The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: After 33 Years, What Do We Know?
Before dawn on March 18, 1990, two criminals dressed as policemen convinced a security guard to let them into the Boston museum, tied him...
The Isabella Stewart Gardiner Art Heist: A Timeline
Here's a chronology of the entire mystery, from the strange event two weeks before the robbery happened through all the tips, clues, and suspects,...
Stella Abrera Named Permanent Director Of ABT’s School
"Stella Abrera is ABT Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School's new Artistic Director. Abrera has been acting in this position for the last several months after...
TikTok May Split From Its Chinese Parent Company If It Can’t Assuage US Officials’...
"China's TikTok is considering separating from parent ByteDance to help address U.S. concerns about national security risks. … A divestiture, which could result in...
The Arts Contribute A Record $1 Trillion To US GDP: NEA Report
The study, covering calendar year 2021, shows a 13.7% increase in economic value over 2020 provided by the arts; it also indicates clearly that...
Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Has A New York Opening Date
The show, whose last working title was Square One, is now called Here We Are; it's based loosely on the Luís Buñuel films The...
Pompidou Centre Is Getting Another Overseas Branch, This One In South Korea
Less than a week after the announcement that the Paris contemporary art mecca will have a satellite in Saudi Arabia's planned arts destination, AlUla,...
Why Siri And Alexa Lost Out To ChatGPT
“These products never worked in the past because we never had human-level dialogue capabilities. Now we do.” - The New York Times
The Gift (and Curse) Of English As Our Universal Language
English may have become universal, but not everyone believes it is a gift. In fact, many hold diametrically opposite views. - Aeon
The Shocking Decline Of Reading, Thinking
What I (and everyone I know) is talking about now is a seismic shift in the preparedness, study skills, attention spans, and reading comprehension...
Even Machine Brains Need Sleep
Artificial neural networks are prone to a troublesome glitch known, evocatively, as catastrophic forgetting. These seemingly tireless networks can keep learning tasks day and...
Can We Build Successful Cities Again That Aren’t Centered Around Cars?
A 17-acre, $170 million project that’s been an urbanist obsession since it was announced in late 2019, Culdesac is being watched closely as a test case...
The Importance Of Artists’ Day Jobs
The exhibition blows through the polite separation between artwork and money work. Not only does it name, in wall label after wall label, what...
What’s The Trickiest Part Of Marketing A Movie? Getting The Title Right
"A good title won't save an unwatchable movie. But a catchy name has potential to propel a film into the zeitgeist (see 'M3GAN'), and...
The Sound Of Climate Change (Musicians Are Recording Melting Glaciers)
“It gave people a different way into what I was talking about, other than just showing slides. The sound conveyed what it was like...
Women Are Mastering (And Sometimes Subverting) The All-Male Craft Of Maskmaking For Noh Theater
"When Mitsue Nakamura began, she knew of one other woman in the field, but this year, all four of her current apprentices, some of...
Who Are Wikipedia’s Editors (And Who Checks Them?)
The typical Wikipedia editor is a man (fewer than 10 per cent are women) who works in a desk job which involves being online...
Mexico’s Greatest Living Writer Is 90, And She’s Not Done Writing Yet
"Elena Poniatowska has chronicled every major social movement in Mexico over seven decades, her 40-plus books a one-woman time capsule of a country's modern...
“Democracy Dies In Darkness.” (How About Dance?)
The Washington Post laid off its Pulitzer-winning dance critic Sarah Kaufman. Kaufman talks about what that means. - MDTheatreGuide
There’s Somewhere In America Where Newspapers Are Growing? Yes — Prisons
"According to the newly launched Prison Newspaper Directory by the Prison Journalism Project, there are 24 prison-based newspapers in 12 states. At least four...
22 Years Ago Orchestra Folk Debated The Role Of The Music Director
The frustration of conductors and orchestra musicians was at times quite palpable. One of the instrumentalists, a principal player from a major orchestra, recounted...
A Voyage Into Beeple World: The Digital Artist Opens His New 50,000 SF Studio...
"It is world of digitally birthed babies that pile pink and helpless atop one another, contained in rectangular digital totems, or kinetic sculptures, flowing...
Bees Learn Their Waggle-Dances From Their Elders, Says Researchers
"Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as 'waggle dancing' — performing steps that map out...
Spain’s Legendary 700-Year-Old Boys’ Choir Will Finally Include Girls — Sort Of
The Montserrat monastery in the mountains of Catalonia, home to the famous Escolania de Montserrat boys' choir, is forming a new ensemble of 25...
Conductor Hans Graf Discovers And Revives A Forgotten Requiem For A Polish King
In 1798, King Stanisław II, exiled to St. Petersburg and knowing he was dying, commissioned Józef Kozłowski, who'd come to the Russian capital a...
