New York State Is Dropping Mask Requirements, But Broadway Is Not
"Broadway's mask and vaccination policy will remain in place through at least April 30, the most recent extension date for the policy announced last...
Six Big Magazines — Including Entertainment Weekly — To Quit Print Publication
“It is not news to anyone that there has been a pronounced shift in readership and advertising from print to digital, and as a...
Native Hawaiians Are Traveling Europe, Retrieving Their Ancestors’ Bones From Museums
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four...
Disney+ Adds Huge Number Of Subscribers, Now Growing Faster Than Netflix
Disney added 11.8 million Disney+ subscribers globally in the fiscal first quarter, topping the average analyst estimate of around 7 million, according to StreetAccount. -...
King Tut Was Not A Significant Pharaoh, Yet The Modern World Remains Fascinated By...
"Tutankhamun represents an extremely narrow slice of Egyptian history; imagine if, in the year 4850, the world understood the United States largely through the...
Artificial Intelligence Is Being Misused… Now
While much of the current critique of AI is still framed by science fiction dystopias, the way it is being used now is increasingly...
The Index At The Back Of The Book Deserves More Respect
The story of the index "is, on one level, a history of information science, but it's also a history of reading and writing and...
Italy Creates Underwater Sculpture Museum To Thwart Illegal Fishing
The marble sculptures create both a physical barrier for the trawlers’ nets and a unique underwater museum, open to anyone either through arranged scuba...
Sting Sells His Back Catalogue For An Enormous Sum
The rocker has sold "Every Breath You Take", "Roxanne", and the rest of his songs to Universal Music for a price believed to be...
Polish Government’s Holocaust Revisionism Is Scaring Some Historians
"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's...
2021 Wasn’t Supposed To Have Been The Year Of The Movie Musical, But …
By this point Dear Evan Hansen and In the Heights feel much farther away than West Side Story, Encanto, and Tick,Tick ... Boom!, but...
Space Choreography: Redefining Movement For Extremely Low Gravity
Dancer and planetary science PhD student C. Adeene Denton: "Getting to set the first site-specific work on the International Space Station (was) a big...
At 90, John Williams Says He Is Giving Up Composing Film Music
He has two more projects to finish for Steven Spielberg, and he says those will be his last movie scores. Not that he's retiring:...
On His First Day On The Job, A Museum Guard Vandalized A Painting With...
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932-34) was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg when...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Use TikTok To Market Low-Price Tickets To Young People
The "TikTok tickets" scheme will offer £10 seats, along with subsidized travel to Stratford-upon-Avon, to people aged 14 to 25 for this summer's productions...
What This Year’s Oscar Best Picture Nominations Say About The Movie Audience
“Dune,” the sprawling first installment of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious adaptation of the 1965 science fiction novel, was the only nominated film that could claim to...
SFMoMA Names A New Director
Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art since 2016, has been named the new director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
The Language Police Are Threatening Education
These recent acts of illiberal language policing––coinciding with a racial reckoning on the left and a backlash against its excesses on the right––threatens to degrade...
How Streaming Platforms Are Transforming Bollywood
"The benchmark in the minds of the audience is content that they have watched from across the globe. That has pushed Indian filmmakers, writers...
Ideas Worth… Wait, What Did TED Talks Accomplish?
“We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say...
How “Sleep No More” Has Changed New York Theater — And Itself
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on...
Survey: How Canadian Orchestras Are Approaching Streaming
The bad news is that digital isn’t covering the costs associated with it — not yet, at any rate. The larger problem is that...
The Two Pieces By George Crumb That Changed American Contemporary Classical Music
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of...
The Real Problem With Spotify (And It’s Not Rogan)
At its best, Spotify is an elegant tool—a conduit between artist and art and listener. But at its worst, it’s a bad actor in...
A Childhood Friend Of Charlie Chaplin Remembers His “Always Hungry”, “Ragged” Early Years
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a...
