A Museum Telling The History Of Public Housing In America
Occupying the last remaining building of the Jane Addams Homes in Chicago, the National Public Housing Museum will record and preserve the personal stories...
How This Year’s Unusual Venice Biennale Came Together
When I started working on it, I thought about a show that would be about metamorphosis and transformation. But the fact that the pandemic...
The National Library Of France Has Finally Reopened, And It Has Some Hidden Gems...
"After 12 years and 261 million euros (more than $256 million) of renovations, the country's national library in the heart of Paris has reopened...
A Visit To The Oldest Public Library In The Americas
"The Palafoxiana Library ... owes its existence to one of Puebla's early Catholic bishops, Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who in 1646 donated his...
TikTok Is Taking An Awfully Big Cut Of The Money Syrian Refugees Are Raising...
"Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70% of the proceeds, a BBC investigation...
It Appears That Chaucer Was Not A Rapist After All, Newly Discovered Documents Indicate
It turns out that Cecily Chaumpaigne, believed to have been the victim of Chaucer's alleged attack, was on the same side as Chaucer in...
The 2022 Stirling Prize For Britain’s Best New Building Goes To The New Library...
"Selected from a pool of shortlisted projects, the outstanding new building replaces a library gifted to Magdalene by Samuel Pepys 300 years ago and...
And What’s The New York Times’s Initial Verdict On The New David Geffen Hall’s...
Zachary Woolfe: "Any judgment on a hall's acoustics is highly provisional after just a few visits. ... But a mighty improvement is already obvious....
Now Climate Activists Are Throwing Soup At Van Gogh Paintings
Not that they've stopped gluing themselves to art, mind you. A pair from the group Just Stop Oil went to London's National Gallery and...
What Relationship Ought Russian Musicians Ought To Have With Putin’s Russia?
To begin with, you have to recognize how great a role Russian classical music plays in Putin’s foreign propaganda program. Most people don’t see that....
A New Scan Tool May Open Up How The Brain Works
“If you talk about neuroscience and how the brain works, there’s a lot of unknowns. It’s the wild west.” Ultrafast ultrasound could trace brain...
A Surge Of International Interest In Moden African Art
The value of auction sales of contemporary and modern African art surged by 44% to a record high of $72.4m (£65.6m) last year, according to...
Are You Selling A Product Or An Experience?
A hotel room lease is still a service with or without a guest. “Art, however, does not exist until it occurs in an audience,...
Damien Hirst Burns His Work After Making NFTs
The artist told buyers who bought pieces from his latest collection to choose either the physical artwork or the NFT representing it. Those who...
Pent-Up Demand For Museums? Here’s What We Know
We have been tracking pent-up demand for cultural entities over the course of the pandemic. Has this demand been realized? What might this mean...
The Very Antithesis Of A Modern Major Ballet Company: SFDanceworks
Interim artistic director Dana Genshaft: "What attracted me was that SFDW felt like going camping: leaving structures of a big machine behind, self-producing, finding...
Jann Wenner’s Towering Accomplishment
Few American magazine editors of the 20th century can match. Like Harold Ross of the New Yorker, Henry Luce of Time, Life, and Fortune, Clay Felker of New York,...
Gleeful Trashiness Is What Makes American Culture Fun. But The Culture Wars Have Chased...
Wesley Morris: "The gutter is where our popular culture began, and the gaminess lurking there is our truest guise. ... Trash is a persistent,...
Something New: Viral Jazz?
Much truer to the spirit of viral jazz is the musician who fully inhabits a given platform, allowing it to inform their creative process...
Subtly As Well As Brazenly, Russian Action Movies Are Propagandizing For Putin’s Ukrainian War
"For an American, it can be easy to forget how much ideology is packed into the genre — until you watch a film from...
Why Didn’t Gaming Criticism Catch On?
Experiencing a game is weirdly different from experiencing a TV show, a movie, a play or a book. They are, to use a drab...
Spotify Has Insisted On Exclusive Rights To The Podcasts It Carries. Maybe That Wasn’t...
The podcast industry built itself on an open ecosystem: any podcast player could make any particular podcast available. Then Spotify, after it bought Gimlet...
The Modern Orchestra Is An Exquisite Piece Of Technology. Its Operating System Could Use...
The institution of an orchestra was built for another time. In an age of attacks against institutions, perhaps it's necessary to tweak how the...
What’s A Poor Stage Director To Do When The Script Calls For Eyeballs Coming...
Michael Longhurst, Ned Bennett, Milli Bhatia, and Nadia Latif talk about meeting the challenge of staging the (presumably) unstageable. - The Guardian
Black Writers And Characters Are Appearing In American Fiction More Than Ever Before. Here’s...
"Our current problem isn't an insufficient amount of Black representation in literature but a surfeit of it. And in many cases that means simply...
