Upending Contemporary Native American Art
Cannupa Hanska Luger’s theory is that it has to do with their trauma of becoming American, which meant severing all ties to their own ancestral...
George Lamming, Giant Of Caribbean And Post-Colonial Literature, Dead At 94
Returning to Barbados after university in England, "(he) became a moral, political and intellectual force for a newly independent country seeking to tell its...
Screw Up Your Courage. This Is A Great Time To Read “The Greatest Book...
This would be Ulysses, by James Joyce, which came out 100 years ago, and has been commonly heralded as the Best Novel Ever Written. I...
Vienna Philharmonic Musicians Reveal The Secrets Of Their Orchestra’s Unique Sound
There are plenty of factors, and these people are oh so proud of them all (despite the fact that one of them is subtlety). ...
Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre Is Being Renamed. But First We Should Remember Atkinson
For close to 62 years, the Brooks Atkinson Theatre has stood on West 47th Street, so it did 34 years previously as the Mansfield....
Reclaiming The Lindy Hop’s African-American Roots
It's named after pioneering pilot Charles Lindbergh, it was a staple of social dancing in the 1930s, and it regained popularity in the swing...
Has Streaming Made Us Forget How To Watch Movies?
That’s how most movies are experienced today. They are not, as they were for most of their history, seen. They are watched—on TVs, computers,...
Amphitheatres Are Popping Up — Er, Down — All Over Great Britain
From Pitlochry in Scotland to the Cotswolds to Sutton Hoo to Cornwall (well, that one's been there for 92 years) to north London, old...
Way Too Much! (Why Streaming Is Choking)
In the fall of 2019, years after it had revolutionized the industry with a slate of boundary-challenging originals and maybe a little drunk with...
How The Business Of Immersive Art Exhibits Works
Under the headline "Monet Is Next Dead Artist To Mint Money," a correspondent explains the finances of this very successful business. - Bloomberg Businessweek
This 5,000-Year-Old City Was Just Reopened To The Public. A Planned Dam May...
Ashur, on the banks of the Tigris, was the first capital of the Assyrian Empire, and big parts of its city gate and ziggurat...
It’s In Turbulent Times Like These That We See How Culture Really Matters
Russia, for instance, is attempting to wipe out a separate Ukrainian culture; as Ukraine's artist at the Venice Biennale says, "If it has no...
An Arvo With The Battlers Working On The Australian National Dictionary
Crikey, collecting the lingo that makes Strine Strine is a hard yakka that can leave a poor bastard with a head like a half-sucked...
Sydney’s Largest Art Museum Just Got A $100 Million Bequest
"The Lavender Bay home of Wendy Whiteley will be sold after her death and her collection of Brett Whiteley artworks donated to the Art...
Paramount Will Not Be Removing From Its Streaming Service Old Movies And TV That...
Paramount CEO Bob Bakish: "By definition, you have some things that were made in a different time and reflect different sensibilities. I don't believe...
French Switzerland’s Second City Just Built Itself A Massive New Cultural Center
"A vast new arts hub called Plateforme 10 has opened in the Swiss city of Lausanne with the aim to revitalize the surrounding area...
How Artists Are Profiting From Twitter
Beneath Twitter's reputation as a shitposter's heaven, art lovers often prefer it to platforms that promote other forms of content (like Instagram), and artists...
The Whispers Are Growing: Google Search Is Broken
The frustration has become a persistent meme: that Google Search, what many consider an indispensable tool of modern life, is dead or dying. For...
The Most-Played Musician Of 2021 In The UK
The most-played artists charts revealed a closer split between genders, with 60:40 male to female. - The Guardian
The Decline Of The Secondhand Book Business
The increase in online buying has meant a reduction in the number of physical outlets, but those that remain have a beadier eye for...
The Gentle Art Of Rejection Letters
If a writer is to be rejected on grounds of style, it might as well be done stylishly. One publisher brilliantly mimicked Gertrude Stein’s...
Understanding A Science Of Progress
For thousands of years, global wealth – at least our best approximations of it – barely budged. But beginning around 150-200 years ago, everything changed....
Another “What’s Killing Classical Music” Theory
It's really "the near-total inability of post-World War II America and Europe to produce more than a small number of classical works that any normal...
Publishing Is Afflicted With Groupthink
People in publishing are increasingly nervous of causing offence. I have been told that some books are being rejected not because the publishers don’t...
Can NFTs Stop Art Theft?
In theory, artists can indicate that a file containing their work, whether it is digital art or a reproduction of a physical piece, belongs...
