Two Louvre Archaeologists Questioned In Widening Art-Trade Scandal
Jean-François Charnier and Noëmi Daucé are suspected of ignoring warnings about the questionable provenance of at least two allegedly stolen Egyptian antiquities worth millions,...
For Folks Across The Pond, Maeve Higgins Explains The American Right’s Attacks On Public...
"I think the right wing is really afraid of libraries not because libraries promote any one type of information but because libraries promote information...
Ukrainian Artists In Occupied Ukraine Document The War
When it became too dangerous to meet in person, the artists continued to work individually. Some have since escaped the city but others remain,...
Disabled People Are Also Underrepresented On US Screens, Nielsen Study Finds
"Relative to the approximately 26% of adults in the US who have a physical or psychological disability, representation continue(s) to lag behind, a new...
TicketMaster Dynamic Ticket Pricing Has Springsteen Fans Crying Foul ($5,000?)
To be clear, no scalpers were selling those tickets. Instead, a new definition of face value had emerged, one that many fans had never...
France Dumps The Old-Line Bigwigs From Its Oscar Selection Committee
The overhaul, which removes permanent members such as the heads of the Cannes Film Festival and the César Académie, comes out of criticism that...
Quebec’s Plan To Help Theatres Rebuild After COVID
The challenge for larger companies like Stratford, which depend heavily on earned revenue, is how to afford to operate at partial attendance as they...
An Australian University Threatens To Sue Its Own Faculty And Staff
RMIT University in Melbourne let the employment contract with its faculty/staff union expire last year and refuses to start negotiations until 2023. To get...
How Much Is Rome’s Colosseum Really Worth? €77 Billion, Declare The Accountants At Deloitte
The calculations that determined the figure (currently US$79 billion), described as the Colosseum's "value as a social asset," included both the estimated €1.4 billion...
Peter Brook And Richard Taruskin Had A Lot More In Common Than You Could...
Mark Swed, who had dealings (not always pleasant) with both men, considers how, despite their antithetical demeanors, "while neither was quite what he seemed...
Damien Hirst Is About To Literally Burn More Than 5,000 Of His Dot Paintings
Hirst attached NFTs to 10,000 of those works and sold them for $2,000 each; a buyer could keep the NFT or get the real-life...
Iraqi Court Frees Tourist Sentenced To 15 Years For Taking Pottery Shards As Souvenirs
"Last month, ... a British tourist was sentenced to 15 years in an Iraqi prison for taking a dozen pottery shards from an unguarded...
London-Based Touring Theatre Companies Say They’re Facing A “Russian Roulette” Choice In Relocating
Arts Council England's Transfer Programme is pushing companies to move away from the capital into the underserved rest of England. But those whose work...
What To Do About Teodor Currentzis And All His Russian Musicians?
Before this year, the controversies around the Greek-born conductor were usually over his music-making, which classical mavens tend to either adore or loathe. But...
Julius Eastman Is Finally Getting His Moment
Julius Eastman: the fierce black queen iconoclast, scorned and consigned to oblivion in his day, is finally being celebrated for his unabashed talent and...
Is America Ready For Arab Pop Music?
From Timbaland to Sting to the next rapper to say inshallah, Arab culture has been a persistent influence on American music. But songs actually in Arabic have never...
Growth Of The Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Today, they comprise the third largest sector of the U.S. economy: well over 1.5 million nonprofits employ roughly 12.5 million people as of 2017, the latest...
Oh Yes, Medieval Europe Was Chock-a-Block Full Of Conspiracy Theories
This process transformed improbable rumors into seemingly solid facts, backed by evidence from different sources and accepted by political and religious leaders. - Lapham's Quarterly
Why Has Our Aesthetic Choice Been Captured By Algorithms?
Why can it feel as though the entire ecosystem of content that we interact with online has been engineered to influence us in ways...
Do We Overrate Human Intelligence?
We humans are besotted by intelligence, especially our own. And yet “intelligence is not the miracle of evolution we like to think it is. -...
Meet The Boston Typewriter Orchestra
Says one member, "We call them instruments, some people call them office machines, some people call them sculptures. It's got a limited range of...
Russian Culture Has Been Canceled In Russia
The Putin regime has dealt Russian culture a crushing blow, just as the Russian state has done to its artists, musicians, and writers so...
Now The Crypto And Blockchain Guys Are Coming For The Book Industry
"This is the future an emerging number of publishing startups are after — aiming to change the value of a book from a $10...
We Live In The Age Of The Constant High
We need not consume drugs or get inebriated to be met on a daily basis with sights and behaviours to which the only reasonable...
Oklahoma City Library Workers Are Officially Warned Not To Help Patrons Find Abortion Information
"Library workers across Oklahoma's Metropolitan Library System (MLS) were shocked this week after receiving instructions to avoid using the word 'abortion' and not to...
