Greek Movie Composer Vangelis, 79
He won an Oscar for the stirring score to 1981's Chariots of Fire, which was followed by Blade Runner a year later. Paying tribute,...
How Toronto Movie Theatres Survived COVID
“We had a few fully-masked concerts. We did livestreaming. We had a couple of adverts filmed here. We sold takeout meal kits when we...
How Color Repeatedly Surprises Us
For some philosophers, the experience of color is most similar to that of pain: an internal state that resists quantification. But who wouldn’t rather...
Somehow The Internet Went Wrong. We Could Fix It
Many of us find ourselves in the alienating position of using (even relying on) technology companies we distrust and hate, knowing that they are...
Don’t Get The Whole Fanfiction Thing? This Will Explain It All
What are slash and femslash? Lemon and gen? UST? Danmei? Here's an introductory guide that covers it, even the het stuff. - Quartz
This Year’s Tonys – A Cry For Normalcy
At the end of a bumpy Broadway season that started late and was repeatedly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, the once-ordinary rituals of Tonys time have...
The Collective That Launched Australia’s Indigenous Art Movement 50 Years Ago
"Starting out as an informal gathering of local men painting wherever they could find some shade, Papunya Tula has become one of the most...
Classics? How Do We Define Them?
A “classic” is not an entry on some fixed list of books. Most of the time itis just a term for older—let’s say >25...
Willa Cather’s Surprisingly Open Life With Edith Lewis
"Their domestic partnership was not a secret. Lewis often was and sometimes still is made over into Cather's secretary (she wasn't) rather than being...
Love Wordle? Well, Here’s Artle
A new game, Artle, launched by the National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, invites art lovers to guess the artist in four attempts...
Ousted Director Of Munich’s Ballet Company Is Basically Putin’s Son-In-Law: Report
Igor Zelensky, 52, former principal of the Mariinsky and New York City Ballets, resigned last month as artistic director of the Bavarian State Ballet...
The Einstein Franchise – Rapacious And Wealthy
Einstein had been a well-paid man. His Princeton salary of $10,000 – roughly $180,000 in today’s money – was set by the university to...
“Sisters With Transistors”: The Female Pioneers Of Electronic Music
Not all of these women are forgotten: Clara Rockmore (the first virtuoso of the theremin) and Pauline Oliveros are remembered, and Wendy Carlos, Eliane...
A New Golden Age of Satires Of Academia?
"Perhaps (this) is why the campus lends itself so readily to satire; it's one of the few places contained yet familiar enough in which...
How Hollywood Movies Fed Southern California’s Addiction To Water-Guzzling Green Lawns
"Hollywood did not create this country's desire for green lawns — that longing originated when wealthy Americans tried to replicate the resplendent gardens of...
How Looted Cambodian Statues Ended Up At The British Museum And V&A
Cambodian investigators have explained to the BBC the routes by which sculptures stolen from ancient temples made it to Britain, and two former looters...
Actors Who Worked On Scott Rudin Shows Are Being Released From NDAs
"Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of...
Motion Picture Academy Makes Post-COVID Changes To Oscar Rules
The biggest change is the return of the requirement that a film must have a theatrical release during the relevant calendar year. However, that...
Could Boris Johnson’s Government Be On The Verge Of Shutting Its Cultural Funding Agencies?
A new Public Bodies Review Programme, announced by the ministry for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, will examine whether "arm's-length" funding bodies such as...
Dallas’ ATT Performing Arts Center Picks a New Director
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the...
Archaeologists Find 4,300-Year-old Egyptian Tomb
Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser,...
How To Make Good Ideas Successful In Teams
The ideas that made it shared a process we came to call “voice cultivation”: the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team...
Fascinating: Who’s Rich In America And What They Do
Comparing data from the appendix of the economists’ study with data from the SUSB Annual Data Tables put out by the Census Bureau, I...
Why Prosperity Doesn’t Make You Happy
True liberal education is the place where restless hearts can become discerning, and where the closed self can become an open soul. It is...
The Fracturing Of Antagonistic Criticism
The bourgeois public sphere was always limited. And there are forms of fracturing and dispersal that have completely eroded the already fragile prominence of...
