We Live In The Golden Age Of Scams
If COVID-19 has been an X-ray of society’s fracture points, scammers have not only looked at the film but pressed on the wounds. Since...
Giant Immersive Art Comes To The Vegas Strip
The 17,000-square-foot space features “The Gallery: Mona Lisa’s Perception,” featuring six digital versions of the “Mona Lisa,” hanging in one room. At first, they...
YouTube Has Spawned A Crop Of Media Critics
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena...
Over-55 Americans Will Soon Outnumber Those Under 18. New Study Explores Their Engagement With...
The survey compared responses by older adults to those under 55, and while there were definitely differences, the interests of the two groups often...
How Dishes Became A Canvas For Propaganda
Stocks of unpainted, snow-white china became a tantalising canvas for avant-garde artists keen to express their utopian ideologies and rouse enthusiasm for the new...
Is Taika Waititi Maybe A Little Bit, Er, Workaholic?
"His runaway résumé is also a sign of how difficult Waititi finds it to say no. And if you wonder how anyone can possibly...
Does Junk Media Rot Your Brain?
The underlying logic of brain-rot, a messy mutual entanglement between brain and culture, endures. In particular, the idea that lower, popular forms of culture...
Is There About To Be A Labor Dispute At The Alvin Ailey Company?
The contract between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and its dancers' union expires this week, and there's no new agreement in sight. The union...
Peter Gelb On Reinventing The Met Opera
"I’m sure the Met is thought of as a conservative institution in some quarters, I believe this is no time to be conservative....
A Little Dust-Up Over Opera And Classism In Britain’s Parliament
Boris's deputy, Dominic Raab, took a potshot at Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner (a longtime union rep proud of her working-class roots) for going...
How Technology Is Rediscovering Lost Art
Much as AI, or machine learning, has been woven into the rest of our daily lives, it's now taking a shot at resurrecting precious cultural artefacts...
San Francisco Expands Its Guaranteed Income Pilot For Artists
"Thanks to funding from Jack Dorsey's #StartSmall foundation and a donation from billionaire McKenzie Scott, which supplemented the city's initial investment with $3.5 million,...
“It’s A Mysterious Thing, The Dynamic Between A Puppet Onstage And The Audience, Even...
Take, for instance, the puppet playing Milky White the cow in the upcoming Broadway revival of Sondheim's Into the Woods. - The New York...
Hagia Sophia’s 1,500-Year-Old Marble Floors Cracked By Heavy Machinery
"A number of marble tiles on the floor of the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which was turned back into a mosque in 2020 after...
Remember When Hollywood Threatened To Pull Out Of Georgia Over An Abortion Ban? It...
"Now that the law is on the verge of going into effect, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court, the studios have gone quiet. ......
Germany Signs Formal Agreement To Return 1,100 Benin Bronzes To Nigeria
"The collection of metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin ... that have found their way into...
There’s A New, Well-Endowed Funder On The Arts Scene
"Funded by a $440 million bequest from Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, the Ruth Foundation for the Arts immediately enters the highest echelons of arts...
The US Has Lost 360 Newspapers Since 2019
"That is on top of the 2,500 closures since 2004 documented in earlier reports. The result is even more 'news deserts' in poorer and...
The Man Who Declared The End Of History Goes To War With History
It turns out that Francis Fukuyama doesn’t like what history’s end has wrought. Liberalism has been corrupted by bad actors on all sides who...
Report: 36 Countries Have More Trees Now Than They Did In 2000
Countries—including Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Ireland, and Uruguay, and Bangladesh—had a net gain in tree cover, according to new data from researchers at the University of Maryland...
Talent Agency Mega-Merger: CAA Buys ICM
The deal reduces the number of top agencies to three dominant players: CAA, WME and United Talent Agency. ICM is the fourth largest firm....
The Real Power Of Our Age: Fandom
"For me, at least, fandom has started to feel like a phenomenon akin to cryptocurrency or economic populism—a history-shaping force that we’d be foolish...
Ted Cruz Goes To War With A Muppet Again Over Vaccines
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) shared the clip on Twitter — and blasted the popular PBS/HBO children’s show for allowing Elmo to “aggressively advocate for...
The Point: Criticism That “Stakes A Claim”
I do think the purpose of criticism is to make an assertive claim for what is there. When Toni Morrison speaks of the “Africanist...
Can New York City Public Schools Have Both Smaller Class Sizes And Music And...
Probably not, says Education Through Music executive director Janice Weinman, and especially not this year. The state legislature just passed a law requiring the...
