Poll: Public Broadcasting Is Overwhelmingly Popular With The American Public
Over half of Republicans (58%) and three-quarters of Democrats (77%) support federal funding for public radio. And 59% of Republicans and 76% of Democrats...
AI Companions Are Getting Really Good. But We Lose Something Creatively Important
Solitude is the engine of independent thought—a usual precondition for real creativity. It gives us a chance to commune with nature, or, if we’re...
Electrical Recording Debuted 100 Years Ago This Year
“The ascent from one method (purely mechanical recording on a horn) to the other (electrical recording with a microphone) was more significant even than...
US Publishers Charge Libraries Exorbitant Prices For E-Books. Some State Governments Want To Change...
How exorbitant? A license for a digital copy of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 costs $51.99. Connecticut has already passed a law (not yet in...
The Complete Replica Of The Bayeux Tapestry Made In 1885
To call this enormous replica, on display at the Reading Museum, complete is not to call it completely accurate, mind you. The thread is...
NYTimes Removes Four Longtime Critics From Their Beats
The quartet of Times critics — television critic Margaret Lyons, music critic Jon Pareles, theater critic Jesse Green and classical music critic Zach Woolfe...
The Biggest Mystery In Chaucer Was, It Turns Out, Probably A Typo
Okay, there were no typewriters then; it was a scribal error — and it led to serious confusion about genre. The eureka moment by...
More Trouble For BBC: 300,000 More Households Have Stopped Paying Licence Fee
“As the broadcaster continues to battle the rise of YouTube and streaming services that have split audiences ..., its annual report revealed 23.8m licences...
UNESCO Names 32 New World Heritage Sites
The list includes four palaces built by Bavaria’s King Ludwig II; ancient rock art in Australia, Korea, and Russia’s Bashkir Republic; and three sites...
Williamstown Theater Festival Is Back From The Brink With A New Plan
“This summer, the ... latest leadership team has opted for a radically new and risky reboot: Instead of a summer-long season with two shows...
The Most Talked-About Director In British Theatre
“Theatre is controversial again and it’s happened, surprisingly, in an Andrew Lloyd Webber revival” — the Evita in which Eva Perón sings to the crowd...
How Italian Towns Selling Houses For €1 Changes Culture
The campaigns seemed to me to have been largely successful – some towns had sold all their listed properties. By attracting international buyers to...
The Latest Korean Pop Culture Phenomenon? Swing Dancing
“For a vintage American cultural practice to spread overseas and thrive there more robustly than at home is a story at least as old...
Rethinking Origins Of The Blues
What is original, real, and distinctive about black Southern culture is still often distorted or dismissed as primitive. And that is true not only...
An Ancient City Off The Coast Of Italy Re-emerges From The Sea
For centuries, Aenaria had existed somewhere between history and myth. Today, its rediscovery is reshaping Ischia's story – and offering travellers the rare chance each...
Why Putting Tariffs On Foreign Films Is An Idiotic Idea
The tariff idea arises from the worldview that treats international exchange as a threat — and cultural expression as just another import to tax....
Beetles Are Eating Their Way Through One Of Europe’s Oldest Libraries
At the Pannonhalma Archabbey, founded in 996, conservators are removing 100,000 books from the library shelves for disinfection from an infestation of bread beetles,...
The Frustrations Of Advocating For The Arts
Advocacy emerges from discontent. In the arts, it’s often borne of witnessing creative practice undervalued, institutions destabilised and public funding eroded. These grievances are...
Why We Choose To Ignore Useful Information Right In Front Of Us
If the saying ‘knowledge is power’ is true, then most people hold an indefinite amount of power in their pockets. And, in this light,...
Recent Rulings On AI And Copyright Leave The Issue More Confused Than Ever
On certain key points, the two judges disagreed with each other—so thoroughly, in fact, that one legal scholar observed that the judges had “totally...
1,700-Year-Old Mayan Royal Tomb Uncovered In Belize
“The tomb is the final resting place of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of (the) ancient Maya city (of Caracol) and the founder...
Artnet Staff: Our Favorite Art Books Of All Time
The books that made impressions on people who care about art. - Artnet
What Brain Scans Reveal About Humans Seeking Revenge
Recent neuroscience discoveries reveal a chilling picture: Your brain on revenge looks like your brain on drugs. Brain imaging studies show that grievances—real or imagined perceptions...
How Women From The Former East Germany Are Shaking Up The Museum World
What these women offer isn’t nostalgia. It’s clarity. A resistance to simplification. A belief that history is not a finished room. In Kathleen Reinhardt’s...
Philadelphia’s Newest Art Museum Is Also Its Smallest
It holds only six paintings. It’s free, though reservations are required. And it’s an unlikely spot for a museum: the Green Room of the...
