The Viral Tyranny Of TikTok
This new era of instant, inexplicable attention has also come at a price. In interviews with more than three dozen TikTok creators, many noted...
Dalit Standup Comics In India Have A Few Things To Say About Caste
"A small but growing number of Dalit comedians (is) breaking into India's Brahmin-dominated comedy scene. Onstage, they're finding that examining caste through humor not...
How The Denver Art Museum Removed Columbus From Its Stories
It is easier to understand objects created during the current downfall of Columbus and those who followed him, if you can see the art...
Camille A. Brown May Be About To Dance With Her Company For The Last...
"Our last show was March 2020. I was 40, and I was already feeling like, OK, my body is changing. I'm not sure that...
Can A Powerful Book Really Rewire Your Brain? A Neuropsychologist Tried To Find Out.
Certainly a book can cause a temporary change, which was all that most researchers had thought of measuring with fMRIs. Dr. Gregory Berns wanted...
South Broad Street Became Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”. Can The Same Thing Happen...
The concentration of arts institutions around Broad Street south of City Hall transformed that portion of the city, but the street north of City...
How Toni Morrison Bored A Tunnel Through Writer’s Block And Got To Work Writing...
"'I know this woman!' she kept thinking. 'Angered by my inability to summon suitable language,' she writes, 'I threw my pencil on the floor,...
Public Radio Really Is Filling Important Gaps In Local And Regional News Coverage
"A just-released study of public radio from National Trust for Local News ... shows that the medium is poised to fill the void left...
“Paradise Square” Producer Garth Drabinsky Sues Actors’ Equity For Defamation
"Broadway producer Garth Drabinsky is suing Actors' Equity for $50 million, accusing the theater union of defamation after he was placed on its 'Do...
Jury Finds Kevin Spacey Not Liable For Sexual Assault Of Anthony Rapp
"A jury sided with Kevin Spacey on Thursday in one of the lawsuits that derailed the film star's career, finding he did not sexually...
Dance As A Model For “Life Lived In Time”
If we look at the world through Parson’s eyes, we find that dance is all around us, in people stretching or hugging or standing...
Inside The Makeover Of The New York Times Business
“Is the Times always going to be fundamentally a news company expanding into these ancillary tech products?” she asked. “Or is it trying to...
Inspiration Or Exploitation? The Winning Literary Strategy
It turns out that the strategy of exploitation prevails in fiction at large. Knowing the topics of just a few books by an author,...
Crisis In UK Theatre Schools
Drama Centre London stopped taking new students in 2019 before shutting. ALRA, one of England’s most established performing arts institutions, suddenly collapsed. Musical Theatre...
How Media Covered The Philadelphia Art Museum Strike (And Why It Matters)
What is the arts writer’s beat? Are we still on it when we take a stand about something happening inside a major arts institution,...
Meet “Pleasure Activism”
Pleasure activists believe that, by tapping into the potential goodness in each of us, we can generate justice and liberation, growing a healing abundance...
New AI Turns Sketches Into Finished Artwork
Stable Diffusion’s AI allows users to create images from other pictures, drawn on the spot. That’s right: Input your napkin doodles and half-sketched masterpieces...
“‘Y’all’ Represents The Best Of American Vernacular”
"I began to enjoy its warmth and inclusivity, the way everyone was equally gathered under its umbrella. I had to admit: It didn't feel...
For Third Year In A Row, US University Enrollment Declines
The rate of the decline has slowed this fall, with college enrollment dropping 1.1% since last autumn. Over the first two years of the...
Are Soap Operas Dying Out?
One has to wonder, with the cancellation of an institution like Neighbours, the moving of Days of Our Lives to streaming-only, and fading ratings...
What The Andy Warhol Case Says About The US Supreme Court
The Court’s grappling with Warhol’s cultural criticism may end up being its most revealing comment this term on the nature of its own role...
The Dance Instinct Goes Very Deep In Humans — And In Most Animals, Say...
"Whichever culture you inhabit, it is likely that dancing is a part of it. ... To gyrate rhythmically to music in the presence of...
Theatre Trigger Warnings Have Gotten Out Of Hand
Just how much coddling do theatergoers need these days? An audience advisory for the touring production of the recent revisionist Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!”...
Patti LuPone Has Some Choice Words About Broadway, From Which She Says She’s Not...
"I think (they've) actively dumbed down the audience. And so the attention span of the majority of the audience is much less ... and...
The Louvre Abu Dhabi Will Have A Da Vinci (Not That One) As Its...
The Louvre mother ship in Paris will lend Leonardo's Saint John the Baptist to its Gulf outpost for two years beginning next month, just...
