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"The new regulations … mandate that dealers must conduct specific checks on clients and report suspicious transactions that may suggest money laundering to the government. … The report f…
"[She was] a virtuoso vocalist whose ease of motion between opera, jazz and South African popular music made her a symbol of the country's new social order after the end of apartheid. … [P…
Yes, 2020 was a no-good-very-bad year for the arts (and most everything else), but a new study from TRG Arts and Purple Seven has at least a few glad tidings. In the U.S. and Canada, half of…
"The National Institute of Anthropology and History, a division of the Mexico government dedicated to the preservation of cultural artifacts, has filed a legal claim over 33 pre-Columbian ob…
Streaming services thoroughly dominate the roster: Hulu took 9 nominations, Amazon Studios 10, and Netflix a whopping 42. Among notable details: Tom Hanks and Spike Lee were snubbed, and of …
"On its face this list is a little concerning " in a few years, robots might render humans' book-recommending jobs obsolete. I, a human with a book-recommending job, am indeed a little conce…
"Finding your thrills in erotic literature, rather than in video scenes, might take a little longer, but it means caring more about the characters involved, which brings more meaning to the …
Dan-el Padilla Peralta's "vision of classics' complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as "equal parts vamp…
There is no shortage of theories about what makes an object aesthetically pleasing. Ideas about proportion, harmony, symmetry, order, complexity and balance have all been studied by psycholo…
Says classical music editor Zachary Woolfe (who came up with the idea in the shower), "It has doubled our audience for classical music. It's gratifying that whatever we do, people are willin…
"We inhabit a dystopian reality, which may account for the dearth of dystopian fiction. Yet the novels of Zamyatin, Huxley and Orwell continue to cast a powerful spell. All of them end in de…
"Across the city, amateur and professional dancers are donning sneakers, masks and lots of layers to carry on with a familiar ritual that, for many, is essential to maintaining physical and …
Just as journalistic embargoes aren't universally bad or unprofessional, academic embargoes might not be either. But conversations about the ethics of "access scholarship" are far less matur…
In 1302, caught on the wrong side in one of Florence's perpetual factional struggles, Dante Alighieri was fined and banished on a probably trumped-up charge of corruption in political office…
Such quirky, esoteric mash-ups feel less like stylistic innovations and more like branding exercises, reflecting a present in which one's ability to market oneself is more important than mas…
Converting "qualities to quantities", replacing "critical evaluation with economic, technical evaluation", making "the price system" the ultimate judge, turning institutions into markets and…
Two of them, Idagio and Primephonic, have been created specifically for classical music listeners. The other four, Apple Music, Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal, cover all genres. As we'll see, ther…
The absence of the Shonda Rhymes-produced Regency-era blockbuster proves the Golden Globes isn't just a popularity contest. Otherwise, the Netflix drama would have cleaned up in all categori…
Jones dropped out of college, and yes, started his career working in the shipping room at 20th Century Fox. "The Los Angeles native scored Academy Award noms for his work on comedy film seri…
Nearly two years after screenwriters fired their agents in a fight against agency actions that were costing TV writers quite a bit of money, the Writers' Guild Union approved a new deal with…
Or from bad development, anyway. Now it's up for bids not for sale but for "sustainable longterm uses." The fight against a luxury hotel development galvanized Edinburgh preservationists. "F…
Look … "He wasn't just a pro. If there were a fabulous comic-book A-team of character actors " an Expendables, a Wild Bunch, an Avengers Initiative " Christopher Plummer would have been th…
Yes, it's devastating all kinds of careers in the arts. One TV director: "The big question is 'will I ever work again?' And if not, how can I best say goodbye to an industry I have been part…
Yes, Black Panther is returning to comics, but also, so very much more than Black Panther. Here's a guide for newbies. " The New York Times
