Movies Depicting Jewish American Experiences Are Few And Far Between
"Who are American Jews? Do they look like the families in Armageddon Time and The Fabelmans, who celebrate Hanukkah and eat bagels and lox...
How The Bloomsbury Group Came To Change Art And Literature In England
The death of Vanessa and Virginia Stephen's parents was a disaster, but it freed the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf - and their...
What Set Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss Apart As A Dancer
He was, of course, flexible and precise and disciplined, but in addition, "his dancing was animated and enhanced by an all-too elusive quality: a...
Taking The Music Documentary Far Behind, And Beyond, The Music
As a new crop of music documentaries' directors confirm, "Music is a great portal into larger conversations because music is always a reflection of...
Adrienne Mancia, Who Brought The World In Film To New York, 95
At MoMA and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, she was a film curator who "scoured the world for significant films and brought them to...
London’s First, Groundbreaking Arabic-Language Bookshop To Close
Al Saqi, a literary institution that opened in 1978, will close at the end of 2022. One of the owners: "You'd meet Arabs in...
Evelyn Waugh’s Mansion Sells, But Superfans Living There Refuse To Leave
Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: "We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and...
Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too...
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
"What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as...
Storytelling May Save The Planet, If Anything Can
"The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication." - Wired
The New Museum Of Broadway Is A Shrine To Theatre’s Hard-Fought Battles
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41...
Dear News Junkies, Here’s How To Adjust To Life Without Twitter
It's not easy - and the long-ago murder of Google Reader by that tech company doesn't make it easier - but there are ways....
Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests
Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and...
What Good Memoirs Can Do For You
We tend to imagine the memoirist as a naive spiller of information about their life, as in religious confession, rather than the intentional constructor...
Is TikTok A Threat To Music?
Commercial radio normalised popular music’s relationship to advertising. But the collapse between content and advertising exemplified by TikTok prompts us to consider how music making and...
BookForum Dead? Does This Look Like A Dying Magazine?
Either way, here’s what I know: I’m tired of losing outlets to conglomeration. I’m tired of culture being under siege because of money, of...
What Do The Fast Closings Of Shows Like KPOP Say About Diversity On Broadway?
Has the predominant Broadway tradition of shows by and featuring white artists, playing to white audiences, created a barrier that makes it harder for...
Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael To Lead President’s Council On The Arts And Humanities
Under a new Executive Order PCAH has been established to engage the nation’s artists, humanities scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners on ways to promote excellence...
The Battle Between Wisdom And Identity
I would argue that part of the reason that wisdom has been downgraded in education is because of the very opposition between universal truth...
Here’s One Country Where Putin-Supporting Russian Performers Are Still Invited
"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these...
The 84-Year-Old Dissident Muralist Waging War In Russia
Mr. Ovchinnikov is a rare dissident in Russia, where public criticism of the war can land people in jail or exile. He said his age and...
An Ancient Grammar Mystery Is Solved, Clarifying A 2,500-Year-Old “Language Machine”
In ancient India, the grammarian Pāṇini developed a set of rules that basically constitute an algorithm, allowing any word or phrase to be coined...
AI-Generator Allows You To Compose Music Using Images
AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling...
How Allen Ginsberg Caused Gail Collins To Organize A Pro-Gay Rights, Anti-Censorship Rally In...
The future New York Times columnist met the Beat poet and invited him to come to her college to speak. Then the dean of...
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Inventor Of The Moog Synthesizer, Is Dead At 90
"(He) collaborated with engineer Robert Moog in the 1960s to invent a portable synthesizer that revolutionized the sound of rock, classical and other forms...
