Adam Sandler Awarded Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize For American Humor
Said Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter in announcing the honor, "Adam Sandler has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and...
Growth As A Measure Of Success? How About De-Growth Instead?
Wealthy economies should abandon growth of gross domestic product (GDP) as a goal and focus economic activity around securing human needs and well-being. This...
ChatGPT Is Wildly Popular. The Site Keeps Crashing, And The AI Will Explain What’s...
Having only launched as a public beta on Nov. 30, ChatGPT crested well over a million users in five days. Since then, media coverage...
Apple Promised A New Classical Music Streaming App This Year. What Happened To It?
"Apple Music plans to launch a dedicated classical music app next year combining Primephonic's classical user interface," said an Apple Newsroom press release shared last year....
Museums’ Days Of Swashbuckling Collecting Are Over
Today many U.S. museums are facing a reckoning for their aggressive tactics of the past. Attitudes have shifted, the Indiana Jones era is over,...
Yoga Practitioners Push Back Against Cultural Appropriation
This week, practitioners in India have once again sought to draw attention to what they see as cultural appropriation of yoga, amid allegations it...
The Ambitious Public Art Going Into Seattle’s New Light Rail System
Just the long noun “government-agency-run public art” might’ve made some of you sleepy; the adjective “taxpayer-funded” might have others wondering where you put your...
Yet Again, The Turkic Languages Of Central Asia Are Changing Their Alphabets
"The question of alphabet reform is hardly new for these countries — over the last 150 years, Kazakh has been written in Arabic, Latin,...
Allegations Of Sexual Harassment At Juilliard
According to a 2020 survey conducted by the school, 11 percent of respondents indicated knowledge of a sexual assault that took place in a Juilliard-related context....
Jerry Saltz Weighs In On The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals
"I wouldn't be surprised to see (the) protest included in upcoming lists of top-ten artworks of 2022. Theirs is a form of performance art,...
How A Seattle Dance Company Bought A Church
“When came in and showed us how they were going to love the space, to use it for art and dance, it was...
The Main Rival To Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre In Jacobean London Was Funded By Female...
"Academics have discovered that women made up a large part of the financial force behind the Fortune Theatre, the great rival to the Globe,...
Post-Mortem: English National Opera
Did it have to die? The cause of death, in this coroner’s verdict, is a prolonged failure to address reality. Take opera in English,...
London Police Burst Into A Gallery, Thinking That A Sculpture Was An Actual Dead...
Someone reported a woman inside, hunched over a table, who hadn't moved for two hours. Figuring it was a heart attack or overdose, police...
Principal Bans Students From Seeing “Oliver” Over Concerns About “Violence, Alcohol Use and Thievery.”
The Children's Musical Theatreworks show, which opened to general audiences on Dec. 2, wasn’t some new, explicit, souped-up version of the classic Broadway musical....
Why The New York Times Best Seller Lists Drive The Publishing Business Insane
Basically, nobody can figure them out: the Times rankings frequently don't match publicly available sales figures, and while the paper says it uses various...
After 45 Years, The Urban Institute For Contemporary Arts In Grand Rapids Is Shutting...
UICA, which merged with a nearby state university and art college in 2013 following earlier financial troubles, said in its announcement that it has...
Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s Go-To Composer, Is Dead At 85
He wrote songs for Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson, and scores for directors Danny Boyle, Jane Campion, and Paul Schrader, among others. But he's...
One Week After Being Sold, Bookforum Is Closing Down
Just days after its parent company, Artforum International, was acquired by Penske Media, the literary journal announced that the current issue is its last....
Adjunct Professors At Mannes School Of Music And Parsons School of Design End Their...
The walkout by part-time faculty (87% of the total) at the New School University, which encompasses both Parsons and Mannes, began on November 16...
Daniel Barenboim Will Return To Conducting (At Least For New Year’s)
In October, he announced that he was cancelling his performances indefinitely in order to deal with "a serious neurological condition." But he will make...
Oh, No! The Golden Globes Aren’t Going All Tasteful And Serious, Are They?
Owen Gleiberman: "As the nominations were announced, I thought, 'Please, Golden Globes! Atone for your sins, fix your corrupt ways, but don't take away...
“The Banshees of Inisherin” And “Everything Everywhere All at Once” Lead Golden Globe Nominations
"Banshees" garnered eight nominations (including picture, director, and screenplay), followed by "Everything" with six, and "The Fabelmans" and "Babylon," each with five. - Variety
The History Of Books In Defining The World
Since all reading at that time occurred out loud rather than inside one’s head, the study rooms were a modern librarian’s nightmare: no one...
Rise Of The Virtual AI Girl Bands
In fact, there's mainly one big difference between them and any other pop group you might know - all 11 members are virtual characters....
