National Museum Of Yemen Damaged By Israeli Aerial Bombing
Photos and video show the museum’s courtyard littered with rubble; while doors and windows were blown out, the building is standing. The museum reopened...
For $1 Million, The Atlantic Settles Lawsuit By Writer Of Retracted Story
In 2020, the magazine published a story by freelance journalist Ruth Shalit Barrett about wealthy parents pushing their children into niche sports to gain...
Penn State Will Shut Down NPR/PBS Affiliate WPSU
A committee of Trustees of the university, which owns and operates the station, unanimously rejected a plan to transfer ownership of the station licenses...
The New U.S. Poet Laureate Is Arthur Sze
“The Library (of Congress) announced Monday that the 74-year-old Sze had been appointed to a one-year term, starting this fall. The author of 12...
Layoffs And Cancellations At D.C. PBS Station WETA
“The workforce reduction includes layoffs of 12 active workers and the elimination of nine vacant positions, representing approximately 5% of the employee roster of...
The TIFF People’s Award Has Been Pretty Good At Predicting The Oscar Winners
What changed it all? Chariots of Fire. - CBC
Philadelphia’s Brilliant New Home For Calder
Herzog & de Meuron has designed a deliberately “irrational” exhibition space, set largely below the Parkway and sheathed in reflecting steel, so that the...
A Short History Of Stupidity
The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? ...
The Current Dance Funding System Is Broken. What Needs To Replace It?
Universally, there is an urgent call for dance’s back offices to approach funding with the same creativity, vitality, and care that goes into artistic...
These Are Not The First Attacks On Education. But This Time The Attacks Are...
We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education and, this time around, the stakes feel even higher. In...
How Seattle Theatre Group Became An Entertainment Juggernaut
This year, it will present over 700 shows across its stages, from pop music to Broadway musicals and seemingly everything in between. In recent...
The Temple Of Arvo Pärt
The whole place exudes the ethos of Pärt, whose music demands love and dedication from its interpreters yet almost nothing of its listeners, offering...
How Teacher Evaluations Broke Good Education
Teacher evaluations are a big part of how higher education got to this point. The scores factor into academics’ pay, hiring, and chance to...
How Our Brains Distinguish Reality From Imagination
We tend to think that we perceive reality as it is, with cameralike eyes that objectively log the light that hits them. But as...
San Francisco Music Club Bans AI Poster Art
Although some devil’s advocates might say that AI use democratizes the ability to create high-quality promotional materials, Agan feels like the aesthetic just isn’t in...
Some Thoughts On Raising A Book Reader Amid A Digital Environment
For one thing, “the real challenge isn’t technology itself, but how technology has evolved to actively compete with the very cognitive processes that reading...
We Want Retro Movies, And We Want To See Them In Cinemas
Is a showing of Back to the Future or Jaws something like a ballet company’s Nutcracker - dependable money for a theatre, with a...
New DNA Cassettes Can, Apparently, Store Every Song Ever Recorded
Sadly, “if you put one of the new tapes into an old-fashioned Walkman, it won’t produce any meaningful sound, because the DNA cassette doesn’t use...
The Dictionary Had Its Beginning In The Enlightenment, But Now The Project May Be...
"Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just...
The 66-Year-Old Retired Accountant Who Just Joined LSU’s Marching Band
Apparently, it’s never too late to live your musical dreams. - NPR
Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet Wins The People’s Choice Award At TIFF
“The film, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, is about how grief, following the death of son, Hamnet, may have inspired Shakespeare’s greatest...
Rolling Stone’s Parent Company Sues Google For AI Overview
“The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the...
The People Chasing Thrills, And The Artists And Engineers Running Up Against Physics To...
“In recent years, Americans have drifted away from many of their once-beloved sources of pleasure: drinking, throwing parties, having sex, making friends. Yet they keep coming...
These Nazi-Looted Paintings Will, After An Intervention, Not Be Up For Auction
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into...
The National Gallery Can Finally Show Britain – And Tourists – The Story Of...
And gosh, maybe it can even start to include a fair number of women artists. - The Guardian (UK)
