Tribute Or Marketing Stunt (Or Both)? Secretive Seattle Street Artist Stalks Manhattan Recreating “Shadowman”
Richard Hambleton painted his dark silhouette figures around the Lower East Side in the 1980s, becoming "the godfather of street art." The artist known...
25 TV Shows That Are Defining/Reflecting The 21st Century
These are the series that are both influential and significant, that have broken new ground, that have reflected life specifically in this century, or...
Picasso Lived His Entire Life In France Under Surveillance
"For more than 40 years, his Catalan connections, his communist leanings and his celebrity made him a suspect in the eyes of the French...
What Fuels Conspiracy Theories
New research suggests that it’s not just negative emotions that contribute to the appeal of conspiracy theories. People can also find conspiracy theories entertaining – and...
With His “Team TERF” Routine, Dave Chappelle Dishonors A Long Line Of Great Black...
Artists from Richard Pryor to Moms Mabley to Ma Rainey "took big risks to affirm LGBTQ people and be honest about their own sexuality....
Disgraced During #MeToo, Garrison Keillor Tries For A Comeback
Five years after he retired from A Prairie Home Companion, four years after accusations led public radio and publishers to drop him, Keillor is...
Black Americans Should Absolutely Appropriate European Opera (Though Not Necessarily Like This): John McWhorter
Writes the Columbia University linguist and New York Times columnist of Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones and William Grant Still's Highway...
The Believer, Award-Winning Literary Magazine, To Close
The announcement comes seven months after high-profile editor Joshua Wolf Shenk was forced to resign after an indecent exposure incident on Zoom and multiple...
Interpol Says Illegal Excavations Of Cultural Heritage Sites Soared During Pandemic
"Africa saw an increase in offenses related to digs, up from 44 incidents in 2019 to 153 in 2020. The starkest increase occurred in...
Nine Years In Prison For Former Principal At English National Ballet
Yat-Sen Chang was convicted on twelve counts of sexual assault on female students in London between 2009 and 2016. Born and trained in Cuba,...
England’s Theatres Are Open, No Masks Or Distancing Required, And Feelings Are Mixed
"How are theater fans feeling about this new normal? Has the pandemic changed what they're seeing, and how they're seeing it? We spoke to...
Report: One-Third Of UK Music Jobs Were Lost During Pandemic
The research said there were 69,000 fewer jobs in music in 2020 than in 2019 - a drop of 35% - due to the...
Shakespeare, Otello, And Race – A Complicated Issue
Art at its Shakespearean finest isn’t a repository for wisdom but an interrogation of what we think we know. It’s one of the rare...
How To Count Audience? Netflix Makes A Change
The streamer, in reporting its third quarter financials, noted that it will switch to reporting on hours viewed for its shows and movies rather than the...
Sotheby’s Launches An NFT Marketplace
The layout of the Metaverse website, similar in format to NFT-specific platforms such as OpenSea and Nifty Gateway, is designed to display the NFTs so that...
The Truth About Conspiracy Theories — By Those Who Study Them
True, we’re hearing a lot about Covid-19 and QAnon-related conspiracies. But just because they are more visible does not mean that belief in them...
How TikTok Is Spreading Learning Of Indigenous Languages
The platform best known for it's viral dance clips, is making learning languages fun. - The World
The Strange Journey Of South Africa’s Most Popular Magazine
Perhaps surprisingly in 2021, that magazine is in Afrikaans: Huisgenoot ("Home Companion"), founded in 1916 to help form a national Afrikaner consciousness in the...
Why The Dallas Symphony Is Making Significant Investments On Digital Content
“Audiences who were very reticent or uninterested in digital content became interested. I believe we cannot turn back from that whole process.” - Dallas...
The Mind-Boggling History That Shapes South Korea’s Popular Cultural Exports
Think about it: Parasite and Squid Game are pretty weird: intense drama, occasional shocking violence and dark satire jumbled with juvenile humor and an...
A Growing Chorus Demanding Safer Movie Production Rules
“It’s really clear from our survey, that it’s not just about the data; it’s the stories that people are telling about their experiences working...
Tom Lehrer, Remembered By Someone Who Was At His First And Last Public Concerts
Jeremy Bernstein: "When I was a graduate student Tom and I sometimes had lunch at the (Harvard) Graduate Center. On one occasion a student...
The Existential Dangers Of “Longtermism”
Longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because I...
Native American Radio In The Big City
There's a long history of radio serving indigenous Americans, but most of it involves dedicated stations serving individual tribes in rural areas. Here's a...
Facebook Gets Serious About Building The Metaverse
The company announced it plans to create 10,000 new jobs across the European Union in order to develop what it calls the metaverse. In...
