Okay, So The Arts Shouldn’t Take Fossil Fuel Money. What’s The Alternative?
What are the alternatives to corporate arts partnerships with links to fossil fuels? (Because, let’s face it, once you start looking, coal, oil and...
Collector Budi Tek, Who Helped Create The Contemporary Asian Art Scene As We Know...
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those...
How Barcelona’s Superblocks Idea Could Be Adopted In Other Cities
As cities become more dense—moving in the direction of the “15-minute city,” where offices and simple errands are a short walk or bike ride...
Five More Ancient Egyptian Tombs Are Unveiled At Saqqara
"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago...
Evolving COVID Policies Are Putting Cultural Institutions In Impossible Positions
Cultural institutions are left having to figure out not only which policies are right to protect their patrons, but which ones their patrons want,...
The Authors Of Books Banned From Schools, Or Entire Countries, Speak Out
Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in." Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back." Hamid Ismailov: "I'm...
Progressives Are Fighting Book Bans (And Getting Them Overturned)
The progressive wins are a development that looked unlikely as the right wing, often through organizations with connections to wealthy Republican donors, has introduced bill...
After Almost 20 Years, The Art Scene In Baghdad Is Showing Signs Of Revival
As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant. Now galleries...
What The Fictional President Zelensky Played On TV Shows Us About Real-Life Ukraine
On Servant of the People, Volodomyr Zelensky played a teacher who becomes president after a video of him fuming about corruption goes viral. Ashley...
With The Kiev City Ballet In Their Unexpected Exile
The company left Kyiv for a tour in France one day before Putin's army invaded. The city of Paris has given them a residency...
How Did A Classical Radio Station Get To No. 1 In The Ratings In...
"Theories abound as to why non-commercial 'Classical 89.9' WDAV Charlotte suddenly went to No. 1 in Nielsen's January survey. Here are the numbers behind...
During The Pandemic Shutdown, Unemployment Among US Arts Workers Was Double The National Average
"In the early months of the pandemic, unemployment in the arts and culture sector spiked to nearly 30% while the national rate hit about...
New York City’s New Arts Czar Has Faced Some Pushback
Mayor Eric Adams's appointee to head the Department of Cultural Affairs is Laurie Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and...
The World’s Biggest Theatre Award Goes To A Little Company Of Disabled Actors In...
Back to Back, a company made up of neurodiverse and disabled performers based in Geelong, a city about an hour southwest of Melbourne, has...
LA’s New Academy Movie Museum Will Rethink How It Portrays Industry Founders
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people began asking how, in a museum devoted to a diverse and...
Report: Hungarian Government Is Suppressing Artists
The report's authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists...
Scientists Watch A Memory Being Formed In A Living Brain
From earlier work, they had expected the brain to encode the memory by slightly tweaking its neural architecture. Instead, the researchers were surprised to...
Lab In Virginia Working To Save Ukraine Treasures
Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling...
The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good...
A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a...
The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine
Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. - The Conversation
Researchers Are Using AI To Understand Animal Language
Researchers are using AI to parse the “speech” of animals, enabling scientists to create systems that, for example, detect and monitor whale songs to...
The Oscars And Baseball: “Fixing” Them Is Making Them Worse
Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen. But it may be that viewers are tuning out because the...
Universal Music Buys An Ape NFT To Lead NFT Music Group
On Friday, Universal's 10:22PM label said it paid $360,817 to purchase Bored Ape #5537 - a female character now known as Manager Noët All,...
Rare Marvel Comic Sells For $2.4 Million
The book, Marvel Comics No. 1, published in 1939, is so valuable because it is known as the pay copy, in which the publisher recorded...
TV Ratings Giant Nielsen Rejects Private Equity Takeover Bid
Nielsen ratings were the gold standard for decades, but "the rise of streaming and mobile video has challenged the company, with its clients calling it...
