Is The BBC “Dumbing Down” To Appeal To Lower Income Viewers?
The broadcaster also said it would try to attract viewers from lower socio-economic groups by making sports documentaries and crime shows, after criticism from Ofcom that...
Internet Culture Now Is Mainstream Culture
Boundaries between “traditional” culture and online culture have been breaking down. Television audiences have shrunk. Newspaper circulations are in terminal decline. Meanwhile, people have been...
What Exactly Is Geopolitics, And Who Invented It? (Losers, That’s Who)
"Do the politicians and pundits who speak of geopolitics really know what they are talking about? Geopolitics is a classically ambiguous or nebulous term,...
Democrats New House Leader Has Been Congressional Champion Of Music
Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act...
For Her Final Full-Length Work, Choreographer Sally Silvers Is Reworking Her First One
For her 40th anniversary season, the 70-year-old dancemaker returned to Pandora's Cake Stain, which premiered in 1996. Pandora's New Cake Stain features 12 dancers...
Phillips Collection Gets A New Director
He replaces Dorothy Kosinski, who led the Phillips since 2008, increased endowment from $18 million to $100 million, expanded art holdings from 2,000 to...
How Do You Put A 1957 Radio Documentary About Gay Men On The Stage?
The Homosexual Condition, the BBC's first-ever documentary about the lives of gay males, was believed lost until the script and other documents were located...
Why Is Theatre Dealing With (Or Not) Climate Change The Way It Is?
“Perhaps the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis,” observed Bayo Akomolafe. Producers can’t decide how climate change should be...
A Brief History Of “Y’all”
Some linguists suggest that the word comes from Scots-Irish; others think it originated among enslaved Igbo-speakers. In any case, the OED says "y'all" was...
Why Is TikTok Obsessed With “Alvin And The Chipmunks” Music
The whole music culture, it seems, is now under the sway of a chipmunk aesthetic. This, to my way of thinking, is even more foreboding...
What Brendan Fraser’s Comeback Says About Hollywood, Him, And Us
"Everyone seems happy to have Brendan Fraser back. Which prompts a question: Why? He never actually went away. The truth is that we've come...
American Bookstores Are Offering More Spanish-Language Books
"Driven by language-immersion schools and bilingual families, many stores are now specializing in bilingual books for young readers. Others serve heritage-language customers who want...
Funding Cuts To Two Small London Theatres Could Have Big Effects
Not only do the Donmar Warehouse and Hampstead Theatre regularly send productions out into the commercial theatre world (including the West End and Broadway),...
Director Todd Field Explains Some Of The Strange Things In “Tár”
"I hate explaining this stuff." Yet explain he does — why the end credits are at the beginning, and what he was up to...
Piano Lessons Can Provide Real Benefits To People On The Autism Spectrum: Study
"While the authors noted the limits of their single study, they were unequivocal. Those who completed music training were the only group to show...
The Guy Who Smashed Stuff At The Dallas Museum Of Art Called 911 On...
"'Hey, I'm in the Dallas Museum of Art,' he told a dispatcher nearly 15 minutes after police say he entered. 'Come get me.' The...
St. Mark’s In Venice Has New Glass Barriers To Protect It From Flooding
The big floodgates out in the lagoon aren't enough: the Piazza San Marco is the lowest point in the city. What's more, the heavy...
When Did Being “Clever” Become A Bad Thing?
Is there really something wrong with being clever? Even if it can get on our nerves sometimes, its associations remain overwhelmingly positive: Cleverness is...
Alexa Now Helps Kids Create Stories
To create a new story, your child would begin by speaking, “Alexa, make a story,” and then following several prompts. The AI then generates...
A Prescription For Our Age: Long Poems?
Long poems really had been popular, with wide and diverse readerships, at various times in literary history. Is this a kind of reading that...
Berlin’s Massive New Museum Of The 20th Century Under Attack As “Climate Killer”
There has been growing criticism of its main construction material, concrete – one of the highest contributors to carbon dioxide emissions – and of...
Artwork Rescued Before The Bombing Of Kyiv Goes On Show In Spain
Titled “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s,” the show is branded as the most comprehensive survey of Ukraine’s avant-garde movement. -...
Plans For Makeover Of London’s National Gallery Assailed As “Clownish”
The architect of the controversial Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London has publicly hit back at plans to completely rebuild it, accusing the...
The Rockettes Get Their Own Hallmark Christmas Movie
Julie Branam, who directs and choreographs the beloved Radio City Music Hall dance troupe, talks about the dance in the film, titled (what else?)...
Public Libraries Are Setting Up Their Own Music Streaming Services
Introduction to local artists is common among local libraries using streaming services. “It turns out that people who think they know their city’s music...
