French Authorities Arrest Alleged Leader Of Major Egyptian Antiquities Trafficking Operation
"Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of a suspected Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, was arrested in Germany and transferred to France. … The 80-year-old dealer...
A Look Inside The Ancient Egyptian Book Of The Dead
"A standard component in Egyptian elite burials, the Book of the Dead was not a book in the modern sense of the term but...
How Did Bach’s Toccata And Fugue In D Minor For Organ Become The Emblematic...
After all, Bach knew nothing of Halloween, and to him the organ was an instrument for church worship. (Never mind the fact that some...
How Revelations Of Buffy Ste. Marie’s Heritage Is Affecting Indigenous Culture
Suddenly, this story broke and everything we believed about her was called into question. There was no warning and no sensitivity to the impact...
An Initiative To Radically Change The Way Scientific Research Is Shared
It outlines a future “community-based” and “scholar-led” open-research communication system in which publishers are no longer gatekeepers that reject submitted work or determine first...
How Big-Publishing Consolidation Has Changed Fiction-Writing
In the conglomerate era, authors like Stephen King and Danielle Steel are pressured to become advertisements for themselves, even as much of the work...
News Consumption Trends — Mainstream Journalism Down, Opinion Channels Up
In the past 16 months, seven publishers crossed the one million subscriber mark to enter Press Gazette’s ranking for the first time – including...
Theatre’s Crisis Is Really A Demographic Issue
I have been told that staff, tasked to phone up lifelong supporters and subscribers who didn’t renew for the first time, had to be...
Should Theatre’s Performance Time Norm Be 6:30?
Six-thirty may not be a traditional starting time for theatre. But then in the 16th and early 17th-century, before the advent of the indoor...
The Founding Novel Of The Regency Romance Genre Features Some Ugly Stereotypes. Is It...
Georgette Heyer's 1950 novel The Grand Sophy isn't exactly The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it definitely includes antisemitic language. That's been...
How Story-Telling In Podcasts Is Different From Radio
The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a...
What Companies Like Amazon And Facebook/Meta Are Really Using AI For: Generating Ads
"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re...
We Live In An Always-On World. What Does It Mean To Withdraw From It?...
Acts of disengagement are routinely met with scepticism, judgment and pushback in public discourse. What if we were to treat them instead as opportunities...
As A Show, “Pal Joey” Has Always Been A Mess. Can Making Joey A...
That's the gambit being tried with a new adaptation, co-directed by Tony Goldwyn and Savion Glover, that's getting a five-day run in New York...
To What Extent Is Misinformation Changing How We Think?
Misinformation is most commonly defined as anything that is factually inaccurate, but not intended to deceive: in other words, people being wrong. However, it...
Who Looted The Ancient Roman Bronzes From This Village? The Villagers.
"The story of the Bubon bronzes, though, is more than just a tale of looters’ remorse, investigative zeal, art market intrigue and antiquities repatriation....
How Art Schools Are Approaching Artificial Intelligence
“It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” - Artnet
The Drama Is Over: Philadelphia Has Selected Its Harriet Tubman Monument
After a long and initially contentious process, a panel has selected a winner from the five finalist designs for a Tubman memorial to be...
Music Therapy: How And Why It Works
"Scientific research has begun to explore why music appears to have such a strong effect on health and wellness, particularly mental health, where sounds...
Now Boris Johnson Is Going To Be A TV Pundit
The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK's right-leaning network GB News. "I’m going to be giving...
Why The Entire Board of The Banff Centre Was Dismissed
It all stems from a conflict between the now-former CEO, Janice Price, and now-former board chair Adam Waterous over her involvement in the choice...
What Alessandra Ferri Has In Mind For The Vienna State Ballet
"It is one of the great classical repertory companies, but I would like to have a company that lives in the present and looks...
Robert Brustein — Stage Director, Formidable Critic, Founder Of Yale Rep And Harvard’s ART...
"A forbiddingly erudite theorist who was also an in-the-arena practitioner, ... he had an uncompromising vision of what theater should be and no shortage...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack Louvre’s Pyramid With Orange Paint
"About a dozen protesters of 'Dernière Rénovation' (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and...
Scientists Believe Neural Networks Have Cracked Critical Essence Of Intelligence
Since the 1980s, a subset of cognitive scientists have argued that neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), aren't viable models of the mind because their architecture...
