Why High School Teachers Should Be Having Students Read Entire Books, Not Just Excerpts
College professors of English Johanna Winant and Dan Sinykin thought they had written a book to help other undergrad-level instructors to teach close reading....
Just How Vulnerable Are Art Museums To Theft?
Many museums do have security systems in place to prevent similar heists, but they aren’t always foolproof. Unfortunately, in the case of the Louvre,...
Second City Has A Sideline: Improv Training For CEOs And Pro Athletes
“The venerable Chicago-based improvisational comedy institution has quietly built out a surprising side-hustle: Using the fundamentals and tactics of improv to teach corporate executives...
Steppenwolf @50: Career-Changing Theatre
Steppenwolf is embarking on its 50 anniversary season as one of America’s pre-eminent theater companies. An invitation to join its storied ensemble — a...
NPR And The Corporation For Public Broadcasting Are Fighting
Hearings continue in NPR’s lawsuit to block the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s distribution of $57.9 million to the newly formed Public Media Infrastructure (PMI). - InsideRadio
A White House Historian Talks About The East Wing
The house was designed to look like a domestic residence, not like the palace of a king or the compound of an autocrat or...
Here’s One Choreographer Who Loves AI And Virtual Reality
Wayne McGregor worked with a Google Arts & Culture Lab team to develop a choreographic language agent called AISOMA — a tool that can...
Misty Copeland Speaks About Her Next Act
Two days after confetti rained down on Copeland, she spoke about her career at Ballet Theater and what comes next. - The New York Times
How Pittsburgh Ballet Is Bucking a Trend And Finding Success
In an attempt to cater to evolving tastes, bring in as many attendees as possible and expose the next generation to ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet...
An Evolution Of Intelligence. So What Is It Now?
The trajectory of intelligent life on this planet can be described as an evolution of verbs: to move, to reproduce, to hunt, to hide,...
Aix-en-Provence Festival Appoints New General Director
American director and writer Ted Huffman, who will assume the position at New Year’s 2026, replaces Pierre Audi, who passed away suddenly this past...
Politics Is Changing The Ways History Is Being Taught In US Schools
Several major curriculum publishers have withdrawn products from the market, while others have found that teachers are shying away from lessons that were once...
Signs Of London’s Steep Decline
On any measure you care to look at, London’s economy — though still the most productive in Britain —is, at best, stagnant, and, at...
The Post-Covid Trend That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Whatever you order, it will come from a business that operates a bit differently than it once did: less like a restaurant and more...
King Tut’s Tomb Is Structurally Unsound And Could Collapse, Warns Study
“One of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, the tomb of the young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, is showing alarming signs of damage...
A New $50 Million Charitable Fund Will Support Indie And Nonprofit Publishers
“Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has established a Literary...
Picasso Painting That Went Missing From Truck Has Been Recovered
Still Life with Guitar (1919) was supposed to be in a shipment of artworks from Madrid to Granada for an exhibition, but it didn’t...
The History Behind France’s Now-Stolen Crown Jewels
“Before the shocking theft of the French Crown Jewels from the Louvre on October 19, most had all but forgotten the ruling women who...
What-All Is In The New Actors’ Equity Contract With Broadway Producers?
There’s an immediate pay increase well as 3% annual raises for the next three years, increased producer contributions to Equity’s health insurance plan, and...
Voice Of America, Despite Trump Administration’s Efforts, Isn’t (Yet) Gone For Good
Federal courts have ordered the administration to release funds for and resume news broadcasts at Voice of America and its sister networks such as...
Prunella Scales, Star Of “Fawlty Towers,” Is Dead At 93
In addition to her role in what many consider the greatest British sitcom in history, Scales’s 60-odd-year career ranged through TV series from Coronation...
“Hamilton’s” Schuyler Sisters Get Their Own Story
The musical, which depicts Eliza Schuyler, Hamilton, and Angelica Schuyler as emotionally entangled right from the get-go, catalyzed Amanda Vaill’s earlier feeling that there...
Literary Fiction Is Always Going To Die. But Doesn’t
What I am about to say on this matter may seem perverse, but I think a look back at the instances where great works...
As Hollywood Ponders The Louvre Heist Story, A Dapper Dan Walks Out Of The...
It is because we are surrounded by these kinds of A.I. images and tools that users are now also trained to be skeptical of...
Princeton’s History Museum Gets A Spectacular New Home
The collection’s history stretches as far back as the 1750s, to when the school was called the College of New Jersey, but its earliest...
