Eye-Tracking Study: How Children See Art Differently
The children provided with child-focused, narrative-driven labels engaged with the artworks in ways we did not see at all with those who read adult-focused...
Pop Musicians Are Trying To Make Touring More Eco-Friendly
There’s a groundswell of artists — notably Billie Eilish and Coldplay — changing how concerts are staged from the bottom up. These eco-minded musicians are following in the...
Using Theatre To Connect Russian Refugee Kids With Their American Counterparts
Theatremaker and professor Irina Kruzhilina's project, SpaceBridge, involved a series of theatre workshops with 11 Russian refugees aged 10 to 14, recruited from the...
Ten Most-Interesting Museum Acquisitions Of 2024
We’ve parsed through museum acquisitions lists and compiled 10 notable additions to United States institutional collections in 2024. - Hyperallergic
Why The Rock ‘N Roll Hall Of Fame Shouldn’t Exist
The Hall of Fame is about old and dead people; rock’n’roll is about the young and living. The Hall of Fame tries to reform...
UK Proposes Spending £46 Million On Statue Of Queen Elizabeth. Should It?
Such a staggering budget may seem to befit the late queen, a towering figure of British history, but why is so much money being thrown...
How Researchers Stitched Together 8000 Images To Reveal Medieval Painting In A Church
The image was created by digitally stitching more than 8,000 photographs of the curving walls, taken in the crawl space behind the panelling which...
Where’s The Art Market Going In 2025?
If the market woes of 2024 continue, expect 2025 to winnow the field of art fairs, auction houses, and galleries. Lest we forget, the...
Uncovering The Angels At Boston’s Old North Church
"The painted angels ... once were among the defining features of Old North Church when they were painted around 1730. But officials at the...
Amid Media Viewership Declines, E! News Surges With 11 Billion Views In 2024
The success was led by Instagram, which was up 49% to 5.6B video views, according to internal data from NBCUniversal. - Deadline
Sales Of Physical Recordings Up For First Time In 20 Years In UK —...
Women led the way in recorded music this year, according to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), topping the singles chart for 34 out of...
Losing The Plot: There Are Only So Many Story-Types (And We’re Good At Recycle)
If we think of plots in the mathematicians’ terms, as data sets whose patterns can be objectively mapped and compared, then perhaps it makes...
This 400-Year-Old Company Near Boston Makes The World’s Favorite Cymbals
No, the company wasn't started by the Pilgrims, even though it is near Plymouth. The Avedis Zildjian Co. was founded in Istanbul in 1623...
How The Carabinieri Busted Tomb-Raiders Right In The Center of Naples
The thieves used the basement of a condo building as their excavation site, tunneling 26 feet under the city to find thousands of ancient...
Can “The Cleveland Of Britain” Get A Reputation Boost As The UK’s Latest “City...
Just like Cleveland, Bradford (just west of Leeds in Yorkshire) has a mighty industrial past, a de-industrialized present, notoriously grey weather, and a very...
One Of Brazil’s Hottest Dance Scenes Is Under A Freeway Overpass In Rio
"Charme" is a popular dance style which developed in the 1980s as the Brazilian way to party to American soul and R&B. When COVID...
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules
A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the Internet is an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications...
Gov. Kristi Noem Proposes Two-Thirds Budget Cut To South Dakota Public Broadcasting
"She approved the last six state budgets, each of which included an increase for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. The organization’s annual state funding went...
Meet Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch For 2025
"Whether or not you’re already familiar with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from across the dance world predict that we’ll be hearing a...
The Love Letters Of Georgia O’Keeffe And Alfred Stieglitz
O’Keeffe to Stieglitz: "Having told you so much of me — more than anyone else I know — could anything else follow but that...
How Classical Music Has Been Repurposed For TikTok
Despite these odds and obstacles, classical music — an art form best known for constantly dying and losing its grip on popular culture —...
Reports: Interest In Classical Music Is Gaining
According to a 2022 study from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, people under 35 are actually more likely to listen to classical music than their parents. In...
The Artworks Of Henri Matisse And Frida Kahlo Are Now In The Public Domain
Before you go wild with the cutouts and unibrows, however, remember that (especially in Kahlo's case) those images may be trademarked. - Hyperallergic
Some Indie Movies Thrived This Year. Here’s Why
It wasn’t just because those films were artistically accomplished — it’s because inventive ad campaigns helped make them feel like events you needed to...
Twelve Big Architecture Projects To Look Forward To In 2025
Here's a look at 12 exciting architecture projects expected to open in 2025, including a giant domed skyspace and an earth-covered sports complex. - Dezeen
