A Backlash To DEI In Book Publishing?
Works by white writers dropped from 88 percent to 75 percent in five years. It is by far the biggest such change in U.S....
The Hidden Heroines Of The Harlem Renaissance: Black Librarians
"Today, figures like Schomburg and … W.E.B. Du Bois are hailed as the founders of the 20th-century Black intellectual tradition. But increasingly, scholars are...
What Ails Us: Government Support For The Arts On The Wane
The historically lamentable lack of government support for the arts in the U.S. is taking another turn for the worse. California and San Francisco...
The Dance Equivalents Of Great Short Stories
"Audiences love big, stage-filling choreography with dramatic music and luscious dancing. But every once in a while, a short, spare dance packs a punch....
Duh: Those With A Love Of Thinking Do Better
People who relish mental challenges are not necessarily more intelligent – although some research has found that, on average, they score higher on fluid intelligence, the...
France Gets Its First Museum Of Cheese (What Took So Long?)
The Musée du Fromage, opening this weekend on Île Saint-Louis in central Paris, will feature demonstrations of how several different varieties (out of hundreds...
“The Allen Ginsberg Of Japan” Has Died At 93
Kazuko Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20 with her “Tamago no Furu Machi” (“The Town that Rains Eggs”). A pioneer of...
How The Friedman Sisters Found The Great Musical Hiding Inside Sondheim’s Most Notorious Flop
Maria is a successful actor/singer/director in Britain, and Sonia is arguably London's leading producer. They've occasionally worked together before, but Merrily We Roll Along...
ISIS Made And Posted Fake CNN And Al Jazeera News Videos
Earlier this year, ISIS's media arm created two YouTube channels, with corresponding Facebook and Twitter/X accounts, branded as Al Jazeera and CNN and matching...
Netflix Is Going To Open Not-Quite-Theme-Parks In The US
The first of these "experiential entertainment venues" will open next year at the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia and the Galleria in Dallas....
Oh, Great, The Mysterious Mirrored Monolith Is Back
The first of them — rectangular pillars over 10 feet tall, made of reflective sheet metal — materialized, seemingly out of nowhere, in Utah...
Parkour Crew Damages Building At UNESCO World Heritage Site In Italy
The London-based Team Phat — which has already been banned from Venice — was doing its thing in the seaside town of Matera, in...
How Algorithms Are Changing Performance Art
We are in a feedback loop in which social media edifies and dictates taste. In a time of strained attention, where every next post...
German Theatre Reinvents, Reuses, And Reimagines To Get To Climate Neutral
No aspect of the process of making a play has been left unturned. From the lighting (switching to LED bulbs) to reducing travel (rehearsals...
Who’s Consuming The News And Why Not
Instead of a left-right thing, the report repeatedly locates a different divide — between people who are interested in news and politics and those...
Why Is The Progressive Brooklyn Museum Being Attacked By The Political Left?
Seven months ago, the museum was criticized not for a sympathetic view toward Israel but instead for antisemitic leanings. The turmoil in which so...
What, Actually, Is Intelligence? Just A Label?
Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label, pinned by humanity onto...
Bayadere Is Stuffed With Stereotypes. Should It Be Reinvented Or Put Away?
“As someone who’s interested in pushing the boundaries forward, we have to know what our past looks like and embody that. What do we...
The Slow-Motion Heist Of Pre-Columbian Antiquities From A Fort Worth Storeroom
In 1996, a wealthy collector donated a trove of ancient Peruvian ceramics and textiles — items which had no clear provenance — to Texas...
How Daniel Radcliffe Overcame Harry Potter
From early on, Radcliffe was aware of two competing drumbeats—two inevitable destinies, usually somehow intertwined, that were being predicted for him. - The Atlantic
Agnieszka Holland’s Latest Film Enraged Poland’s Right Wing — And Became A Hit
Green Border takes place among the Middle Eastern migrants, now stuck in a no-man's-land between borders, whom dictator Alexander Lukashenko invited to Belarus and...
World’s Best And Biggest Video Store Might Have To Close
The longtime University District video store, which turned nonprofit in 2014, holds one of the largest publicly accessible video collections in the United States; its...
Barbara Gladstone, Starmaking Art Dealer, Is Dead At 86
Among her discoveries, many of whom Gladstone Gallery still represents, are Matthew Barney, Joan Jonas, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Wangechi Mutu, Carrie Mae Weems,...
Post-Tonys’ Die-Offs Begin: Broadway’s Huey Lewis Musical To Close
The show is the second to announce plans to close in the wake of this year’s Tony nominations, joining “Lempicka”. “The Heart of Rock...
After 40 Years, Urban Bush Women Founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Bids Her Company...
"In 2019, she handed over the role of artistic director ... to two company members, Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. And (this weekend),...
