The Poem That Gave Late-‘80s Britain A National Conniption Fit
“If it's unusual for a poem to escape the world of literature, it's virtually unheard of for one to provoke angry newspaper headlines, prompt...
How Man-Of-Many-Voices Hank Azaria Lost, And Then Found, Himself
He was always a natural mimic, and he used that ability to make a remarkable career as a voice actor, most famously on The...
America’s Oldest Performing Arts Organization Is Losing Its Longtime Director
Under David Snead’s leadership, the 210-year-old period instrument orchestra’s annual revenue grew by 45 percent. Its endowment has expanded from $13 million to more...
Brick Is Making A Comeback In Urban Architecture
Brick, stone, and terra-cotta, products that have the solidity and hue of earth, have timidly but perceptibly snuck back into New York’s repertoire of...
How The Acoustics Of Notre-Dame In Paris Have Changed From Before The Fire
Brian Katz, an acoustics expert at the Sorbonne, took an extensive acoustical survey of the cathedral in 2015, four years before the fire, and...
An AI Researcher Rails Against Big Tech’s Cultural Theft
Perhaps the most beautiful part of this digital heist is that all of this knowledge is being stolen in broad daylight. Napster was a...
Why YouTube Got Out Of Making Premium Content
Big creators on YouTube “are the new Hollywood in that sense because they are producing the content that people want to watch. And so...
How Do You Protect Cultural Sovereignty In This Digital Age?
Right now, the global landscape is shifting in ways that could have profound consequences for Canada’s creative industries. The rise of AI, the dominance...
That Time “Rocky Horror” Flopped On Broadway (An Oral History)
The stage version of the now-cult classic movie had very successful runs in London and Los Angeles before it came to Broadway — and...
SF Symphony Puts Emerging Black Composers Project On Hold After US Government Letter
A memo from the United States Department of Education forced the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music to pause their...
Brand Agencies Are Imploding. Ad Campaigns Are Now Inundation Campaigns
Brands now flood social platforms with constant content, yet the depth and craftsmanship that once defined advertising are being drowned in an ocean of...
US Department Of Defense Bans Images Of Enola Gay Plane In “Gay” Crackdown
In total, 26,000 images have been flagged, according to the AP, though one official told the outlet that that number could reach 100,000 when...
Five YouTube Videos That Helped Change How We See Ourselves And Each Other
“As much as YouTube changed how we use the internet, it's had an equally significant impact on our offline lives. … Human nature itself...
The Trump Kennedy Center, Soft Power, And The Decline of America’s Global Influence
A nation’s “soft power” is “the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments” — foreign aid, public perception,...
National Ballet Of Canada Nominated For Two Of London’s Olivier Awards
The nominations, for Best New Dance Production and Outstanding Achievement in Dance, are for the Toronto-based company’s appearance last October at Sadler’s Wells with...
San Francisco Museums Are Caught In City’s Budget Crisis
With the city government facing an $876 million budget deficit, the mayor has asked all city departments to expect 15% funding reductions. The de...
U.S. Arts Groups And ACLU Sue NEA Over Trump’s “No Gender Ideology” Rule
The lawsuit argues that the new requirement — that grant applicants must affirm that their projects will not “promote gender ideology” — violates the...
Cache Of Ancient Egyptian Gold Jewelry Discovered At Temple Of Karnak
“Researchers were surveying the northwest sector of the site (at Luxor) when they unearthed a partially broken ceramic vessel that held the artifacts. The...
Ricardo Scofidio, Part Of A Starchitect Trio, Has Died At 89
As partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he had a hand in designing numerous landmarks of contemporary public architecture, in New York — the...
Why Did Toni Morrison’s Only Play Disappear?
Dreaming Emmett, about the murder of Emmett Till, ran in Albany for four weeks in 1986 and then vanished; rumors had it that Morrison...
Uh-Oh, Get Your Knives Out: ARTnews’ List Of The 100 Best Works Of Art...
The joy of an epic list like this one is that it can’t encapsulate everything: we know we’ve left some artworks off, simply because...
Worried About Dwindling Grant Money, Philly’s Top Dance School Expands Into Retail
With local dance stores having closed, students at the Rock School were having to shop out-of-town for high-quality gear, especially pointe shoes. (Ballerinas go...
The Shocking Collapse Of The Iconic Technicolor
The stunning collapse of the iconic company and MPC – which was founded in the Soho section of London during 1970 and was one...
A New Chief For The Canada Council
Cheryl Hickman, artistic director of Opera on the Avalon, will start a five-year term in July as chairperson of the federal Crown corporation the Canada Council for...
What It Means To Be A Highly Sensitive Person
What I discovered after many years of studying this innate survival strategy is that high sensitivity means, above all, thinking deeply about everything. -...
