Why The Human Brain Needs Ideologies
Our brains are these amazingly predictive organs trying to constantly explain the world, because that’s our way to survive. We have to have a...
Tech Titans Propose An End To Intellectual Property
One can only imagine what the value of music would look like if copyright protections were to disappear altogether. It would not be a...
How “Six” Challenges Conventional Broadway Musical Conventions
“Six,” which runs a sleek 85 minutes as an unruly concert where performers are explicitly competing for the audience’s sympathy, might ultimately be less...
Um, About This Backlash Against Intimacy Coordinators …
“Recent reports of celebrity pushback against the profession, intimacy coordinators say, have created skewed narratives that breed misconceptions about their role and impact on...
The Classically Cool Frick Re-emerges
If the museum experience is now more stylistically bifurcated — the Beaux Arts past on one side of the complex, a sympathetic but unapologetic...
Trump Administration Wants Congress To Cancel Funding For PBS, NPR
The plan is to request that Congress rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. If Congress agrees, that will...
Expanding The Repertoire For Harp Is A Tricky Business
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That...
Why Trump’s Sculpture Garden Project Of American Heroes Is A Big Deal
Effectively killing the NEH in its current form and then reallocating its money to build the National Garden of American Heroes—the centerpiece of Trump’s plans to...
Stem Or Humanities? It’s a Disastrous Distinction
In fact, neither one of these labels names a particularly coherent group of fields. STEM covers endeavors as different in their workings and aims...
Do We Even Know What Classical Music Is These Days?
Like every other sector of cultural life, classical music has been roiled over the past decade by intense debates about the field’s ongoing lack...
After Last Year’s Fiasco, Dallas Black Dance Theatre Works To Rebuild “Community Trust”
“(A) task force … will convene monthly to eventually put forth recommendations ... The news comes after the dance company reached a settlement for...
Why We Went Ahead And Played At The Kennedy Center
Ryan Miller of the band Guster: “We wanted to support the staff who were caught in this political crossfire; the fans who had bought...
Pope Francis Puts Architect Antoni Gaudí On Path To Sainthood
“The architect behind the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona has been declared ‘Venerable’ by Pope Francis, the second step in the path to canonisation. Gaudí was...
Cate Blanchett Says She’s Giving Up Acting
“My family roll their eyes every time I say it, but I mean it. I am serious about giving up acting. (There are) a...
Jean Marsh, Who Co-Created And Starred In “Upstairs, Downstairs,” Is Dead At 90
While she’s best remembered for the TV series, in which she played housemaid Rose Buck, she had an extensive career in theatre, television and...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Attacked Degas Sculpture Convicted
“A federal jury convicted Raleigh climate activist Timothy Martin of two felonies Monday for smearing washable paint on a sculpture’s display case in the...
National Geographic Says These Are The World’s Best Book Towns
By definition, a book town is “a small, preferably rural, town or village in which secondhand and antiquarian bookshops are concentrated… available to everyone…” Today, there...
Inside The Rise And Fall Of YA Fiction
The rise of more inclusive YA has felt as much like a seismic shift as “The Hunger Games” did back in the day. It’s...
Are Em-Dashes Really A Sign Of AI-Generated Content?
If so — not to put too fine a point on it — is this a sign that the content AI stole, “scraped," from...
How To Stop Students From Being Merely Cogs In Machines?
The trick is convincing administrators, parents, and students that the best way of getting an education in independent and creative thinking is through the...
Teachers Don’t Want Students To Use AI. But Increasingly Teachers Are Using AI
Is it fair to use A.I. to grade student essays, if you’ve prohibited students from using A.I. to write them? School leaders are grappling...
What We Need To Do To Save Universities
The future of the nation’s universities is very much at stake. This is not a challenge that can be met with purely defensive tactics....
How Spotify Is Ruining (Not Saving) Music
While music discovery used to be a social event, now most of us cower to simply accepting whatever the Spotify algorithm feeds us. While...
How Learning To Improvise Freed My Mind
As a classically trained flutist, I expected to feel unmoored without structure. But improvisation has made space for a freedom I didn’t know I...
How AO Scott Morphed From Writing About Movies To Pondering Poetry
For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology...
