The World’s Smallest Commercial Theatre Has Been Saved
Located in Malvern, England, the Theatre of Small Convenience was once a public toilet; it measures 107 sf and seats 12. It was opened as a...
Against Free Speech. Really?
In another generation, intellectual historians like Dabhoiwala will look back to the present and ask themselves how it happened that, early in the 21st...
Glenn Lowry’s Warning On Leaving MoMA
"If we want a museum that will collect and display the most daring and challenging artists of our time, then we will have to...
Presenting The Dance Magazine Award Honorees For 2025
“A tradition dating back to 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards are given in appreciation of the artistry, integrity, and resilience that dance artists have...
The TikTok Deal: China Would Keep The Algorithm
Ultimately, China gets to keep the TikTok algorithm, simply licensing the algorithm to the US instead of handing over the heart of TikTok's success....
Pandora – The Music Streaming Service That Won’t Die
In its first decade, Pandora users had created eight billion stations, logged 74 billion hours of listening, and rated 55 billion songs with its...
Gaudi’s Sagrada Família Is Almost Finished. Is It A Masterpiece Or Is It Kitsch?
Gaudí’s structure is a head-spinning mixture of morphing geometrical forms, many inspired by nature. Its conical Art Nouveau pinnacles have the lumpy beauty of...
Without Federal Funding, Tribal Public Radio Stations Fear For Their Survival
“If we lose the radio station, it’s like you lose an arm or a leg,” said the tribal council vice-chair in Warm Springs, Oregon. Said...
Moscow Court Sentences Members Of Pussy Riot To Prison In Absentia
“(Five members) were sentenced to periods ranging from 8 to 13 years for ‘spreading knowingly false information containing data about the deployment of the Russian...
Meet The Attorneys Fighting For Public And School Libraries And Against Book Bans
“Libraries, and public libraries in particular, are often in financial crunches and depend on tax dollars to keep the lights on. They rarely have...
Internet Archive And Record Labels Settle $621 Million Lawsuit Over Old 78 RPM Records
The case, with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment as lead plaintiffs, targeted the Archive's Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize, and make...
Emergency Campaign For Alaska Public Radio Stations Raises $3.5 Million
The state’s far-flung public radio stations are among the most vulnerable to the rescission of federal funding. The legislature has eliminated state funding as...
NPR Cuts $5 Million From Next Year’s Budget
“CEO Katherine Maher announced during a board meeting that while listener donations have surged (since the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting), it’s...
Thieves Steal $700K Worth Of Raw Gold From France’s National Museum Of Natural History
“A break-in was detected on Tuesday morning, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into...
The Italian Palazzo Where Broken Voices And Vocal Techniques Get Repaired
Marianna Brilla and Lisa Paglin spent years in Italy studying old vocal treatises and historical recordings to find the roots of bel canto technique....
The Grass Roots Activists Fighting For The Right To Read
“This is who the Fifth Circuit is harassing: a mom of four with a Diet Coke in her hand, doing this while her kids...
Beirut, Once The Arab World’s Publishing Capital, Struggles To Keep Its Book Culture Alive
Before Lebanon’s long civil war, authors from all over the Arab world published in liberal Beirut the books they couldn’t release in their own...
In Xi’an, Anywhere You Dig, There’s History
Some estimate that the city’s subterranean history could stretch back 1 million years, with early human settlement from the Lantian Man and walled settlements...
Just How Can You Make Theatre In Ukraine During a War?
They have brothers and fathers in the war; they have family members cut off from them in the occupied Donbas. At one rehearsal, an...
The Remarkable Adji Cissoko
Over more than a decade with Lines, Cissoko has become such a part of King's creative process that it's now almost impossible to know...
A Librarian Recounts A Moment That Makes Her Very Difficult, Now-Very Controversial Job Worth...
“Libraries are enduring book bans, mental health crises, drug overdoses, and more” — including accusations of peddling pedophilie porn — “as we try to provide resources and...
National Parks Staff Are Removing Information About Slavery
Trump’s March executive order directing the Interior Department to eliminate information that reflects a “corrosive ideology” that disparages historic Americans. National Park Service officials...
North Dakota Columnist Who Wrote Famous Review of Olive Garden Dies At 99
In the review, she famously wrote in praise of the chain’s chicken Alfredo as “warm and comforting on a cold day.” “As I ate,...
The Art-Of-Endurance Artists
The subject has grown rarer as the art world has gotten more commercial, but there are still people who immerse themselves in projects that...
Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Is Working Out The Cultural Divisions Within His Homeland And...
“I thought the (wider) world was so interesting (when I was young), and outside was where I could breathe. I think the world I...
