Are The Mysteries Of Spotify’s Payment System Ever Going To Get Solved?
And will it ever, ever be fair to musicians? In August, Congress member Rashida Tlaib's office calculated that "it would take more than 800,000...
Julie Kent Leaves The Washington Ballet For Houston
Kent, an international ballet star, led the Washington Ballet for six years. In her statement about leaving for the Houston Ballet, she said, "It...
Illuminated Manuscripts In Greece Tell A New Story About Ottoman Rule
The manuscripts tell a newly rediscovered story of Mount Athos: "The new rulers took the community under their wing, preserved its autonomy and protected...
How The Geffen Sounds, From Every Seat In The House
The hall "seems to have achieved a rare distinction in its engineering for sound: consistency. No seat in the hall ... is appreciably better...
Dungeons And Dragons, But Make It Mental Health
Because so many people are used to using tabletop role-playing games, some therapists have decided to adapt the tools of the games. - Wired
Singer Carly Simon’s Sisters, Both Musicians, Died This Week
Lucy Simon, 82, was a Tony-nominated Broadway composer; Joanna Simon, 85, was a mezzo-soprano who (according to The New York Times) "stood out for...
More Money Means More Museums
Check out a certain state in particular: "Collectors across the country are choosing to start their own museums, and perhaps nowhere has this trend...
On Anniversary Of On-Set Shooting, Prosecutor Warns Of Potential Indictment
A year after Alec Baldwin fired the gun whose bullet killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a New Mexico prosecutor said in a statement, "No one...
The Ursula Le Guin Fiction Prize Names Its First Winner
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, author of The House of Rust, won the prize, named for the legendary Portland author and activist - but "Le Guin...
Why We Still Need Physical Archives
For one thing, it's nearly impossible to digitize everything in an archive, or to connect it in context. "Physical documents can help us understand...
British Arts Venues Feel Desperate In The Deepening Cost Of Living Crisis
"Those institutions which made it – sometimes barely – through the pandemic are now contending with huge leaps in fuel prices, increased staffing costs,...
New Yorker Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl Has Died At 80
Schjeldahl was a poet, art lover and sometime artist before he became an art critic. The Fourth of July parties he and wife Brooke...
When The Stories We Tell About History Change… An Existential Crisis
Though the true past is fixed and unrevisable, stories about that past are not. Palaeontologists understand these stories as theories, but their audiences often...
What Scientists Are Learning About Language From The Grammar Of Artificial Intelligence
The overwhelming majority of the output of these AI language models is grammatically correct. And yet, there are no grammar templates or rules hardwired...
The Growing Book-Banning Coalition
Predicated on “protecting our kids” from the “scourge” of sexual progressivism, the anti-democratic right is forming a powerful religious alliance against secular liberalism. -...
How Social Media Is Changing How We Engage With Art
The internet has always had an expansive capacity to reach some pretty strange and inexplicable places, but with the ever-evolving nature of social media,...
Criticize The Show You’re In? What Does It Accomplish?
Is the mainstream media the place to debate the process of theatremaking? Or does honesty, however it cuts, break the compact of the rehearsal...
When An Actor Criticizes The Show They’re In…
I’ve had artists and members of the theater community reach out after a review — yes, even ones where I didn’t care much for...
This Play About Abortion And Birth Control Is A Century Old And In Yiddish
Lena Brown's play Sonia Itelson, or, A child, a Child was written, and set in, the 1910s; it was almost certainly not produced then,...
Is The Live Entertainment Capital Of America Really Branson?
Few places in the country host a professional show-business destination as quirky and expansive as this Missouri mountain town a few dozen miles north...
A High School Kid Paints A Mural, And Some Parents Freak Out, Alleging Hidden...
"School district officials and a high school student in Michigan have drawn the ire of parents who allege that a painted mural contains LGBTQ...
Chess Computers Are Now So Dominant, Are Humans Even A Factor In High-Level Play?
In an era when chess engines entirely dominate the game—when they’ve so monopolized human players’ thinking, strategy, and preparation that chess has, in certain ways,...
Archaeologists Find Original 4th-Century Mosaic Floors That The Real St. Nicholas Walked On
"Archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Nicholas in Demre, Turkey, have uncovered the original stone mosaic floors where the saint ... would have stood...
The Viral Tyranny Of TikTok
This new era of instant, inexplicable attention has also come at a price. In interviews with more than three dozen TikTok creators, many noted...
Dalit Standup Comics In India Have A Few Things To Say About Caste
"A small but growing number of Dalit comedians (is) breaking into India's Brahmin-dominated comedy scene. Onstage, they're finding that examining caste through humor not...
