Canada’s Official Archives Are In Peril
After Confederation, some of the country’s oldest records were stashed in a loft in the reading room of the Centre Block on Parliament Hill....
With Their Primary Venue Closed, Where Will Chicago’s Experimental Dance Companies Perform Now?
Links Hall, long the hub of contemporary dance in Chicago, closed permanently in June. This raises two questions: Is there a crisis coming for...
Rising Star Jakub Hrůša Will Be Czech Philharmonic’s Next Chief Conductor
The 43-year-old Hrůša is currently chief conductor of Germany’s Bamberg Symphony; he becomes music director of the Royal Opera House in London this fall....
Leadership Changes At Both Of Utah’s Top Contemporary Dance Companies
At Repertory Dance Theatre, Linda C. Smith is retiring after 42 years as artistic director, 39 of them as executive director as well; two...
Ever Dream Of Looting Western Museums And Returning African Artifacts Yourself? This Video Game...
“Relooted (is) a side-scrolling puzzle platformer — think early Tomb Raider or Prince of Persia games — where players join a crew of Robin Hood-esque thieves staging elaborate...
Netherlands Repatriates 119 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
“The Netherlands (has) returned 119 artifacts looted from Nigeria, including human and animal figures, plaques, royal regalia and a bell. … During the handover...
Music@Menlo, Silicon Valley’s Chamber Festival, Names Its Next Artistic Directors
Less than a week after founding artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han announced their 2026 departure, their successors have been revealed. They are...
The Met Museum’s Difficult Line Through Its Re-thought African Collection
The wing’s design stresses each region’s singularity while fostering an atmosphere of cosmopolitan exchange. We’re meant to feel that the Met is no longer...
The Struggle For A “Self” We Recognize
We imagine our choices are free, our selves sovereign, but much of our behavior arises automatically. We are driven by inner conditions, social cues,...
We All Read. But Our Reading Has Changed. This Has Changed Our Culture (And...
On average, we spend more than two hours scrolling through such platforms each day. But not all reading is created equal. The mind can skim over...
What Toni Morrison Was Like As An Editor
Her unwavering commitment to shoring up the integrity of a book at every stage solidified her legacy as an editor who could turn talent,...
Kennicott On The Met Museum’s Non-European Wing: Making The Case For Context
To appreciate these works only as visual objects exacerbates the intellectual violence of decontextualization. The Met has responded to this by writing extensive object...
How Much Do You Know About Publishing At The Beginnings Of America?
Which of America’s founding fathers began writing his memoirs in the early 1770s, a project that remained unfinished when it was posthumously published in...
Jordan Roth Made A Career Getting Other People’s Work Onto Broadway. Now He’s Making...
“I worked for a long time facilitating other people’s creativity, and that was very meaningful and very fulfilling, but I started to miss my...
The 21st Century’s Best Movies Reveal The Collapse Of Genre
What strikes me most about the list is this: Long-held categories in the movie business are fading, just like they are in the broader...
Hollywood’s Big AI Dilemma
The idea that AI-generated video is both the future of filmmaking and an existential threat to Hollywood has caught on like wildfire among boosters...
The Relevance Of Glee, A Decade After It Ended
“I was mad that the representation, whether of teenagers or queerness, was not completely akin to my own real-life experience — this show was...
Pocahontas Came Out Three Decades Ago, But Gen Z Is Making Its Signature Song...
The movie isn’t seen as progressive, but “on TikTok, people … have reinterpreted the ‘Colors of the Wind’ lyrics to comment on an array...
China Is Arresting Women Who Write Sexy Gay Stories
"Although authors of heterosexual erotica have been jailed in China, observers say the genre is subjected to far less censorship. Gay erotica, which is...
Documentary Makers Fear Being Turned Into Criminals By A Harsh New British Law
"We are being advised that the curtailing of Palestine Action could have a major knock-on effect for us as it could become not only...
Just How Big Is Romantasy, As A Genre?
Oh, it’s big. Rebecca Yarros’s Onyx Storm “came out earlier this year and sold 2.7 million copies in its first week,” for instance. -...
There Will Never Be Another Editor Like Vogue’s Anna Wintour
For one thing, the decline of print media is too stark. “Yes, there are still front rows to sit in, parties to attend. But...
Transforming A Sports Arena Into A Concert Venue Takes A Steady Hand
“Five times a year, art is sandwiched by science. It typically takes four to five days to transform T-Mobile Park into one of Seattle’s...
This Author Decided To Focus-Group The Novel, Or Rather, Two
The least wanted novel contains a mix of “such ostensibly despised elements as stream of consciousness, explicit sex scenes, an extraterrestrial setting, metafictional commentary...
The Perils Of Writing About Family, And Having Family Write About You
Esther Freud writes novels inspired by her life; now her sister is writing memoir on Instagram. "How strange, over this last year, to read my...
