Why Not Just Have A Robot Make Copies Of The Elgin Marbles To Replace...
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from...
A Battle Breaks Out Over Who Gets To Design And Make Philadelphia’s Harriet Tubman...
When Wesley Wofford's touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent...
As Boris Johnson’s Prime Ministership Collapsed, British TV News Got Very, Very Weird
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories'...
Actor James Caan Dead At 82
"(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond...
Warning: Current Streaming Model Is Rotten, Must Change
The longer that this new “business model” is allowed to operate, the harder it will be to change. I often think about how 25...
How Is It A Century-Old Book On Prose Is Still Popular?
Nearly a century old, it’s still avidly read and discussed in MFA circles, thanks to its author’s meticulous dissection of the devices of fiction,...
Man Recreates Banksy Mural Inside A Vending Machine To “Start Discussion”
"Like everyone else I felt a real pride that he'd come to Lowestoft and the surrounding area and done that (painted his artwork) because...
Until The 1880s Anthropologists Researched In Libraries. When They Finally Went Into The Field...
Instead of sitting in libraries, they began to study “primitive” cultures for themselves, across Africa, Asia and the Americas, living with their subjects for...
Authentication Wars: She Bought A Chagall. Years Later Sotheby’s Suggests She Sell. Panel Says...
To Ms. Clegg’s dismay, the expert panel in Paris declared her Chagall to be fake, held onto it and now wants to destroy it....
Clint Eastwood Wins $2 Million In Lawsuit Against Defendants Who Used His Name And...
"The verdict is the second in favor of the actor in a pair of suits against CBD manufacturers and marketers that fabricated news articles...
Journalists Prize Access To Sources. But Too Much
I’ve come to believe that one of most overrated aspirations in journalism is access. This is particularly true in any story involving people who...
Twitter Sues Indian Government Over Orders To Remove Tweets
"Twitter's suit, filed in the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore, challenges a recent order from the Indian government for the company to remove content...
It Took War For North Americans To Learn About Ukrainian Music
There has been little known in the West about Ukrainian composers until recently, especially in Canada and the U.S., according to experts. “North Americans...
CBC News Is Launching A New Streaming Service. But Aren’t They Providing Us Enough...
There are the main TV and radio networks, a cable channel (CBCNN), streaming service CBC Gem, the app, the YouTube channel, the "documentary Channel"...
Japan Is Conflicted About Resuming Tourism
Japan's opening up to mass tourism over the last decade brought an economic boost — a record 32 million tourists visited in 2019 and...
Pay Equity Is Great, But Can Theater In America Afford It Without Shrinking?
Jesse Green surveys the unpaid and underpaid work that has always been part of making theater in the US, especially early in a career...
Why We Need To Cultivate Toleration
Toleration involves putting up with something that you would rather not be the case. This doesn’t have to involve moral disapproval: perhaps you just...
Sounds Like They’ve Finally Fixed The Acoustics At The Sydney Opera House’s Concert Hall
Ever since the landmark building opened in 1973, its Concert Hall's acoustics have been notoriously bad — and resistant to improvement. Now, a 2½-year,...
A Second Staff Rebellion In Two Years At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater
This round of upheaval, sparked by the unexplained placing of the artistic director "on leave," has seen the last candidate for executive director withdraw,...
Whistleblower Group Calls For Detroit Institute Of Arts To Lose Accreditation
The founder of the organization Whistleblower Aid says that the museum has "broken IRS rules, Michigan state laws; they've broken their employment policies, their...
Librarians Get Trapped, And Even Targeted, In The Culture Wars
"Accustomed to being seen as dedicated public servants in their communities, (they) have found themselves … labeled pedophiles on social media, called out by...
US Museum Attendance Hits A Post-Pandemic Plateau
"Recent data collected by Artnet from more than a dozen museums around the country suggests that attendance recovery has slowed, with some cultural institutions...
Over 1,500 Edinburgh Fringe Participants Demand Reform
"Hundreds of artists, performers, venues and promoters say it is becoming 'increasingly difficult' to justify the expense of taking part in the event, which...
In Response To Highland Park Shooting, Ravinia Festival Cancels This Week’s Concerts
The festival campus is just a couple of miles away from the site of the murders at Monday's Fourth of July parade. - MSN...
Bumping Up On The Limits Of Wellness Culture
Experimental psychology and data science would be used to develop clearer (and sometimes counterintuitive) recommendations for improving users’ lives. Bestselling books were written in...
