Is The Sackler Disgrace A Warning To Other Potential Museum Funders?
The resulting glare is sure to have a dampening effect on future donations from individuals or families whose wealth derives from practices today considered...
Movie Musicals Flopped This Year. Is The Genre Dead?
Studio executives and box-office pundits expected audiences to show up for In the Heights, Dear Evan Hansen and West Side Story, and not just...
Consider The Velvet Painting
"They are the ultimate kitsch, and in this era of hipster aesthetic, they lend themselves well to some ironic display. But does dark velvet...
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge Has Been Singing Since June. Now A Fix
“After studying this phenomenon extensively, we’ve determined that the sound comes from new and more aerodynamic railing that we installed on the west sidewalk....
Did You Know Charles Dickens Wrote A Successor To “A Christmas Carol”?
Mind, it's not a sequel. Dickens published a series of five Christmas novellas; A Christmas Carol was the first. London's Dickens Museum hopes to...
Health Care, Hospitals And Design Choices
The basic trajectory of hospital design has, so far, been toward buildings that are ever bigger, more complex and more sealed off from the...
How David Hallberg’s Australian Ballet Put Together A Gala Program In Four Days
The return-from-lockdown galas the company did in Sydney and Melbourne were different: each city got to see pieces which were cancelled there before. But...
Was Modernist Architecture Really The Product Of Brain Damage?
Why should it matter that the people who gave us modern architecture in the 20th century had traumatic brain damage and disorders? For one, the...
New Art Museums Are Opening All Across Australia
"An injection of more than $2.4 billion has already resulted in five major openings since late 2020, with another half-dozen projects well under way....
China Cracks Down On The Dancing Grannies
Under legislation to update China’s noise pollution ordinances, to be sent to lawmakers next week, dance enthusiasts will face limits on the volume of...
Sydney’s Arts Venues Are Getting Very, Very Worried About Omicron
As summer arrives, COVID is spreading again in New South Wales; experts expect 25,000 new cases per day in the state by late January....
The Last-Minute Saviors Of The Paris Opera Ballet
"When Valentine Colasante was called up to replace an injured dancer in the Paris Opera's Don Quixote, a three-hour ballet that she had performed...
A Bunch Of Public Radio Stations Are About To Get Additional Frequencies
This fall FCC offered a rare opportunity to apply for new non-commercial signals. Public radio networks in New England, the South, and especially the...
Anthony Tommasini’s Farewell Essay As New York Times Chief Classical Critic
While he can't help mentioning some things that he believes mustn't remain as they are now, the title of this piece is "What Shouldn't...
Juilliard School Gets $50 Million To Expand Program For Young Black And Hispanic Schoolkids
The gift from the California foundation Crankstart will enable Juilliard to increase enrollment in its Music Advancement Program from 70 to 100 students, provide...
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Artistic Director Steps Down
After five years, Paige Price will depart at the end of this season, having led the company through a difficult period that included a...
Clarice Smith, Beloved DC-Area Painter And Philanthropist, Dead At 88
She and her late husband donated many millions to humanities endeavors in greater Washington — notably to the National Gallery of Art, George Washington...
Do Computers Need To Be As Smart As Humans? Probably Not
Will deep learning eventually become “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), matching human intelligence in every way? I don’t believe it will happen in the next 20...
The YouTuber Working To Reinvent Philanthropy
Kevin Scally, chief relationship officer at Charity Navigator, the world’s largest nonprofit evaluator, says MrBeast is part of an encouraging trend of social media influencers using...
Do We Need To Save Journalism Or Reinvent It?
Platforms like Google and Facebook have transformed the way we consume and share news, but the digital revolution hasn’t yet revealed an equivalent breakthrough...
New Record: Bruce Springsteen Sells His Catalog For $500 Million
In March, Bob Dylan sold his catalog to Universal Music for a reported $300 million. Earlier this week, Primary Wave purchased James Brown’s music...
Painting Is Stolen, Then Replaced With Smaller Painting, Which Is Also Stolen…
A controversial painting was stolen from the Catholic University of America campus last month. When it was replaced by a smaller copy of the...
Lessons From Hollywood’s Digital Transition
While digital transformation was creating abundance in the scarce resources that had previously defined market power, it was also creating a new scarce resource,...
Why Did The New “West Side Story” Movie Make The Tomboy Character Trans? Because...
"In this milieu, a Cold War culture dedicated to conformity and shot through with Freudian panic about emasculation, audiences could glimpse Anybodys, a character...
The 1920s Russian Novel That Anticipated Totalitarianism
People don’t have proper names; they are marked by a combination of letters and numbers, like the inmates of Nazi camps. They wear identical...
