Krista Tippett’s “On Being” Is Leaving Public Radio To Go Podcast-Only
"Alongside its sister show, Poetry Unbound, On Being will move from a weekly radio production to a seasonal podcast model. The show plans a...
Julian Schnabel’s Big Show In Spain Is Postponed Because All The Truckers Are On...
"Schnabel's 23-painting show at the Centro de Arte Comporaneo (in Málaga) was expected to open on Friday, but it will no longer kick off...
What Spotify Paid Musicians Last Year
The streaming giant said 52,600 artists earned more than $10,000 (£7,500) from Spotify in 2021. Of those, 130 were paid more than $5m (£3.8m)...
Quote Mill: Do These References Actually Mean Anything?
Think of all the speeches peppered with statements attributed to revered predecessors. Listeners are supposed to infer that the speaker has drawn upon a...
Today’s Slang Versus Yesterday’s Cool Words
Whenever I see people in old movies say “Swell!” or the like, I always wonder what other kinds of things they said when we...
Is Our Ability To Distinguish Geometry What Distinguishes Humans?
What was the simplest task in the geometric domain — independent of natural language, culture, education — that might reveal a signature difference between...
When Bad News Strikes Your Small Arts Organization (Can You Recover?)
Growth under these conditions is incredibly difficult, and of course the pandemic has thrown a giant monkey wrench in operations for nonprofits around the...
Using VR To Study Pompeii’s Design Choices
The paper argues that eye-catching elements in a Pompeiian home would have been important status symbols, with buildings designed to highlight some features while...
On Artists, Addiction, And The End Of The Myth That The Two Go Together
"It's incredible to consider the lengths we used to go to in forgiving artists for being bad people. ... The myth of the high-functioning...
The Internet’s Powerful Currency: Shame
What’s curious about the brutality that fuels Internet shaming frenzies is that in real life—that is, IRL, in the usual online parlance—most of us...
The Author Of The Graphic Memoir “Gender Queer” On Having Her Life Story Caught...
Maia Kobabe: "I'm learning that a book being challenged or banned does not hurt the book and does not hurt the author. The book...
Former NY City Ballet Dancer Starts New Career As Surgeon
Likolani Brown Arthurs, 36, spent 15 years dancing with the New York City Ballet. Now, she’s moving to a new stage: NYU Langone’s operating theater,...
This Brave And Skillful Actor Is On Standby For Every Male Role In “Hamilton”
"Jimmie 'JJ' Jeter ... is halfway down the Australian Hamilton cast list, described merely as 'standby'. But he's played every single male role in...
Pianist Boris Berezovsky Dropped By Management After Pro-Putin War Comments
At one point he said: ‘There are important political analysts in the West who claim that it is their part of the world that...
These Days, Being A Public Librarian In America Can Be Dangerous
Amanda Oliver, author of Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library, recounts some incidents from her years working in the DC library system, cautioning against...
Louisville Orchestra Creates A Creators Corps
The Louisville Orchestra Creators Corps will employ and house multiple full-time composers, called "creators," to represent all musical genres. In return, the creators will regularly present new...
With Hollywood Cutting Them Off, Russian Movie Theaters Are Turning To Bollywood
Without access to big American blockbusters that reliably put butts in their seats, cinema chains in Russia will turn to domestically-made films as well...
At Nearly 80, Meredith Monk Is Finally Creating Music Other Performers Can Do Without...
"It's difficult music to score. The performer has to truly feel my music, physically, before they can perform it. ... When other people want...
A Dance Company Finds Its Way After The Sudden Death Of Its Founder
When Nai-Ni Chen died in a swimming accident in Hawaii last December, her company's executive director — also her widower, Andrew Chiang — was...
The Oscar-Nominated Film “CODA” Will Be Adapted As A Stage Musical
The adaptation will be done by the film's producers and Deaf West Theatre, the Los Angeles company known for its hit Broadway productions of...
Another Ukrainian Museum Destroyed By Russian Artillery
"A museum in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol dedicated to the 19th-century artist Arkhip Kuindzhi, whom both Russians and Ukrainians embrace as...
Art Basel Reveals Plans For Its Paris Version (Just Don’t Call It Art Basel...
The annual October fair will be called Paris+, by Art Basel. (But will it be pronounced "Parris Pluss" or "Paree Pluice"?) - Artnet
We’ve Been Calling Machu Picchu By The Wrong Name All This Time
"A Peruvian historian and a leading US archaeologist argue that the UNESCO World Heritage Site was known by its Inca inhabitants as Huayna Picchu...
Forlorn MLA Conference Demonstrates The Decline Of The Humanities In America
In theory, the conference was still happening, but it wasn’t clear whether anyone would be in attendance, or what they’d be doing while there....
McKenzie Bezos’ Philosophy Of Philanthropy
The leadership of people directly experiencing inequities is essential, both because it is informed by insights no one else can contribute, and because it...
