Unboxed, The £120 Million “Festival Of Brexit”, Is Flopping At The Box Office
"Ministers had hoped that the festival would attract 66 million people, but with just over two more months to go, four of the events...
NYC Is Asking Artists For Proposals To Decorate Garbage Trucks (But Not Paying Them?)
Its inaugural edition happened in 2019, when four artists and students in a visual arts class were selected to cover the 400-square-foot blank “canvases”...
A Compelling Takedown Of The Creation Museum
We already have abundant material rebutting creationism on scientific grounds, but the Trollingers explicitly refrain from discussing the science. What they do instead is much more...
How A Book Goes From Idea To Bookstore
How does a debut novel go from a “very messy” draft on a writer’s desk to a published book, on display in bookstores around...
Was Rachmaninoff Really A Radical?
One aspect of Rachmaninoff’s legacy that deserves greater scrutiny is his peculiar resonance with early-twentieth-century American pop music. George Gershwin, the son of Russian...
A Wave Of New Indigenous Dance On Canada’s West Coast
Indigenous dance is always a way to share knowledge and teachings across generations, a way to know and express who you are, and who...
A Lifetime Collecting Books. And Now They Leave Home
My mind wanders back to a final stroll I took through my parents’ library just before the home was sold—acres of empty shelves, a...
32-Year-Old Star Of Cannes Winner “Triangle Of Sadness”, Charlbi Dean, Dies Suddenly
A South African actress who began modeling at age 6, she played the assassin Syonide in the DC Comics TV series Black Lightning and...
Everything Is Boring Now – Our Music, Our Books, Our Theatre. Why?
I can think of no recent novel or film that provoked passionate debate. Public arguments people do have about art — about appropriation and...
Amy Schumer: “I Don’t Know Why I Don’t Have Any Boundaries. I Just Don’t.”
"Onstage and off, Schumer is uncommonly open. Money, I.V.F., adolescent shoplifting, alcohol-induced blackouts, attending the Met Gala high on mushrooms, pooping her pants: all...
NPR Hires An “Audience Editor”
Pablo Valdivia "will collaborate across Newsroom and Programming to identify, develop and distribute content that will appeal to Latinx audiences,” says Emily Barocas, Deputy...
American Theater Seems To Be Making Progress Overcoming Racism — But It’s Going To...
Jesse Green: "Efforts to improve diversity onstage and backstage have too often come without the support necessary to help new hires succeed. Culturally specific...
How American And European Musical Tastes Are Diverging
There seem to be several currents in European composition: the heirs of Pierre Boulez, post-serial, and neotonal. Among the younger composers, however, there is...
The Little City On The Venetian Lagoon That’s Happy To Receive The Cruise Ships...
Chioggia, about 15 miles away from St. Mark's Square, has been stuck in the shadow of its famous neighbor, whose highfalutin' sophisticates have always...
Next Goal For Artificial Intelligence: Reasoning
The ultimate goal, in Dr. Ferrucci’s view, is that A.I. becomes a trusted “thought partner,” a skilled collaborator at work and at home, making...
The Director Of “Narcos” Is Suing The Showrunner
José Padilha, director of the Netflix series, alleges that producer Eric Newman "is concealing revenue — including money from audits of and bonuses from...
Utah Is Formalizing A Policy On Which Books Should Be Banned From Public Schools
Before there was an official policy, officials in individual districts could decide how to act on (or ignore) complaints about particular titles. Now districts...
US Court Throws Out Lawsuit Over Guelph Treasure
Ruling that it lacks jurisdiction, the federal District Court for Washington, DC accepted the motion to dismiss the suit by the German state foundation...
Alexei Ratmansky Helps Build A New Company Of Ukrainian Refugee Ballet Dancers
Arguably the world's greatest living ballet choreographer, Ratmansky grew up in Kyiv, where his parents and sister still live, and has been very involved...
The Vandals That Smashed Up Sculpture Space In Utica, New York Were Grade-School Kids
Several hours after the pre-dawn Sunday attack, five children, aged 8 to 11, were caught throwing rocks at parked cars; they were arrested when...
Daniel Barenboim Withdraws From Berlin’s New “Ring” Cycle For Health Reasons
"I am still struggling with the consequences of the vasculitis I was diagnosed with in the spring," said the conductor in a statement. For...
A Good Metaphor For Approaching Complexity
The three-body problem is the best metaphor I’ve found for a social complexity that affects us all today—a problem resulting from the interaction of...
Inside Hamburg’s Steinway Factory
A piano has more than 8,000 individual parts. The building process begins with curing the wood, leaving large sheets of maple, beech and mahogany...
Security For Art In Canada Is Lax, Say Experts
However it happened, it's clear those who stole a world-famous portrait of Sir Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier planned the heist meticulously. It...
New Deal: Washington Post As Idea Factory For Hollywood
Two months since the announcement of a “strategic partnership”—in which Imagine will “create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties derived from The Post’s vast archives, current...
