So Globalism Is Dead You Say? Think Again
International data flows surged as the pandemic sent in-person interactions online. The annual growth rate of international internet traffic roughly doubled in 2020. But that was...
Amazon CEO Teases Big Things Ahead For Amazon Video
“We have more invention in front of us in the next 15 years than the last 15 — and our team is passionately committed...
How The Restitution Of Africa’s Art Stalled
More than half a million such objects—by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa—are held...
Digital Avatars – The Future Of Music Tours?
May 2022 sees the latest technological advances in musical immortality when Abba return to the live stage after a 40-year absence. But this time...
On Being An Art Critic In A Weird Time For Journalism
There doesn’t seem to be a widespread, clear understanding of the distinction between journalism and criticism in the New York art scene. - Hyperallergic
Somehow, We Decided There’s No Truth. But We Need To Return To The Idea
If truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy...
The Murderous Bunny Rabbits Of Medieval European Manuscripts
"Far from being sweet and adorable, rabbits in the margins and illuminated letters of these texts ... are frequently shown wielding swords, axes, and...
The International Dance Community Has Mobilized To Help Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has hit the tightknit ballet world hard, and dancers have responded with an unprecedented storm of activism. - Washington Post
Independent Media Under The Taliban: Things Aren’t As Grim As You Might Think
Saad Mohseni, founder and CEO of Afghanistan's first independent radio and TV networks: "On one side, we're dealing with a culture ministry that's constructive...
How The Internet Is Recording Ukrainian History
Archivists and librarians around the world have been working to catalogue thousands of websites that hold pieces of Ukraine’s past and present, ranging from policy papers...
Brooklyn Public Library Fights Back Against The Wave Of School Book Bannings
Under a program called Books UnBanned, anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 may request a free eCard from the BPL, gaining access...
How LA Shaped Amanda Gorman As A Writer
"The first event I went to was at the L.A. Times headquarters. I was so blown away. They had journalists there, and honestly,...
“We’re Going Back To The Cold War”: Russian Ballet Is Getting Cut Off From...
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine has upended ballet, as prominent artists shun Russia's storied dance companies; theaters in the West cancel performances by the Bolshoi...
Los Angeles’ Role In American Literature
Until the middle of the century, its most visible work was crafted by outsiders from the East or Europe, bewildered by what they perceived...
What Alexei Navalny’s Investigation Into Valery Gergiev’s Finances Found
This week, the Russian dissident leader's Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project released an extensive report on the conductor's wealth and its sources. Here's...
100,000 Purple Martins Vs. The Nashville Symphony
Yes, it was that many of the migratory birds taking up residence at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center the past two summers, damaging the trees...
Marvin Chomsky, Who Directed Two Of The Most Important TV Miniseries In History, Dead...
His specialty was history-based television dramas such as Attica, Inside the Third Reich, Peter the Great, The Deliberate Stranger (about serial killer Ted Bundy),...
Archaeologists Have Been Making “Extraordinary” Finds Beneath Notre-Dame In Paris
"We uncovered all these riches just 10-15cm under the floor slabs," said the leader of the dig. "Suddenly we had several hundred pieces from...
Frank Langella Fired From Netflix Miniseries “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”
"(An) investigation was launched after the 84-year-old actor had been accused of sexual harassment, including making inappropriate comments to a female co-star on set...
Roundabout Theatre’s Jill Rafson To Lead Classic Stage Company
Rafson becomes Producing Artistic Director of the influential Off-Broadway troupe as of June 21, succeeding John Doyle, known for his stripped-down productions of Sondheim's...
Indie Bookstores Used To Hate Barnes & Noble. Now They’re Rooting For It.
So's the entire publishing industry. "(The chain's) unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested...
Are We Finally Done With Prestige TV?
Mundanity and profundity—these were key to the 21st-century boom in what critics call “prestige TV,” during which the onetime “vast wasteland” (as Federal Communications...
Minutes? Hours? Who Needs Them? We Need A New Time Measure
Weeks, days, hours, minutes—especially minutes—are just more mechanisms for keeping humans in thrall ultimately based on astronomy, astrology’s lesser sibling. In the globalized information...
Department Of Untruths: Careful Who You Call A Liar
We should hesitate to call someone a liar because we are not privy to other people’s motives or states of mind. That a statement...
Should Readers Be Allowed To Return E-Books Even After They’ve Read Them?
This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to a TikTok trend whereby some readers have been posting videos about doing just that, even...
