Almost A Fifth Of Primary Schoolers In England Have No Books At Home
"According to a report by the National Literacy Trust, the percentage of children (aged five through eight) who do not have a book of...
1,000-Year-Old Byzantine Frescoes In Sudan Uncovered And Restored
"The paintings ... were initially found by Sudanese archaeologists in 2021 while excavating the remains of the El Lagia church at el-Ga’ab depression on...
The Movement For Gender-Neutral Acting Awards Is Picking Up Steam. Will The Big Flagship...
"Two more awards shows went gender neutral last week, fueling further speculation about the day when major awards shows — think Oscars, Emmys and...
The Taliban Used To Smash Up Afghanistan’s Ancient Art And Artifacts. Now It’s Guarding...
"When (the Islamists) returned to power a year ago, many cultural heritage advocates worried about the fate of the National Museum and its irreplaceable...
Author Barbara Ehrenreich Has Died At 81
"In more than 20 books, (she) explored a sweep of topics that echoed her varied background as a feminist political activist and scientist with...
Our Long Battles Over Learning And Indoctrination
This question—why parents and taxpayers should support public schools that teach content that conflicts with their most cherished beliefs—has reverberated across the decades, sometimes...
How ArtForum Thinks About Criticism
Criticism in the broadest sense is a key tactic for maintaining a nonrigid, noncomplacent orientation toward the world. You’re always stepping back and looking...
Is History Really Just About Quantifying Numbers?
That there is more than one way to interpret numbers might seem obvious, but is worth repeating at a time when, once again, historians...
UK Arts Funding Is A Zero-Sum Game (And Getting Worse)
Arts funding, under the current government, is a zero-sum game. There’s no new money, beyond a tiny, 2% rise in the ACE budget. ...
Australian Artists Rethinking Tours Over Climate Concerns
During an 11-week national tour, each member of the company was responsible for approximately seven tonnes of carbon emitted. The average per-capita emission in...
Are Public Radio Listeners Cooling On Podcasts?
While podcast consumption is holding steady overall among public radio fans, Jacobs Media's just-released Public Radio Techsurvey 2022 shows some warning signs for public...
Now AI Is Learning To Reconstruct Lost Paintings
A London-based project called Oxia Palus has already produced speculative versions of works by van Gogh, Modigliani, and Picasso which the artists later painted...
How A Musicology Debate About Heinrich Schenker Became A Battle Royale
For those blessedly anchored in the real world, here is a brief summary of a case that began as a passionate-yet-niche dispute between scholars...
How Libraries Became Front And Center In The Culture Wars
Traditional-values groups are demanding the removal or restriction of books with explicit sex education, and books that unflinchingly document LGBTQ realities and the Black...
William Christie Looks At America’s Baroque Music Scene — And Likes What He Sees
"Indiana University for the last 40 years has been trumpeting early performance practice. Now there are maybe 20 or so extraordinary pockets of incredible...
AI-Powered Black Rappers? Created By White Designers? See The Problem?
This isn’t to say that white creators ought not create Black characters at all, but that there is something particularly gut-wrenching about the artificial...
Still Fabulous Into Their 70s And 80s: Meet The Drag Queens Who Haven’t Retired...
"The art of drag has firmly entered the mainstream, turning some performers into global celebrities. But go back half a century and the picture...
Awesome! The Debasement Of Our Linguistic Filler-Inners
We go straight to “amazing”. Or “awesome”. In both cases, as usual, I think we’re on safe ground blaming the Americans. They too, surely,...
Fears That Climate Change Could Wipe Out French-Speaking Louisiana
"People in bayou country have long learned to live under adverse weather conditions. But things have gotten much worse in recent years. Rising sea...
Qatar’s Museum Of Islamic Art Reopens Next Month, With A Redesign And Over 1,000...
Known at its 2008 opening mainly for its building, one of the last major designs by I.M. Pei, the MIA has completed an 18-month...
The Leader Of Hollywood’s New Choreographers Guild Explains Why The Union Is Necessary
"Choreographers for major network TV shows are getting paid less than the dancers. The entertainment industry needs a lot of education about how vital...
Is “Devolution” The Right Word? How Unboxed (aka The Festival Of Brexit) Came, Er,...
Theresa May first proposed the festival in 2018 to showcase the liberated UK as a creative powerhouse. Yet, by 2022, nobody was in a...
Meet The Longest-Working Black Director In History
After starting out in New York theater, Michael Schultz directed the classic PBS documentary To Be Young, Gifted and Black and made over a...
Actors’ Equity Is Taking A Hard Look At Non-Disclosure Agreements (Thanks, Scott Rudin)
One of the reasons that Rudin's extreme mistreatment of his employees went unreported for so long was his insistence on having everyone he worked...
Europe’s Film Industry Steps up To Support Its Ukrainian Colleagues
Since the domestic Ukrainian market is in, er, a difficult spot just now, there's a raft of initiatives to aid Ukrainian creators with grants...
