Lviv Is An Architecturally Gracious European City. How Do You Add A Million Refugees
Amid war with Russia, the city’s challenge is to integrate tens of thousands of residents displaced from fighting in eastern Ukraine without sacrificing Lviv’s...
Can High Design Reverse The Decline Of Murano Glass?
The skilled artisans on the Venetian island have been struggling for many years against competition from mass-produced glass — and that was before the...
Why Chekhov Adaptations Seem To Be All Over The Place These Days
"With his compassionate humor, Chekhov neither indicts his characters nor lets them off the hook for their myopic concerns. His plays are a tonic...
AI May Finally Be Reaching The Point Where It Can Replace Artists And Writers
"Over the past few months, new advancements in A.I." — in particular, the platforms Sudowrite (text) and Dall-E (images) — "have made it clear...
Hollywood Is Observing Sanctions Against Russia. Russian Cinemas Are Showing Hollywood Hits Anyway.
"More than three months into the (Ukraine) war, reports are surfacing about illicit screenings of Hollywood movies at Russian cinemas, with initial reports naming...
Husband Of Prominent Ballet Arizona Dancer Indicted For Shooting Her
Colleen Hoopes was killed by two bullets from a gun fired by her husband, Christopher Hoopes, in their bedroom. He told police that he...
The Latest Selfie-Taking-Tourist-Damages-Art Mishap Has Gone Down (As It Were) In Madrid
"Alberto Sánchez's ballet set for La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds), 1933, was reportedly torn in one part by the tourist...
Famous AP War Photographer Writes About The Power Of One Photo To Change The...
If a single photo can make a difference, maybe even help end a war, then the work that we do is as vital now...
Grease: The Musical That Almost Didn’t Make It. Fifty Years Later
It would go on to transfer to Broadway for a then-record eight-year run, spawning several touring companies and a celebrated film. Not many know...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Director Makes Ready To Depart For SFMoMA
Later this summer, Bedford begins his new gig leading the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, which has a budget that’s roughly three times...
Why Diversity On Canadian TV Is Superficial
“I don’t think anyone has any idea of the cultural impact that small data set is having on the country as a whole,” says...
Dancing The CanCan At Le Moulin Rouge
What many of the 600,000 patrons who annually pass beneath its iconic red windmill entrance probably don’t know is that the Moulin Rouge is...
Ukrainians Are Using Their Smartphones To Help Defend Their Country. Are They Still Civilians?
Technically speaking, as soon as a user in a war zone picks up a smartphone to assist the army, both the technology and the...
Could Software Flag Students At Risk Of Doing Harm? Early Tests Suggest Maybe Not
What they claim to do is to scan billions of social media posts with really sophisticated AI to identify threats of potential violence or...
Survey: Nearly Two-thirds Of College Students Are Afraid To Freely Speak Out On Campus
The percentage of college students who believe the political and social climate on their campus prevents people from freely expressing themselves rose from 54.7 percent...
Maryland’s E-Book Public Library Law About To Be Overturned
First introduced in January 2021, the Maryland e-book law required any publisher offering to license "an electronic literary product" to consumers in the state...
The Computers Shaping Our Music
My contention is not that the quality of music decreased, but that the changing consumption method devalues each moment of recorded sound. The immense...
Is TikTok The Future Of Book Publishing?
Obscure backlist titles are being thrust into the spotlight, generating sales of hundreds of thousands of copies. Every chain bookstore now prominently displays BookTok...
Canadian Painter Christopher Pratt, 88
Pratt was often called one of Canada's greatest painters over the course of his extensive and successful career, which earned him appointment to both the Order...
The Queen In Popular Imagery
Possibly, the urge to set the Queen in humble domestic surroundings is linked to her frequent manifestation in the nation’s dream life. Like other...
Christo Before He Was Christo
“The moment you look at these early works you cannot help being fascinated they have such a strong physical presence. And the exhibits include...
Top Gun Reboot Breaks Box Office Records
Those returns rank among the top 10 highest-grossing second weekends in domestic box office history. They also push “Top Gun: Maverick” to $291 million...
It’s Her Biggest Hit: Mariah Carey Being Sued Over “All I Want For Christmas”
The 53-year-old US singer and her co-writer Walter Afanasieff are named in a lawsuit brought by the songwriter Andy Stone claiming that Carey and...
Assessing Osmo Vanska’s Impact On The Minnesota Orchestra
One of the reasons for Vänskä’s success in Minnesota has been that right from the start he gave the orchestra what it wanted: discipline...
How Geoff Dyer Fell In Love With The Blues
Listening to Kimbrough and Burnside I feel that, at last, in my early sixties, I’ve entered a corner of that foreign field, that vast...
