Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what...
The Acute Differences Between Practice And Performance
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are...
Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20...
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says...
How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). -...
Is Australia’s Funding For The Arts Being Dismantled?
‘Unfortunately the funding precarity is having very real impacts on employment of artists and arts workers. The stress and uncertainty are impacting the health...
Ai WeiWei: The Threat Of Censorship In An AI-Dominated World
As we enter the AI era, human collective thought patterns, ideological structures, and the very essence of individual existence and dignity are undeniably under...
Are We Moving Back To An Oral-Based Culture From One That Was Text-Based?
The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract...
One Of The World’s Major Collections Of Banned Russian Literature Is In Manhattan
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from...
Confirmed: This Country House Is Definitely A Gaudí
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s)...
Actor Robert Carradine Dead Of Suicide At 71
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in...
Berlin Film Festival Winners: “Yellow Letters”, Sandra Hüller, “Salvation”, “Queen At Sea”
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two...
Why The Uproar About The Tourette’s/N-Word Incident At The BAFTAs Isn’t Dying Down
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. …...
Gustavo Dudamel On His Transition From Los Angeles To New York
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a...
No Truly Great Movie Can Stop One Battle After Another, According To The BAFTAs
The heavy-handed adaptation of Vineland won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director — and best adapted screenplay. Hamnet won best British film...
Report: Three Quarters Of Chicago’s Live Music Venues Are Not Profitable
“The State of Live,” newly released by the Chicago Independent Venue League, finds that nearly three out of four independent live entertainment venues in...
Has The UK’s Era Of Free Museum Entry Come To An End?
As funding pressures deepen across the sector, and running costs increase, a policy once treated as untouchable is now under renewed scrutiny. - The...
Vandals Attack Outdoor Skating Rink At The Kennedy Center
An unidentified person poured a substance, likely some combination of motor oil and antifreeze, on a temporary ice rink built outside the John F....
Has Hyper-specialization Harmed The Humanities?
Hyperspecialization has dominated the academy over the past decades. More and more, professors and outside observers note that academics silo research into increasingly minute...
The Vegas Sphere Generates $1.2 Billion In Income In 2025
The company reported adjusted operating profit of $261.8 million for FY 2025, which was up 138% YoY. - Music Business Worldwide
A Video Game That Lets Players “Repatriate” Art From Western Museums
A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing...
Does Counting The Books You Read Kill The Pleasure?
As reading is increasingly tracked and performed online, there is a growing sense that a solitary pleasure is being reshaped by the logic of...
FCC Pushes TV Programmers To Produce Patriotic Content
Suggestions of pro-America content the department made include running public service announcements, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting civic education, inspiring local stories,...
What Happens When Writing Becomes Easy?
The advent of the chatbot raised an unsettling question: What if writing didn’t have to be hard? What if that noble ordeal was no...
How The Washington Post Missed The Plot On What Readers Want
I don’t believe in this inevitability. As a reader of many distinctive publications, I want to be led by them. What makes them special is where...
Is Streaming The Key For Cable’s Survival?
The gains validate a bold bet by Charter Chief Executive Chris Winfrey: that cable could survive, if no longer thrive, by embracing the apps that had begun...
