When And Where Did The First Indo-European Language Develop? There’s A New Argument About...
"Most linguists think those speakers were nomadic herders on the steppes of Ukraine and Russia about 6,000 years ago. Yet a minority put the...
Finally We’ve Gotten Around To Recognizing That Some of The “Monuments Men” Were Women
"The Dallas-based foundation honoring the group updated its name ... to recognize their contributions, highlighted their work in a new exhibit ..., and is...
Did A Moscow Auction House Just Sell A Painting Looted From A Ukrainian Museum?
The work in question, sold for roughly $1 million early this week, is Ivan Aivazovsky's painting Moonlit Night. Ukraine's prosecutor-general tweeted that the item...
Dallas Arts Groups Nervously Hope Voters Will Approve Ballot Measure With New Arts Funding
"Dallas residents will vote on a $1.25 billion bond package in May, which includes one of the largest allocations for cultural facilities in decades....
Cash-Strapped Metropolitan Opera Has Cut Back On Productions
"(The company) will present 18 productions in 2024-25, matching the current season and pandemic-curtailed 2019-20 for the fewest since 14 in strike-shortened 1980-81." There's...
AM Radio Is Dying. Bernie Sanders And Ted Cruz Want To Save It
According to Ford’s internal data gathered from some of its newer vehicles, less than 5 percent of all in-car listening is to AM radio....
TV Industry Contracts And Talent Scrambles For Jobs
On top of fewer shows and virtually no pilots, the available acting gigs pay less than they used to amid rising cost of living,...
The Unwinding Of Art Publisher Louise Blouin
Ms. Blouin plowed resources into an art news site, ArtInfo, staffing it with young journalists. She also moved into philanthropy with the founding of...
The “Art Crime” Professor And The State Of The Art
"I am frustrated by how often repatriation activists have to reinvent the wheel, which is another reason that I think social media has been...
Inside The Sausage Factory: The Pianist/Influencer Peeling Back The Curtain
What if I showed up as a human experimenting with classical music? Would that make classical music more human? This was a long time...
Explaining The Censorship Scandal At The Hugo Awards
The controversy is over nominations for the 2023 awards: the ceremony was held for the first time in China, in Chengdu. Memos leaked afterward...
Antilogic And The Ancient Art Of Suspending Judgment
Antilogic was a form of contradiction that caused a person to simultaneously believe opposite things about a single event or phenomenon, without any way...
A First: Man On Trial For Streaming Music Fraud
"A Danish man has gone on trial in the city of Aarhus over accusations that he fraudulently made 4.38m kroner (more than $635,000) in...
18 Shows Are Opening On Broadway This Spring. Too Many?
The density of late-season openings — 11 plays and musicals over a nine-day stretch in late April — has producers and investors worried about...
Smart Glasses Provide Live Captioning For Plays
Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Co. is offering hearing-impaired patrons the use of high-tech eyewear that displays real-time captions, adjustable for placement, size and color. People's...
Why The Village Voice Worked
People showed up straight from college, because working at the Voice had always been their dream, despite substandard wages and word rates, paltry expense budgets, and...
Russia Arrests Los Angeles Ballerina, A US Citizen, On Charge Of Treason
Ksenia Karelina (also known as Ksenia Khavana), a 33-year-old native of Yekaterinburg who holds both Russian and US citizenship, had been visiting her hometown...
Could The NY Times Win Its Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI?
Unlike Google’s search engine, generative AI models sometimes do produce creative works that compete directly with the works they were trained on. And this puts these...
The Alabama Radio Station Whose 200-Foot Transmission Tower Was Stolen Is Back On The...
WJLX (1240 AM) in Jasper has an FM-frequency repeater, but without the AM station's tower providing the original signal and programming, the repeater was...
Alvin Ailey Company Performance In Birmingham, Alabama Cancelled Mid-Show Due To “Cold Temperatures Backstage”
The performance on Feb. 17 began 40 minutes late, the company did one piece, then there was another 40-minute wait before the audience was...
Britain’s Second City, Effectively Bankrupt, Announces Elimination of All Arts Funding
In Birmingham, which faces a long-brewing cash crisis, "grants to regularly-funded arts organisations will face 50% cuts this year and 100% next financial year."...
The Terrifying Logistics Of Getting An Entire U.S. Symphony Orchestra Packed Up And Onto...
"(It's) a finely tuned and precisely orchestrated operation, requiring months of advance planning and permitting, a crew of nearly a dozen workers and an...
Another Frank Gehry Arts Center Is Under Construction In Downtown L.A.
"Preliminary work has begun on a $335-million expansion of the Colburn School of performing arts designed by Gehry that includes a mid-size concert hall...
Cairo Restores And Reopens A Large Portion of The Saladin Citadel
"Cairo's citadel, one of the Egyptian capital's most prominent landmarks, opened another wing housing two semi-circular towers to the public on Sunday. … (The...
The Titles Most Often Stolen From San Francisco Public Libraries, And A Possible Solution
It turns out that the volumes most frequently pilfered from SFPL shelves aren't, say, bestselling thrillers; they're books about addiction and recovery. So city...
