How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on...
Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI
Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has...
For North America’s Beleaguered Indie Publishers, A New Distributor Is Coming
With the sudden closing of Small Press Distribution last year and the impending disappearance of National Book Network, the avenues for small presses in...
At BET Awards, Stars Call Out Trump Administration
Doechii, the Grammy-winning rapper, and entertainment mogul Tyler Perry made overt statements about the current administration and its multi-pronged attacks on communities of color....
UC Irvine In Negotiations To Run Orange County Museum Of Art
“The university would run the museum. The details are being worked out. Negotiations are ongoing and a finished agreement is months away with the...
Smithsonian Will Conduct Content Review Of Collections after Trump Request
“The board directed the secretary to assess content in museums and make needed changes to ensure unbiased content, including personnel changes,” a Smithsonian spokesman...
Barbara Holdridge, Co-Founder Of Caedmon Records (And The Entire Audiobook Industry), Has Died At...
“Ms. Holdridge, along with her best friend, Marianne Mantell, built the label, Caedmon Records, into a recording industry dynamo by releasing LPs of such...
How I Rediscovered The Joys Of Reading In BookTok
To read for joy, for wonder, for emotional truth is to hold onto something deeply human. And in a moment when the stories we’re...
Trump DOJ Says President Can Abolish National Monument Protections
The May 27 document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink...
A New Arts-And-Culture Journalism Outlet Is Opening In London
“Founder of culture and city guide Broadsheet Nick Shelton (explains) why the title is expanding from Australia and New Zealand into London. It currently has 85...
The Duplass Brothers Are Bringing The Indie Film Studio Business Model To TV
“Traditionally, TV creators pitch ideas for shows to big studios, which (front) the money to get the project rolling and then own the final...
Watching The Tryouts For The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
“The Metropolitan Opera’s stage door, a plain entrance hidden in the tunnels of Lincoln Center, routinely welcomes star singers, orchestra musicians, stagehands, costumers and...
Some Of Paris’s Leading Museums And Monuments Are Raising Prices For Non-EU Visitors
“Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums — including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles — will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up...
Kyiv’s 1,000-Year-Old Cathedral Damaged By Russian Air Attack
St. Sophia, the 11th-century landmark considered the mother church of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and Belarus as well as Ukraine, was damaged by blast...
Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Fired For “Toxic Working Environment”
After months of increasingly public complaints by company dancers, Demis Volpi, an Argentine-German choreographer who succeeded company founder John Neumeier one year ago, will...
Paramount Global Is Laying Off Another 3.5% Of Its US Workforce
Less than a year after reducing its stateside payroll by 15% (roughly 2,000 employees), the entertainment conglomerate is eliminating another several hundred jobs —...
Twenty Years After His Fabricated Memoir And Grilling By Oprah, James Frey Is Trying...
“As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit...
Actors Unions Make Deal with Video Game Producers After Strike Over AI
With the strike, the union took a stand against proposed AI terms that leaders claimed would have allowed companies to undercut members and their...
Despite Ongoing Bombardment, Kharkiv’s Ballet Dances On Amid The Destruction
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
William Kentridge On Creating Art
You’ve probably had the experience where you’ve written something, it feels really great and, the next morning, you read it and think, “Who wrote...
What Monet Understood About Evoking A Place
This immersiveness does not come from an illusion of being in three dimensions – the opposite, in fact. Monet does a few subtle things...
The Truth About Finding Your Own Creativity
The myth of the genius is that these individuals woke up one morning and excelled. As a result, too many people are convinced that either you’re creative...
Pianist Maria João Pires Suffers “Slight Stroke”, Cancels Three Concerts
Pires, 81 next month, has withdrawn from performances this week and next in three Portuguese cities. She also has concerts scheduled in Monaco on...
The Really Good News Out Of This Year’s Tonys
On Sunday, the Tony Awards paid homage to the astonishing array of acting talent that drew audiences back to the theater. But it wasn’t star power...
The Great Unwinding: Warner Discovery Will Break Up
The decision to split is a major about-face from the conventional wisdom in the industry when Warner Bros. Discovery was created three years ago...
