Did Henry VIII Ever Regret Having Anne Boleyn Beheaded?
The mythology that has developed around the Tudor dynasty has made that seem an improbable question, but there are bits of evidence suggesting that,...
“Egghead Paperbacks”, The Publishing Innovation That Changed America
Before 1953, the only paperback books were, literally, pulp novels; the cheap pulp paper on which they were printed gave the genre its name. ...
Have NFTs Busted? Not Really
An NFT has value because the buyer and their community believe it has value—which is true for all art and collectibles. And as time...
How Working-Class People Are Systematically Shut Out Of Arts Careers
"There are cultural, financial and emotional gaps between working-class creative people and the affluent, networked and mostly private school-educated gatekeepers of Australia's arts ......
The Case For Government Investment In The Arts
Does it register, for example, that for every $1 billion turned over in the arts, around 4,300 new jobs are created? Compared to the construction industry...
Indianapolis Museum Newfields Gets a New Director
Colette Pierce Burnette, who is originally from Cleveland, is the president of Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. - Indianapolis Star
Unseen Reliefs And Engravings Uncovered In Ancient Egyptian Temple
Following conservation work that included removing centuries' worth of dust and debris, archaeologists have fully revealed the intricately colored engravings on the walls of...
Are You Still You If You’ve Gone Through A Transformational Experience?
What if a disease transforms your mind, impairing your memory or causing radical personality change? Would this new ‘you’ be a different person entirely...
It’s Official: The Ringling Brothers And Barnum & Bailey Circus Is Coming Back
Five years after "The Greatest Show on Earth" closed down (it said) permanently, performers are being recruited and rehearsals and logistics are being planned...
The Missing Category The Tonys Really Should Have: Best Ensemble Cast
It's not only that "theater is a team sport." It's not just that some shows (this season, for instance, Six and Take Me Out)...
Despite Years Of House Arrest, Exile, And A Horrendous War, Kirill Serebrennikov Will Keep...
"Russian culture is about the fragility of life," says the award-winning stage and film director. "It's about people who are under oppression. Who are...
As War Drags On And Censorship Grows More Strict, Russian Filmmakers Choose Between Flight...
Says one who is leaving, "I can't see how I can be part of a community that will be charged with ideological tasks and...
If Russian State TV Suddenly Starts Playing “Swan Lake”, Look Out
With rumors flying of Vladimir Putin's deteriorating health, it could happen: going back to the earliest days of Soviet television, the unscheduled appearance of...
BIG/Bjarke Ingels Will Design Prague’s New Riverside Concert Hall Complex
The Vltava Philharmonic Hall, which will be the home of the Czech Philharmonic and the FOK Prague Symphony, will have auditoriums of 1,800, 700...
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Buys The Record Label Pentatone
A year and a half after the school acquired the management agency Opus 3 Artists, it has done the same with Pentatone Music, an...
An Art Consultant Talks About The Chaotic State Of The Art Market
Today, it’s quite confusing. Certain auction houses are mimicking the collectibles market. Everything is a tchotchke to flip. You have sneakers, dinosaur bones, some...
Scientists Want To Know Which Problems Are Too Difficult
Computer scientists want to know whether all the problems we hope to solve can be solved efficiently, in a reasonable amount of time —...
What Music And Physics Have In Common
Just like with classical music, physics has been populated by architects and dreamers, careful workmen and inspired explorers, bursts of geniuses and sustained acts...
A New Generations Of Deaf Artists (And Arts)
While the level of deaf visibility may feel new to most, we need to understand that scores of talented deaf writers and creatives have...
An LA Studio Collective That’s Something Different
“It’s something way beyond a conventional studio, where it’s just an artist working on paintings. They’re walking through each other’s studios, they’re promoting each...
The Atlantic To Launch A New Book Imprint
Atlantic Editions will publish between six and 12 nonfiction titles per year, all trade paperbacks, sold for $12.85. Each book will be “a single-author...
Choreomania: The Great Strasbourg Dance Plague Of 1518
That summer, dozens of Strasbourgeois found themselves dancing and hopping uncontrollably for days on end, and more than a few died of exhaustion and...
When Ukrainian Music Thrived
“This is an excellent moment to think about why we attach the term ‘greatness’ to Russian, but not Ukrainian, culture. So why do we...
Peter Greenaway, Cinema’s Most Playful Post-Structuralist
"Right off the bat, Peter Greenaway wants to make clear that he's never really taken himself seriously as a filmmaker — although like so...
Why a Heightened Concern For Cultural Appropriation Now?
"It's easier than ever to steal a motif or a craft technique and transfer it on to a piece of clothing that is either...
