U.S. Bans Import Of Antiquities From Afghanistan
"The policy was conceived as a preemptive measure to prevent artifacts sourced illegally during last year's Taliban takeover from flooding the international market. However,...
Retirees At The Getty Object To Offloading Their Pensions
Former employees of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles have slammed its decision to hand its pension plan over to an insurance...
England To Spend An Extra $100 Million On Arts Outside London
"An additional £75m will be put towards creative arts outside of the capital between now and 2025, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and...
Long Wharf Theatre Giving Up Its Longtime Home
As the company remade itself, it faced a real estate quandary: whether to renew its expiring lease at the New Haven Food Terminal, just off...
The Founders Of The Razzie Awards Explain Why And How They Do It
"We don't consider ourselves a slap in the face; we look at ourselves as a banana peel on the floor. … These people got...
Linguists Analyze “Q” Writings And Identify The Author
Two teams of forensic linguists say their analysis of the Q texts shows that Paul Furber, one of the first online commentators to call...
Rescuing A Group Of Afghan Hip-Hop Dancers
A group of 19 breakdancers, parkourists, rappers and family members escaped Kabul days after the Taliban arrived and are now in hiding in a...
Facebook Dying? Unlikely
Facebook has already profoundly transformed how we understand ourselves in the digital age in a way that cannot be undone. Whether it survives is...
Henry Danton, Who Danced All Over The World And Still Taught Ballet At Age...
He started with Sadler's Wells Ballet in London in 1940, appeared with the Paris Opera Ballet and with touring companies across four continents, then...
A Brief History Of Food Writing, From Ancient Greece To Pete Wells
"As with any compartmentalizing of genre, there is something in the title that implies a diminishment, as if today, as in ancient Greece, the...
Time Was, Respectable Newspapers Hated Word Games — Even Crossword Puzzles
"As far as the journalistic establishment was concerned, crosswords were another mindless fad used (by tabloids) as a substitute for good editorial, to keep...
The Audience At This Musical Behaved So Badly That The Director Just Ended The...
Northern Ireland Opera's performance of Sondheim's Into the Woods in Belfast last Saturday was cut short at the intermission after spectators moved around and...
The Problem With Orchestras Programming Movies With Live Accompaniment
It's a good idea: audiences like it, and excellent music gets revived in the context it was meant for. It's not the technical difficulty...
Art Generated By Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Copyrighted, Rules U.S. Copyright Office
"Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he...
One-Third Of The Oscar Categories Will Be Moved Off This Year’s Live Telecast
Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will...
An End To International Touring For Orchestras?
Orchestras still face the possibility of disruption by future waves of the virus, making planning difficult. In some bustling international markets, including China, quarantine...
BP To End Longterm Sponsorship Of London’s National Portrait Gallery
Pressure group Culture Unstained called the news "a major win for the campaign against fossil fuel sponsorship". - BBC
How a Small Quebec Publisher Flipped The Page On Diversity
What happens when a press does more than increase its roster of writers of colour? What happens when diversity is built into its very...
Analyzing The Books That Paris’ Shakespeare & Company Lent In The 1920s
The Shakespeare and Company Project is a relational database and web application. The Project uses documents from the Sylvia Beach Papers at Princeton University...
UK Culture Secretary: We Have To Save The BBC
“Our responsibility is to save the BBC from itself, because it is that polar bear on a shrinking ice cap,” she said. “It’s a...
The Streaming Problem
The streaming age has been hard on independent musicians. In 2020, analytics company Alpha Data examined data based on 1.6 million artists who released...
De Wain Valentine, Who Pioneered The Use Of Plastics As An Art Medium, Dead...
In particular, he was the first to use polyester resin and Plexiglas to make sculptures. (He learned how to shape and sand them in...
Public Broadcasters Having Difficulty Meeting DEI Goals
Managers and staff who are leading DEI initiatives at their stations describe unanticipated delays in implementing action plans, misunderstandings over the roles of staff...
Whatever Happened To The Statue Of Voltaire In Paris That Got Pulled Down In...
It hasn't been seen since; many people feared that city authorities decided to melt it down, as the Vichy regime did with its predecessor...
Understanding The Evolutions Of Traditions
Although small modifications do not undo a tradition, small changes can aggregate into significant deviations. For example, if someone is tall, then if they were...
