A Warning That The Bamiyan Valley Will Collapse Within Ten Years
In 2003, the area was put on Unesco’s World Heritage in Danger list. Now rapid building work and digging under the new rule of...
Australia Arts Groups Feel The Freeze
The lack of CPI (which rose by 3.5% in the 12 months to December 2021 according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data) coupled with no increase...
How Fringe Theories Multiply
Devotees of a fringe theory are usually committed to more than one. They might start with just one, but fringes have a way of...
Belgian Museum Returns Nazi-Stolen Painting After 80 Years
After years of research, the painting has been returned, the first restitution of any artwork looted from a Jewish family in the second world...
The Extravagantly Painted Chapels Of Michoacán
The walls and ceilings of these old places of worship, some of them dating back to the 1600s, illustrate Catholic stories and teachings and...
The “Most Important Archaeological Find In The UK” In A Century
A 5,000-year-old chalk sculpture discovered in east Yorkshire, due to be displayed at the British Museum, has been described as the most important piece of...
The Rwandan Women’s Percussion Group Bringing Hutu And Tutsi Together
"Ingoma Nshya, … founded by Odile Gakire Katese in 2004, … arose to heal divisions after the 1994 genocide, which left around 800,000 people...
The End Of Mass Market Products
Mobility, consumer expectations, and technology are evolving exponentially, and there is huge appetite for low-friction user experiences, on-demand delivery, and personalized manufacturing. These are...
Will Dance Companies Keep Experimenting With Film And Video After They’re Performing Live Again?
"Screendance provided an attractive platform to explore new directions for choreographic works. … The challenge now, is how to keep going." - Dance Magazine
Peter Jackson Tops Highest-Paid Entertainer List
Last year he sold his fx company. Forbes estimates Jackson personally made about $600m in cash and $375m in stock from the deal, making...
Defining Afrofuturism (Can It Be Done?)
With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that's even...
MoviePass Is Back
“We’re looking at this from another point of view,” Stacy Spikes said of the company’s relaunch, adding that he now plans to run the...
“What If John Lennon Was A World-Class Intellectual With An Insatiable Curiosity For Third...
A long, loving profile of Caetano Veloso, who has transformed Brazilian music more than once, was a famous exile during the dictatorship, and has...
An Oral History Of One Of The Best, And Most Meta, “Simpsons” Episodes Ever
"Stars Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria and writer David X. Cohen, among others, share new insights and secrets about the 'ballsy' episode that...
Remember Ski Ballet?
"On social media, it's easy to get lost in videos of this bygone athletic art. Clips from its Olympic appearances as a demonstration sport...
Are Small Literary Magazines Going Extinct?
"Across the country, universities are slowly, quietly, cutting funding and shutting their literary publications down. Even magazines not connected to universities are closing their...
Attempted Book Bans Are Soaring In The U.S., Thanks To The “Outrage Ecosystem”
"The books are kind of incidental. What we're really arguing about is, what does it mean to be a citizen of the United States?...
Harper Lee Estate Loses $2.5 Million Case Over “To Kill A Mockingbird” Stage Adaptations
The arbitration case was brought by Dramatic Publishing, which licenses the decades-old Mockingbird play by Christopher Sergel, long popular with schools and community theaters....
Marin Alsop Extends Contract At Ravinia, Where She Will Launch A New Mini-Festival
Her tenure as the Ravinia Festival's chief conductor began (in theory) in 2020 and will now run at least through 2025. This summer, she'll...
What Happens When You Teach School Kids About Racism
We are in a cultural moment in which teaching about racism and the world it has made is both essential and controversial. Critics rallying under...
How Three Canadian Museums Are Dealing With Having Mishandled Indigenous History
The Royal BC Museum’s troubles go beyond outdated exhibits. Allegations of a toxic, racist work environment were on display for all to see, after...
Immersive Art Experiences Are Taking Over
Operated by artist studios, collectives, and production companies, these projects range in finesse from sophisticated new-media installations to animated retrospectives of Impressionist painters. -...
National Gallery of Canada Establishes New Decolonization Department
The National Gallery of Canada has committed to reimagining its collections and programs from a decolonial perspective. Today the museum announced the creation of the Department...
I Used To Sing Opera (It Didn’t Go Well)
Every time I have an audition, I get sick. I spend hours steaming my vocal cords over a bowl at the kitchen table, gargling...
UK Library Use Plummeted Last Year
Physical library visits fell from 214.6m to 59.7m in the year to March 2021, a drop of 72%, as Covid-19 restrictions shut branches for...
