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Bombed Beloved Bookstore In Gaza Gets Flooded With Donations To Rebuild
The shop, founded 21 years ago, was a much-loved part of the local community and contained tens of thousands of books in various languages...
Misogynist Artwork In China Draws Furor (In A Way It Didn’t Eight Years Ago)
The artist proceeded to rank the women “from the prettiest to the ugliest,” stringing together around 5,000 grainy clips into a nearly eight-hour-long video...
Why UK Music Festivals Are Dying
The problem for festivals is that preparation and planning – let alone building a site – stretches over months and often costs millions, and...
Screens And Speakers And What we Learned During COVID
Screen nausea and social media compulsions are no joke, but the current self-loathing about the long year of screen time is misplaced. It was...
Rich Guy Goes To Hollywood, Improbably Makes It Big As Movie Mogul
At a time of entertainment industry upheaval, David Ellison has transformed Skydance into the rarest of Hollywood businesses — a thriving, built-from-scratch, all-audiences, independent...
Thousands Of UK Music Fans Stuck With Tickets To Postponed Gigs As Country Locks...
The latest four-week delay to fully unlocking Covid restrictions has pushed an additional 5,000 gigs into doubt. - BBC
An Ode To Procrastination
When I’m procrastinating, stalling, temporizing, I am defined at the metabolic level by the thing that I am not doing. - The Atlantic
Andrew Lloyd Weber Retreats — His West End Theatres Will Observe COVID Rules
"If it were just me, I would happily risk arrest and fines to make a stand and lead the live music and theatre industry...
What Culture Do Nations Own and What Belongs To The World?
The idea that “each people makes its contribution to the culture of the world,” codified in the Hague Convention of 1954, has proved particularly...
Claiming Your Personal Version Of English
Should the quality of my English matter? Last month a big English literature prize went to a novel that was written in dialect, something...
Do We Really Need Public Statues?
We want to mark important events and people. But which ones? And who should decide? And are we creating an unreconcileable hierarchy of what's...
Diverse Inclusive Companies Have This In Common
We found that one particular culture style differentiated the diverse and inclusive organizations from those that were not: a learning-oriented culture. - Harvard Business...
According To Science: Characteristics That Make Us Attractive
Attraction is an instinct. While it’s versatile to some extend, key aspects of perceived attractiveness seem to be inherent to our species. - Medium
Juilliard Students Revolt against Tuition Increase
When the institution’s leaders announced this spring that undergraduate tuition for the 2021-22 academic year would rise to $51,230 from $49,260, many students worried...
Is Culture Really Mappable?
Does culture really behave like space? If not, how are cultural relationships distorted when we convert them into spatial ones? - Cultural Analytics
A New Dance Company To Mine The Experience Of Older Dancers
“It can take a long time to work out what your voice is, particularly in ballet. After 100 Nutcrackers, 100 Cinderellas, to get to...
Hong Kong’s Bookshops Face Tough Choices As Censorship Rules Shift
A lack of clarity about why certain books are suddenly off limits has complicated decisions about which titles to stock. - The New York...
Choreographers Test Monetizing Their Work With NFTs
One NFT has been minted for each of the three holograms. The creators will receive a majority percentage of the auction sale, along with...
How Movies Shape Our Sense Of Democracy
One thing that people can draw from a lot of movies now about democracy is it's not easy. It's not a sure thing. -...
How The Arts Were Weakened
For most artists, the shift has been devastating. Ask almost any you know, especially if they’re under age 40. But to understand why the...
How Decades Of Curriculum Battles Have Set The Table For Today
Earlier battles over curriculum provided the template for today’s anti-Critical Race Theory, anti–1619 Project political campaigns. - Slate
Why Globalization Is In Disfavor
It is not globalization that has brought us to the brink of the abyss, but the peculiar strain of globalization that emerged in the...
Where Is The Art World After COVID? Look To Documenta
Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. - The New York...
A Theatrical Experience That Makes You Wonder If It’s Theatre?
Theater is perhaps the closest term to describe the experience, but even that is poorly suited; “Liminality” evades any one category or definition, though...
Art Is Increasingly Being Used To Launder Money — The Feds Are Moving In
They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making...