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Interpol Debuts A New App To Track Stolen Art
Last week, the global crime-fighting group debuted a new app that aims to make the process of identifying and reporting stolen works as simple...
Archaeologists Object To Plans For New Floor For The Colosseum
Experts including Rossella Rea, the former director of the Colosseum, have raised concerns about the project’s €15m ($18.2) price tag, and claimed that the...
Tech Versus Big Journalism
A war is on between the tech titans and a relentless generation of largely digital-native reporters looking to speak truth to power while racking...
SAG/AFTRA Sign First Agreement On Social Media Influencers (What Does That Mean?)
The Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists' national board voted to adopt its first-ever agreement for influencers—personalities and performers paid to...
Nicholas Kenyon’s New History Of Western Music
The book’s subtitle, New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition, makes its soft boundaries clear. As managing director of London’s Barbican Centre, and former...
Companies Are Struggling To Become Data-Driven. The Toughest Part? Culture
The goal is to "invite people who have not been thinking about this topic to really think about it in their day-to-day work. It...
Inside The Art NFT Boom
No one quite agrees on what this gold rush means. If you ask hard-core champions of Bitcoin — the often-libertarian “crypto natives,” as they...
How A Dallas Choir Made $375,000 With An NFT “Crypto Music”
“2020 had all been about crypto art. We believe that Betty’s Notebook is the birth of crypto music. It makes music truly ‘crypto native’,”...
A Bitter New Orleans Graffiti War Over… Dan Marino?
To outsiders, street painters of all sorts might seem to be natural allies. But that’s not always the case. Rivalries and territorialism are always...
A Multi-Million-Dollar Trade In Fake Native American Art
We’re talking about everything from Navajo turquoise and silver to Zuni inlay. It’s a huge tourist draw and one of New Mexico’s most important...
Dancer StuartHodes @96 – How To Dance Through Life
"I think anything that you do with every particle of yourself can be wonderful, and it can make you forget the world. It’s magic....
Why Is Contemporary Architecture So Awful?
Perhaps it is that architects speak in a special language, and what looks to me like an arbitrary and ugly assortment of random stark...
Disney+ Isn’t Using Show-runners For Its Shows. A New TV Model?
Effectively, the studio is making its TV shows as if they were roughly six-hour movies, applying the same production methodology it’s used for the...
The Long Checkered Career Of The Golden Globes
Hollywood viewed the awards as meaningless at best and corrupt at worst — most notable for their open bar and the industry perks enjoyed...
YouTube Will Spend $100 Million On Creators In New “Shorts” Program
YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, announced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million pool of money it’s promising to distribute to creators of...
Dutch Museum Directors Protest Testing Museum-Goers
In an open letter published yesterday in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 100 notable cultural figures, including Stedelijk director Rein Wolfs, artist Renzo Martens, Rijksmuseum director...
Helmut Jahn Just Died In A Bike Accident — Might His Iconic Chicago Building...
The Thompson Center is Chicago's premier example of Jahn's work, and the project that made him famous. Intended to take government from distant to...
Immersive Van Gogh Is A Hit. But Which One?
If you’re in a major metropolitan area and have ever remotely shown interest in an art event, you may be bombarded by ads on...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Unveils New Gehry Addition
Nearly 20 years ago, Anne d’Harnoncourt, the museum's then-director and CEO, proposed to Frank Gehry that he replicate the galvanizing effect of his Guggenheim...
Balanchine’s Biggest Fan – Nancy Lassalle, 93
“She was the ultimate board member,” said Albert Bellas, chairman emeritus of the S.A.B. “She was financially supportive, knowledgeable and committed.” She was also...
Fear My Book? Ban My Book?
"Those who seek to ban my book and others like it are trying to exploit fear — fear about the realities that books like...
Powell’s Books Union Protests Store’s Rehiring Practices
Under dispute is whether or not Powell's is obliged to honor employees' prior seniority, salaries, and benefits. The union says that the store, in...
Scotland Says Theatres Can Reopen. Theatres Say “No”
In a survey conducted by the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST), 96% of members responded that it is not economically viable for them to...
New Research: Angkor Wat Population Was Greater Than Modern Boston
Researchers have determined the city’s population at its zenith in the 13th century, and the number is impressive: some 700,000 to 900,000 people likely...
World Dance? Seriously?
Typically, it's an intermediary—a manager, a producer, a critic—who labels something as "world dance." The term denotes exoticness, authenticity—and it sells. It's also problematic...