Museums Are Using Virtual Reality To Preserve Holocaust Testimonies
For example, at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, you can slip on a virtual reality headset and enter the world of survivor...
The Ancients Had A Better Way Of Removing Monuments They No Longer Honored
The ancient Romans are even more famed for the deliberate destruction of images, thanks to their habit, dubbed damnatio memoriae by modern scholars, of destroying all portraits of...
Time To Do Away With The Scientific Paper?
This system comes with big problems. Chief among them is the issue of publication bias: reviewers and editors are more likely to give a scientific...
Are You Gaslighting, Correctly?
Although in most cases the word serves to expose implicit power dynamics and level the playing field, it can also be used to do...
America Is Living In A Uniquely Stupid Time
It’s about the shattering of all that had seemed solid, the scattering of people who had been a community. It’s a metaphor for what...
How Ukrainian Artists Are Responding To The War
"There will still be people with traumatic experiences. There will be new Ukrainian communities in many countries. There will be years of rebuilding our...
Who Should Be ABT’s New Artistic Director? Misty Copeland
I’m struck by what the company could accomplish with a leadership choice that looks to the future of ballet. A choice that makes a...
The Great Resignation: It’s Going To Get Worse
In America alone, there are 11 million vacant positions and only 6.5 million people to fill them. Suddenly, we’re in the middle of a...
A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Gustavo Dudamel
While he stands in front of an orchestra, his entire being is focused like a laser on the music. But that focus requires an...
Can This Mega-Merger Make Warner Studios Great Again?
The marriage combines WarnerMedia’s premium assets, including HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and the Warner Bros. studio, with Discovery’s mainstream channels, Food Network,...
Special President Zelensky LEGO Figure Sells Out For Fundraiser
The Zelensky “minifig,” as the figures are known, retailed for $100 each and sold out in hours, as did Molotov cocktail accessories bearing the Ukrainian...
Perils Of The Broadway Spring: Tourists, COVID, And…
Adding all those plays and musicals — 16 new productions plus three returning from hiatuses are opening over a five-week stretch — was always...
How Beethoven Inspired Cultural Exchange Between China And The West
The Central Philharmonic marked the 150th anniversary of Beethoven’s death by performing his Fifth Symphony. The last two movements were aired across the country....
A Look At The International Booker Prize Shortlist
Of the six books now in contention for the prestigious translated fiction award, five were written by women, with three translated by women too....
Science: Our Brains As Predictors Of The World Around Them
“There is no ‘I’ in AI.” Computers can beat a grandmaster in chess, but they don’t know that chess is a game. Jeff Hawkins...
We Need To Resist The Need To Describe Real Life As Our Technology
On the face of it, the gamification of reality looks like fun. But when everything becomes a game, it turns out, that game ends...
Libraries Around The World Are Helping To Save Ukrainian Culture
Today, teams of archivists and librarians are working to save Ukrainian library and museum collections. Their efforts echo the work of the Monuments Men who, during the Second...
Art Forgers Who Fooled Experts Talk About How They Did It
“The more successful we were in selling the pictures, the higher we set the bar and the more extra stories we came up with,...
Fake Music Is Taking Over Streaming Algorithms
Can you really reach a larger audience by getting on a background jazz playlist than taking home the most coveted Grammy? I hate to...
Will Broadway’s Next Big Hit Be Found On TikTok?
TikTok is a new frontier for investors and producers to find new works—and for creators to create and promote them—but it remains to be...
A Panel Discussion Gives Away A Toxic Architecture Culture
What began as a SCI-Arc panel on the professional aspects of working in architecture mushroomed into a full-blown controversy that has led to the suspension of...
High School Cancels Musical After It Opens Because Of “Mature” Themes
The musical, a high school adaptation of the Broadway show “Be More Chill,” was scheduled to run Thursday through Sunday, according to signs posted...
Russian Artists, Ukrainian Artists, Cancel Culture
While the world debates whether to cancel or to welcome artists and writers who suddenly feel like leaving Russia amidst its economic collapse, it...
Plagiarism Lawsuits Are Multiplying In The Age Of Streaming
In an age of YouTube and Spotify, how do we know if one artist heard another artist’s song, especially if they are relatively unknown,...
Inside A London Toe Shoe Factory
Freed of London, based in Hackney, has been making pointe shoes for almost a century. But while being one of the only producers of...
