It's true that dance history is particularly hard to preserve, and the desire to stay true to a choreographer's original intention when restaging their work is a valid one. But treating thes…
The average American household possesses more than 300,000 items. In the UK, one study found that children have on average 238 toys, but only play with 12 of them on a daily basis. We are ad…
The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra closed its doors today due to worsening air quality caused by the bushfires burning across the country. The gallery's director, Nick Mitzevich, …
The questions facing the National Theatre reflect the broader themes of British politics right now: elitism, identity, diversity. In the half century since it was founded, the National has a…
Science in the 2010s became more global and collaborative than ever before. These days, major breakthroughs are likelier to come from groups of 3,000 scientists than groups of three. " Natio…
Twenty-four hours after the release of Emily Hale's letters, the TS Eliot Foundation published a statement from beyond the grave, written by the author of the letters himself in 1960 and exp…
Pigments, the common type of coloring found in almost everything around us, create color by absorbing certain wavelengths of light, or colors, and reflecting others; when the reflected ones …
"Today we can say there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also a 50% chance of the scaffolding falling on the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very f…
The new finding changes the way people look at the painting, from all sides. While some have argued that the oddity of the glass ball is evidence that the work is actually by a lesser painte…
The European Parliament, which shares legislative and budgetary authority with the European Council, last year agreed a €400m increase already proposed by the European Commission, the …
"We ask too much of attention and not enough of concentration. The recent cultural emphasis on attention risks subsuming too many variables of human experience, as if they could ever be held…
"One tweet claimed Cats was so bad it must have been made by the dog lobby. As a lifelong cat lover, I don't regard this film as an insult to cats. Yes, the production is over-CGI'd, but the…
Does Trump know what would be lost? Probably not " but he's hardly the only one. The fact that the country is rarely visited by western tourists is not due to a lack of attractions. With a c…
Celebrities didn't vanquish the paparazzi so much as figure out how to undercut them " and the publications they fueled. In the end, the solution was so straightforward. Celebrities simply b…
Unlike some of its streaming competitors, Apple TV+ is being built almost exclusively for original content. Its smaller, more focused catalog is starting to look attractive to Hollywood A-li…
Want to break out of your algorithmically-determined musical taste? How about being more intentional about what you listen to? Musicology Duck has set up a listening challenge for 2020 that …
The discovery, first announced by the country's state-run news agency, came during a decade-long excavation of the first of four pits at the mausoleum, a 4,300-square-foot area where some 6,…
It's rare that a book hitting the list is a total surprise, but there are nail-biters and books that hit higher than we expected and that's a beautiful thing … but not as beautiful as maki…
Changi in Singapore, which has long striven to enthral and entertain its users, outdid itself with its new "Jewel" extension to its existing terminals, essentially a shopping mall and nature…
In 2001, the newly-unified Arts Council England (ACE), with plentiful government and lottery arts funding, made the expansive claim of making artists central to arts policy. The individuals …
The Associate Dean champions the processes of decolonizing, Indigenous Vitalization, and diversifying the Faculty's curriculum, as proposed in OCAD U's developing Academic Plan. Commensur…
By the time the software was euthanized earlier this year, it had become an embarrassment, a mess of greasy preference panes and grayed-out, unreliable content. We were glad to see it go. " …
Over the past decade, the Super Bowl accounted for $3.66 billion in advertising revenue, according to data from research firm Kantar Media. In that same time, the average cost for a 30-secon…
"These works include George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, E. M. Forster's A Passage to Indi…
Few families contributed as much to modern conservatism, although they did so in different ways. While her husband helped organize an influential network of politicians, think tanks and medi…