Familiar Playbook: A War On Freedom Of Ideas
Despots over the ages devised a lopsided way of funding science that punished blue-sky thinkers and promoted gadget makers. Mr. Trump’s science policies, experts say,...
Kentucky Church Urges Parishioners To Check “Offensive” Books Out Of Libraries And Never Return...
“Yes — we have urged Christians, both locally and across the country, to search their libraries for books that promote sodomy, gender confusion and...
Italy Struggles With All The Damage Caused By Tourists Behaving Badly
People carving their initials into the Coliseum, trashing Bernini’s fountain in Rome, driving a car down the Spanish Steps, mounting and humping a nude...
Audiences For Met Opera’s Cinemacasts Are Down By Half, Says Peter Gelb
“Our audience globally is about 55% of what it was before the pandemic. We still have a significant audience. We reached countries across eleven...
Anna Wintour Names Her Long-Awaited Successor As Editor of Vogue
“Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloé Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue. — Wintour, 75,...
Another Gérard Depardieu Rape Case Will Proceed To Trial
“French movie star Gérard Depardieu was summoned to trial before a criminal court in Paris over allegations of rape and sexual assault against actor Charlotte Arnould....
Layoffs At SoCal Classical Station KUSC Following Federal Cuts
Classical California, the umbrella organization which operates both KUSC and KDFC in San Francisco, lost $1.1 million in the Trump administration’s rescission of public...
Have People and Write Stuff Down
The arts might be great for inspiration, but Sartre had it wrong. The ...
Graham Greene, Oscar Nominee And Pioneering Indigenous Actor In Hollywood, Is Dead At 73
He began acting in his native Canada circa 1980; his big break came with Kevin Costner’s Dances With Wolves, for which Greene was nominated...
Esa-Pekka Salonen Takes Newly-Created Positions In Paris And Los Angeles
“The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that Salonen would be its first creative director, starting in fall 2026. Simultaneously, the Philharmonie de Paris announced that...
Why Were These Two British Artists Memory-Holed?
“The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the...
One Colorado Town Will Be Doing Some Reparations For Ending An Artist’s Residency Early...
Vail will host a powwow and provide cultural sensitivity training. “The town also agreed to fund a new art program for underrepresented and economically...
Two Anti-Authoritarian Writers On Writing Against The Political Winds
Lea Ypi: “In literature there is an experimentation with genres and with cultures and with languages, and so you get this sense of complexity....
The United States Won The Civil War, But This Administration Is Intent On Honoring...
The Confederacy was the enemy of the United States. Remember the extremely bloody war? So why, with a restoration of Confederate statues and names,...
What’s Up With Our 21st Century Obsession With Leonardo Da Vinci?
Leonardo “had become one of us in the way we want 21st-century celebrities to be one of us: a tech entrepreneur, a creative, a...
Margaret Rossiter, Who Wrote Women Scientists Back Into History, Has Died At 81
Rossiter was “a historian whose trilogy, Women Scientists in America, documented in sharp detail the ways women were excised from the annals of science.”...
Jim Jarmusch On Movies, Money, And MUBI
The director's new film is partly funded by MUBI. On the company's investor with ties to the Israeli military: “All corporate money is dirty....
The US Administration Is Now Openly Hostile To Europe’s Digital Services Act
Hm: “The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), sent a scathing letter to a number of tech giants, including Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. The...
Is It Even Possible For Meta To Rein In Its AI Chatbots?
Not ideal: “This isn’t some relatively harmless inconvenience that just targets celebrities, either. These bots often insist they’re real people and will even offer...
Portland Is Looking For Some Help Figuring Out Its Performing Arts Future
Should Portland State build two new performing arts centers to handle Broadway tours while the earthquake-unsafe Keller Auditorium is renovated? Can the city in...
Atlanta Is About To Lose Its Print Newspaper
The Journal-Constitution plans to go all-digital at the end of 2025. - Nieman Lab
Musicians In Utah Protest ICE Detention Of Violinist
“Musicians have been staging ongoing performances in protest at the Utah State Capitol.” - NPR
US Administration Moving To Fire 500 Voice Of America Employees, Despite Court Ruling
“Most of the 1,300 Voice of America journalists had already been fired or remained on paid leave prior to these layoffs. Only 100 journalists...
When Publishers Let ‘Nature Authors’ Get Away With Quackery, We All Suffer
The truth is that "disability is not a choice, but a natural variation of existence. That disability is part of the natural world, and...
CalArts Makes Some Pretty Big Cuts
CalArts had tried to get 50-60 faculty and staff to take “voluntary separation” or early retirement, but when they didn’t get enough takers, they...
