Ukrainian Sculptor From Berlin Stays In Lviv To Help Build Anti-Tank Defenses
Volo Bevza and several others have set themselves up in a metal workshop to build steel tank obstacles called "hedgehogs," which look like small...
As The Authorities Drop Mask and Vaccination Requirements For Indoor Spaces, Should The Arts...
"In interviews, leaders of almost a dozen cultural groups across the country emphasized the need for caution and carefulness. But they noted that each...
Why We’re Built To Forget
It used to be thought that forgetting anything — from minor things like the name of a casual acquaintance to the more painful loss...
Tracking The Word Choice Vectors In Rap Music
There’s an appealingly simple sociolinguistic view, one my grizzled inner skeptic appears to have embraced, whereby words function as vectors of status: where vocabulary...
Ken Robinson: What Does Education Mean Now?
What does it mean to be educated now? As we all live in two worlds—the world within you that exists only because you do,...
Geffen Hall Is Fully Funded And Will Open Year Early
The project’s leaders announced on Wednesday that they had raised their goal of $550 million to cover the cost of the renovation, and that...
How Did Intelligence Evolve Biologically?
The processes of intelligence are so intricate, so multilayered and baroque, no wonder some people might be tempted by stories about a top-down Creator....
100 Years After It Sank, Shackleton’s Ship Found In Antarctica (and In Remarkable Condition)
The Endurance was found off the coast of Antarctica, approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by its captain, Frank Worsley. It...
Russia Used Interpol To Get Italy To Arrest Ukrainian Opera Director
"Yevhen (Eugene) Lavrenchuk was imprisoned in Naples for more than two months after Russia issued a call for his arrest through Interpol's 'red notice'"...
Arts Venues Sue Small Business Administration Over COVID Money
Nearly 50 rejected venue grant applicants have taken the SBA to court, including escape rooms, a dance convention, a circus arts company, a ministry,...
How Little Has Survived Of Medieval European Literature? More, And Less, Than One Might...
"A team using techniques more commonly used to track wildlife estimates that 68 percent of chivalric and heroic works produced in medieval Europe survive...
Is Having Two Museum Directors Better Than Having One?
“There’s a lot of structural change underway and nobody knows where this is going. I think there’s a strong desire from all the actors...
A Different Way To Approach Deciphering Quipu, The Incas’ Knotted-String Language?
Scholar Silvia Ferrara suggests that — since we don't have a Rosetta Cord giving us a text side-by-side in Inca knots and Spanish letters...
How To Fight Disinformation
So is a country’s level of media literacy anything more than a measure of the wealth and the education of its population? How can...
Belarus Free Theatre Does Its First Show Together Since Fleeing The Country Last Fall
In the wake of the stolen presidential election and Lukashenko's vicious crackdown on the subsequent demonstrations, the underground troupe decided to go into exile....
Careful Of Boycotting Russian Artists and Institutions. It’s Difficult To Come Back
"Almost on the hour, we’re hearing about cultural boycotts, departures of curators and directors, and the shuttering of institutions. The moral convictions behind these choices cannot be doubted....
Edmund Keeley, Who Brought Cavafy And Seferis To The English-Speaking World, Dead At 94
As translator, scholar, and critic, he played a major role in showing Americans that Greece has a thriving modern culture alongside its ancient history....
Ranks Of Women Cinematographers Are Slowly Growing As Schools’ And Guilds’ Efforts To Train...
"The simple premise is that if you make a generational commitment — and about 25 to 30 years is a generational commitment — to...
Post-Industrial Parks Like New York’s High Line Are A Bad Idea, Argues Sociologist
Looking in particular at the High Line, the 606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston — all of which turned urban industrial...
As Ukrainian Dancers Escape, European Companies Are Taking Them In
In Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and elsewhere, ballet troupes have been helping their fleeing colleagues: finding them housing, letting them join class, and, if...
Why Did Sam Sanders Leave NPR? To Create New York Magazine’s New Culture Podcast
Sanders, who created the weekly show It's Been a Minute, is the fourth host of color in the past year to leave NPR for...
Arsonist Sets Trash Fire In Akron Art Museum
"Akron police have arrested a man accused of breaking into the Akron Art Museum and starting a small trash fire Sunday. ... Executive Director...
Olivier Award Nominations Led By “Cabaret”, “Anything Goes”, “Life Of Pi”
"A new production of the musical Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley leads the Olivier Award nominations with 11. It's followed by a...
Agreement: Museums Can Remove Sackler Name Without Penalty
The Sacklers would also lose their naming rights at museums and other entities that have received their financial contributions a win for activists who...
Smithsonian To Return Benin Bronzes
A spokeswoman for the Smithsonian, Linda St. Thomas, said most of the 39 pieces would be returned. But she said it was not clear...
