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How English Departments Waned
The old critics used familiar terms of analysis—irony, structure, symbol . . . The new theorists traded in logocentrism, “the Other,” undecidability, “infinite paradigm...
Goodreads Bug Erases Book Ratings
It’s unknown how many books are affected by the bug. The number of ratings per book lost seem, without any further information, to be...
Do You Know About Virtual YouTube?
A virtual YouTube is a channel that follows an animated or virtual character instead of a real-life person. These virtual YouTubers (VTubers for short)...
Should Humans Have Empathy For AI Machines?
Empathy, of course, is a two-way street, and we humans don’t exhibit a whole lot more of it for bots than bots do for...
How Toronto’s Royal Conservatory Of Music Survived The Shutdown
With now over 60,000 students having taken online practical and theoretical exams, it became a sink-or-swim moment testing RCM’s ability to keep anxious students...
UK Politicians Are Increasingly Fighting The Culture Wars
As in the US, UK politicians are wading in to debates about statues, history, and the culture that defines the country. - The Guardian
Beating The Pandemic: Science Sure, But The Arts Had A Big Role
Provincial governments and public-health authorities have, understandably, been focused on science getting us out of this – but, less understandably, they’ve neglected allowing (never...
Federal “Save Our Stages” Aid Is Tied Up And Not Getting To The Arts
This stunning state of affairs stands in bold contrast to the initial PPP and the more recent restaurant relief funds, which were on their...
Science Has The Final Word. But Is That Too Confining?
"In the prevailing scientific worldview, counterfactual properties of physical systems are unfairly regarded as second-class citizens, or even excluded altogether. Why? It is because...
The Art Napoleon Stole (And How It Informs Restitution)
"He brought back enough loot from his conquests to fill what would soon become the Louvre Museum. And his ravenous and methodical art seizures...
The New King Of The Hollywood Musicals
Making Crazy Rich Asians and In the Heights helped Chu figure out what he’s trying to say with his films. Through them, he’s arguing...
Film Festivals Crank Up As The Movie Business Hangs In Balance
With Cannes on the verge of reigniting international festival activity and Telluride keen on reclaiming the Oscar influencer throne, festivals are mobilizing to become...
How Social Media Is Changing Lit
Complaining about other, more successful writers is one of the most popular activities on Twitter, as is devising elaborately exacting standards of correct speech...
A First Look At Stratford’s New $70 Million Theatre
Its physical beauty is a far cry from the rough-and-ready look of the previous Tom Patterson Theatre: a converted curling rink. - Toronto Star
NFTs Of Artists Vandalizing Their Art — What Could Go Wrong?
When the artist is the instigator of damage (to their own work, or that of another, such as Robert Rauschenberg erasing a Willem de...
Museum Endowments Soar During Pandemic — But…
Disappointingly, however, that silver lining has been tarnished by an unconscionable rush to the auction house by numerous museums eager to take advantage of...
Chicago’s City-wide Debate On Its Monuments
No other American city has opened up this sort of wide-ranging dialogue about how cities make monuments. Swept up in this inquiry are five...
Latest Hot Music Market: Meditation Apps
With no dance floors or concert halls to fill, many listeners turned toward gentler, unobtrusive music to help quiet their restless minds. In response,...
The Complicated Benefits Of Reading Literature
"No one now can go on insisting on the usual beneficial effects of literature without taking serious and systematic account of Currie's arguments. Not...
A New Era In Our Relationship With “Non-Human” Things
For the first time, Timothy Morton wrote, we had become aware that “nonhuman beings” were “responsible for the next moment of human history and...
Santa Fe’s Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Announces Big Expansion
The museum owns the former Safeway building, where its Education Center is located; the 1870s Bergere House, where museum administrative offices as well as...
Yemen’s War Is Erasing Its Past
Yemen's museums, the richest in the Arabian peninsula, are a reminder of the toll that war has taken on the country's cultural heritage, often...
Rethinking The Orchestra Business
The Symphony’s shift to a customer-centric approach is also reflected in their departure from sending the industry standard “killer offer” coupons to first-time audiences...
This Is How Easy It Is To Troll Book Folk
What’s important to note about these hoaxes is that they are absolutely terrible—totally artless, not believable at all, only really a “fool me once”...
Kate Winslet: A Huge Increase In Roles For Women My Age
"I do feel proud that as a woman in the film industry in her mid-40s, having been doing this job since I was 17,...