If We Described Someone As “A Vocal Figure Skater”, Whom Would You Picture? Probably...
You'd probably picture some winsome soprano singing the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, not a big, bearded tenor who sings Peter Grimes. But...
Director Guillermo del Toro: The Current State Of Movie-Making Is Unsustainable
“We are in the present losing more movies from the past faster than ever before. It seems like we aren’t, but the mere disappearance...
“Linguistic Convergence” — Why Folks Tend To Start Mimicking The Speech Patterns Of The...
"People tend to converge toward the language they observe around them, whether it's copying word choices, mirroring sentence structures or mimicking pronunciations. ... In...
Juilliard’s Dean Of Dance Has Been Shepherding Through Some Big Changes
"Four years ago, Alicia Graf Mack — a former star of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Alvin Ailey — took the reins of the...
Looks Like Even France’s Film Industry Has Had Enough Of Roman Polanski
His career flourished there after he fled statutory rape charges in the US in 1973. But there was a huge backlash when he won...
Is That Long-Lost Painting The Italian Police Just Recovered Really A Titian?
The Carabinieri say so, but at least two prominent art professionals disagree: Titian scholar Andrea Donati ("sensationally wrong ... I cannot even see the...
“This Is No Longer A Magazine Company”, Says Condé Nast’s CEO
Roger Lynch: "We have 70 million people who read our magazines, but 300-something million that interact with our websites every month and 450 million...
“Saturday Night Live” Was A Sexual Harassment Hotbed
"Multiple former female staffers from the early aughts of the long-running sketch show described an environment that was routinely uncomfortable and at times unsafe....
Even As It Impresses The World, South Korea’s Film/TV Industry Is Struggling Domestically
"Insiders say the Korean film industry is facing a host of deeply rooted challenges that were only exacerbated during the pandemic, from the rise...
France Has A(nother) New Culture Minister
Rima Abdul Malak, who as a child fled with her family to France from the Lebanese Civil War, succeeds Roselyne Bachelot, who was in...
Report: Only 22 Percent Of UK Music Festival Headliners Are Women
Two major projects were launched in 2017 aimed at getting more female acts on stages - ReBalance and KeyChange - after a BBC study had found around 80% of...
Italian Police Find Missing Titian After Two Decades
Discovered by a Turin branch of the cultural heritage unit, a subsidiary of the Italian state police known as the Carabinieri, the 16th-century work,...
Not What You Thinks: How The Internet Is Destroying Us
We can at least say of the oil economy that its environmental damage, and consequent destruction of the human world, is only an epiphenomenon,...
Untethered: Our Lives Without Cables
"If the trend towards mobile phones continues, and there’s little reason to believe it won’t, landline phones could soon become an endangered species, much...
How Are We Supposed To Talk About The Future?
I too grew up imbibing common technotopian fantasies of the late-20th Century zeitgeist, of a belief in humanity’s manifest destiny of multi-planetary spread and...
Schick Happens: Portrait Of The Master Percussionist
“All these percussion solos from that period of time were written for young, acrobatic people. So the question is, what does an aging body,...
“True Rhymes Are Marvels; A Slant Rhyme’s A Sin. Or Is It Vice Versa?...
Adam Gopnik considers how "slant rhyme" (English teachers call it assonance) and rap's constant use of it have revivified verse, both sung and spoken...
Ukraine’s Best Filmmakers Are Recording The War
The country's leading filmmakers, including Oleh Sentsov, Valentyn Vasyanovych, Serhiy Myhalchuk and Olga Beshmelnitsyna, are in the trenches, often literally, documenting Russian atrocities and...
Has TikTok’s Thriving Books Community Changed How Readers Recommend Books To Each Other?
Goodreads, BookTube, Bookstagram, and #LitTwit have been around for many years now. Do the denizens of BookTok talk about or choose what they're reading...
Just Switch It Off: Why Great Numbers Of Australians Have Quit The News
Research from the University of Canberra found that heavy news use dropped from 69% in April 2020 to 51% in January 2021, while those expressing...
A Musical For Us Whose Brains Are Fried By Spending Too Much Time On...
"Welcome to Octet, the Dave Malloy musical that acutely captures a life lived Too Online. Making its West Coast premiere ... through May 29,...
A Deconstructivist Guide To The Universe
The emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's...
How The Standup Comedy TV Special Became A Genre Of Its Own
"The first decade or so of the 2000s wasn't exactly a time of artistic evolution for the special, but the rapid increase in special-making...
An Influential Literacy Educator Makes An About Face In How To Teach Reading
It may not inspire political campaign ads the way critical race theory does, but the debate over how to teach children to read —...
Kyiv’s Opera House Is Back To Putting On Opera
"In a city that ... became used to wailing air-raid sirens and the thuds of artillery from the suburbs, the audience was instead treated...
