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...
Why Does Classical Music Stay Mired In The Hits?
Over the previous couple of generations, the canon has changed but it has consistently seemed to have been limited in scope and dependent on...
What’s The Secret Ingredient That Makes UCLA Gymnastics Team Videos Go Viral? The Choreographer
"In her first two years as UCLA's choreographer, Bijoya 'BJ' Das has set the internet aflame with three viral floor routines. … Breaking the...
How Animals Process Music
First, it’s important to note that our furry friends process sound somewhat differently than we do. Human society is largely sight- and touch-focused. Domesticated...
The British Are Champions Of Classic Theatre — So Why Do They Shortchange This...
Michael Billington: "In France the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth is being celebrated in a big way. In Britain it has been greeted with...
The $500M Villa In Rome Where Galileo Walked — It’s For Sale
In past centuries, it had some notable visitors: Galileo, Goethe, Stendhal, Gogol, Tchaikovsky and Henry James. At the top of the hill stands the...
The World’s First NFT Musical (You Just Knew It Was Coming)
The set of digital collectibles offered by the producers of Ross Golan's The Wrong Man "will be a mix of music, graphics, and film,...
Indigenous Curators Are Helping Museums Reframe The Entire Story Of American Art
"With the aid of curators and artists from Native American backgrounds, curators across the U.S. are broadening narratives, questioning stereotypes, and collapsing categories." -...
Special Grants Let Bay Area BIPOC Arts Groups Get One Of The Most Important...
And that is? Their own real estate. A $3 million Performing Arts Acquisition Fund from the Hewlett Foundation has enabled five community-based groups buy...
CNN+, The Upcoming Streaming Service WarnerMedia Is Hurling Cash At
The news giant has already poached Audie Cornish from NPR and Chris Wallace from Fox for CNN+ (rumor has it they dangled $20 million...
Boris’s Government Says It Will Eliminate The BBC TV License Fee. What Is...
It's the way the BBC is funded — a flat fee, currently £159 ($217) a year, charged to every household in the UK that...
