Just What/Where Is The Leisure Class?
We need to work, because survival demands it, and we need to rest, because work is tiring, but are those two possibilities really exhaustive?...
AMC Says It Will Continue To Close Movie Theatres
For the company’s Q4 2025, which ended on December 31, AMC reported total revenue of $1.28 billion. That’s a drop of 1.4% from the $1.3 billion...
How Instrumentalization Devalues The Meaning Of Art
It is no longer enough for universities to say that their programmes allow you to explore some of the most fundamental questions of existence....
Composer Éliane Radigue, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And Drone Music, Has Died At 94
While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned...
Republican Attorneys General Oppose Netflix Warner Deal
“We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write to express our concerns that the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers will likely result in undue...
How To Declutter Your Attention
The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object...
Longtime MTT Partner Josh Robison, 79
For more than four decades, Robison was a constant at Tilson Thomas' side - not only as spouse but as manager, adviser and strategic...
CBS News Insiders Worry That “60 Minutes” As We’ve Known It Is Doomed
“As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to...
Broadway Box Office Takes A Hit Because Of Storm
Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm, as the musical fell $408,223 from the prior week. -...
Leaked Transcript Shows Thinking Behind University Canceling Anti-ICE Show
In the leaked transcripts, Hutzel reportedly told employees that while the school’s administration might survive the reputational fallout, the college itself could become a...
Writers, Artists Hesitate To Admit They’re Using AI
There’s an important caveat that my colleagues and I have recently begun to explore in our research: Positive views of creative work often shift once...
The Volunteer Army Documenting Museum And Park Wall Texts Before The Trump Administration Rewrites...
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other...
Paramount Increases Its Bid For Warner Bros. Yet Again
New studio mogul David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance has increased its unsolicited offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery from $30 to $31 in cash per...
Atlanta Opera Begins Construction On New $72 Million Campus
The company is repurposing a century-old golf-course clubhouse along the city’s Beltline into the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts. The complex...
Layoffs At London’s Young Vic Theatre After Years Of Deficits
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes...
Director At Palace Of Versailles Appointed To Lead Troubled Louvre
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at...
COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Resigns After $600K Goes Missing
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after...
Louvre’s Director Resigns After A No-Good-Very-Bad Year
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of...
What We Lose As The Paperback Goes Away
“They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’...
Some Plays Thought To Be By Shakespeare Or Marlowe Now Reattributed To Thomas Kyd
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman...
The Unlikely Success Of A Strange Little Book Store In Alabama
“Our books don’t cost more,” Reiss likes to say, “but they are worth more.” - The New Yorker
Are We Living In A Culture Of Epstein?
A different dark vision of society has emerged. Suddenly, we seem to be living in the age of Epstein. We tell ourselves that by...
Of Priorities, Interests, And Funding The Humanities
There’s soft coercion, where they are providing an incentive structure where they will not fund projects unless they have a social-justice angle. - Chronicle of...
For The First Time, A Company Has Won Venice Biennale Danza’s Golden Lion For...
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem...
Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens...
