Today’s Film And TV Projects Have Embraced Diversity in Story Telling. But…
In recent years, there have been increasing creative efforts to fill these historical gaps. This suggests there is a willingness, at least in some...
David Graeber’s Rogue Anthropologies
He found a way to be both a public intellectual and an academic, a scholar with the fervor of the preacher and a pundit...
Study: Handwriting Boosts Early Reading Skills In Students
“As children write less and less by hand, we wanted to explore the impact of this on alphabetic and orthographic skills. In other words,...
On Writing, Feelings And What AI Does
Some say that what makes the difference between human and machine writing—and what taints the latter—is that machines do not think, or intend, or...
Scholarly Groups Sue Trump Administration Over NEA, NEH Cuts
Three major scholarly groups have sued the National Endowment for the Humanities and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, arguing that the recent mass...
Sinners: A Movie Deal That Shook Hollywood
Since the film came out, these contract stipulations have been much discussed, even controversial. That has little to do with why “Sinners” is so...
Judge In Meta AI Case: “I Just Don’t Understand How That Can Be Fair...
Authors may need to sharpen their case, which Chhabria warned could be "taken away by fair use" if none of the authors suing, including...
NEA Cancels Already-Awarded Grants As Trump Administrations Moves To Shut NEA
“It’s strange that the Trump administration is trumpeting their priorities to serve diverse America while canceling grants for our August Wilson play." - The...
Heroes & Zeroes: Why DOGE Shouldn’t Fund Trump’s Redundant Sculpture Garden
Where’s Elon Musk, the DOGE watchdog, when we really need some “Government Efficiency”? There’s nothing efficient about the proposed creation
Christopher Wheeldon On Pushing Story Ballets Beyond The Old Tropes
“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want...
Trump Budget Proposals To Eliminate NEH, NEA, Etc. Etc.
The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump...
How Tate Modern Changed London 25 Years Ago
This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre...
Getting Classical Chinese Literature Before The English-Speaking Public At Last
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE)...
Glastonbury Festival Sells Out In 20 Minutes
The general admission tickets for the world-famous event in Somerset were released at 09:00 BST on Sunday, and the festival announced on X they...
Jon Voight Is Working On A Plan To Save Hollywood. What Is It?
The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his...
Berlin Culture Official Who Presided Over Major Arts Funding Cuts Resigns
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the...
Why Pope Francis Pushed Along Sainthood For Architect Antoni Gaudi
If this happens, Gaudí would be the first secular architect in history to be declared a saint. - The Conversation
How Physics Is Improving Deep Learning
Research has drawn on principles of fluid dynamics to improve traffic predictions, sped up simulations of turbulence to enhance our understanding of hurricanes and...
Fantasy Versus SciFi: Where The Politics Align
Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science...
Comedienne Ruth Buzzi, Mainstay Of “Laugh-In,” Is Dead At 88
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the...
Queer Art Visible
We wanted to make clear that in many respects, trans and queer have always been with us. You can’t talk about same-sex desire without...
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra Musicians Blame Bad Management For Shutdown
They’re blaming the orchestra’s management for what they call “over a decade of weak and shortsighted leadership.” - Fort Myers News-Press
This Year’s Tony Nominations Rewarded Risk
The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies. What marketing genius, for instance, could have predicted that “Maybe Happy Ending,” a jazz-infused rom-com...
Sotheby’s Prepares To Auction Off Jewels Revered As Relics Of The Buddha
“The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and...
When Immersive Wall Street Play “Life And Trust” Closed Without Notice, Cast And Crew...
The show was staffed with early-career, non-unionized theatermakers, and they received no severance pay or other compensation when producers abruptly ended the run. When...
