Where Ya Going To Sell Picassos For $110 Million? Vegas, Of Course
Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks that have been on display at a Las Vegas hotel for more than two decades have sold at auction for...
How Joshua Vides Went From Graffiti Artist To Designing For Global Brands
His creations have turned the former scofflaw graffitist into an illustrator and visual artist sought after by a growing list of global brands, including...
Astonishing Growth In University Endowments Last Year — What To Do With It?
Washington University in St. Louis saw a 65 percent return. Duke, 56 percent. MIT, 55.5 percent (after completing a $6 billion capital campaign). Brown, 51.5 percent. Dartmouth, 46.5 percent. Yale,...
How To Fix Social Media (Lessons From History)
The arrival of broadcast media at the start of the last century set off an information revolution just as tumultuous as the one we...
Are You Ready For Our Real-Life Dystopia?
When you zoom out, it’s easy to see that American society is approaching a modern-day dystopia as the once sci-fi-worthy stories of environmental destruction,...
Facebook Employees Had Plenty Of Ideas How To Fix Facebook. But…
It’s almost cliché at this point to accuse Facebook of ignoring the impact its products have on users and society. The observation hits a...
Why Did Believer Magazine Shut Down?
It’s a popular idea, these days, that all it takes is a kindly benefactor to set things right. Unfortunately, it is and will always...
How The Internet Changed Photography For The Masses (And A Nostalgia For The Past)
Curiously keen to recapture the not-knowing-what-the-hell-is-on-there waiting period that analog film required, young digital types have taken up the popular Dispo camera app, which...
Glasgow School Of The Art, Ravaged By Fire, Decides To Rebuild Original Building
The school said it had looked closely at a wide range of alternatives, including a ‘do minimum’ approach, a new build on the site...
How Facebook Has Failed Us All
The social media giant "has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob...
Comments Sections Are A Toxic Stew Of Sexism, And That’s By Design
"It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design...
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait Says There’s No Such Thing As Cancel Culture
"People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ ... I know exactly what he’d...
The Vancouver Opera May Be Returning To A New Kind Of Normal
A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out...
Reckoning With Monuments In The North
The American South isn't the only place with iffy monuments. Consider Boston. - The New Yorker
In Britain, Subtitles May Finally Be Returning After Fire
"Hundreds of hours of Channel 4 programming have been affected by the outage, which began when fire suppression devices destroyed hard disks at a...
The Chief Electrician On ‘Rust’ Blames The Film’s Armorer For The Fatal Shot
In a Facebook post, gaffer Sergey Svetnoy wrote of holding Halyna Hutchins as she died, and he blamed the 24-year-old armorer - and the...
The Post-Apocalyptic Book Inspired By The Events Of Charlottesville
Author Jocelyn Nicole Johnson taught art for decades before her first novel was published. My Monticello was easy to imagine, she says, "because it...
Potential Legal Fallout From The Fatal Shooting Of Halyna Hutchins
The experts weigh in - and it's not going to go well for someone. "This doesn’t happen without negligence. There are safety protocols that...
Inside The Phantom’s Return To Broadway
So much celebration ensued - and, well, perhaps for good reason. "The show, which opened on Broadway in 1988 and has never closed, takes...
The Race Against Time To Save Australia’s Archives
Glass plate negatives, nitrite negatives, lantern slides, paper - all can disintegrate and decay. What will the digital records of these tangible archives tell...
There Are So Many Trump Books
Virginia Heffernan read them for us. "Loathsome characters bring out zestful writing, and authors who represent Trump as perilous to democracy ... could find...
Five Seasons Of Issa Rae’s ‘Insecure’ Helped Open Doors For Black Creatives In Hollywood
And, if one can remember when Rae was working on the show, one might say "That's exactly as Issa Rae intended." - Time
Actor Sues Musical, Saying He Was Fired Because He Is Christian
One of Come from Away's former leads, Chad Kimball, "claimed he was terminated 'wholly or partly' because of his religious beliefs." - The New...
Sure, Humanity Would *Totally* Unite Against Aliens
That's sarcastic. It's a bad movie and book trope. We can't even unite against a virus. - Slate
Painting Is Back In Britain, Baby
The Young British Artists are well established institutions, but now so-called Young British Painters, including several who are Black women, "are grabbing the attention and...
