Why “Dr. Strangelove,” At 60, Is Still The Greatest Of Movie Satires
"It hews so closely to the real-life absurdities of the Cold War, with two saber-rattling superpowers escalating an arms race that could only end...
Just Who Exactly Was The Real-Life Inspiration For Dr. Strangelove?
Edward Teller? John von Neumann? Herman Kahn? Wernher von Braun? "Despite all the speculation, Kubrick never clarified the character's origins. So did he base...
NY’s Rubin Museum To Close Its Space
Rather than ceasing to exist, the museum will continue on as a spaceless institution that provides long-term loans and as an organization that will...
“Future Presence” — Inside The Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s Immersive Virtual Reality Installation
"The trumpet soloist materialized in different parts of the virtual room … Flutists appeared and vanished. … At one point, when I tried giving...
Dance On Our Screens Is Hugely Popular. How To Turn People On To Live...
Dance sells everything from Nike to Pepto Bismol, and now we have TikTok. But concert dance as an art form is a hard sell....
In Search Of England’s Biggest Pop Hits Of The 17th Century
"London-based ballad publishers commissioned, bought and distributed songs which were performed in ale houses, markets and town squares, hoping that people would buy the...
Saudi Arabia Plans To Build An Arts Destination From Scratch In The Desert. The...
"Amr al-Madani, the chief executive officer of the Royal Commission of AlUla, … is accused of personally benefiting from contracts (worth $55 million) given...
The Hallmark Channel’s March Toward Cultural Domination
"Hallmark rose from the sixth-most-watched cable network at the top of October to the third-most-watched the week of Nov. 20, when it won out...
Gordon Rogoff, 92, Theater Critic, Dramaturg, And Professor
"No critic since Kenneth Tynan was better able to capture in vivid, richly metaphoric language the unique brilliance of a stage performance." Charles McNulty...
Alabama’s Public Libraries Withdraw From American Library Association
"The Alabama Public Library Service has voted not to renew its American Library Association membership. This comes after some in the state have accused...
New Jersey Legislature Prepares Anti-Book-Banning “Freedom To Read” Law
"Following legislation introduced in states like Massachusetts, Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico, legislators in New Jersey introduced a newly revised Freedom to Read Act...
New York’s Rubin Museum Will Sell Its Building And Become A “Museum Without Walls”
"(The museum dedicated to Himalayan Buddhist art) will close Oct. 6, when its last exhibition ends, before the institution transitions to a skeleton crew...
How The Art World Really Works (By An Undercover Journalist)
Her goal is to figure out why contemporary art attracts so much money, status and (occasionally) talent. She spent several years taking entry-level jobs...
Spotify Says Its New Audiobooks Division Is A Roaring Success
A spokesperson for the Swedish tech giant said users have listened to more than 90,000 individual titles from the platform’s catalogue of more than...
Bar Fight! The Frick Backs Down
After residents on the Upper East Side of Manhattan claimed they were blindsided by the Frick Collection’s plans to serve liquor from 17 bars...
The For-Profit Companies Trying To Disrupt The Classical Music Experience
Live-events company Fever is one such disruptor. Founded by Ignacio Bachiller Ströhlein, a McKinsey & Company alum, and Francisco Hein, creator of city guide Secret Media...
Study: Here Are The Entertainment Industry Jobs Most At Risk With AI
A study surveying 300 leaders across the entertainment industry reports that three-fourths of respondents indicated that AI tools supported the elimination, reduction or consolidation of jobs...
The Real Problem With American Universities
The 4,000 or so degree-granting institutions of higher learning in America don’t tend to operate like businesses, which must adapt or die. Instead, a...
The Purposes Of Punctuation: A History
"In elementary school, we learn logical rules for using punctuation. Semicolons connect two related independent clauses, while colons follow an independent clause and introduce...
Why Some People Have Difficulty Accepting New Ideas
“For a long time, creativity research has focused on how do you generate new ideas? What’s the secret sauce? I think that that’s not...
Trying To Stop Dance Injuries Before They Start
Australia's Dance Research Collaborative and a musculoskeletal physiotherapist and researcher in Queensland are working together to investigate injury reduction in dance, particularly in young...
“Rhapsody in Blue” Is Kitsch? Consider The Bigger Context?
To consider Gershwin’s work declassé, kitschy, corny and/or inflated, chastising it for sinful appropriation or for outshining worthier works, seems to me to miss...
Making An Elephant Disappear: Spectacular Stage Magic Is Back In Vogue
"Big-budget shows are increasingly using illusions to help tell stories full of wonder. … Ten years ago, a consultant magician would be brought on...
Universal Music Threatens To Pull Music Off TikTok. Here’s Universal’s Statement
Ultimately TikTok is trying to build a music-based business, without paying fair value for the music. - Universal Music
White House And NEA Are Trying To Use The Arts To Help Solve Non-Art...
"The Environmental Protection Agency will assign artists to treasured bodies of water in the United States under a new program announced Tuesday at a...
