Can “The Conversation” Do For Local News What It’s Done For Academic Research?
"The nonprofit outlet has built a brand on connecting the knowledge of professors and researchers to both the news cycle and a general audience...
Former Theatre Company CEO Faces Trial On Multiple Sexual Abuse Charges
Timothy O’Connor, former chief executive of the Harvest Rain Theatre Company in Brisbane, Australia, faces charges from seven accusers aged from 12 to 29;...
The Tyranny Of Reading Lists
The urge to track our reading habits is never so strong as it is near the turn of the year, when cultural forces press...
No – Harvard Didn’t Break How America Works
The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the...
Movie Audiences These Days Are Laughing At Some Pretty Intense Stuff
"(Chuckles) ripple through the crowd when Nicole Kidman laps up milk from a saucer on her hands and knees in Babygirl, when Lily-Rose Depp...
How Virtual Reality Is Changing The Designing Of Buildings
VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses...
The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire
Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak...
A Plan For Making The Arts “The Next Big Thing” In Downtown Chicago
"A group of civic, business and community leaders calling themselves 'Team Culture' wants to reimagine major parts of downtown — filling vacant, often shadowy...
Studying How The Brain Works Is Fine. But What About Imagination?
Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that...
Artwork Lost In LA Fires
Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with...
What’s With All the Bizarre Stuff Behind TV Credits?
All of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture...
A Proposal For Keeping The Wanamaker Organ Safe And In Regular Use
The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's...
NY’s BargeMusic Loses Its Barge
Housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing just below the Brooklyn Bridge, the floating concert hall welcomed chamber-music cognoscenti and...
The Sad Sorry History Of Propaganda Art
There will never be an end to manipulation by image. All we can do is understand its past in the hope of being able...
Why Have Republicans Been Slamming LA After The Fires? Something To Do With Artists?
There is a particular ugliness, a virulent ignorance, to the reaction in this case that speaks to a broader sense of unease in the...
New Research On Circulation Of Audiobooks At US Libraries
"Digital audiobooks accounted for 70 percent of adult audio circulation and 56 percent of youth audio circulation in libraries queried in the time frame...
How The Getty Villa Survived The Palisades Fire: An Inside Look
"Getty Trust CEO Katherine Fleming described the scene on the ground and how she and her staff worked from a conference center-turned-war room at...
“Persepolis” Author Marjane Satrapi Refuses France’s Legion Of Honor
"I can't continue seeing the children of Iranian oligarchs come to spend their holidays in France, even become naturalised," she wrote, "while at the...
The National Dance Project Is Ending (At Least In Its Current Form)
Since its founding in 1996, the regranting program has played a crucial role, supporting the creation of new dance works, funding touring, and fostering...
Calder Gardens In Philadelphia Announces Opening Date And Lead Curator
"The long-awaited showcase for one of Philadelphia’s most famous artists is starting 2025 with two major announcements: plans for a mid-September grand opening and...
No, The Academy Is Not Considering Cancelling The Oscars
The Sun, one of Britain's downmarket tabloids, posted a story Tuesday night saying that, due to the Los Angeles fires, there's a contingency plan...
Des Moines Art Center Will Pay Land Artist Mary Miss $900K And Remove Her...
"A nearly year-long legal battle between the (museum) and a New York-based artist has ended. The center will pay artist Mary Miss $900,000 to...
The Moral Decay Of One Of Post-Soviet Russia’s Finest Novelists
"At a time when many of his literary peers have fled Russia for political reasons, (Victor) Pelevin’s descent from dazzling young writer to misogynist...
The Rise And Fall Of Greenwich Village’s Bohemia
The unique conditions of the Village produced an environment in which genius could make sense of itself and wheat could be separated from chaff....
Why Do Some People Seek Self-Insight More Than Others?
My colleagues and I have been looking into what we call the ‘self-insight motive’ and we’ve found it might be more accurate to see...
