Actor Robert Duvall, 95
“(The) Oscar-winning actor … disappeared into an astonishing range of roles — lawmen and outlaws, Southern-fried alcoholics and Manhattan boardroom sharks, a hotheaded veteran...
Louvre Discovers $12 Million Ticketing Scam
When officials at the Louvre in Paris suspected a couple of tour guides of reusing tickets in late 2024, they did not expect to...
Tate Modern Serves Frida With a Side of Capitalism
When museums pivot from contemplation to consumption, even revolutionary icons get commodified. Tate's Kahlo experience trades artistic liberation for lifestyle branding—because apparently unibrows sell...
University Gets Cold Feet Over Hot ICE Criticism
When your art hits too close to home, apparently even universities develop sudden institutional amnesia about academic freedom. Victor Quiñonez's immigrant-focused work got the...
The Machines Are Coming for Your Plot Twists
What seemed preposterous in a 1962 novel—story-writing machines—is now Silicon Valley gospel. As AI churns out narratives, we're left wondering: who's really telling the...
African Art Market Caught Between Home and Away
As Middle Eastern buyers flex their newfound muscle, African dealers face the classic dilemma: chase the international money or build local infrastructure first? Turns...
IMLS Makes America’s Grants Great Again
Federal cultural funding now comes with ideological strings attached, as museums and libraries discover their grant applications must suddenly harmonize with presidential vision statements....
When Words Have No Liability
We now live alongside AI systems that converse knowledgeably and persuasively—deploying claims about the world, explanations, advice, encouragement, apologies, and promises—while bearing no vulnerability...
The Man Who Thinks The Enlightenment Was A Mistake
Rod Dreher emerged from the conservative blogosphere in the 2000s and won fans with his daily stream of testy opinions and unguarded anecdotal writing....
How Cornwall Shaped British Writers, And British Imagination
Winston Graham of Poldark, Virginia Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, and many other writers drew - and continue to draw - inspiration from the moors,...
The British Museum Has Removed The Word Palestine And Palestinians From Its Middle East...
“Concerns were recently raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of solicitors, about references to ‘Palestine’ in displays covering the ancient Levant and...
How Pokémon Became A Source Of Massive Soft Cultural Power
It’s a card game! It’s an app! It’s a movie! It’s a meme! It’s a stuffie (or a lot of stuffies)! But truly, what...
Berlinale Defends Jury President Wim Wenders Post-Soundbite About Gaza That Led Arundhati Roy To...
The festival head said, "Artists should not be expected to comment on all broader debates about a festival’s previous or current practices over which...
Bring Back Ski Ballet!
Nothing is “nutty” in the Olympics now. Ski ballet was a demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992, but "unlike the other two freestyle disciplines,...
How Many Times Can One Man Win Cowboy Poet Of The Year, A Real...
At least three. “The Western Music Association describes the award as recognizing a person who writes ‘with imaginative power and beauty of thought, with...
The Women Of Bauhaus
“The German art school turned political and cultural engine founded in 1919,” and its “principles included absolute equality between male and female participants — or...
How Toni Morrison’s Courage And Daring Shaped The Way We Think
“She became the only black woman ever to win the Nobel prize in literature. But the facts remain: she is difficult to read. She is difficult...
Behind The Scenes Of The Lion Dance
“Because information about lion dancing in English is scarce, Chan led a group of Kei Lun Martial Arts members on a research trip to...
As Minneapolis Starts Construction On A Memorial To George Floyd, It’s Dealing With Two...
The mayor’s office says Minneapolis is “actively working on next steps, including continued community engagement regarding both memorials.” - Minnesota Public Radio
We Need To Talk About Heathcliff, Emily Bronte, And Race
“The ‘dynamics of this novel are about otherness in various ways, and that otherness is in Heathcliff.’ Onscreen, however, Heathcliff has largely been played...
Generative AI Is Pretty Bad At Video Game Worlds
It might never improve enough. “Even in the most ambitious view where AI technology is feasibly able to generate worlds that are as responsive...
Is Warner Bros Back To (Sky)Dancing With Paramount?
“Paramount Skydance’s latest offer — No. 9 since last year — includes a premium ‘ticking fee’ for WBD shareholders of about $650 million for...
Translating Holocaust Literature At This Particular Moment In History Is Fraught – And Vital
“As many as one-third of all Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide perished on Soviet territory. Yet … narratives of this experience remain largely...
What Happens To A City’s Public Space When A Huge Event – Say, A...
Ask Los Angeles. “My favorite part was how the plaza was filled with people marveling at very talented graffiti artists making Foot Locker-branded murals...
As ‘Wuthering Heights’ Is Critically Crushed But Winning The Box Office, NPR Asks What...
“When you read a book, you live inside it — you're intellectually and emotionally invested, because you create its world in your mind.” But...
