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Summer UK Music Festivals Beginning To Cancel For Lack Of Insurance
A government-backed insurance scheme, or a lack of it, has become a make-or-break factor for festival organisers who are deciding whether to continue with...
AI Used To Restore Rembrandt’s “Night Watchman”
"It is wonderful to be able to now see with our own eyes The Night Watch as Rembrandt intended it to be seen." -...
After 25 Years Victoria Morgan Steps Down As Director Of Cincinnati Ballet
To right the organization's financial ship she had to make tough choices early on—the first task the company's executive committee gave her was to...
A History Of America As Told Through Its Self-Help Books
These “secular bibles” (the Bible is not one of them) are “books for daily life that ostensibly taught readers one subject, all while subtly...
Battle Of The Book Blurbs
The hyperbole on book jackets—both the plot summaries and the lists of adulatory adjectives that go with them—have long frustrated authors, but no one...
Can LA Design Its Way Out Of A Housing Crisis?
During the second half of the last century and the beginning of this one, Los Angeles County fell a million homes behind, relative to...
What’s So Difficult About The Color Violet?
"Over the past 20 years, I visited 193 museums in 42 different countries. Equipped with 1,500 Munsell colour chips – the world-standard samples for...
Reconciling With Cezanne
You don’t look at a Cézanne, some ravishing late works excepted. You study it, registering how it’s done—in the drawings, with tangles of line...
How To Repurpose Those Office Skyscrapers?
Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of...
How Ancient Jungle Cities Kept Reinventing
Not only did societies such as the Classic Maya and the Khmer empire of Cambodia flourish, but pre-colonial tropical cities were actually some of...
Lessons About Learning From Failure
Many workplaces now lionise (whether sincerely or not is another matter) the importance of learning through failure, and of creating environments that encourage this....
What If You Were Unable To Form Any Mental Images?
Aphantasia is a recently-identified variation of human experience affecting 2-5% of the population, in which a person is unable to generate mental imagery. Can...
Leaked Letter: Artists And Former Directors Lobbied To Close Kneehigh Theatre This Year
“Without its creative leadership in place, we believe that Kneehigh’s chapter in history has come to an end. - The Stage
Made Up Places For Real Interactions
What if cultural endeavors, particularly the public and the performative, are themselves a form of political action? - 3 Quarks Daily
Is It Okay To Resell An NFT Artwork If You’re The Artist?
Part of the problem with NFTs is that there is not yet any shared culture around reproductions or derivative works of short video, animations,...
Why John Newbery Is Considered The Father Of Children’s Books
Beginning in 1744, he published about 100 storybooks for children, plus magazines and “ABC” books, becoming the leading children’s publisher of his time. -...
Motion Picture Academy Elects Most Diverse, Gender-Balanced Board In Its History
The elections increase the number of women on the organization’s 54-member board from 26 to 31, marking the first time in the group’s 94-year...
New Antitrust Crusader Confirmed To Run The FTC — And Big Tech Shudders
Lina Khan's bipartisan confirmation to the FTC is as strong a sign as any that she has Congressional backing for her most ambitious ideas....
Giant “Marilyn” Statue Unveiled In Palm Springs — How Offensive Can It Get?
The aim is to saunter between a woman’s spread legs, look up her billowing dress and snicker at her panty-clad crotch — or, better...
How The Boston Symphony Changed In Mark Volpe’s 23 Years At The Helm
It's been a consequential time for our culture, and the role of an orchestra has changed enormously. - Boston Globe
How To Make Audiobook Narrators More Diverse?
Most novels feature characters with an assortment of different backgrounds, and this can require narrators to voice characters with identities very different from their...
Why There Are So Few Skyscrapers In Europe
Of the 218 skyscrapers constructed on the continent to date, 66% of them are located in just five cities – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow...
Champs Elysee To Be Converted To Long Park As Paris Turns Away From Cars
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo hopes to bring the road back to its people by removing its outer lanes, widening pedestrian areas, planting more trees...
How Disney Mishandled The Star Wars Franchise
George Lucas’s original vision famously inspired an era of big-budget blockbuster movies whose creators, just as famously, eventually ran out of new ideas and...
Behind The Controversy Over Canada’s First Prime Minister
Why does a motivated minority want to erase the honors paid to his memory? John A. Macdonald stands accused by his detractors less of...