Three New Buildings Shake Up Boston Architecture
“Once a decade or two, Boston’s architectural establishment breaks out of its inherent conservative aesthetic comforts and heeds a call for some inventiveness.” -...
Canada Offered Tax Credits For News Subscribers. It Hasn’t Really Worked
Rather than prompting new subscribers to sign up, “the people who would have subscribed anyway are using the credit.” Subscribers weren’t swayed because they...
Exquisitely Elongated Time In Noh Drama
"Attending a performance, the first thing you might notice is the way time itself immediately slows down and takes on a stretched-out quality. You...
Why The Netflix Bubble Is Finally Bursting
Netflix has nearly 222 million subscribers around the world, more than any other streaming company, and just last month it was forecasting eventually growing to half...
The Native American Artist Who Insisted That Indians Get To Define Indian Art
The furious response that Yanktonai Dakota artist Oscar Howe wrote when rejected for the 1958 Philbrook Indian Annual competition because the abstract painting he...
Big News: Scientists Are Redefining The Second (And It Affects Many Things)
For the first time in more than a half-century, scientists are in the throes of changing the definition of the second, because a new...
How Sasha Waltz Choreographed A Semi-Improvised Analog To Terry Riley’s Semi-Improvised “In C”
Riley's landmark Minimalist score consists of 53 short phrases for an unspecified number of musicians, each of whom decides how long to repeat a...
How AI Could Revolutionize Teaching
New tools could include an AI-powered virtual teaching assistants that help teachers to grade homework and provide real-time feedback to students, or that assist...
One Of Turkey’s Most Important Arts Philanthropists Is Sentenced To Life In Prison
"The founder of the Istanbul nonprofit art center Anadolu Kültür and the creator of Depo Istanbul, an independent art space serving as a platform...
Could Subscriptions Take Over In The Gaming World?
Subscription and cloud gaming represents just 4% of North America and Europe game markets, or roughly $3.7 billion, according to a recent study Harding-Rolls. Of...
There’s Now An Entire American Right-Wing Comedy Ecosystem
They mostly (excepting Joe Rogan) fly beneath mainstream radar, but "rightwing satirists, podcasters and standups … feature on each other's podcasts, TV shows and...
In Which John McWhorter Discovers That New Classical Music Does Not Have To Be...
Oddly, the linguist/op-ed pundit, who's demonstrated genuine musical sophistication in previous columns, cites Korngold (d. 1957), Rozsa (d. 1995), and William Bolcom, but, besides...
California’s Two Biggest Classical Music Radio Stations Join Forces, Rebrand, And Refocus
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in San Francisco, both now part of the KUSC Radio Group, have rebranded as Classical California, with simulcast...
Chicago Reader, The City’s Alt-Weekly, Can Now Become Nonprofit As Co-Owner Steps Away
"Leonard Goodman, a Chicago attorney and member of the billionaire Crown family, ... had demanded more representation on a nonprofit board set up to...
$800 Million. That’s How Much The Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Lost Since COVID Arrived
"More than 1,000 cultural organizations surveyed throughout the state have lost $781 million in revenue, according to data collected and published by the Mass...
Farmer At Work Digs Up 4,500-Year-Old Sculpture
A late Bronze Age stone head depicting Anat, the ancient Canaanite goddess of love and war (and the sister of Baal), was discovered by...
Venice Announces Schedule And Amount Of Daytrippers’ Fee
As of January 1, 2023, anyone who wants to visit the historic city without spending the night in a local hotel (cruise ships don't...
What Happens To Art And Culture In The Middle Of War
Unfortunately, targeting cultural treasures is nothing new in times of war, and history shows that there are often specific and deliberate motives for the...
Archaeologists Find Enormous Underground City In Turkey
The newly unearthed Midyat city dwarfs Derinkuyu in comparison. It could hold at least 60–70,000 people. - ARTnews
Inside A Bombed Ukrainian Cultural Center, Where Residents Have Taken Refuge
Much of the palace seemed like a snapshot of what was now a distant past: a bandoneon abandoned in a debris-filled room, along with...
A Brooklyn Theatre’s Idea About Reinventing Subscriptions
“It got me thinking about, essentially, what would a theatre company look like that could break with the traditional modes of arts funding? You...
Elon Musk, Famous Twitter Troll. Will Troll Takeover Take Down Twitter?
I don’t imagine that one will wake up and open Twitter and see it magically transformed into a total cesspool of hate, harassment, and...
The Warm Mental Bath Of Believing In Conspiracy Theories
Can people who live in fantasy worlds at such steep odds with reality be good friends and citizens themselves? At the very least, maintaining...
Was This Quasi-Guerrilla Marketing Campaign For A Life-Of-Jesus TV Series A Mistake Or A...
The showrunner for The Chosen, Dallas Jenkins (son of a co-author of the Left Behind novels), put up billboards advertising the show that were...
Have You Been Wondering What The Metaverse Is Supposed To Be?
To help you get a sense of how vague and complex a term “the metaverse” can be, here's an exercise: Mentally replace the phrase...
