Humans Are Wired To Be Good At Math (Oh, You’re Not?)
Research shows that humans are born with an inherent sense of numbers, known as numerosity.5 The concept of numerosity is one of the only high-level cognitive functions...
Public Radio Expands To Urban Alternative Format
Aiming to bring younger and more ethnically diverse listeners to public radio, the urban alternative format has spread to cities from Denver to Milwaukee,...
German Museums Being Criminally-Investigated For Antiquities Trafficking
Several public museums and universities in Germany have become embroiled in criminal investigations into the widespread trafficking of Middle Eastern antiquities. - The Art...
Dubai’s Proposed City In The Sky (Literally)
Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000 metres in circumference, the skyscraper would be composed of two interconnected main rings that will house residential,...
Music Of Hate
Historically, songs were employed by labor unions to create a sense of solidarity and move labor rights forward against overwhelming odds. If music can be a...
Man Using AI Wins First Prize In State Fair Art Competition. Other Artists Cry...
Jason Allen did not paint “Théâtre D'opéra Spatial,” AI software called Midjourney did. It used his prompts, but Allen did not wield a digital...
Considering Furniture As Art
"Chairs have done the same job for centuries, whenever we wanted to sit. Presented like art, however, their variety is striking, from the delicate...
What Do We Owe The Future? Not Much
The universe is stranger than we can imagine, Albert Einstein is said to have said. Indeed, we should not even be sure there is...
Will This Year’s Venice Film Festival Signal A Revival Of Business At Art-House Cinemas?
"'It's hard to tell how healthy the art house market is right now because, since theaters reopened, we haven't had many of those real...
Music Publishers Reach Agreement Over New Rates For Streaming Music
Sources also say that both sides were eager to avoid another protracted, distracting and brutally expensive legal battle, to put it mildly: The fight over...
John Adams At 75: The Greatest Living American Composer?
"He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with...
New Computer Analysis Gives Insight Into Shakespeare’s Language
The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project at Lancaster University, deploying large-scale computer analyses, has been transforming what we know about Shakespeare’s language. - The Conversation
The Washington Post Is Reviving Its Stand-Alone Sunday Book Review — In Print, No...
The paper's Book World was closed in 2009 and reviews in the hard-copy edition were moved to the Style and Outlook sections. (Online, there...
Disney Ponders An “Amazon Prime-Like” Membership Program
The program would be somewhat akin to Amazon Prime, which offers advantages such as free shipping, discounts at Whole Foods and a complementary streaming video...
Copyright Suit Over Dance In Video Game “Fortnite” Is Tossed Out
"A judge for the Central District of California has dismissed a lawsuit by choreographer Kyle Hanagami against Epic Games. Hanagami filed the suit in...
Why Does Shakespeare’s Globe Keep Finding Itself A Battleground In The Culture Wars?
"Shakespeare and Shakespeare's Globe will always be viewed by some as fundamentally conservative because, on one level, they exist as symbols of England's past...
Ashley Judd, In A New York Times Op-Ed, Argues For The Right To Keep...
"The rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about (Naomi's) death, and about our relationships with her, ... will only worsen if the details...
Virginia Court Throws Out Lawsuit To Block Sale Of Two Books To Minors And...
"'I agree with the defense that the statute is facially invalid,' said retired judge Pamela S. Baskervill (about the) Virginia law that a Republican...
Staffers At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Authorize A Strike
"Unionized workers ..., in talks since October of 2020 on their first labor contract with museum management, voted Tuesday night to authorize a strike...
L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse Announces Artistic Director’s Departure
"On Wednesday ... Matt Shakman announced he will step down from his role in February (and) will program the company's 2023-24 season before he...
Unboxed, The £120 Million “Festival Of Brexit”, Is Flopping At The Box Office
"Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events...
NYC Is Asking Artists For Proposals To Decorate Garbage Trucks (But Not Paying Them?)
Its inaugural edition happened in 2019, when four artists and students in a visual arts class were selected to cover the 400-square-foot blank “canvases”...
A Compelling Takedown Of The Creation Museum
We already have abundant material rebutting creationism on scientific grounds, but the Trollingers explicitly refrain from discussing the science. What they do instead is much more...
How A Book Goes From Idea To Bookstore
How does a debut novel go from a “very messy” draft on a writer’s desk to a published book, on display in bookstores around...
Was Rachmaninoff Really A Radical?
One aspect of Rachmaninoff’s legacy that deserves greater scrutiny is his peculiar resonance with early-twentieth-century American pop music. George Gershwin, the son of Russian...
