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How Movie Audiences Are Different
The movie audience is a singular and enigmatic organism. It can’t really be compared to the audience for live events such as theater, music...
What If We’ve Been Thinking About Intelligence In The Wrong Way?
Intelligence can be found, in part, in our brains, but perhaps even more importantly in our hearts and skin, in the architecture of the...
How To Organize Your Books (Or Not)
Shelving exemplifies “two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of...
Advice For Living With A Writer
“I am a writer, and I lived with a writer, Roger Zelazny, so I know perfectly well that living with a writer is sort...
The Bludgeon Of History — And How It’s Defining Our Politics
Today it is not conservatives but liberals who are most sincerely committed to American history. Yet they too have evolved, perhaps even more dramatically,...
When Graphs And Charts Were A Revolutionary Way To Think
A psychologist and a statistician argue that visual thinking, by revealing what would otherwise remain invisible, has had a profound effect on the way...
Is Paris Supplanting London As The Visual Art Capital?
Part of the recent surge comes down to Brexit jitters. Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, industry players speculated...
Listen To A Never-Aired 1979 James Baldwin Interview (And Read Why It Never Aired)
The far-ranging interview was a resounding success... When the reporter inquired about the delay in airing it, ABC reported that it had been scrapped,...
David Brooks: Behold The New American Renaissance
Covid-19 has disrupted daily American life in a way few emergencies have before. But it has also shaken things up and cleared the way...
What Makes A Great Football Anthem?
According to folk singer Martin Carthy, the football chant can be considered one of the last embodiments of the oral folk tradition. - The...
Will The Chinese Government Strip Hong Kong Of Its Colonial Markers?
Ultimately, one wonders what item of Hong Kong’s colonial baggage the next publicity-seeker will attempt to steal away. - The Critic
Anthony Braxton: Still Pushing At The Edges Of Jazz
"A conversation with him can easily pinball from contemporary politics to ancient Egypt. But what he's most eager to talk about now is ZIM...
Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas Speak Up
Life as a pioneer, life in a pandemic: They have been friends for over half a century, and have held each other up through...
Is “Improving” Your Personality A Thing?
Maybe we should all try to become more compassionate or honest or forgiving, but there’s no comparable moral demand for shy people to become...
Mimicking Clubhouse, Spotify Adds Live Audio Chat Function
The Greenroom app lets any user host or participate in live rooms, as well as record live conversations. - Variety
Two Members Of Hollywood Foreign Press Association Quit, Slamming Inaction
"There has been no contrition, no humility, little recognition of our faults, no inspiring leadership. We do not wish to be associated with a...
Edinburgh Festivals Warn Of Bankruptcy If COVID Rules Aren’t Changed
"Our festivals, and creatives across the sector, are effectively prohibited from trading our way through to recovery, while hospitality and sports are being supported...
UK Libraries To Save Irreplaceable Collection Up For Auction
Almost entirely inaccessible since 1939, the library was put together by Victorian industrialists William and Alfred Law at the turn of the 20th century,...
What Is “Internet Literature”?
The way Internet Literature treats its relationship to the world—and the anxiety of that treatment—is what distinguishes it as a form, and that goes...
Seattle Art Museum To Ditch “Greatest Hits” Narrative To Be More Inclusive
“The way the galleries are organised now is a greatest-hits presentation very much focused on masterworks” by white artists from the 1600s to...
Why Newspapers Should Revive The Vanishing Art Of Obituaries
“We all know people who we think are so cool, or interesting, or exciting, but a lot of times those stories vanish if no...
Hong Kong Police Raid Gallery For Showing “Seditious” Art
They claimed to have received a complaint that the space was exhibiting “seditious” content—a criminal offense under Hong Kong’s controversial new national security law....
As LA’s Center Theatre Group Director Retires, The Enterprise Needs A Rethink
"The character of Michael Ritchie’s audience has not been shaped in this devout manner. The marketing of hits has replaced more time-consuming forms of...
Tania Leon Wins 2021 Pulitzer for Music
The Pulitzer citation describes Stride as “a musical journey full of surprise, with powerful brass and rhythmic motifs that incorporate Black music traditions from...
Is The Nation-State Still The Best Way To Organize The Globe?
The nation-state is not so old as we are often told, nor has it come to be quite so naturally. Getting this history right...