The Arts: We’re Being Bored To Death
After a century or so, as Dave Hickey explains, in which it had evaded institutional control—a century of Parisian bohemians, modernist vagabonds, and visionary...
After 17 Years, Greece Regains 351 Looted Artifacts From Disgraced British Dealer
"After a 17-year legal battle with the liquidated company that belonged to disgraced British art dealer Robin Symes, the Greek Ministry of Culture announced...
Adding Live Theatre To Movies Is A Hit In Western Australia
Evidently, this new blend of live theatre and film may be just what the cinema industry needs to help fight back against at-home streaming...
Tate Britain’s Director Explains What’s Behind the Complete Rehang Of The Museum’s Collection
"So far, most of the coverage about the project has focused on the increased representation of female artists. Yet, this barely scratches the surface...
Why The US Needs Its Own Bookfair
The U.S. is the biggest English-language publishing market it the world, yet it’s one of the few large countries without an industrywide conference. - Publishers...
To This They’ve Come: Florida School Forbids Amanda Gorman’s Inauguration Poem To Grade-School Students
"A parent of a student at Bob Graham Education Center in Miami Lakes objected to the poem, for which they erroneously listed Oprah Winfrey...
Susan Sontag’s Complicated View Of Women
The essays in “On Women” make clear that, for Sontag, the oppression of women presented an aesthetic and narrative problem as well as a...
Paul Simon Says He’s Gone Mostly Deaf In One Ear And May Have To...
"Quite suddenly, I lost most of the hearing in my left ear, and nobody has an explanation for it," he said. As if that...
Trump’s Voice of America Chief Repeatedly Abused Power and Tried To Impose Political Loyalty...
Just days after being confirmed as CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Michael Pack was trying to fire executives suspected of insufficient...
The Worst Is Over: U.S. Orchestra Audiences Are Finally Coming Back To Live Concerts
"In interviews, orchestra leaders around the country (said) that things had been deeply disappointing early on this season for them, too — and that...
The Netflix Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun
"Netflix is bringing its password-sharing deterrents to the U.S. On Tuesday, the streaming giant began rolling out its paid sharing feature in the U.S.,...
Egyptians Are Flipping Out Again About A Famous Pharaoh Depicted As Black
"A new exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands has sparked controversy by including a contemporary artwork that depicts the Pharaoh...
It’s The Playwrights Who Saved This Year’s Tony Awards
Many leading playwrights also work as screenwriters — and are thus members of the striking Writers Guild of America. When that union refused to...
International Booker Prize 2023 Goes To Georgi Gospodinov and Angela Rodel for “Time Shelter”
"(The novel) imagines the 'first clinic of the past,' in which Alzheimer's patients can visit different time periods of their lives on different floors."...
Want To Be Wildly Successful? Fail. A Lot
Far from being an occasional exception, failure is an inherent part of human life. - Hedgehog Review
Louise Bourgeois Spider Sells At Auction for $33 Million
Only four of the French-American artist’s arachnid creations have ever appeared at auction. In May 2019, another sold for $32.1 million with fees at...
Meet The Chicago Symphony’s Music Librarians
The orchestra "owns more than 5,000 sets of scores and parts, some dating back a half century or more, with even older ones...
Hearing Aids Help Clarify Speech. Music? Not So Much
Much of the research indicates that it can take years for the brain to adjust to the new mode of input via hearing aids....
A Set Of Ceramic Plates Bought For $8 From The Salvation Army Turn Out...
"It’s every thrifter's dream. Several years ago, a New York woman purchased several ceramic dishes at a Salvation Army store for $8, then found...
Hi! We’d Love To Publish Your Book. But Could You Take Out Any Reference...
In what Maggie Tokuda-Hall described as a “Faustian bargain,” Scholastic made the offer contingent on removing mentions of the Japanese American incarceration that tied...
Steven Spielberg Want To Make Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” Into A Miniseries
Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Partners, "are shopping it with Patrick Marber adapting (the Closer writer/director was the play's original director when it...
Artificial Intelligence? Let’s Think For A Moment Beyond That
How would we deal with artificial beings with rich capacities for thought, experience, and feeling? What are our obligations to them? What of their...
The 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Times (A BBC Culture Poll)
"BBC Culture polled 177 books experts from 56 countries in order to find the greatest children's books ever. From Where the Wild Things Are...
Yup — Using Big Words Doesn’t Make You Sound Smarter
“Complexity neither disguised the shortcomings of poor essays, nor enhanced the appeal of high-quality essays.” In other words, George Orwell got it right: “Never...
In Sydney, A Controversy Over How Often, And Why, To Permit Special Light Shows...
"The Sydney Opera House has reviewed the rules for lighting its iconic sails, as figures reveal they were lit up a record one night...
