaw Puzzles To Put The World Back Together
If maps are representations of a larger reality, then jigsaws are maps too. Indeed, they began life this way, as ‘dissected maps’. Invented by...
‘Moulin Rouge!’ — An Oral History Of A Broadway Smash Snuffed Out By Disease
"Set in fin de siècle Paris but supercharged by 75 pop songs, it opened to a rave from The New York Times ('This one's...
Ominous Juxtaposition? Biden Flanked by Duncanson’s “Rainbow” & Statue of a Murdered President
Am I the only one who gasped at the photo in this tweet? - Lee Rosenbaum
Why Germany Is The Greatest Arts Nation
This is the greatest modern artistic nation in Europe. Art history tends to get it all wrong, exaggerating the glamour of French art, just...
