The Rather Specific Niche Of Perfect Airplane Movie
“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in...
The Long Past, And The Future, Of Lesbian Pulp Novels
"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” -...
A Highly Infectious Disease Forced This Band To ‘World Tour’ Themselves Locally
In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t...
Chris Doyle, Artist Whose Work Was Described As ‘Narnia On Acid,’ Has Died At...
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The...
Will K-Pop Demon Hunters Make It Into The Oscars?
The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not...
American Playwriting Is, Truly, The House That George C. White Built
White's "initial goal was modest: He wanted to open a theatre.” Things sort of snowballed from there. - American Theatre
Bluesky Is The First Social Media Site To Go Dark In Mississippi As A...
Bluesky: “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately...
Italian Filmmakers Ask Venice Film Fest To Take A More Pro-Palestinian Stance
And Venice says it "is, as always, open to dialogue.” - Variety
Museums Across The United States Are Trying To Figure Out How To Face Rising...
Mostly, they’re knuckling under. One might, if one were a student of history, think of this as totalitarian. “The chilling effect on museum programming...
What Art Fraudster Inigo Philbrick Has To Say For Himself Now That He’s Out...
“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that...
What The Restoration Of A Historic Glasgow Theatre Says About The Future Of Historic...
The redevelopment and restoration of older theatres such as the Citizens has become important as their social value and anchoring presence in towns and...
That Musical Making Fun Of “Raygun,” The Australian Olympic Breakdancer, Is Really Kind Of...
“Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers,”...
Why A Visual Image Gives Us Pleasure
It is noteworthy that as strikingly photographic, familiar, dramatic — what have you — the painting is, one source of its pleasure has nothing...
A Contest To Live In A Depopulated German City Has Been A Surprising Success
The competition drew more than 1,700 applications from around the world to try living in Eisenhüttenstadt, a Soviet-style planned city on the Polish border,...
How Germany Put Live Music At The Core Of Its Public Broadcasting
In its capacity to unite a nation across generational boundaries, broadcast live music, freed from the trappings of stardom and commerce, had proved its...
Denmark Ends Its 25% Sales Tax On Books
The government says it is cancelling the VAT on books, one of the highest in the world, — despite the estimated loss of €44...
When We Measure Everything Our Perceptions And Ability To Process The World Change
The machinery of ordinalisation attends carefully to individuals rather than coarse classes or groups. By doing so, it appears to liberate people from the...
Study: AI Might Create New Forms Of Music
Notably, the researchers found that the ongoing debate about copyright in AI-generated music is one of the major reasons why some artists are creating...
Any Surprise? Top Talent Exiting American Universities
An exodus appears to be under way of Ph.D.s and faculty generally, who are leaving academia in the face of political, financial and enrollment...
How One Classical Critic Made Peace With The Cell Phones, Candy Wrappers, Coughs, Talkers,...
Michael Andor Brodeur: “Self-reflection on the matter leads me to believe that my allergy to concert-hall disruption is a direct product of my own...
Will At The Center Of A Shakespeare Controversy Has Been Located After 150 Years
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s...
Attack On The Smithsonian Is A Threat To Our History
This is not simply a disagreement over museum curation; it’s a dangerous and calculated attempt to whitewash our history, silence uncomfortable truths, and undermine...
How Wired Magazine Got Scammed By AI
You couldn’t make a better WIRED pitch if you built it in a lab. Or in this case, with the help of a large...
Opera Australia’s Next Music Director: Andrea Battistoni
The 38-year-old native of Verona is currently chief conductor of the Tokyo Philharmonic and, as of the start of 2025, music director of Turin’s...
Why We Turned The Williamstown Theater Festival Upside-Down
Managing director Raphael Picciarelli: “We weren’t chasing hype for its own sake. We were trying to spark the feeling that draws people to Burning...
