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...
Are We Crippled By Mythologies Of “Progress”?
We see others as crippled by ignorance and cowed by superstition; we don't see the extent to which we are, in our own ways,...
Don’t Diss Pessimism. It’s Useful
Given that the world we live in forces us to deal with pandemics, economic problems, wars and climate change it can seem overwhelming that...
My Friend Was A Brilliant Dancer. And Then He Killed Himself
After our time training together in the '70s, Richard went on to join two of the finest ballet companies in the world at the...
Unseen Letter Of Charles Dickens Shows That He, Too, Could Be A Diva
Informed that the English village where he lived was considering ending mail delivery on Sundays, the great novelist wrote, basically, that if he couldn't...
Boris Johnson May Be On His Way Out, But His Culture Minister Isn’t Going...
"As (Liz) Truss continues to gain support in the Conservative Party leadership contest against former chancellor Rishi Sunak, she has reportedly confirmed that Dorries...
San Francisco Art Market Struggles
The Gagosian Gallery closed last year, and Pace will close its Palo Alto gallery next month. Working artists have had to leave their Bay...
Can Professors Settle On A Way To Ensure Safe And Productive Discussions In Class? ...
A group of 24 college professors got together to attempt to think this difficult question through. They couldn't agree. - The Chronicle of Higher...
The Politics Of Book Banning (Basically, We’re All Against It)
Americans on both sides of the political aisle were opposed to banning books, although it also found stark differences when it came to how...
How Many Women Run Dance Venues And How Much Choreography By Women Gets Programmed?...
"Female choreographers, on average, make up 35% of a venue's programming and 40% of a company's programming at all venues. On average, women make...
Movable Type Is Older Than The Gutenberg Bible, But How Old?
And did the Germans learn the idea from Korean or other Asian printing presses? Time to ask a particle accelerator. - Wired
