Cees Noteboom, One Of Europe’s Most Important Postwar Writers, Is Dead At 92
“A Dutch novelist, travel writer and journalist, (he) was lauded for his insights into European history and culture and often tipped as a possible...
More Kennedy Center Woes: Fundraising Is Reportedly A Mess
According to several staffers (speaking anonymously), senior vice president of development Lisa Dale — best friend of Kari Lake and a former TV host...
London’s National Gallery, Facing $11.1 Million Deficit, Announces Staff-Wide Buyout Scheme And Cuts
“In the face of an £8.2 million deficit in the coming year, … initially there will be a ‘voluntary exit scheme’ available to all...
Alleged Massive Ticket Fraud Scheme At Louvre; Police Arrest Nine Suspects
“The Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday said that nine people were being detained as part of an investigation into a suspected decade-long, 10 million...
BBC To Cut Hundreds Of Millions From Budget
“Staff at the BBC were told about plans to cut about a tenth of its costs over the next three years in a conference...
The “Heated Rivalry” Language Coach Explains How She Taught Connor Storrie Such Good Russian
Storrie, who plays hockey star Ilya Rozanov in the hit miniseries, comes from West Texas and studied Russian only briefly in high school, yet...
What Happens When We Fill Every Waking Moment With Information
From the jarring morning alarm to the podcast we listen to on the way to work; from the constant murmur of the office to...
A Theater Company Of Ukrainian Veterans Wounded In The Russian War
Some have lost an arm, others their legs, yet others their eyesight or voice. They’ve spent a year rehearsing a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid....
Study: Reading To Children Improves Their Social Skills
I’m a neuroscientist with four children, and I wondered whether children might be losing more than just the pleasure of listening to books read aloud. In...
Musical Protest In The Era Of Gaza
Gaza showed how power brokers from the White House on down seem eager for pretexts to punish dissent in ways that create a chilling...
Turns Out, AI Prefers Human Content To Its Own
This is the AI search paradox: The more AI-generated content exists, the more valuable human thinking becomes. - Fast Company
Australia’s Great Theatrical Trilogy Is Being Staged Complete For The First Time In 40...
Playwright Ray Lawler’s most famous work, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (1955), was a turning point in Australian theatre history. In the 1970s, Lawler...
Requiem For One Of The All-Time Great Book Sections
The book section you really wanted to get your hands on was the Washington Post Book World. To put it bluntly, you read the Times Book...
The People Who’ve Gotten Obsessed By Audiobooks
Since my own fandom has grown, I’ve noticed, at least anecdotally, many more friends and acquaintances talking about their love for audiobooks, not just...
In Praise Of Obsolete Technologies (Like CDs And DVDs)
There is satisfaction in pressing a button or cranking a dial that no touchscreen will ever replicate. There is also certainty; if I reach...
The First-Ever Afghan Romcom Is Opening The Berlin Film Festival
“Shahrbanoo Sadat … wrote, directed and stars in the daring, genre-bending film No Good Men, about a budding love affair in a Kabul newsroom on...
Have China’s Universities Really Become Best In The World?
It’s true that Chinese universities have made remarkable strides, and some of them host superb centers of research and education. However, they aren’t nearly...
Stop Trying To Make Classical Music Popular By “Fitting In”
The embarrassment comes in what can all too easily happen when classical music tries to get down with the kids with new formats. Visuals!...
Artforum Editor Steps Down
Tina Rivers Ryan had stepped into the leadership role at Artforum after a tumultuous year. It had just fired David Velasco, at the time its...
Why More Oscar Categories Are Open To Foreign-Language Films Then Ever Before
Yes, of course the fact that the Motion Picture Academy has made a conscious effort to internationalize its membership is part of it. Yet...
The Messy, Sordid Controversy Underlying The Olympic Ice Dancing Competition
Or, how France’s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who’s actually Canadian) ended up paired at all, then became the gold medalists despite having...
Conductor Helmuth Rilling, Last Of The Old-School Bach Specialists, Has Died At 92
With his ensembles Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, he undertook the first complete recording project of Bach’s cantatas and major choral works. As the period-instrument...
Proposed Jersey City Branch Of Pompidou Center Is Officially “Dead”
“After announcing last week that Jersey City is facing a $255 million deficit, Mayor James Solomon removed any doubt about where he stood on Centre Pompidou’s...
Kennedy Center Boss Warns Of Job Cuts During Shutdown
In a Tuesday memo obtained by The Associated Press, Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell told staff that ‘departments will obviously function on a much...
Bud Cort, Star Of “Harold And Maude” And “Brewster Mccloud,” Is Dead At 77
He was discovered by director Robert Altman for the 1970 films M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud; he subsequently featured in Heat (1995), Dogma (1999) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)....
