There’s Been An Explosion in “Public” Philosophy
There are, of course, books on philosophy, but also numerous popular live events, courses, podcasts, television and radio programmes, and newspaper columns. Philosophy today...
How Joss Whedon Went From Television Deity And Feminist Hero To Pariah
It's a long tale, and not a simple one, but it makes sense — even, in some ways (but not others), to Whedon himself....
How Writers Create Fictional Maps For Their Narratives
As different novelistic styles, genres and methods of production have risen to prominence, they have enabled their own particular way of creating fictional terrain....
French Actor Gaspard Ulliel Dead At 37 Following Ski Accident
Best known in the anglophone world for the title roles in Hannibal Rising and Saint-Laurent, and one of the stars of the upcoming Marvel...
Why I Left The CBC
Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly — and how dramatically — the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted." -...
Molière Is Refused Reburial In The Panthéon, And Une Grande Querelle Breaks Out
Actor-director Francis Huster has campaigned for years for the "father of the French language" to be admitted to the ranks of les immortels. Yet...
How The Ratings Hit “Yellowstone” Is Bucking Cultural Trends
Streaming was supposed to be the great equalizer, for either access to content or its segmentation into competitive platforms warring for their niche and...
Venice Tries The Tulsa Tactic: Luring Remote Tech Workers To Live There
The project, called Venywhere, aims "to convince people who can do their jobs from anywhere to do so in Venice — and its founders...
Why Is The LA County Museum Of Art Renting Out Its Reputation To Corporations?
Strip away the diverting celebrity names, and what’s left is just a museum show of a corporate collection. Corporate art collections are not a...
The Roman Villa With Caravaggio’s Only Ceiling Fresco Did Not Get A Single Bid...
"The estate, known as Villa Aurora, had a price tag of €471 million ($546 million) and could have become the most expensive residential property...
There’s Now A Whole Sub-Genre Of Movies About North American School Shootings
"There has been a range of films" — Zero Day (2002), Elephant (2003), Polytechnique (2009), Beautiful Boy (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin...
Battles Over School District Book Bans Are Metastasizing
"A pivotal midterm election year, COVID frustrations and a backlash against efforts to call out systemic racism — driven disproportionately by white, suburban and...
Inside The FBI’s Art Crime Team
Italy formed its Carabinieri Art Squad back in 1969, but the US didn't create a dedicated equivalent until 2004. Yet since then, the unit...
Cincinnati Ballet Has A New Artistic Director
Jodie Gates —founding director of USC's Kaufman School of Dance, former assistant to William Forsythe as well as admired choreographer in her own right,...
The UK Government’s Plan To Use Culture To Revive The North Of England
Both Tory ministers and ther Labour counterparts in opposition agree on "a ten-point action plan includ(ing) devolving funding decisions to a regional level from...
Birju Maharaj, India’s Great Master Of Kathak Dance, Dead At 83
Revered as both performer and teacher, "Maharaj was known for his animated facial expressions and light-footed movements, accompanied by the sound of bells he...
New Research Tracking Down Art Looted By The Nazis
The topic of the Nazi role in antiquities looting is increasingly drawing attention, in part through the work of scholars who are peeling back...
When NFTs Came To Marfa
The painter Christopher Wool was equally skeptical: “It sounds like you’re talking about art without aesthetics.” - The New Yorker
Just How Do You Decolonize Shakespeare?
Decolonising Shakespeare, with its historic links to English national identity, language and culture is a particularly knotty challenge. Shakespeare was writing in a country...
Nothing Virtual About Virtual Reality. Reality Is Reality
“A common way of thinking about virtual realities is that they’re somehow fake realities, that what you perceive in VR isn’t real. I think...
A Century Later, Russia Opens Czar Nicholas’s Restored Palace
In 2011, the Russian state decided to recreate the czar’s private suite — which had been furnished in the Art Nouveau style and was...
In What Language Do You Think?
No-one thinks in any natural language; not in English, or Italian, or whatever, but in a language of thought, an abstract, unconscious and moreover inaccessible,...
Who Was Lorraine Hansberry? A Black Lesbian Communist Who Became A Darling Of Mainstream...
"She achieved literary celebrity but called herself a 'literary failure,' was supported in a marriage that ultimately collapsed, resisted her family but didn't denounce...
London’s National Theatre Sees Precipitous Decline In Revenue And Staff
Income at the National Theatre dropped by £50 million and the organisation lost just under a quarter of its staff in the first year...
“Hopepunk” — Dystopian Sci-Fi Gets An Antidote
"'Cautionary tales are very important,' says Becky Chambers, one of the leading authors associated with the hopepunk movement, who has won a much-coveted Hugo...
