North Carolina’s Biggest Public Radio Station Is Thriving. Can It Fill In Local News...
WUNC is no. 1 in the ratings for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill radio market, has $20 million in cash reserves, devoted listeners ready to donate,...
Florida Judge Rules That It Was Just Fine For Miami Beach To Censor A...
"A district court judge in Florida ruled that the City of Miami Beach had the right to censor a public artwork depicting Raymond Herisse,...
The Media Mogul At The Center Of The French Presidential Election
"Vincent Bolloré wields a fearsome agenda-setting power; his outlets, known for adopting the tics and style of Fox News, play an outsize role in...
Le Monde Launches An English-Language Version
"The leading French daily, with 425,000 digital subscribers to date, plans to reach 1 million paying readers in the next two to three years,...
Caracas’s Museum of Modern Art Starts To Emerge From Venezuela’s Years Of Chaos
After two years' closure, and with both storage/maintenance of the collection and staff salaries desperately underfunded, five of the museum's 13 display rooms have...
When Crosswords Became A Craze (100 Years Ago)
The modern “word-cross” appeared for the first time in print in the December 21, 1913 edition of New York World’s FUN Supplement. Section editor Arthur...
The Mythologies Of The Writer’s Blank Page
If all works of literature are haunted by the ideal forms of which they are but imperfect instantiations, then the blank book symbolises the...
Can African Museums Transcend Colonial History?
Is an African museum, designed by an African architect, capable of undoing this level of institutional violence? Can it go beyond a restaging of...
How Classical Music Influences Heavy Metal Pop
One can be forgiven for failing to see any common threads between these two seemingly divergent entities. However, a closer look reveals evidence to...
The Bridgerton Factor: Viewers Flocking To English Country Estates
The regal properties are reporting a “Bridgerton factor” as people enchanted by the baroque interiors and bucolic gardens of the hit show decide to...
How Neuroscience Is Failing To Explain How Art Works
“If you define neuroaesthetics as the use of neuroscience to explain art and aesthetic experience, then it is not surprising that neuroaesthetics fails: art...
The Young Muslim Who Defied Her Conservative Community To Master Indian Classical Dance
Mansiya V.P. was three when her mother took her and her older sister to Bharatanatyam lessons. The family persisted despite opposition from the local...
Media Critic Eric Boehlert, 62, Killed On Bicycle
A frequent commentator on television and radio, as well as a prolific writer, Mr. Boehlert never shied away from searing critiques of what he...
How #MeToo Has, And Hasn’t, Changed Theatre
"Not only were narratives of sexual abuse – long regarded as too risky for commercial theatre audiences – being listened to, they were actively...
The Rot Of American Higher Education Was Put On View Last Week
The unspoken secret had been fleetingly exposed: Free labor is a fact of academic life. “These arrangements are common in academia.” - The New York...
The Brass Bands Of Wales Are At Risk Of Fading Away
"There are fears Wales could lose its brass band tradition after player numbers plummeted during the pandemic. Bands from across the country said they...
The Case For Nationalizing An American Cultural Treasure
Like the Delta blues or Yellowstone National Park, baseball is as indelibly American as it is painfully uncommercial. Left to fend for itself, the...
At 70, Both Bill T. Jones And Eiko Otake Are Making Some Of The...
"(They're) two celebrated dance artists with different styles, temperaments and cultural backgrounds. What they have in common is willingness — hunger, really — to...
The Thinking Behind The Mellon Foundation’s Unusual New Logo
Moving away from “literal sensibilities” for logo choices, Opara tells It’s Nice That, the team went for a more symbolic direction, developing a morphing...
Nehemiah Persoff, Ubiquitous Character Actor, Dead At 102
A charter member of the Actors Studio, from the 1940s through the '90s he appeared in dozens of plays and films (ranging from Some...
Ruth Mackenzie, Chased Out Of The Châtelet In Paris, Will Run The Southern Hemisphere’s...
After successfully leading Scottish Opera, the Manchester International Festival, the Holland Festival, and the cultural program at the 2012 London Olympics, her firing from...
A Receipt For One Of Yves Klein’s Invisible Artworks Just Sold For $1.2 Million
"On the auction block was a paper receipt for a 'Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle,' or a 'zone of empty space,' a 1959 conceptual...
Rags-To-Riches Stories Reveal More About America Than Their Authors Think
From the Horatio Alger stories which launched the genre to memoirs by billionaires and even to Fifty Shades of Grey and other "billionaire romance"...
New York Public Radio Plagiarism Case May Be About To Get Messy
WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had...
A Settlement May End The Strike At Chicago’s PBS Station
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television...
