“I’m A Fool, What Have I Done” — The Museum Guard Who Drew Eyes...
"Aleksandr Vasiliev, a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, told journalist Elena Pankratieva that he believed the 20th-century work by Anna Leporskaya...
Why Some Composers Are Fuming About This Year’s Classical Grammy Nominations
"Letters of complaint have been sent to the organisers, the Recording Academy, arguing that the tracks in question – by two separate artists, Jon...
The Editor Who Published “Maus” Recounts His Decision To Go Ahead With It
Tom Engelhardt, then at Pantheon Books: "The feeling that I simply had to do Maus was one of the two least rational decisions I...
Why Is There A Staff Exodus At Philadelphia’s Public Radio Station?
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a...
Scotland Allocates Yet More Money To COVID Arts Recovery
£16 million may not seem like much to Americans, but it can go a long way in a nation as small as Scotland. -...
Belgium Takes First Big Step Toward Returning Looted Art To Congo
The Belgian government has turned over to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's prime minister an inventory list of 85,000 items in the country's...
Trump’s New Social Network Soars To Top Of Apple Store (But New Users Encounter...
While it seemingly has attracted broad interest, many users who attempted to sign up for Truth Social accounts on Monday (Feb. 21) have reported...
The Problem Of Writing Fiction Of Now During The Pandemic
“It seemed too soon to be writing about the pandemic, which we were living through, but it also seemed hard to be writing about...
Does The Demise Of The Capitol Steps Comedy Troupe Say Something About How America...
Political humor had changed. It was less lighthearted, more snarky and sarcastic. Washington had changed, no longer a place where Democrats and Republicans would...
More And More Museum Workers Are Unionizing
Many of the workers who have recently joined unions have come from the curatorial, administrative and education staffs — white-collar office workers who often...
On The Frontlines Of The Battle For Our Attention
The reality is we simply don’t have the long-term studies that tell us whether our collective attention span has actually shrunk. What we do...
Theatre was Inventive During COVID. That Inventiveness Might Make Theatre Better Going Forward
In order to survive at all during this period, theatre did need to adapt, and notable examples of genius materialised, reimagining the genre entirely....
University Censors Project About Censorship
The irony is almost too neat: a college student plans a program of songs from musicals that have faced censorship – and with less...
The Scourge Of Book Blurbs
It is perhaps true that blurbs are rarely the deciding factor. Most likely a potential reader has heard word of mouth recommendations, read reviews,...
The Mechanizing Of The Humanities Is Not Going Well
The academic insistence on using bibliographic citation techniques developed for the printing press feels increasingly eccentric now that reading materials and essays exist in...
Developers Have Known All The Worldle Answers From The Very First Day
Developers have a little thing about looking at source script - "the digital equivalent of popping open the hood to see what’s underneath." -...
For Touring Musicians, Navigating The Pandemic Has Been Very Rough
"Now we're working on a new record, and someone recently asked me what the endgame is, like, 'Oh, you're making a record, what's the...
Watching ‘Slave Play’ With An All-Black Audience Makes For A Qualitatively Different Experience
"The communal understanding that this is our space, our work, our shared awareness is an incomparable feeling. ... Every joke hit. Every cultural reference...
Do College Dance Programs Really Need To Be Ranked?
Honestly, "most ranking systems are focused on academics; they aren’t designed to reflect the quality of artistic education. So do dance program rankings matter...
Jim Broadbent On Being An Anti-Establishment Actor And Turning Down And OBE, An
"When Richard Eyre accepted his knighthood and I asked why, he said 'vanity.' If somebody asks me why I turned down an OBE, I’d say...
Finally, Media Companies Are Starting To Support Latinx Podcasting Ideas
It's not just about music, but "as Latin music’s popularity balloons well beyond the Hispanic community, podcasters see opportunities for additional growth." Podcasts, like...
The Re-Re-Rise Of Pompeii
Pompeii, the city buried by Vesuvius' eruption in the year 79 CE/AD, nearly lost its fame and fortune again in 2010 this time because...
During The Pandemic, We Sometimes Read To Escape
Well, not just sometimes. "The practice provides a valuable form of understimulation, an inoculation against an illness-inducing reality." - Los Angeles Review of Books
A New Food Show Demonstrates How History And Food Teach Us Everything
A new show with veteran journalist Lisa Ling does what Ling's 10-year-old self could only imagine. "Food and travel shows sometimes take an idealistic...
The Hidden Text That Makes The Internet Somewhat Accessible
"In an image-saturated world — over 63 million were uploaded to Instagram alone in a single day in February, according to Internet Live Stats — it...
