Agnieska Holland Is Furious That Cannes Accepted A Film From Russia
Holland is the European Film Academy president. "The Polish-born director – who fled to France in 1981 when Communist authorities imposed martial law –...
Why Art Prices Are Shooting Toward The Stratosphere
To be blunt, the rich have gotten richer during the pandemic, and continue to do so. - The Guardian (UK)
Legendary New Yorker Writer Roger Angell Has Died At 101
Angell's baseball writing - his gorgeous sentences, his attention to detail, his belief that being a fan was a worthwhile endeavor - earned him...
Public TV Fundraising Telethons Are Losing Their Effectiveness
An analysis by Contributor Development Partnership of March pledge results reported a 24% decline in the number of gifts year-over-year, a nearly 5.5% drop...
Workers At The Whitney Museum Protest Wages At Gala
Workers at the museum rang bells, chanted, and cheered when taxi drivers and chauffeurs who just dropped off their employers honked in support of...
The Ways Disabilities Are Being Portrayed Are Changing
Children’s literature is definitely getting better at representation. Indeed, when I asked disabled friends and acquaintances to name their favourite disabled character, almost all...
The Morality Of Critics
Although perhaps you might say that literary critics in a certain sense are custodians of the language. I think there has been a tradition,...
Could a New $100 Million Movie Studio Transform Newark’s Economy?
One study estimated that the Newark project could bring as many as 600 long-term jobs and a constellation of new business opportunities to the...
How Our Memory Is Becoming More Specialized
Memorizing can become a highly specialized act, based on regular practice and rehearsal. A singer, though fully capable of performing the role of say...
Head Of Cannes’ First Tiktok Festival Jury Quits Over Concerns About Independence
“The difficulty is that TikTok is a marketing-focused company and fails to understand creators and their independence…They kept asking me for reports on our...
Elspeth Barker, Journalist Who Wrote “One Of The Best Least-Known Novels Of The 20th...
Published when she was 51, Barker's O Caledonia won several awards and was popular in Europe for several years, then faded away. She parlayed...
What It’s Like To Spend Your Life In Translation
To spend a lot of time with your head in dictionaries is to understand the extent to which your head is made up of...
One Of India’s Bravest Playwrights Takes On Her Touchiest Subject Yet: The Man Who...
Anuparna Chandrasekhar has wriiten about a sex tape going viral in conservative India to the notorious 2012 gang rape on a bus in Delhi. ...
What Cancer Therapy Is Teaching Us About The Vast Complexity Of The Human Condition
How can immunotherapy cure a 65-year-old, newly retired man of Stage IV lung cancer, restoring the promise of his golden years with his family,...
For The First Time, Ethel Smyth’s “The Wreckers” Is Being Produced As She Wrote...
The English composer, now remembered primarily as a firebrand suffragette, and librettist Henry Brewster wrote this story (of Cornish villagers who survive by plundering...
How Does Activist Art Fit In The Big Business Of Art Selling?
Can activism thrive within the strip-lit booths of essentially glorified trade shows? And does the commodification of protest art render its radical impulses null...
Calvin Royal III Takes Mother Jones To The Ballet
The crusading lefty investigative magazine profiles Royal, a principal dancer at ABT and one of the still-all-too-few Black stars of classical ballet. The marquee...
Virtual Reality Gets Smelly: Startups Are Trying To Bring Aroma To The Metaverse
"Today, as metaverse engineers, designers, and architects map out the look of digital future experiences, for some, smell has become a key part of...
Researching The Smells Of The Ancient World With Modern High Technology
Using mass spectrometers and techniques from the field of molecular biology on residues from ancient containers, refuse, and even dental tartar, archaeologists and historians...
Looters Who Stole Idols From Hindu Temple Return Them After Being Tormented By Nightmares
"We have not been able to sleep, eat and live peacefully. We are fed up with the scary dreams and are returning your valuables,"...
Britain Agrees To Serious Negotiations With Greece About Returning The Parthenon Marbles
"The United Kingdom will hold formal talks with Greece regarding the potential repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles, which have been in the British Museum...
Roots Music Star And Macarthur Genius Rhiannon Giddens Returns To Her First Art Form,...
She came to prominence as co-founder of string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, moved to a solo career, and now directs the Silkroad Ensemble,...
Popular Podcast “Reply All” Is Ending Next Month
A staff memo from Gimlet Media chiefs said that "the decision to end this iteration of the show" was made as the series's two...
Artist Gerhard Richter, Even At 90, Could Not Stay Retired
Five years ago the German painter, one of Europe's most prominent living artists, announced that he was ending his career. But he couldn't stop...
We Need A New Conversation About Music Powered By AI
We begin with the hypothesis that, due to the rate of growth and development of A.I. technology, #resistanceisfutile. Which is to say that computer-composed...
