Corporation For Public Broadcasting Sues Trump Administration For Trying To Fire Board Members
“In its complaint, ... the CPB and the three board members — Laura Ross, Thomas Rothman and Diane Kaplan — said the president does...
Mellon Foundation Provides “Emergency Funding” For State Humanities Councils Defunded By NEH
“The Mellon Foundation has announced $15 million in ‘emergency funding’ for state humanities councils across the country. The support comes after the Department of...
Federal Court Orders Trump Administration To Release Radio Free Europe Funding
“U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth … granted the temporary restraining order for the U.S. Agency for Global Media to disburse ($12 million) for April...
All U.S. Holocaust Museum Board Members Appointed By Biden Have Been Fired
“The Trump administration has terminated members of the board that oversees the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum appointed by President Joe Biden — including Doug...
The 19-Year-Old Bisexual Diarist Who Became The Literary Sensation Of 1902 America
“Originally titled ‘I Await the Devil’s Coming’, The Story of Mary MacLane records four months in the life of its author. Nothing much happens in...
As AI Fashion Models Cause A Sensation, It’s Time To Ponder Digital Twins
As digital replicas of real people become more common, especially in image-based industries like fashion, urgent ethical questions are emerging. These include conversations about the future...
A Rabbit On The Couch In A Psychoanalyst’s Office
“The premise may seem absurd but that is precisely the point – absurdism is a way of dealing with themes that have proved ......
The Iowa Town Where Every Other Person Seems To Be A Writer
Iowa City is the place where contemporary English literature matters more than anywhere else on earth. The home of arguably the world’s most famous...
Metaphors Are Brilliant At Helping Us Understand Ideas. They Can Also Narrow Our Thinking
One risk is that they close down possibilities. They can shut down our thinking, coercing it to fit the shape of someone else’s comparison...
One Gallery’s Artists Are Dominating New York’s Museum Calendar This Spring
The gallery’s artists are so dominant in New York’s leading museums this season that some in the art world are calling it “Hauser spring.”...
A Dancer-Turned-Neuroscientist On Finding Flow
“This passing of the boundary between ‘doing steps’ and really dancing … is truly exhilarating. I’ve experienced it many times when dance took me...
New Oscars Rule For Voters: You Actually Have To Watch All The Movies In...
According to the Academy, they will be tracking what voters watch in the digital screening room, and then there will be a form to...
Arts And The Trump Culture Wars
Because of the speed of the administration’s actions, arts and culture groups are scrambling to reassess the scope of their projects and find alternative...
The Boston Pops Phenomenon
He came to the job young, quickly became a local celebrity, and is presiding at a time when it has proved impossible for the Pops to...
Southwest Florida Symphony Closes Down
The orchestra will remain in business through the end of its fiscal year on June 30. That coincides with the previously announced departure of the...
If AI Can Think, Should It Deserve Rights?
Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give...
A Color No One Has Ever Seen Before
The color “olo” can’t be found on a Pantone color chart. It can be experienced only in a cramped 9-by-13 room in Northern California....
The Odd Case Of A Celebrity Journalist Who Gets Impossible Interviews
The author was a little-known English freelance journalist. The story of how he came to land his Johnny Depp story – along with a...
Child Damages Mark Rothko Painting In Rotterdam
“Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, after it was ‘scratched’ by a child visiting the Rotterdam gallery where...
New Indie Publisher, Conduit Books, Will Focus On Male Authors
Says founder Jude Cook, “Excitement and energy around new and adventurous fiction is around female authors – and this is only right as a...
Detroit Opera Stages “The Central Park Five” And Braces For Trump Blowback
“(The company’s) leadership team understands the perils of mounting a production that waves a red cape at a pumped-up, reactive presidency. Surprisingly, the opera...
Civil Rights Leaders Rally Around Smithsonian’s African-American History Museum
“A coalition ... kicked off a weeklong campaign to rally around the national African American museum and push back against what it calls efforts...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Use MTT’s Last Concerts Ever To Demand More Money
At these 80th-birthday concerts for Michael Tilson Thomas, who has suffered a recurrence of an aggressive brain cancer, the musicians distributed leaflets to the...
British Sunday Newspaper The Observer Relaunches After Being Sold By The Guardian
“Editor-in-chief and major shareholder James Harding set out his stall in the first issue under its new Tortoise ownership on Sunday, (saying) the paper...
Indiana Lawmakers Cut All State Funding For Public Radio And TV
“The public wasn't given a chance to testify on the 11th-hour change, quietly added to the 220-page budget bill just one day before lawmakers...
