This 5,000-Year-Old City Was Just Reopened To The Public. A Planned Dam May...
Ashur, on the banks of the Tigris, was the first capital of the Assyrian Empire, and big parts of its city gate and ziggurat...
It’s In Turbulent Times Like These That We See How Culture Really Matters
Russia, for instance, is attempting to wipe out a separate Ukrainian culture; as Ukraine's artist at the Venice Biennale says, "If it has no...
An Arvo With The Battlers Working On The Australian National Dictionary
Crikey, collecting the lingo that makes Strine Strine is a hard yakka that can leave a poor bastard with a head like a half-sucked...
Sydney’s Largest Art Museum Just Got A $100 Million Bequest
"The Lavender Bay home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art...
Paramount Will Not Be Removing From Its Streaming Service Old Movies And TV That...
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish: "By definition, you have some things that were made in a different time and reflect different sensibilities. I don't believe...
French Switzerland’s Second City Just Built Itself A Massive New Cultural Center
"A vast new arts hub called Plateforme 10 has opened in the Swiss city of Lausanne with the aim to revitalize the surrounding area...
How Artists Are Profiting From Twitter
Beneath Twitter's reputation as a shitposter's heaven, art lovers often prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content (like Instagram), and artists...
The Whispers Are Growing: Google Search Is Broken
The frustration has become a persistent meme: that Google Search, what many consider an indispensable tool of modern life, is dead or dying. For...
The Most-Played Musician Of 2021 In The UK
The most-played artists charts revealed a closer split between genders, with 60:40 male to female. - The Guardian
The Decline Of The Secondhand Book Business
The increase in online buying has meant a reduction in the number of physical outlets, but those that remain have a beadier eye for...
The Gentle Art Of Rejection Letters
If a writer is to be rejected on grounds of style, it might as well be done stylishly. One publisher brilliantly mimicked Gertrude Stein’s...
Understanding A Science Of Progress
For thousands of years, global wealth – at least our best approximations of it – barely budged. But beginning around 150-200 years ago, everything changed....
Another “What’s Killing Classical Music” Theory
It's really "the near-total inability of post-World War II America and Europe to produce more than a small number of classical works that any normal...
Publishing Is Afflicted With Groupthink
People in publishing are increasingly nervous of causing offence. I have been told that some books are being rejected not because the publishers don’t...
Can NFTs Stop Art Theft?
In theory, artists can indicate that a file containing their work, whether it is digital art or a reproduction of a physical piece, belongs...
The Ukrainian Dancers Dancing In Paris
“Before the war started we danced for our company and each dancer felt like they danced for themselves,” he says, “But now we are...
Culture As A Weapon Of War, Or Division, Around The World
"Culture really does become a matter of life and death, then, when a society is under pressure. This can be for good or for...
How A Curator, A Librarian, And The FBI Tracked Down Paintings That Were Stolen...
Do art auction houses have a responsibility not to sell stolen goods? This case would seem to say there's no such responsibility. And the...
What Will TV Watching Be Like In 15 Years?
Streaming could go a lot of different ways, but how will it go? "Streaming broke our TV-watching culture. ... It's totally fractured now, we...
The Royal Shakespeare Company Finally Casts A Disabled Actor To Play Richard III
"The days of 'cripping up' - a term disabled actors regularly use to describe those with no physical impairment playing disabled characters - appear...
Slow Fashion Is Coming Back Into Style
Or rather, the fashion of re-fashioning old things into new, what one might call the "use it up, wear it out, make it do"...
An Animated Movie’s Fake Boy Band Gets Its Own Breakout Success Manga
The boy band 4*Town (with five members) from Turning Red is so popular on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, and the music charts (with music...
An Experiment In Being Seen
Can Los Angeles media ever represent the entire city - or even some of Black L.A.? "I remember begging news outlets to come and...
Please Spare Us Any More Art World Spaces Made In Excellent Taste
Or, how the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery's remodel wants to go the way that facelifts usually go. - The Observer (UK)
Ukraine Bans Russian Music In Public Places
The ban doesn't apply to composers who wrote music before the fall of the USSR. - BBC
