Mimi Sheraton, Restaurant Critic And Food Writer, Is Dead At 97
"It's hard to find anywhere in the food universe that wasn't touched by (her) pen or panache. She helped shape modern food writing as...
How To Fight Book Bans
A poll published found 61 percent were more concerned that “some schools may ban books and censor topics that are educationally important” than by...
An Architect Dreams Of Rebuilding A Ukrainian City As A City of The Future
The vision that he outlined was grand. It included restoring the largely bombed-out building of the regional administration as a functional monument, the way...
Dallas Theatres Are Struggling With New Realities
“It’s not like we want to sound the fire alarm. It’s not all doom and gloom. But the current situation is not sustainable.” - Dallas...
Why Journalists Say They’re Leaving Twitter But Aren’t
The first and most obvious reason is inertia. Journalists spent more than a decade building up their presences on Twitter, and they were never...
Broadway Loved Our “Oklahoma.” On The Road It Was A Completely Different Story
"You know how some movies bomb with critics but still make millions at the box office? We were the inverse of that. We had...
Urgently Needed: A Defense Of Humanism
It’s suddenly plausible to imagine that freethinking, that tradition of poking and prodding at all fixed ideas and institutions, will drift into obsolescence, because...
The Choreographer, Videographer, And Oceanographers Who Worked On Boston Ballet’s New “La Mer”
It's the first live work in North America for beloved Dutch choreographer Nanine Linning, and among her many collaborators are video artist Heleen Blanken...
Man Arrested In Fake Vinyl Record Scheme
A businessman who made more than £1m selling fake vinyl records was caught after a fan of punk band the Clash complained that the...
The Psychiatric Troubles That Made Yayoi Kusama And Her Art What They Are
"From a very early age Kusama has suffered from severe panic attacks and hallucinations, episodes during which pumpkins might talk to her, which is...
Man Spends Years Trying To Convince Art World He Found A Raphael In An...
Twenty-seven years, reams of research and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, Ayers’ associates have come forward to claim the artwork, called the Flaget Madonna,...
As Translated Literature Gains A Higher Profile, Translators Gain A New Role
"In the new visibility, the literary translator possesses a different sort of identity: still the articulate spokesperson for another language and culture, but self-conscious...
Reminder: Digital Culture You Buy Isn’t “Bought.” It’s Only Licensed (That’s A Huge Difference)
E-books that had been published and sold in one form were retroactively (and irrevocably) altered, highlighting what consumer rights experts say is a convention...
“There Is A Much Lower Ceiling Than There Used To Be”: Dallas’s Arts Institutions...
"There is no question that, because of their size, Dallas's big seven arts groups depend more heavily on attendance than others in the region....
Cable TV’s Audiences Are Getting Older
A good example of this is Cartoon Network which advertises itself as targeting a core audience of boys and girls aged 6-12, now though most...
Italy’s New Right-Wing Government Wants To Outlaw The Use Of Foreign Words (Yes, Just...
"(The) eight-article proposal includes imposing a fine of up to €100,000 ($108,000) on the use of foresterismi, or foreign words that have Italian translations,...
San Diego Opera Cancels Performances Of An Work It Co-Commissioned
"Citing rising costs and reduced revenue, the San Diego Opera Tuesday canceled performances of (Zach Redler and Jerre Dye's) The Falling and the Rising,...
Some Benin Bronzes Contain Metal Mined In Germany, Say Scientists
"The Edo people in the Kingdom of Benin, modern Nigeria, created their extraordinary sculptures with melted down brass manilla bracelets. … A team of...
Wil Ron DeSantis Come After Mrs. Doubtfire? Florida’s Theater Community Worries About Governor’s Anti-Drag...
A number of organizations, especially larger ones such as Miami's Arsht Center, are confident that shows like Mrs. Doubtfire and Hairspray are sufficiently distant...
Florida’s Department Of Education Gives Its Approval To Michelangelo’s David
"'Florida encourages instruction on the classics and classical art, and would not prohibit its use in instruction,' Alex Lanfranconi, communications director for the Florida...
Elon Musk’s Twitter Labels NPR As “State-Affiliated Media,” Flings Poo When Asked For Explanation
"NPR said it was disturbed to see the description added to all of the tweets that it sends out, with John Lansing, its president...
Britain Fines TikTok Nearly $16 Million For Misusing Children’s Personal Data
"The Information Commissioner’s Office said it issued a fine of £12.7 million pounds ($15.9 million) … (and that) TikTok allowed as many as 1.4...
Not Just About The Body: Feminism And The Dancer
A dancer’s mind is just as important as her body; the one guides the other. To dance fully without hesitation, without self-consciousness, sets the...
James Patterson Contends The NYT Bestseller Charts Are Rigged. Is He Right?
The New York Times bestseller lists (there are more than a dozen of them) are the product of a lot of math, but also...
Meet Manchester’s Book-Swapping Vending Machine
More than 600 books have been swapped so far in the new scheme in Manchester's Corn Exchange. - BBC
