Virginia Republicans Are Bringing Back Obscenity Trials
"Rather than demanding that school boards or librarians remove books, the current case takes the books to court, using an obscure Virginia law that...
A UK Band Dishes On Its Farcical Post-Brexit Problems Playing A European Tour
Live performances can account for 90%-95% of a band’s income, according to Help Musicians, but Brexit has cut into one of their most important...
Why Have The Culture Warriors Come So Angrily After Drag Queen Story Hour?
"It is not just about fabulous queens competing on RuPaul's Drag Race; even Mr Tumble performs in drag on CBeebies. So, how have we...
Kirill Serebrennikov And The Quandary Of Russian Artists During Wartime
Back home in Russia (where he spent years under house arrest on trumped-up charges), among culturati in Ukraine, in Europe (where he now lives...
A Wicked Daughter, A Fake Clairvoyant, And $139 Million Worth Of Stolen Art (Including...
Tarsila do Amaral's painting Sol Poente (Setting Sun) is one of 16 artworks (not including stolen jewelry and cash) that were conned out of,...
Western Art Masterworks Unseen For Decades Are Now On View In Tehran
A very popular exhibition of minimalist and conceptual art this summer at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art features major pieces by Marcel Duchamp,...
One Broadway Show Has Reintroduced Mask-Only Nights
"The Broadway production of The Kite Runner announced a policy Tuesday requiring masks for audience members at Friday evening performances only. The new hybrid...
Climate Change Has Started Causing Serious Problems For Outdoor Performance
Extreme heat, flash floods, and, especially, smoke from wildfires — which can affect venues hundreds of miles away — have been the cause of...
The Staff (What’s Left Of It) At Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater Unionizes
"The group of 16 employees — which includes front-of-house staff, stagehands and arts administrators — filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board...
Post-Modernist Wong Turn? Maybe We Need To Redefine Reality…
Postmodern ideas have gained the status of absolute truths. Relativism, selectively appropriated into the language of both left and right politics, has metamorphosed into...
How “Effective Altruism” Grew From A Movement Into A Lucrative Business
It’s safe to say that effective altruism is no longer the small, eclectic club of philosophers, charity researchers, and do-gooders it was just a...
Just In: A New Theatre Season That Exhibits All The Current Trends
"This playwright read a Wikipedia page that mentioned a fascinating historical incident wherein Benedict Arnold and Frank Sinatra spent a night at the same...
Cox Media Buys News Startup Axios For $525 Million
The deal offers a rare flicker of hope for the digital publishing sector, which has been fraught with difficulty for investors and operators over...
Canada’s New Online News Act Builds On Australia’s And Could Be A Model For...
The Canadian code probably won’t have a material financial impact on these platforms, but countries learning from each other, improving on the model, and...
Artists Will Get Resale Fees Under New Canadian Copyright Law
Painters, sculptors and other visual artists stand to get a payout when their work is resold at auction and by galleries, in a government...
How To Fight Back Against Library And School Book Bans
Margaret Sullivan: "Local residents should show up at school board meetings to express dissent publicly, get in touch directly with school administrators to insist...
John Harbison: My Life In Music
"I identify much more as a composer. A couple of times, I backed away from conducting for a while. I felt it’s not a...
Is There An Objective Way To Rank The Most Beautiful Cities? No, But This...
"Analysts ... first mined Google Street View footage in cities around the world for images of hundreds of residential streets and some 2400 iconic...
The Line Between Art And Propaganda Sometimes Isn’t Easy To See
Values are promoted through cultural strategies where buzzwords chime loudly. Terms like networking, collaboration, common good, connection and cooperation promote an ever-closer union with...
The Secrets Of Stage Blood
"Are there more types of fake blood than there are of real blood? Oh, positively. ... As a prop master for the last 30-odd...
Why People Are Attracted To The Density Of Urban Living
Rubbing shoulders with strangers is considered both a pleasure and a pain of urban life. Density can be an endless source of social possibility,...
Why Do The Ranks Of Crossword Puzzle Constructors Remain So Un-Diverse? Simple: The Pay’s...
"It turns out the crossword industry really does consist of earnest wordplay lovers donating their time to unpaid mentorships, generally as part of an...
Does Social Media Negate The Wisdom Of Crowds?
Here’s the thing about the wisdom of crowds – it only applies when those individual decisions are reached independently. Once we start influencing each...
Qatar Is Basically Setting Up A Giant Open-Air Museum In Doha. Have A Look.
"A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, Rashid Johnson mosaic, and a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture — in the likeness of an endangered marine mammal — are...
Orchestras Are Chafing, And Sometimes Buckling, Under Their Post-Shutdown Workloads
New programming initiatives mean musicians are rehearsing more unfamiliar works, and, come curtain time, standard repertoire sometimes ends up underrehearsed. Shutdown-induced layoffs mean remaining...
