Five Of Eight Staff At Shakespeare Dallas Quit In One Week
“What happened? There’s not a smoking gun to produce,” says board chair Lauren York, who will lead exit interviews of the departed staff members They...
Mumbai is Getting A Fabulous New Arts Center, Courtesy Of One Of The Country’s...
The Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, "(a) mammoth 18.5-acre facility which is being inaugurated in stages (starting next March), is the vision of philanthropist...
Chess’s Cheating Scandal Demonstrates How Computers Have Changed The Game
In the past 15 years, widely available AI software packages, known as “chess engines,” have been developed to the point where they can easily...
Serializing The Original “Dracula” Novel Turned Out To Be Perfect For The Pandemic
"Count Dracula — a recluse plagued by yearning, a macabre flair for theatrics and existential loneliness — turned out to be an unlikely patron...
Con Artist Anna Sorokin (AKA “Heiress” Anna Delvey) Is Out Of Jail And Under...
"Sorokin's release from ICE custody comes after months of legal fights — and a blowout with Sorokin's old attorney — as she prepares to...
Edinburgh International Film Festival Will “Cease Trading Immediately”
"The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen have all stopped trading with immediate effect. The parent charity...
Prop 28: California Ballot Measure Would Provide Dedicated Arts Education Funding
"The measure would require the state to allocate at least 1% of Prop. 98 funding — money guaranteed for public schools and community colleges...
Two Ancient Roman Sculptures At The Vatican Get Smashed By A US Tourist Who...
"The man ... was stopped by the Vatican police in the Chiaramonti Museum ... shortly after he threw the busts to the ground. ......
A Critic’s First Hints About The Acoustics In The Renovated David Geffen Hall
Michael Andor Brodeur: "I can at least say without getting too subjective or getting in any trouble that the difference in sound is immediate...
Annie Ernaux Wins 2022 Nobel Prize For Literature
"Ernaux, 82, started out writing autobiographical novels, but quickly abandoned fiction in favor of memoirs. Her more than 20 books, most very short, chronicle...
Data Powers What Books Are Published. So Why Is It So Difficult To See...
The single most influential data in the publishing industry—which, every day, determines book contracts and authors’ lives—is basically inaccessible to anyone beyond the industry....
The Meritocracy Trap: Our College Divide
Why do faculty speak so differently about things that happen in their house as opposed to everyone else’s? Understanding this dynamic might help us...
Russia Steals Ukrainian Museum Artifacts In Sham Annexations
Thousands of artefacts and heritage pieces that are collectively owned by the Ukrainian government and its subsidiaries will be lost to the occupying nation....
Theatre Community Defends Oregon Shakespeare Festival Director After Death Threats
“If, by producing writers of the global majority, an artist like Nataki Garrett can be subjected to death threats, what does that say about...
With The British Pound Slump, Making Movies In The UK Is Cheap
At about $1.13 it has still lost more than 10% in value against the dollar over the past six months, so the UK can...
How American Editors Edit Out The Sex
To the eye of an American editor, sometimes the smallest hints of vulnerability, when they don’t service any big and explicit narrative, often end...
“Brazen Heads” — Legends Of The Robots Of Medieval Europe
"Let's take a look at three of these stories — builders of brazen heads and the ruin that visited them — and see if...
Will Christian Thielemann Be The Next Music Director Of The Chicago Symphony?
In the 1990s, Thielemann, now 63 and one of the world’s most acclaimed maestros — as well as one of the most divisive and...
“The Personal Is Political” — Where The Slogan Came From And How It Went...
"To understand disagreements about race, sex and gender dividing the West now, we could do worse than go back to where the sentiment began...
Librarians Under Attack: Have We Forgotten What Libraries Are For?
This is what the censors refuse to grasp: Librarians are not trying to force your children to read material you don’t want them to...
“Bros” Shows, Yet Again, The Problem With Romantic Comedies These Days
"The tropes feel like they're driving the action rather than the other way around. The rom-com, like a delicate houseplant, must be watered with...
French Museum Execs Are Going Private To Everyone’s Dismay. But…
To many in the French media, Silvie Patry’s move to Kamel Mennour’s 23-year-old gallery—with four spaces in Paris—is yet another blow to public cultural...
“California Is Moving Toward A Revolutionary Overhaul In How It Finances The Performing Arts”
"In signing SB1116 into law on Thursday, Sept. 29, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which would reimburse small performing...
This Denver Dance Company Quit Social Media. Here’s What Happened
We've never seen a measurable connection between our activity on social media and ticket sales. And we have never had any measurable number of...
Ancient Buddhist Caves, Temples, And Murals Discovered In Indian Tiger Sanctuary
"The caves date back to the 2nd to 5th century BCE, but researchers also found more recent relics, including 26 temples, 46 sculptures, two...
