Saba Sahar, who is a senior police officer and an activist as well as a performer and producer/director, was shot in her car or her way to work. She was comatose for 20 hours but is now out …
"To skim to inform" is the new norm for reading. What goes missing are deep reading processes which require a quality of attention increasingly at risk in a culture and on a medium in which …
"Under the plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised to hold august institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall accountable for hiring more members of historically marginali…
If we cured all the world's cancers, made the perfect smartphone and achieved the ideal form of representative government, but everyone was just as miserable after as they were before, then …
"On the surface, that no doubt sounds idiotic " economically, socially and in just about every other way," writes the L.A. Times classical music critic. "It's not. It is the simplest, surest…
"Trained in Hungary and the Soviet Union, Mr. Rabovsky and [his wife Nora] Kovach created a sensation with their technical virtuosity and an energetic style virtually unknown to Western audi…
"Built in the 1250s as part of Henry III's rebuilding efforts, the L-shaped structure" " called the Great Sacristy " "housed sacred items, including chalices, altar linens and vestments. ……
"The Whitney Museum of American Art on Tuesday canceled an upcoming exhibition after artists of color objected to the institution's having obtained their work through discounted sales largel…
"The top-level statistics are impressive: few other industries can boast sustained engagement with 98% of the population. The survey shows a significant rise in both the number of Australian…
"All three theaters are nonprofits in New England, where virus cases are low. The region has already been home to the first two outdoor productions featuring union actors during the pandemic…
"Dave Lambert: Audition at RCA," a 1964 documentary about the jazz singer by D.A. Pennebaker: (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space e…
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing." H.L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major Continue reading Alma…
Gail Sheehy, a lively participant in New York's literary scene and a practitioner of creative nonfiction, studied anthropology with Margaret Mead. She applied those skills to explore the cul…
With the amendment now in place, book importers and international publishers have to provide only book titles and author lists to the Ministry of Information, with the understanding that the…
"The biggest issue [in the vinyl industry] is the broken supply chain," said the Vinyl Alliance, a trade industry group in April 2020. Increasing shipping costs, a lack of live concerts at w…
While it is certainly not inevitable that children lose their sense of wonder as they grow up, and while adults are in principle as capable of experiencing wonder as children, it is to be ex…
Historically, museums have used themed exhibitions, acquisitions schemes, or public programs to signal a shift, but otherwise they continue with business as usual. Real shifts must be seen f…
Some of the most influential modern comedy in any medium was created for radio: "Who's on First?", Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, The Jack Benny Program, BBC's The Goon Show and I'm Sorry…
Some of the people who make visual effects for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters believe they have found a way to help: By embracing open source, they want to open up doors for traditionally …
"A statue of Mary Magdalene housed in the chapel of Saint Pilon in the Var, in southeast France, has been destroyed by vandals apparently unhappy with her lack of clothing. The perpetrators …
Dancing Earth engages in Indigenous futurism " art that incorporates Indigenous perspectives of what the future could look like " by embodying interconnected communities and social change in…
Someone's social dignity can be damaged whether or not she accepts her society's standards. One way this can happen is if she is a member of different social groups with conflicting standard…
"Cinema's integration of image, word, and music promised a fulfillment of the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or 'total work of art,' which Wagner propagated at one stage of his career. His inf…
As in other countries around the world, new cases in Italy are being driven by young people, with several clusters traced back to nightclubs crowded with maskless patrons. Yet the new rules …
Spencer Kornhaber: "So-called diva antics never canceled the careers of, say, Christian Bale or Aretha Franklin. Yet DeGeneres may well be held to a different standard than other entertainer…