Are Our Emotions Shaped By The Words We Use?
Instead of seeing emotions as bequeathed by biology, we might see them as learned: “instilled in us by our parents and other cultural agents,”...
Barrington Stage Company, One Of The Berkshires’ Major Theatres, Names Its New (And Only...
"Alan Paul, the associate artistic director of the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, will ... (take) over the nonprofit theater company in Western Massachusetts...
“Content” Is A Funny Word. But It Degrades Ideas And Truth
But what exactly is content? Who produces it? Why and how did it come to be viewed as “essential”? And how will content continue...
Finally, A TV Series About American Indians, By Indians, For Indians
David Treuer (Ojibwe) meets the creators and writers of Reservation Dogs and explains the ways in which the FX series is wildly, blessedly different...
Larry Josephson, A Public Radio Pioneer Several Times Over, Is Dead At 83
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job...
Reinventing San Francisco’s Business District, Where The Office Culture May Never Fully Return
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the...
Outsider Artist Henry Darger’s Distant Cousins Sue His Old Landlady Over Rights To His...
After Darger died in 1973, his landlords began promoting the art he'd made for 40 years and left behind in his apartment. (Darger had...
Bernard Marson, The Man Who Made SoHo Artists’ Lofts Legally Possible, Is Dead At...
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a...
Documenta Is Hit With A Second Anti-Semitic-Imagery Controversy
On display at one of the art festival's venues is a facsimile of a 1988 brochure about the PLO; inside the brochure are drawings...
Would Theatre Be Better If There Was Less Theatre?
One way to take action is to make a conscious decision to collaborate more and do less, but do it more thoughtfully and with...
It’s Not So Easy To Get Your Head Around What The Internet Is
If we can tear ourselves away from the hype and hysteria that passes for online culture, and stretch out our historico-philosophical telescopes, there really...
What’s At Stake In The Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House Merger Trial
A win for the government would not appear to bode well for Simon & Schuster. Penguin Random House is already a giant and will...
British Museum Suggests “Partnership” With Greece On Parthenon Marbles
“What we are calling for is an active ‘Parthenon partnership’ with our friends and colleagues in Greece. I firmly believe there is space for a...
How Speaking Other Languages Works In Your Brain
It turns out that when a multilingual person wants to speak, the languages they know can be active at the same time, even if only...
John Leguiziamo’s Plan For More Latinx Presence In Hollywood
Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino...
Has New York City Ballet’s Summer Season In Saratoga Shrunk Permanently?
The amphitheater at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center was built as the summer home of the company, which, not so long ago, had a...
Why MBS’s Franken-City Will Never Be Built In The Saudi Desert
Bin Salman finds himself confronting a classic strongman’s dilemma: He has gotten the team he deserves, a staff that’s too well-paid to give it...
South Korea’s New President Orders Billions To Be Spent On Arts And Culture
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film,...
Shortlist For The First-Ever Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize
The prize honors a book-length work of imaginative fiction with $25,000. The nine shortlisted books will be considered by a panel of five jurors....
The British Museum’s Deputy Director Suggests A “Partnership” With Greece Over The Parthenon Marbles
"(We) want to change the temperature of the debate ... (and) find a way forward around cultural exchange of a level, intensity and dynamism...
How Laura Jackson Is Blazing A New Path At The Reno Philharmonic
"I’ve learned over time to always come back and attach to the mission and to the power of music. That has allowed me to...
Researcher Says He’s Begun To Decipher One of The World’s Most Mysterious Ancient Scripts
Linear Elamite is a set of characters that was used in and around the ancient city of Susa (in modern-day Iran) around 4,000 years...
MTT — So Much For That Retirement
Mostly with his old orchestras in San Francisco and Miami, but elsewhere as well, Michael Tilson Thomas is vigorously raising the baton, receiving the...
Gay Soap Operas Are Helping Revive Thailand’s Pandemic-Battered Tourism Industry
"A recent wave of Thai dramas known as 'boys' love' (BL) ... has attracted a large following across Asia," especially among women around age...
Taiwan’s National Palace Museum Is Preparing To Hide Its Collection In Case Xi Jinping...
"With China stepping up military pressure on the self-ruled island, the institution ... which boasts one of the world's finest collections of Chinese imperial...
