The Perfect Wordle Guessing Strategy Teaches Us Quite A Lot About English
"In Wordle, your own language skills, memory, and the Wordle dictionary mean that no human (with the possible exception of an eccentric memory champ) could...
Study: Documenting How Humans Have Altered Evolution
They confirmed, for instance, that on average, all over the world, animal species seem to be getting smaller. This runs contrary to a theory...
Smithsonian Chooses Founding Director For New National Latino Museum
The museum, along with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, was authorized by Congress in December 2020. The museums will be the first new...
Remembering Post Modernist Choreographer David Gordon
He combined movement and words in ways that could be stimulating or jolting, focusing on family or fantasy, or delving into Ionesco, Shakespeare, or...
The Book Tour Has Gone Online (It Might Stay There)
Even as international travel restrictions are being lifted, some writers say they will continue to carry on with virtual events because they are more...
Spotify’s Pickle: It Needs Rogan And Music Lovers
Spotify’s business needs all the podcasters it can get. Especially ones like Mr. Rogan, who draws listeners by the millions. But the threat of...
Is This Little Bejeweled Sphinx Really “The Talisman Of Napoleon” (And Worth $250 Million)?
Ben Davis: "Allow me to introduce you to the evidence in favor of the Talisman's authenticity and importance, which has impressed noted Napoleonic jewelry...
What Happens To Your Brain In A Bad Breakup
Love changes us so deeply—at a physiological level—that when it’s lost, we hurt more than if we had never loved at all. - The...
Can Literature Actually Change History (Not Just Literary History)?
Four scholars offer their answers in a roundtable — including the observation that, in the rare instances when that does happen, the book itself...
Does Duke Ellington Need A Revival?
Ellington’s legacy — as large and as meaningful as that of any artist in American history — remains enigmatic. We honor him, put him...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is 100 Years Old. What, Exactly, Are We Celebrating?
"That Ulysses was an event nearly everyone will agree. However, can we say even now, a century later, what kind of event it really...
Canada Debates New Canadian Content Law For Streamers
The Online Streaming Act, introduced Wednesday, would force web firms to offer a set amount of Canadian content and invest heavily in Canada’s cultural...
In The Face Of Black Lives Matter And Ongoing Violence, Is Creating Dance A...
Choreographer David Roussève has always situated his work at "the intersection of choreography and social activism," finding that he can help create empathy with...
John Williams At 90: Still Underrated?
A 28-film, nearly 50-year collaboration with Spielberg. Fifty-two Oscar nominations – the most for a living person and second only to Walt Disney –...
It’s Taken Six Years For Miami City Ballet To Get Its Full-Length “Swan Lake”...
The company, always oriented more toward the abstract works of Balanchine and his artistic successors than toward story ballets, has performed only an abridged...
Hollywood Will Be Sending Fewer Movies Into Theaters Next Year (And Perhaps Well After...
The studios have 71 features scheduled for theatrical release in 2022 — considerably more than in pandemic-plagued 2021 and 2020, but down from the...
Following A Difficult Summer And A Staff Revolt, Williamstown Theater Festival Is Making Big...
Those changes include better pay equity and HR, safety training, hour caps, and, crucially, ending the ambitious seven-production summer season. The Festival's statement says...
San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University
The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...
Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH
Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for...
England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent...
Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of...
Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade
Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts "found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums,...
Artists On Strike, A History
As artists become more politically active today, it is worth remembering that John Reed Clubs and New York’s Artists Union organized strikes to negotiate federal arts programs during...
A World Without Spotify? Really?
As welcome as the protests are, they do not address the fundamental injustice of the streaming economy. - The New Yorker
Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Of Book Claiming Identity Of Man Who Turned In Anne...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, released on Jan. 18, caused a sensation when it said investigators had named Arnold van den Bergh as the main...
A Crossroads For LA’s Largest Theatre
This Los Angeles cultural institution is at a crossroads as it goes through its first leadership change in 17 years, and confronts questions about...
