Great Puzzle: Why Did Brandeis University Cut Its Highly-Regarded Music Ph.D Program?
Of 15 PhD-granting departments in Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the music department ranked as one of the best. It had the...
A Complete Neolithic Monument Is Discovered In Scotland’s Western Isles
"In August, archaeologists working alongside local volunteers began their excavation at Drumadoon (on the Isle of Arran) of what is almost certainly the only...
Woman Buys $4 Painting Because She Liked The Frame. Turns Out The Painting Is...
It quickly became clear that the simple frame was of much lesser value than the striking scene within, which was revealed to be by...
Three Ex-Musicians, Fired For Resisting Vaccine Mandate, Sue North Carolina Symphony
"The suit," brought on religious discrimination grounds, "says all musicians ... were told in the summer of 2021 that they must get vaccinated against...
Red-State Governments Are Withdrawing Their Public Libraries From The American Library Association
"This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced they're leaving the ALA, with possibly...
Baltimore’s Flagship Theater Company Finds Its Next Artistic Director
"Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed...
Roku To Lay Off 10% Of Its Staff And Write Off $65 Million
"Roku will cut more than 300 staffers … as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain...
The Doofus Who Broke Off And Stole The Finger Of A 2,000-Year-Old Terra Cotta...
"Michael Rohana, 29, apologized to his family and the Chinese government, saying he would make no excuses for his drunken prank at the (Franklin...
Another Jackass Tourist Damages Another Historic Italian Artwork
"A 22-year-old German man has been detained in Florence, accused of damaging a statue in the 16th-century Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della...
Venice Sets Its Entry Fee For Day-Tripping Tourists
"The fee, initially 5 euros ($5.50) per day-tripper, is 'not a tool for making cash,' (but) to improve the quality of life for Venice's...
Using Numbers To Unlock Shakespeare’s Words
Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistics which uses computers to explore the use of words in huge collections of language. It can spot nuances...
Pondering The Thinking Machine
Few believe that LLMs are truly sentient, but some argue that they show signs of genuine intelligence and of having a conceptual understanding of...
Requiem For Another Theatre
Experimental work was the soul of the New Ohio, a producer and presenter that closed for good on Aug. 31. The publicity line has been that...
Granular Study Of Australian Arts Ecosystem Maps Economic Structures
Australia is the first nation to estimate sources of income and investment for the cultural and creative industries using a new classification system or...
The Webb Telescope Has Cosmologists Thinking Our Ideas About The Universe May Be Wrong
It’s not just that some of us believe we might have to rethink the standard model of cosmology; we might also have to change...
How Early Humans Learned To Count, A History
At first, our hominid ancestors probably did not count very high. Many body parts present themselves in pairs—​arms, hands, eyes, ears, and so on—​thereby...
Four Years Later, The Boy Who Was Thrown From The Tate Modern’s Balcony Is...
"He is now able to bend down, squat, grab his toys and clothes with both hands from his closet without falling or dropping them,"...
An Online Library At The Heart Of A Battle Over AI And Copyright
For critics, Books3 isn’t a boon to society—instead, it’s emblematic of everything wrong with generative AI, a glaring example of how both the rights...
Philly Fringe Is Trying Out A New Model: Hub Venues
Two-thirds of this year's programming is at five hubs; one-half — 150 productions — is at Cannonball, which offers a stage, lighting and sound...
A Statistical Profile Of Artists In Ontario
The 81,800 professional artists who reside in Ontario account for 40% of the 202,900 artists in Canada. As a percentage of the overall labour...
This Season, The Living And The Dead Create Theater Together
"Musicals can be shotgun weddings, their authors joined by necessity, not love. But in most cases, they're at least both breathing. Not so this...
Model Collapse? Spotify Is Desperate To Find New Ways To Charge Subscribers
The company is on the hunt for anything it can do to get users to pay up. After pouring billions into podcasts and audiobooks...
Two Years After A Stroke, Choreographer Ronald K. Brown Is On The Road To...
"'At one point I couldn't move my left leg at all, and my therapist told me, just move it on a molecular level.' It...
The Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum Has A Human Remains Problem
The Natural History Museum has at least 30,700 human bones and other body parts. Responding to The Post’s reporting, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch...
A Rock Writer Watches The Gestation Of Carlos Acosta’s Black Sabbath Ballet
"While others try to persuade me that Acosta is a diehard Sabbath fan, he's a little more careful. He's Cuban, and Sabbath meant nothing...
