Folk Music Of The 19th Century Is Being Pressed Into Service For Oppressed Folk...
“Everything feels so precarious, … and suddenly there’s these songs that put you in dialogue with people going back over hundreds of years. That’s...
In Canada, First Nations Peoples Asked A Judge Not To Let Hudson Bay Company...
But the judge seems OK with it, with a caveat. “Osborne ordered Hudson's Bay to provide him and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs with...
How Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre Became A Launching Pad For New Musicals
“Something that always has to be true is: Will this story make the world a better place in some way? It’s a big question—but why tell...
Bunheads Walked So The New Series Etoile Could Leap
Or at least, that’s what creator Amy Sherman-Palladino (the force behind The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) wants to see. “Ballet isn’t something for someone else....
What You Learned About Jane Austen Was Completely Incomplete
No, she wasn’t “the first great woman novelist.” There were so many great ones before her - but somehow they’re missing in our general...
Two Scholars Argue Over The Number of Penises In The Bayeux Tapestry
Oxford professor George Garnett announced in 2019 that he had counted 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England — 88...
Government Funding Is Not Public Media’s Most Pressing Problem
"Too many stations simply serve as passthrough distributors for national content. That model was the only way to distribute content in the 1970s. Today,...
Revisiting The World’s First Advice Column, Which Debuted In 1691
London printer John Dunton created the Athenian Gazette, or Casuistical Mercury as a broadsheet answering questions and providing topics for patrons to discuss at coffeehouses....
When The Machines Think Of Things We Never Would Have
For better and for worse, science today is shaped by strongly human factors: economic value, political priorities, career prospects, cultural trends, and a range...
AI CEO: We Will Track Everything You Do
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app...
We Used To Think Of Nostalgia As Some Sort Of Disease…
It is not only that those wistful and innocent longings we all feel when we think of home were once subject to urgent medical...
Hofesh Schechter Says The English Have A Problem With Contemporary Dance
“’English audiences, in particular, expect to come in, understand it, and have a good conversation about it afterwards.’ The Israeli-born, soon-to-be-British choreographer would prefer...
Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78
Davis wrote for The Atlantic for more than three decades, from 1984 to 2016, and was a contributing editor for much of that time. He also...
Has Progress For Women Conductors Stalled?
When asked whether the fact that the last two Proms festivals in Britain have each featured only eight female conductors — compared with well...
How AI Is Changing The Job Of Design
Whether it’s Adobe apps or Figma, AI features are increasingly being built into creative tools that push designers into an era of editing and...
What Netflix Was Planning When It Decided To Put “Stranger Things” On Broadway
“In addition to feeding the fandom, the play, written by Kate Trefry, who is also a writer on the Netflix series, is set up...
Why “Views” Are A Poor Measure Of Popularity
A “view,” in reality, is not a universal metric. It’s not really anything. It is whatever a platform wants it to be, which usually...
The Destruction Of Sudan’s Cultural Heritage
The looting of the Sudan National Museum is the most striking example of the destruction of cultural heritage. Dramatic images of the remains of...
These Are The 250 Historical Figures To Be In Trump’s “Garden Of Heroes”
The garden, which was announced during Mr. Trump’s first term, will feature life-size renderings of “250 great individuals from America’s past who have contributed...
It’s Taken Three Tries To Get Jennifer Higdon’s Latest Opera Onto A Stage
“Woman With Eyes Closed was commissioned, completed ahead of deadline, cast and workshopped when the 2020 lockdown canceled Opera Philadelphia’s premiere. The (piece) was...
What’s Happening At The Kennedy Center Will Affect The History Of The Arts In...
“After all, the Kennedy Center is more than a venue, it’s a ‘living monument’ — a place where the story of American culture plays...
Battle In California’s Capital Over Film And TV Tax Credits
With Hollywood reeling from a convergence of factors and production moving to less expensive states and overseas, industry leaders and some lawmakers are pushing...
Juilliard School, Planning To Go Tuition-Free, Begins Half-Billion-Dollar Fundraising Campaign
While a few programs (among them the Master of Music in historical performance and, since last year, the acting MFA) are already tuition-free, the...
Seeing Both Necessity And Demand, Random House Is Publishing The U.S. Constitution
“Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, followed in November by a hardcover edition...
Nelson-Atkins Museum Selects Architect For $160 Million Expansion
“A New York City firm known for integrating architecture, art, infrastructure, and landscape will reimagine Kansas City’s premier museum for the next generation of...
