Why The Alex Murdaugh Case Has Spawned A Media Boom
There's a hit podcast, three primetime TV specials, three documentary series, and the livestream of the trial. (Scripted dramas are coming, no doubt.) Says...
Netflix Doesn’t Seem To Understand The Difference Between Hard And Soft Products. It’s Finding...
The distinction between hard and soft products helps explain the controversy about changes Netflix is making to its streaming service—along with many other changes...
Evita And Imelda: The Problem With Making Real-Life Malefactors The Protagonists Of Musicals
Jesse Green: "Their harm is political, epochal, even as the songs they sing, encouraging empathy that may not otherwise be earned, invite us to...
In “Rust” Shooting Case, Alec Baldwin Will Probably Opt For A Jury Trial: Legal...
Following a legal victory for the actor — prosecutors had to downgrade the involuntary manslaughter charge because the enhanced charge they sought was not...
In France, Roald Dahl’s Books Will “Remain Intact”
"Gallimard, ... the French publishers of Roald Dahl, have ruled out any changes to the late British author's translated books after it emerged that...
The World’s Oldest Surviving Christian Church And Turkey’s Oldest Mosque Were Ravaged By The...
"In the ancient Turkish city of Antakya" — known in the early years of Christianity as Antioch — "the domes and walls of the...
These Looted Artifacts Aren’t Being Repatriated Yet Because It Genuinely Isn’t Safe
"In January, the State Department and the Yemeni Embassy approached the National Museum of Asian Art with an unusual query: Would the Smithsonian museum...
New York Times Critic A.O. Scott Is Leaving The Movie Beat For The Book...
"Scott, who has reviewed more than 2,200 films for the Times over the last 23 years, will shift to The New York Times Book...
Back At Work After The Strike, Unionized HarperCollins Staffers Feel Vindicated
"For many of the more than 250 unionized employees, the agreement ratified on Feb. 16 between their union, Local 2110 of the U.A.W., and...
New Edition Of Roald Dahl Books Alters Text To Remove Words Like “Crazy’ and...
In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” for instance, the Oompa-Loompas are no longer “small men” but rather “small people,” according to The Telegraph, while...
Steven Pinker: AI And The Nature Of Creativity (And Thinking)
For 25 years I’ve begun my introductory psychology course by showing how our best artificial intelligence still can’t duplicate ordinary common sense. This year...
Sketch Identified As Study For Sistine Chapel
The red chalk drawing is thought to date from 1512, shortly before Michelangelo painted that final section of one of the world’s most famous...
How Davóne Tines Is Inventing His Career
“Sometimes my work is considered as activism,” he adds. “It is not. There are people who do that. My work is just trying to...
For Writers, Failure Has Increased Exponentially. Failure Now Defines The Writing Life
I’ve known writers who used to submit, literally, the manuscript of a work. It might loiter for six months in some publisher’s office before...
The #MeToo Hollywood Music Problem And How Women Are Trying To Fix It
Music is a sphere where young performers and composers tend to look to their teachers and bosses as mentors. This can give rise to...
Cambodian Classical Dance On The Minnesota Prairie
"Founded by refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime, which sought to eradicate most religious institutions, (the Buddhist temple) Watt Munisotaram and its troupe hope...
How Abstract Art Is Related To Music
The deliberate attempt to emulate music culminated in the works of abstract artists like Kandinsky, where colours and shapes, devoid of representational contents, are...
Deep In Rural Virginia, A Theatre Helps Create New Black Plays
"The innovative structure of Barter Theatre's new Black Stories Black Voices program ... could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that...
How ChatGPT Is Like A Blurry JPEG
Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same...
Police In Barcelona Have Found Stolen Dalís And Mirós, And They’ve Arrested Suspects
"The (works were) taken from houses in Barcelona last year, sparking a major police investigation that led authorities to a hideout in Catalonia. Officers...
The Strategy Behind Selling Si Newhouse’s $150 Million Art Collection
“Si collected Johns in depth, but can we sell more than 10 Johns for $10 million apiece all at once? Absolutely not. So instead...
If Opera Gets Defunded Because “It’s For Elites,” Then Only Elites Will Ever Get...
"If opera in the form that its creators imagine it becomes for toffs, that is nothing to do with opera itself. It is absolutely...
Morality: So What If Humans Go Extinct?
What does it matter if Homo sapiens no longer exists? The astonishing fact is that, despite acquiring the ability to annihilate ourselves back in the 1950s,...
The Canals Of Venice Are Running Dry
"Pictures of the city showed gondolas stuck in canals reduced to muddy ditches, revealing the ancient foundations of buildings. ... The problems in Venice...
Milan’s Cathedral Has Been A High-Maintenance Money Pit For Over 600 Years
The rare marble of which the Duomo is built may be lovely, but it's particularly fragile and susceptible to breakage from temperature changes —...
