It’s A Minor Miracle No One Died On The Set Of “The Wizard Of...
"The drama behind the scenes … would make several people's heads melt like the Wicked Witch of the West." Margaret Hamilton caught on fire,...
Is Society Failing, Post-Pandemic?
Jill Lepore: Of course, there is such a thing as society. The question now is how the pandemic has changed it. Speculating about what...
Study: Year Into Pandemic, Audience Values Arts More
65% of respondents said they preferred in-person to online cultural activities. Only 9% favored online experiences, while a more significant 26% is defined as...
When Newspapers Die, What Happens To Their Archives?
There's no established procedure, alas, so the fate of the archives depends on the particular location and owner. (We're looking at you, News Corp.)...
The First NFTs Of Ballet (You Knew This Was Coming)
Natalia Osipova of London's Royal Ballet is selling specially-filmed of three duets with fiancé Jason Kittelberger, who says they hope to fund a new...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin To Take Four Weeks Off From Conducting
His sabbatical will run from Dec. 19 to Jan. 10; he has withdrawn from the Met's January revival of The Marriage of Figaro and...
Mosque Dating To Earliest Decades Of Islam Uncovered In Iraq
The mud structure in the southern province of Dhi Qar is small, roughly 26 feet by 16 feet and has been dated to 679...
Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2021 Is Something People Have Been Fighting About
"Vaccine" was the choice because of repeated spikes in traffic: searches of the word this year are up 601% from 2020 and 1,048% over...
Ticket Sales For England’s Christmas Pantos Are Lagging, And Theatres Are Getting Nervous
Sales are down by a third from 2019, and research indicates that many audience members remain wary of attending while COVID case numbers are...
Germany’s New Government Appoints A High-Profile Culture Minister
Claudia Roth, one of the Green Party's top leaders and vice president of the federal parliament, started her career as a theater worker and...
Art Basel Miami Returns – But Will Collectors?
As Art Basel returns to the Miami Beach Convention Center from Thursday through Saturday with 253 galleries from 36 countries and territories, it meets...
Toronto’s 127-Year-Old Massey Hall Gets A Massive Update
The goal of restoring a building, preserving its character while also updating it to suit today's needs, was a monumental task done under the...
Crowdfunders Raised $50 Million In Crypto To Buy A Copy Of The Constitution. Now,...
Returning that much money has been a tricky process, though. Backers have to manually request refunds, so even a week later, tens of millions...
When Each Of Us Is Turning Into An Investment Opportunity
Parallel shifts in culture and technology are forging a new paradigm. The rules around how we create and capture economic value are being rewritten,...
France Inducts Josephine Baker Into Its Pantheon
On Tuesday, a coffin carrying soils from the U.S., France and Monaco — places where Baker made her mark — will be deposited inside...
Ode To The Intimate Pleasures Of The Harpsichord
The piano is the instrument of expressive individualism; the harpsichord is the instrument of a vibrant, discursive life of the mind. It is the...
Grappling With The Enormity Of Losing Sondheim
Sondheim deserves a spot on playwriting’s Mt. Rushmore, for his contribution to the theater is as significant from a literary as it is from a...
Team Finds Ancient Iliad Mosaic 100 Miles North Of London
A decade on from uncovering the remains of King Richard III under a car park, the university’s archaeological team have unearthed a Roman mosaic...
Hollywood Celebs Are Starting Their Own Creative High Schools
With so many projects in production, “there’s an enormous amount of jobs in editing, in visual effects, in makeup and hair, that we can,...
Sondheim Placed The Musical Firmly At The Heart Of American Culture
Before the pandemic, his songs permeated U.S. media. "His primacy within wider culture came from the widest possible acknowledgement that not only had Sondheim...
Duolingo’s Weird Sentences Show Us How Our Brains Work
It's all about "reward prediction errors" and "the sweet spot between rote and nonsensical." Once you've learned the Swedish for "a clean reindeer" or...
When Non-Horror Movies Feel A Lot Like Horror
"How do you know if you’re watching a horror movie when there’s no killer or monster, exorcism or blood? It’s a decades-old question that’s...
Good Thing Library Fines Are Out Of Style
A sequel to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was checked out in 1910 and returned, anonymously, to the Garden City library near Boise, Idaho. -...
Developers In Britain Are Challenged To Stop Destroying And Start Retrofitting
That's in order to save the world - no, really. "Our throwaway building culture is one of the key reasons that UK construction has...
Virgil Abloh, A Barrier-Breaking Designer Who Was Compared To Warhol And Koons, Has Died...
Abloh was a theorist with sometimes controversial opinions on fashion. "For him clothes were not garments but fungible totems of identity that sat at...
