Hollywood’s Critiques Of Online Culture Are Getting Pretty Good
The internet by design has sanded complex ideas down to trending hashtags, stripping subtlety from language and producing younger generations who confuse attention for...
It’s Been Two Years Since A Massive Explosion Destroyed Beirut. Architects Are Picking Up...
Since the explosion, architects and designers have dealt with the after-effects in different ways, with some choosing to leave Beirut and others moving within...
The Ukrainian Guy Selling Music Discs That Have Survived Russian Bombing
I noticed a listing for an LP that read “Nirvana ‘The Best’ LP survived after AIRSTRIKE from Kharkiv, UKRAINE. For help. - The New...
Why Do People Wo Should Know Better Keep Thinking That AI Robots Are Sentient?
And by "people who should know better," we mean certain AI researchers themselves. "The problem is that people closest to the technology live with...
Libraries Are Starting To Change How They Reference Indigenous Peoples
Outdated terminology such as “Indians of North America” has remained in these term lists despite changing use in society and no longer matches the...
HBO Max And Discovery+ To Merge By Next Summer
Said the CEO and president of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery, "At the end of the day, putting all the content...
How Do You Measure Academic Work?
How long does academic work take? How long should it take? Even more troubling, who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for...
This Program Could Transform The Model For Small And Midsize Dance Companies’ Touring
It's all in the program's name: PORT, or Peer Organized Reciprocal Touring. Says one of the founders, "It's pretty simple. ... Org A hosts...
ClassicFM Listenership Dips To All-Time Low
Classic FM’s audience has hit a record low, falling under 5 million listeners for the first time with over half a million people switching...
“Jerusalem” — A Century Of Struggle Over The Meaning Of England’s Great Patriotic Hymn
Among the causes for which Hubert Parry's stirring setting of William Blake's poem has been enlisted (or co-opted): wartime patriotism, women's suffrage, English nationalism,...
Geffen Hall Theatre To Be Named After Key Donor
The $50 Million gift represents one of the Tsai family’s biggest ventures so far into the performing arts. Joseph Tsai, who trained as a...
Erin Overbey’s Ex-Colleagues At The New Yorker Say She Was Fired For Poor Work...
Said one of them, "This is about a legacy white employee who was in danger of losing her job for performance reasons, so she...
What Does It Mean To Be An LGBTQ+ Museum In The 21st Century?
"At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how...
Chicago Theater “Has To Stop Eating Its Own”: Chris Jones
"What matters now is whether this community can rebuild itself with fewer takedowns and more inclusion, less intramural finger-pointing and more outward-facing togetherness. Above...
Court Orders Kevin Spacey To Pay The Makers Of “House Of Cards” $31 Million
A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator's award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on...
Netflix Ordered To Pay Writers Guild $42 Million In Back Residuals
"The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for...
Uffizi Gallery In Florence Will Spend €50 Million To Renovate The Medici’s Grand Gardens
The "Boboli 2030" project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original...
Edinburgh Fringe Performers Are Staying In Tents And Trailers Because Lodging There Has Become...
New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city's permanent...
This Is What The World Has Become: Beyonce Re-Recording Two Tracks From Her Newly-Released...
The song Heated will have ableist language removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is...
We Need To Redefine What It Means To Be A Citizen
In this future, people are citizens, rather than subjects or consumers. With this identity, it becomes easier to see that all of us are smarter than...
Our Relationships With Fiction
Today, critics can almost take for granted that we have emotional relationships with literary works—notably, ones of attachment. But if the literary work is “an object...
Princeton Experiments With A New Way To Audition
Princeton University has thrown away the practice of traditional auditions and have introduced “Try On Theater Days,” replacing high-intensity auditions with educational workshops as a means to cast performers...
Classical Music Is Disappearing From Our Common Public Spaces
It's part of a trend that is increasingly unavoidable: the disappearance of classical music from the kind of cultural settings where it used to be...
Study: Effects Of Music On Our Bodies
The researchers discuss the concept that the body responds rhythmically to the music you are listening to, speeding up when the tempo is faster,...
Flim-Flam In Flux: How Profanity Changed Through The 16th Century
The age of the Tudors in England is when words about sexuality and scatology started to be considered profane rather than simply matter-of-fact. Yet...
