Evelyn Waugh’s Mansion Sells, But Superfans Living There Refuse To Leave
Quote from the people who have lived there for some time: "We are not tenants, we have a major share in the house and...
Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too...
Geffen Hall Has Found Its Sound
"What makes a room’s acoustics hard to assess is that they depend as much on the music, the musicians, and the listener’s location as...
Storytelling May Save The Planet, If Anything Can
"The environmental crisis is one of overconsumption, carbon emissions, and corporate greed. But it’s also a crisis of miscommunication." - Wired
The New Museum Of Broadway Is A Shrine To Theatre’s Hard-Fought Battles
Sure, it's more sweet than serious, but "behind the glitz, look hard enough and there are reminders that Broadway – now consisting of 41...
Dear News Junkies, Here’s How To Adjust To Life Without Twitter
It's not easy - and the long-ago murder of Google Reader by that tech company doesn't make it easier - but there are ways....
Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests
Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and...
What Good Memoirs Can Do For You
We tend to imagine the memoirist as a naive spiller of information about their life, as in religious confession, rather than the intentional constructor...
Is TikTok A Threat To Music?
Commercial radio normalised popular music’s relationship to advertising. But the collapse between content and advertising exemplified by TikTok prompts us to consider how music making and...
BookForum Dead? Does This Look Like A Dying Magazine?
Either way, here’s what I know: I’m tired of losing outlets to conglomeration. I’m tired of culture being under siege because of money, of...
What Do The Fast Closings Of Shows Like KPOP Say About Diversity On Broadway?
Has the predominant Broadway tradition of shows by and featuring white artists, playing to white audiences, created a barrier that makes it harder for...
Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael To Lead President’s Council On The Arts And Humanities
Under a new Executive Order PCAH has been established to engage the nation’s artists, humanities scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners on ways to promote excellence...
The Battle Between Wisdom And Identity
I would argue that part of the reason that wisdom has been downgraded in education is because of the very opposition between universal truth...
Here’s One Country Where Putin-Supporting Russian Performers Are Still Invited
"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these...
The 84-Year-Old Dissident Muralist Waging War In Russia
Mr. Ovchinnikov is a rare dissident in Russia, where public criticism of the war can land people in jail or exile. He said his age and...
An Ancient Grammar Mystery Is Solved, Clarifying A 2,500-Year-Old “Language Machine”
In ancient India, the grammarian Pāṇini developed a set of rules that basically constitute an algorithm, allowing any word or phrase to be coined...
AI-Generator Allows You To Compose Music Using Images
AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling...
How Allen Ginsberg Caused Gail Collins To Organize A Pro-Gay Rights, Anti-Censorship Rally In...
The future New York Times columnist met the Beat poet and invited him to come to her college to speak. Then the dean of...
Herbert Deutsch, Co-Inventor Of The Moog Synthesizer, Is Dead At 90
"(He) collaborated with engineer Robert Moog in the 1960s to invent a portable synthesizer that revolutionized the sound of rock, classical and other forms...
How On Earth Do These People Improvise A Shakespeare-Style Play On The Spot?
That's exactly what the five-member Improvised Shakespeare Company does: take a suggestion from an audience member and invent an entire play, complete with tragedy,...
Fake Twitter Accounts Tease Dream Sondheim Broadway Opening (Not Happening)
The problem is, Square One is not coming to Broadway (for now, anyway) and the announcement was a hoax. A representative who worked with...
Well That Didn’t Last Long. Boston Symphony CEO Steps Down After 18 Months
Gail Samuel, who came to the BSO from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in June 2021, will formally leave the orchestra on Jan. 3 — an...
Rare Early Self-Portrait Of Cézanne Discovered Underneath Still Life
Cincinnati Museum of Art chief conservator Serena Urry was inspecting the artist's Still Life with Bread and Eggs this past spring when she saw...
The Museum Of Sex Will Open Its First Satellite Branch In Miami
"Bringing to mind the oft-debated adage 'bigger is better,' the Miami institution, which will occupy a repurposed warehouse in the city's Allapattah district, will...
The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2022
The list is broken out into the top 20 large communities and the top 10 each of medium-sized and small communities. Because of the...
