The Motion Picture Academy Says It’s Trying To Be More Diverse. How’s It Doing?
Even after that change, and after another year of invitees in 2021 that continued the trend, the Academy still stands at 81 percent white...
Not To Be Outdone By Abu Dhabi, Qatar Is Building Three More Major Museums
As Abu Dhabi continues work on its starchitect-studded Saadiyat Island cultural district, Qatar is following suit with Lusail (designed by Herzog and de Meuron),...
Indian State Gives Money To Takes Young Students To Museums
Bihar’s Ministry of Education has pledged to provide 20,000 rupee ($260) to every primary school in the state for museum visits, with the money...
Over 20 Years, Grant Gershon Has Transformed The L.A. Master Chorale
Before he took the helm, it was a group of largely amateur singers doing "the chestnuts of the golden age of choral music." Now...
The Internet As An Idea (That We’re Trapped In)
The crisis really heats up when the algorithm’s structuring power bends back upon us and constrains us into thinking of ourselves as if we...
A National Geographic Brief History Of Hula
How a sacred Hawaiian dance and music ritual was canceled, commercialized, and finally, revived. - National Geographic
How Much Of Their Work Should Choreographers Post Online?
It’s a complex calculus, asking artists to become experts in marketing, video editing and budgeting, in addition to dancemaking. But when it comes to...
Even With The Will Smith-Chris Rock Bitch-Slap, There Are Two Americas
Jemele Hill: "By that I mean: Black people and white people aren't necessarily talking about the incident in the same way. … I can't...
The Music Catalog Business Is Booming
Catalog valuations have shot up in recent years. In 2021, investors paid multiples equivalent to around 22 times the net publisher’s share of royalties—a...
RT America, The Russian State Broadcaster’s DC Bureau, Was Just Weird
"But its weirdness is much harder to explain if you can't look at any of its deeply weird clips," most of which have vanished...
Aaron Sorkin Is Writing A New Script For “Camelot”
André Bishop, chief of Lincoln Center Theater (where the show debuts next fall) and director Bartlett Sher asked Sorkin to consider the project. "It...
Post-Sacklers, Museums Are Adding “Morals Clauses” To Donor Agreements
"When a wealthy donor agrees to support an institution in return for naming rights, the lawyers increasingly draw up contracts with carefully worded 'morals...
Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Shrine In Jordan
"Located in the Khashabiyeh Mountains …, the shrine features two large standing stones carved with anthropomorphic figures, as well as an altar and hearth....
Did Target Yank A Bunch Of LGBTQ Books From Its Website?
"On March 25, word started to spread on Twitter that a multitude of LGBTQ books — many of them by debut authors — were...
New York City’s New Mayor Suggests Cutting $72 Million From Arts Budget
In February "the mayor released a preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 that proposes slashing one-third of the city's culture budget. So how does...
Putin Suggests Merging Bolshoi And Mariinsky Theaters Under Valery Gergiev’s Direction
After Bolshoi director Vladimir Urin signed a petition for ending Russia's war in Ukraine and one of the Bolshoi's star ballerinas abruptly emigrated, the...
Supreme Court To Rule On Fair Use In Warhol Work
The case will test fair use defense to copyright infringement and how to assess if a new work based on an older one meaningfully...
Second-Lowest Oscar Ratings Ever
The early results showed a 56 percent improvement on the 9.6 million people who watched last year’s event, according to ABC, though Sunday night’s show...
Why Do We Still Need Religion?
Part of the reason people are attracted to religion is that its rituals – the standing, sitting and kneeling in unison, the singing, the...
Revival Of Surrealism In A Surreal Age
Certainly, if you consider what’s currently happening in visual arts, it appears that we are in a major Surrealist revival. The most prominent bellwether...
The Quantifiable, Scientific Measure Of Art
Art historians may say that they do not need numbers. There is the art: you just need to look, think, and write. But that...
Studies: Children Learn As Much From Guided Play As From Adult Instruction
Researchers looked at 39 studies of play and included 17 in a meta-analysis that found when children ages three to eight engage in guided...
The Oscars’ Audience Problem
The Oscars face a litany of problems, some of which are out of the organization’s control and others that are self-inflicted. Those include the...
What Happens When Students Learn History Through Video Games
Academic historians must now grapple with a new breed of students “for whom Paradox is the historical mother tongue and actual history is only...
San Francisco’s Iconic TransAmerica Tower To Get Major Restoration
The project is expected to cost $400 million, with $250 million to renovate the pyramid Redwood Park and the Mark Twain Street located on...
