Trump Refiles $15 Billion Lawsuit Against Penguin Random House And New York Times
The case — which charges that, with the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, the...
Senior Housing Designed To Fight Loneliness Wins Britain’s Top Architecture Award
The Stirling Prize for the country’s best new building of the year, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects, has gone to the...
Art Historian Says He’s Figured Out Who Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring Was
It’s been suggested that she was the artist’s daughter, a servant girl, or even a sibyl from Greek mythology. Scholar Andrew Graham-Dixon writes that...
Wardrobe Stylist Sues “Hamilton” Producers For Firing Her After Medical Leave For Cancer Treatment
Kimberly Mark, a veteran Broadway dresser, joined the Hamilton crew a decade ago. Her suit alleges that, after four operations and weeks of chemotherapy and...
Philadelphia’s Mann Center Has A New Sponsorship Deal And New Name
The open-air concert venue in Fairmount Park has been given a “substantial” grant from the Pennsylvania insurance company Highmark to support a renovation project...
NPR “Founding Mother” Susan Stamberg, 87
In 1972, as host of All Things Considered, she became the first female anchor of a nightly national newscast. She co-hosted the show for...
London’s Royal Ballet School Is Making Some Big Changes In Teaching
For a start, they’ve raised the starting age from 11 to 13. And they’ve done away with many of the rigid and arbitrary body...
Why Is CBS Making So Many Scripted Shows When Other Networks Are Retreating?
Given that the Tiffany Network has been home to the most-watched new series for the past nine TV seasons in a row, they've earned...
Another Nobel-Winning Author Turns Out To Have Been A God-Awful Person
Most observers knew that Saul Bellow was no saint, especially after reading his greatest novel, the quasi-autobiographical Herzog. Bellow’s portrait of his protagonist’s wife,...
How Social Media has Turned Everything Into Television
Social media has evolved from text to photo to video to streams of text, photo, and video, and finally, it seems to have reached...
How OpenAI Has Played Hollywood
Among the discrepancies: the treatment of likenesses versus intellectual property. Tellingly, some execs were told an opt-in would be required for both. Others were...
Our Long History Of Artificial Intelligizing
If philosophy formalized reasoning, literature explored its consequences. Stories about artificial beings reveal the hopes and terrors of living with intelligent doubles. Western traditions...
Abundance Of Choice Is Our Modern Religion. It Has Some Serious Downsides
Philosophers and political theorists say it promotes selfish individualism and discourages collective action around issues that affect us all. And sociologists add that societies...
Orchestra Commissions Mason Bates To Create Its “Sonic Logo”
When Charlotte Symphony music director Kwamé Ryan saw the orchestra’s newly-redesigned logo, he thought the CSO should have a musical equivalent — like NBC’s...
Royal Ballet Teams Up With Blind Artist To Experience Movement Differently
The Royal Ballet has long offered headphones with audio descriptions so that visually impaired members of the audience can follow the action on stage. Now the...
Europe’s New Soccer Stadiums Are The Cathedrals Of Our Time
The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner once said: “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” For much of their history, football...
The Archaeology Of Unearthing The World’s Oldest Stories
Nowadays, we can unearth bones, extract DNA, even map ancient migrations, but only in myths can we glimpse the inner lives of our forebears—their...
Playwright Douglas Carter Beane Takes The Helm At The Theatre He Grew Up In
Beane was in his hometown — Reading, Pennsylvania — scouting locations for his first feature film when he learned that the Genesius Theatre, where...
Daniel Day-Lewis: Theatre Is An Elite Art Form For Privileged People
Theatre in itself is an elite cultural form. There are of course exceptions, many wonderful theatre companies that manage to put on affordable performances...
“Democracy” Is Melting On The National Mall
“Showing in real life that democracy is melting away before our very eyes, I think it’s a powerful symbol that helps express the feelings...
Is YouTube About To Eat The Entire TV Industry?
“The only question is what genres it will take over next, and how quickly it will do so. From talk shows to scripted dramas...
Foot Traffic In Downtown Chicago Is Back To Pre-COVID Levels, Thanks To Arts And...
“The new numbers validate efforts to make the Loop a social destination and combat high retail and office vacancy rates that have plagued the...
A 1,900-Year-Old Roman Tombstone Turns Up In A New Orleans Backyard
A Tulane anthropologist was clearing out underbrush when she came upon a stone slab inscribed with Latin text. She called an archaeologist colleague, who...
Los Angeles Times Is Losing Horrifying Amounts Of Money
“The business made a loss from operations of $41.8m in the year ending 29 December 2024 and a total net loss before taxes of...
Gramophone Awards 2025: Simon Rattle Sets A Record, Pichon’s Bach Wins Record Of The...
The British conductor is the first person ever to win Gramophone’s Artist of the Year award twice. The Record of the Year prize went...
