What It’s Like Watching The Evita Balcony Scene From A London Sidewalk
“‘We’re both interested in the accessibility of the arts,’ said 25-year-old Sian, who had come with her drama-school buddy. ‘I don’t know the show,...
Why Don’t The Emmys Have A Category For Outstanding Performance In Reality TV?
“The industry treats reality stars like the animals in a nature documentary: They can be compelling as we observe them in their habitat, but...
Can The Venice Architecture Biennale Use AI To Gain Popularity?
Architects "balked at having their voices clipped. The compromise was to let architects write the texts they wanted (which can be full of jargon...
The Music Industry Can’t Stop The AI Onslaught
But the industry has new tools to help companies track down what songs are ‘made’ by software, and what are human-created. The focus could...
Despite Anger From Industry Workers, FilmLA Gets Five More Years To Handle Film Permits
The industry group argues that "$900 permits are not what is causing productions to flee L.A. That is just a drop in the bucket.”...
Oops, Sorry, Authors – TikTok Doesn’t Actually Want To Publish Books
The news "came as a shock to authors who were swayed by the possibility that 8th Note could help engineer best sellers with elaborate...
Miss Manners Weighs In On Female Orchestra Musicians’ Concert Attire
A Gentle Reader complains about the seeming informality of some all-black women’s attire on orchestral stages. Miss Manners replies, “Surely women musicians can find...
Explaining The ABBA Phenomenon (In Retrospect)
In the wake of the nineties revival, ABBA’s music has come to seem so universal—pure, uncut, lab-grade pop, purified of any particularizing influences—that it...
Bringing Malaysian Shadow Puppet Theater Into The 21st Century
Like its better-known counterparts in Bali and Java, the wayang kulit of Kelantan in northern Malaysia tells the stories of the Hindu epics Mahabharata...
“Jaws” At 50 – Why It Became Iconic
Jaws has earned the “classic” epithet. It invokes certain nostalgia for cinephiles and original audiences, many of whom fondly remember their first viewing. Aside from...
The Long-Controversial Semi-Colon Is Falling To Neglect
Abraham Lincoln was one of the punctuation mark’s supporters: “I have a great respect for the semicolon; it’s a very useful little chap,” he wrote....
Two Years After The British Museum Thefts Were Revealed, Big Questions About The Curator...
What might have motivated a respected professional to allegedly take such high risks for such low rewards? Why is the police investigation taking so...
Why Is Velázquez’s “Las Meninas” So Important? Because Of The Tricks It Plays On...
“A deconstruction of the relationship between viewer and viewed, depiction and depicted, Las Meninas comprises a nesting doll of paradoxes that play with pictorial space to...
GAO Agency Finds That Trump Administration Withholding Of Library And Museum Funding Breaks Law
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a decision on Monday finding that the Trump administration‘s withholding of funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), appropriated by Congress,...
The Loneliness Epidemic And Its Link To Technology
Studies link loneliness and social isolation to increased mortality, dementia and stroke. Among adults, loneliness is linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity, and it...
Seventeen Years Later, Spain’s Publishing Industry Works Itself Back To 2008 Level
Spain was especially hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis, with a housing market collapse, credit growth in real estate, a fast-shrinking GDP, unemployment...
Ballet Shoe Company Faces One-Two Punch: Catastrophic Fire And High Tariffs
The pointe shoe manufacturer Virtisse, based near Philadelphia, saw its entire inventory — 25,000 pairs, worth over $3 million — literally go up in...
The Festival That Puts a Scientist In Every Pub
The Roving Scientist Bar thus became a flagship program of the Beaker Street Festival, this year returning to Hope & Anchor, Australia’s oldest continuously...
Colorado Museums Brace For Program Cancellations
Institutions across Colorado were awarded about $4.3 million in IMLS grants, most of which require matching funds from the museum or library, for the...
Neuroscientist: Music Involves Every Cognitive Ability We Have
“The interesting thing about music is that it touches memory, perception, motor skills, emotions, and reading. It touches everything." - El Pais
The Reason American Small-Town Newspapers Are Closing Isn’t Lack Of Money
As the only outlet covering their communities, these papers still have an audience willing to pay for them, and many of them are profitable....
Journalist William Langewiesche, “Master Of The White-Knuckle Narrative,” Has Died At 70
“A globe-trotting correspondent for The Atlantic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times Magazine, … (he) worked as a commercial pilot before becoming one of...
“Golden Girls” Gossip: Bea Arthur And Betty White Despised Each Other
Said co-producer Marsha Posner Williams, “When that red light was on, there were no more professional people than those women, but when the red...
France’s Most Notorious Rape Trial Is Put Onstage Only Six Months After It Ended
At the Vienna Festwochen, director Milo Rau and dramaturg Servane Dècle presented The Pelicot Trial, a seven-hour reading of excerpts from the courtroom proceedings,...
One Of Gaudí’s Most Famous Barcelona Houses Has Its Rear Façade Restored
“In a project Casa Batlló has described as a ‘remarkable rediscovery,’ the back façade has been returned to its original state following a years-long...
