Russian Missile Strikes Targeted, And Hit, Museums And Cultural Sites In Kyiv
Among the institutions damaged by missile fire, reported Ukraine's culture minister, are the Kyiv Art Gallery, Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, the National Philharmonic,...
Worried About The Robots Taking Over? It’s More Subtle Than That
Don’t worry about superintelligent A.I.s trying to enslave us; worry about ignorant and venal A.I.s designed to squeeze every penny of online ad revenue...
Can Data Predict Hit Songs?
Spotify metrics we studied — including acousticness, danceability, duration, energy, explicitness, instrumentalness, liveness, speechiness (a measure of the presence of spoken words in a song), tempo and release year — were not strong predictors of the song’s...
How Status Drives Cultural Change
To maintain their positions, the normals conform to social conventions, even as they aspire to higher status. Individuals’ decisions about when to switch from...
Petition Asks For Repatriation Of The Rosetta Stone
Launched in September, the campaign urges Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly to submit an official request for the return of the stone and 16...
Angela Lansbury, 96
Lansbury was the winner of five Tony Awards for her starring performances on the New York stage, from “Mame” in 1966 to “Blithe Spirit”...
Guerrilla Artists In Toronto Turn Derelict Parts Of The City Into Critique Of The...
Ahead of Toronto’s municipal election in late October, plaques like those normally found in an art museum have sprung up across the city, in...
The Booker Has Brought Back The Short-Form Book
How refreshing it was to see the Booker prize take another turn last month – putting the short in shortlist, as it were –...
Paris Gallery Charged With Stealing Hundreds Of Picassos
The gallerist Anne Pfeffer and her husband Herbert, stand accused of concealing hundreds of works stolen from the daughters of Jacqueline Picasso and the art...
How The Acousticians Went About Fixing David Geffen Hall
Rivka Galchen looks into the development of acoustical engineering as a craft (which goes all the way back to Chichén Itzá and Hagia Sophia)...
Does How Much You Feel Music Correspond To Your Capacity For Empathy?
Most people don’t often think about the relationship between empathy and musical experiences, but there is good reason to. - Psyche
Ballroom Dance Was Created By And For Prancing Aristocrats. How Did It Get To...
"Although ballrooms were once the territory of the elite and considered off-limits for common people, in the upheaval of the 19th century, new types...
UK To Audit Brexit Arts Festival. Did Anybody Come?
The UK-wide free event, which began in March and will run until November, features 10 projects highlighting science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics....
Ukrainians Are Making Video Games About Russia’s Invasion
In one game, the player is a Ukrainian tractor driver stealing Russian tanks; in another, she slaps Putin with a sunflower; in another, he...
The Importance Of Argument
Once we start thinking of ethics as a social technology, systematicity and argument take on a different hue. It’s hard to be all that...
He Was The Bestselling Poet In American History. He’s Totally Forgotten Now. What Happened...
"Rod McKuen sold millions of poetry books in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a regular on late-night TV. He released dozens of albums,...
Can We Build Reusable Buildings?
The emphasis has shifted to designing structures whose components can be disassembled and developing new, bio-based materials that can eventually be composted. “We should...
A Leading Philadelphia Indie Theatre Company Has A New Artistic Director
"Inis Nua Theatre Co., a Philadelphia-based company that draws its material from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, has named longtime Philly theater director Kathryn...
Artist Billy Al Bengston, A Leader Of L.A.’s “Cool School” Artists, Is Dead At...
"Pop art was just emerging and Bengston spoke its language well with his simple, aesthetically direct and repetitive motifs. His shiny, heavily lacquered surfaces...
Europe’s Fuel Crisis Is Crippling Venice’s Murano Glassmakers
The high temperatures necessary for glassmaking require huge amounts of natural gas, whose price has soared by well over 1,000% since Russia's invasion of...
John Cleese of Monty Python To Host Show On Britain’s Equivalent Of Fox News
Cleese's as-yet-untitled show on GB News, shared with satirist Andrew Doyle, will presumably be part of his notorious ongoing campaign against "wokeness" and "cancel...
Innovative Arrangement Will Restore Ownership Of Ancient Artworks To Greece While Displaying Them At...
The deal involves the collection of antiquities from the Cyclades islands assembled by philanthropist Leonard Stern: the objects will be legally in the possession...
Journalist Grace Glueck, Who Pioneered News Reporting On The Art World, Is Dead At...
Starting at a time when American journalism about the visual arts was strictly by critics, she treated it as a news beat, writing more...
One Week La Scala Packed A 5,000-Seat Sports Arena. The Next, It Barely Half-Filled...
It's not about COVID fears. The difference between the two events was as simple as could be: price. - Gramilano (Milan)
Glasgow Clubs Are Using Dancers’ Body Heat To Save Power
Officially launched on 6 October, Bodyheat is installed across two of the largest event spaces within the SWG3 complex – Galvanizers and TV Studio...
