Meet The Founder Of America’s Largest Black-Owned Food Magazine
"The Objective editor Gabe Schneider talked to Whetstone founder Stephen Satterfield about U.S. food media, what values and frameworks define Satterfield and Whetstone's writing,...
Lessons In Creativity From The Demise Of The Once-Ubiquitous Blackberry
The sheer number of cultural artifacts is stupefying. More photographs were taken yesterday than in the entire first century of photography. Odds are that some were...
Now AI Is Learning To Analyze Individual Artists’ Brushstrokes And Attribute Paintings
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland trained the software on topographical scans of paintings (rather than the high-resolution digital images more commonly...
Why Universal Music Group Supports A Far Right Senator
On Sunday, federal regulators put UMG’s PAC on notice, flagging the group for giving Marsha Blackburn more than the legal limit allowed in an election. -...
Dennis Owens, DC’s Irreverent Classical Radio Host, Dead At 87
For nearly 40 years at WGMS, and especially as morning host from 1981 to 2002, he attracted a large audience with his humor and...
Actors’ Equity Has A New Union Organizer, And She’s Got Plans
The union didn't even have an organizing department until 2017, and it has just created the post of Mobilization Director. Stefanie Frey, a stage...
The South African Parliament Fire Was Disastrous, But At Least All Its Art Is...
The legislature's collections include nearly 4,000 items dating from the 17th century to the present day. Notable among them is the Keiskamma Tapestry, nearly...
Random House Drops Norman Mailer Anthology, Skyhorse Picks It Up
Mailer's longtime publisher, Random House denies that it has dropped his work entirely (it continues to maintain his backlist), but passed the planned Mailer...
“All Things Considered” Host Audie Cornish Is Leaving NPR
She joined the network as a reporter in 2005 and began hosting the flagship evening program in 2012. She gave no specific reason for...
Scotland Announces New £65 Million COVID Relief Package For Arts And Culture
With the return of audience capacity limits and distancing rules due to the Omicron surge, and with performances being cancelled on short notice if...
Conductor James Gaffigan Gets A Second European Opera House
The 43-year-old native New Yorker, who just began his first season as music director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia,...
How Hobbies Took Over America (For Good And Bad)
“Hobbies take on this aura of being good, useful, appropriate, and socially sanctioned. Something you should—the word here is should—be doing. And if you’re one...
Art World Trends That Will Build In 2022
Above all else, the popularity of Immersive Everything spoke to the way in which a year-long period of cultural life existing mostly on tech platforms...
Yes We’re Productive. But Burned Out Too. A Revolution Is Under Way
For knowledge workers, the biggest sign that the status quo is broken is the rise in self-reported burnout. McKinsey and Lean In collaborated on...
We’re Awash In Stories. We’re Addicted To Stories. To What Effect?
Now that we have more storytelling than ever, has empathy increased apace? If stories have such sunny effects, why has the big bang of...
An Economist Wonders: Why In The Arts Are “The Greatest” All Oldies?
Why are composers like Mozart, Beethoven and Bach widely regarded as the greatest of all time? Why is it that in a 1985 survey of art experts...
Club To Harness Dancers’ Body Heat To Power Building
What if dance-floor catharsis could be good not only for the soul but also for the planet? This month, SWG3 and the geothermal energy...
Sydney Festival’s About To Begin, And More Than 20 Artists Have Backed Out
"More than 20 acts have pulled out of the 2022 Sydney festival, just 48 hours before opening night, boycotting the festival over a sponsorship...
No, Your Attention Span Didn’t Just Shrink. It Was Stolen
A small study of college students found they now only focus on any one task for 65 seconds. A different study of office workers...
The Most Overlooked Or Underrated Film Performances Of 2021
The list includes a couple of huge movie stars whose work this year hasn't caught fire, a few lesser-known talents, a couple of very...
Stephen Lawrence, Composer Of Sesame Street Music, 82
From Muppets to major stars, Lawrence composed the music for hundreds of Sesame Street songs. He also served as music director for Free to Be... You and...
Why Are Some Comedians In China Performing In English?
It's not (or not just) to try to fly under the censors' radar. (video) - BBC
Boston-Area Church Pays “Royalties” For Performing African-American Spirituals
"Today, we as a church will begin the practice of collecting ‘royalties’ ... for the spirituals we sing and worship. Whenever we sing Negro...
Egyptians Love Belly Dancing, But They Give The Dancers No Respect
The roots of raqs sharqi go back centuries, but its practitioners are treated more like sex workers than artists. (Parents will happily hire a...
Venice’s Calatrava Footbridge Is A Visual Surprise in An Ancient City. But Pedestrians Have...
The glass floor of the bridge is slippery, and locals have learned to be careful. Warning signs posted by the city didn't help. So...
