Ghana’s Government Is Cancelling Construction Of David Adjaye-Designed National Cathedral
“The president's office announced that it has begun the process of ending the current contracts connected to the cathedral and will launch a further...
Trump White House Releases List Of Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable
“An angry article on the White House website, headlined 'President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian,’ lists a series of perceived offenses from museums in the...
Longtime Conservative Critic Of US Universities Is Now Defending Them
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), whose stated mission is the defense of free speech rights, made its bones as a leading...
Kennedy Center Bosses Fire Entire Dance Programming Staff
“The layoffs leave unclear the future of the performance genre, which is a subscription driver for the arts venue. … Notably, the dance package no longer...
“All Things Considered” Host Ari Shapiro To Leave NPR
Shapiro has spent 25 years at the network, the last ten of them as a host of the flagship afternoon/evening newscast. In his announcement,...
Studying Philosophy Really Does Make You A Better Thinker: Study
“Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning, according to our new study published in the Journal of the American Philosophical...
37 Rules For Navigating A Successful Theatre Experience
Here is your cheat sheet for making the most of your time at the theater while not accidentally becoming the drama. - Washington Post...
Can You Really Deprogram Your MAGA Parents With A Book Club?
"I'm begging you to just try and learn something that isn't from Facebook, Fox, or Newsmax," Valeen, a 38-year-old registered Democrat who works as...
N.C. Wyeth’s Largest Mural Has Come Out Of Storage After 17 Years
For 75 years, Wyeth’s five-panel, 60’x19’ Apotheosis of the Family hung at the Wilmington Savings Fund Society in Delaware — and was pried down...
Musical Theatre Through The Eyes Of The Orchestra
Even for a theatre critic, the orchestra is easy to overlook. It wasn’t until I sat in behind the scenes, with a copy of...
Is Trump Trying To Sanitize History Of Slavery?
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden...
How Ambiguity Chews The Center Out Of Public Discourse
Democracies thrive on open debate, but when the threat is not strong enough to unite and not weak enough to ignore, debate can spiral...
This Man Has Built A Career Out Of Talking To Leprechauns
“Now a hale 81, Kevin Woods calls himself Ireland’s last leprechaun whisperer, a title that reflects the weekly conversations he says he still carries...
The Legal Strategy Threatening Your Right To Read
In 2023, our book was one of thousands pulled from library shelves around the country, and as we write, an evolving legal strategy being...
Data: Are Art Historians Now More Employable Than Computer Scientists?
According to data released this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recent art history graduates nationwide were more employed than computer science...
There’s A Whole New Set Of Origami Patterns, And They Could Be Very Useful...
“Resembling idealized flowers, many (of what are called) bloom patterns are rotationally symmetric around the center. The bloom patterns, with their set of attractive...
Portland Art Museum Chief Tapped To Run Dallas Museum Of Art
Brian Ferriso came to Portland in 2006 after a series of art museum leadership roles in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Milwaukee and Chicago. During his tenure,...
Why MAGA Is Mad At The Smithsonian
“We’ve got to get patriotism back in the Smithsonian,” conservative Texas Congressman Sam Johnson said, on being appointed to the museum’s Board of Regents...
Trump Is Policing The Smithsonian. How Might He Threaten Other Museums?
The White House started an audit of the Smithsonian earlier this month. But what about other institutions? It is unclear what legal and financial pressures his...
How The Choreographer Put Together That Marching Band Sequence in “Severance”
The first problem was that the producers didn’t realize they’d need a choreographer until after a band was assembled, rehearsed, and on set for...
The Play Where You Are The Actor And The Audience Is A Tree
“Conversing with a plant might sound silly, and Dan Daly acknowledged the piece” — Arborlogues: A Botanical Recital Performed for One Tree — “is...
Pernambuco Is The Best Wood For String Bows. What Will Happen If It Gets...
That’s a big worry for musicians as well as luthiers, and not just because the supply of wood could dry up. Touring musicians could...
As The Will-They-Or-Won’t-They-Ban-TikTok Question Drags On, US Creators And Users Are Just Tired
“While the back-and-forth on a TikTok ban remains a juicy topic (for the media), it's been a source of frustration and confusion for creators —...
Number Of Americans Who Read For Pleasure Has Fallen By 40%: Study
“Researchers at the University of Florida and University College London have found that between 2003 and 2023, daily reading for reasons other than work...
America’s Leading Medical Museum Changes The Way It Displays Human Remains
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia has been mired in a two-year controversy over an “ethical review” by the now-former executive director which removed all...
