Nude Models In Florence Complain Of Difficult Working Conditions

Nude models at the fine arts academy, which was founded in 1784, complained to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera about their “exhausting” work. They want more breaks...

How Did Pop Wizard David Foster Figure Out Broadway Songs For, Of All Characters,...

“The cartoons were perplexing to me because the music they used is so far beyond what I would relate to,” he explains. “Don’t get...

Gustavo Dudamel On The Purpose Of Orchestras

"Music is about relationships—how we come to understand one another, how we communicate and connect with those who are different from us, and how we build mutual...

The Dark Sides Underpinning Today’s Entrepreneurial Zeitgeist

Gig work, as it turns out, didn’t begin with Uber but with Avon direct-sales reps. The wacky metaphysics of today’s tech billionaires have their...

Why Schrödinger’s Cat Has Become A Pop Cult Sensation

How did an obscure argument about a mathematically complex and rather baffling theory of physics become embedded in public consciousness as an extraordinary exploration...

Majority Of Parents Don’t Enjoy Reading To Their Kids: Study

“Only 40% of parents ... agreed that ‘reading books to my child is fun for me’, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen and...

Comcast Is Bleeding Broadband Customers. Here’s Why

After reporting a net loss of 183,000 residential broadband customers in Q1 2025, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh said the company isn't "winning in the marketplace" during...

Mellon Foundation Steps Up To Support Humanities Funding Stripped By Trump Admin

The new funding, which will support humanities councils in all 50 states and six jurisdictions, comes a month after the National Endowment for the...

AI Learned About Writing From Us. Will We Now Learn About Writing From AI?

Chatbots learned from human writing. Now the influence may run in the other direction. Some people have hypothesized that the proliferation of generative-AI tools such as...

Orphaned University Of The Arts Dance Program Is Coming Back To Philly, But Not...

“The former UArts undergraduate dance program, that landed at Bennington College in Vermont, had planned to return to Philadelphia for the 2025-26 school year. But...

Andrew Karpen, Pillar Of U.S. Independent Film Industry, Has Died At 59

He was the COO of Focus Features beginning in 2002 and became president and co-CEO in 2006. In 2014 he left Focus to found...

Fort Worth Police Took $7,000 Trip To New York To Investigate Sally Mann For...

After seizing some of Mann’s photos of her children from an exhibition in Fort Worth, five FWPD officers spent four days and $6,988.77 in...

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...