Police Seize 1,800-Year-Old Bronze Statue From Met Museum
New York investigators say that the seven-foot-tall, headless nude statue, believed by scholars to be of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, was looted from the...
Does Gamifying Reading Help?
Reading has always been a very personal thing. Now, however, I have a little percentage tracker on my home page, Goodreads friends applaud my...
London’s West End Has Musical Theatre Problem
The problem is historic: because this area has been underdeveloped for years, the UK doesn’t have a strong path for shows to follow, and...
San Antonio Lost Its Symphony Orchestra. But Its Musicians Have Played On
The Symphony musicians formed the SA Phil almost immediately after their orchestra died, and their entire first season has been a rallying cry for...
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1988 Manifesto For The Musical Theatre
Through Phantom, Lloyd Webber presented an argument for the destiny of musical theater itself. The operatic tradition had always been divided over the relationship between music...
Apple’s Turn To Address Classical Music Meta-data
The problem was the way that classical music is categorized. The structure of classical music is completely different from pop music’s, which makes it...
Dancing Against Pension Reform In The Streets Of Paris
"Mathilde Caillard's energetic dance became a meme for young activists opposing the reform. The slogan chanted in the clip, "Retraites, climat: même combat! Pas...
What Archaeologists Are Learning About Notre Dame After The Fire
Allowed to delve into the structure’s innards as never before during the ensuing reconstruction (which is set to finish in 2024), a team of...
How A Gruesome Caravaggio Inspired One Of Samuel Beckett’s Most Notorious Monologues
On a 1971 visit to Malta, the playwright saw the painter's Beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the horrified face of an elderly...
Publishers Versus Libraries Versus Readers Of Digital Books
After a brutal decline following the Great Recession, print-book sales are up 33 percent in the past 10 years. If the high costs and complexity of...
Have A Look Inside The Newly-Remodeled Rembrandt House Museum
"Last week, the Rembrandt House Museum reopened in Amsterdam after a four-month closure, offering 30 percent more Rembrandt in the building where the artist...
Trump Claims A Song Featuring Him Is Topping The Charts. Is It Really?
“The J6 is beating Taylor Swift,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday, two days after the rally. “It’s Donald Trump and the...
The Complex. Delicate Task Of Divvying Up The Radio Spectrum
"The airwaves floating across America are sliced up into chunks (some wide, some incredibly narrow) where different services and uses are permitted to broadcast...
That Time A Couple Walked Into A Gallery… And Stole A DeKooning
In 1985, a couple walked into an art gallery on the campus of the University of Arizona and left 15 minutes later with a...
He Watched Britain’s Equivalent Of Fox News For 18 Hours So We Don’t Have...
"People say a lot of things about GB News: it's ridden with glitches, it's a hotbed of right-wing conspiracies, nobody watches. But nearly two...
John Luther Adams’s Latest Score Is A Lament Over The Ravages Of The Anthropocene
Most of his work is inspired by the natural environment, but in Vespers of the Blessed Earth, receiving its world premiere this week by...
On Twitter, You Can Find More Really Smart People In One Place Than Anywhere...
"We don't have — and may never again have — another one-stop watering hole where many of the planet's most interesting celebrities, politicians, activists,...
Substack Is Trying To Get Its Writers To Buy Shares In The Company
"Newsletter company Substack, which reportedly struggled to fundraise last year amid a broader downturn in the tech market, wants its next round of financing...
D.M. Thomas, Author Of “The White Hotel,” Is Dead At 88
His 1981 novel, about a patient of Sigmund Freud's who ended up a victim of the Holocaust, was a huge success commercially and critically...
This 17th-Century Family Portrait Was Missing The Mother. A Museum Found Her On Google.
"A rare reunion has taken place at the Nivaagaard Collection in Denmark, as the museum has located the image of a woman, who, for...
Dallas Puts On Hold Plans To Revamp Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Theater Building
"Dallas Theater Center officials have hit the brakes on a proposed $308 million plan to revamp the Kalita Humphreys Theater and the surrounding 10-acre...
Canadian Actors Union Calls For Boycotts
The Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists has turned to shaming brands including Rogers and Walmart as it seeks higher pay, protections...
Shape-Shifting Genre-Busting Stories
The question of where a story should begin and end is one that recurs throughout “White Cat, Black Dog,” and is part of what...
Why We’re Fascinated By Fortunetellers
These accusations of harmful magic were often combined with the suspicion that fortunetellers were frauds taking advantage of popular credulity. In the 17th and...
Why I Want To Believe In Coincidences
There is a part of me that, despite myself, wants to entertain the possibility that the world really does have supernatural dimensions. I don’t believe the Universe contains...
