Brazil Has Restored Nearly All The Art Damaged In Bolsonaro’s 2023 Insurrection
"The collection, which includes contemporary and historical artworks, design objects, and artifacts, was targeted on January 8, 2023, when riots erupted in Brasília following...
Musing On Dance And Addiction
A dancer's day is all about discipline, be that in relation to movement or intake (even healthy, appropriate eating: food is fuel etc). So...
Jeremy O. Harris Says He’s A “Theater Supremacist,” But …
"… more fitting might be a theater proselytizer. ... In his eyes, theater should be as much a part of the American story as...
Why The TV Experience Sucks Right Now
As viewers, we’re being flattened by a fire hose of programming — and the experience of watching TV feels like a ritual of submission,...
A Brief History Of Olympic Villages — And What They Left Behind In Their...
Have the buildings created as lodging for thousands of athletes really provided housing and other benefits for their neighborhoods after the Games are over?...
What’s The Real Innovation Of The Paris Olympics? Temporary, Recyclable Venues
"Erector-set arenas have sprung up like crystals in the city’s traffic circles and parks, often with Parisian landmarks as backdrops. There are temporary pools,...
Conglomerate That Owns Publisher Hachette Plans To Spin It Off
"Vivendi has updated its plans to separate into … three new companies. One of these would be newly named company, Louis Hachette Group, which...
Ordinary Tweet Leads To Discovery Of 16th-Century Portrait Of Henry VIII
In the background of a tweet from the regional government in the English county of Warwickshire, an art historian recognized what turned out to...
“At My High School, The Library Is For Everything But Books”
"According to school records, only about 50 books were checked out by students during the 2023 fall semester. In response, the administration has decided...
SAG-AFTRA Actors On Strike Against Video Game Makers
"Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday after negotiations with industry giants that began nearly two years ago came to a...
Detroit Opera Keeps Yuval Sharon For Three More Years
"Further, with the news of Sharon’s extended stay (as artistic director) in Detroit (through 2028), the company announced overarching themes for its next three...
How Memes Are Helping Redefine Kamala Harris
The popularity of memes means they have become an important vehicle for political communication. In my research, I have identified four roles of memes:...
Struggling To Explain The Enormity Of AI
The great discoveries of humanity have always taught us that we are not masters in our own house: Copernicus removed the Earth from the...
David Dorfman And The Zen Of Dance
When you’re dancing with another person, or folk-dancing in a big group circle, or country line-dance, or disco dance—that’s how I started—you’re concentrating on...
New Live Recordings By Louis Armstrong
This month, with the release of a new album of live recordings, fresh material has been added to the ongoing debates about Armstrong's contradictions. -...
Study: Most UK Adults Don’t Read For Pleasure
The study, commissioned by the charity the Reading Agency, saw 15% of adults reporting that they have never been regular readers, and 35% saying...
Some Old Books Can Be Literally, Physically Toxic. Some Collectors Think That’s Exciting.
The pigments used in bookbinding cloth in the 19th century gave book covers some vibrant colors — hues attained with lead (blue), chromium (yellow),...
Cultural Phenomenon: “Inside Out 2” Overtakes “Barbie” Box Office
The film, which follows the first film’s heroine as she hits puberty, has just overtaken Barbie in terms of global ticket sales, as well as becoming...
India’s Indie Films Are Getting Awards All Over The World But Can’t Get Onto...
These movies, made outside the the big studio systems, usually in languages other than Hindi, forgo Bollywood's song-dance-melodrama formula in favor of stories about...
The Culture-War Math On Attacks On Libraries
Though book bans have been a familiar tactic in culture wars, today we’re witnessing an attack on libraries themselves as social institutions. There’s a...
Toumani Diabaté, Great Master Of The West African Kora, Has Died At 58
"His exquisite, relaxed playing (of the 21-stringed hard) mixed the ancient and modern, as he switched from pieces that dated back hundreds of years...
Why Kids Aren’t Reading Books
In the first half of 2024, print sales of middle reader books, intended for children ages 9 to 12, dropped by 5 percent from...
The Market For Romance Novels Is Booming. The Professional Organization For Romance Novelists Is...
The Romance Writers of America has seen its membership, once more than 10,000, fall by 80% over the past five years, and the organization...
Perusing Editor Robert Gottleib’s Books
When Mr. Gottlieb, who died last June at 92, wasn’t heartlessly lancing thousands of words out of Robert Caro’s biographical volumes or marking up...
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Is Getting A Real Theater — Designed By A MacArthur...
The new venue — sort of a deluxe, sturdy version of the tent the festival uses currently, with the Hudson River and highlands as...
