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The streets of Shibuya, Tokyo, were littered with boxes upon boxes of discarded albums by K-pop boy band Seventeen recently. On April 30, a day after the release of their anthology album 17 Is Right Here, Shibuya News posted a TikTok video wondering: "What kind of situation is this?" The video shows albums strewn about, opened and with CDs on...

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(1) FUTURE TENSE. The December 2023 entry in the Future Tense Fiction series is “Rigland,” by Suyi Davies Okungbowa. The story is about oil rigs and what we owe to our communities. It was published along with a response essay by journalist Mia Armstrong-López: "What if Oil Platforms Belonged to the People Who Worked on Them?". …When

A crew member's memories of how the Daleks first began to terrify television audiences.

Given the wave of politicisation that has transformed the academic, business, and arts world in the West over the past decade, it was inevitable that New York City’s Metropolitan Opera, America’s most prominent opera company (whose weekly performances are broadcast across the country) would accommodate the trend. Hence for its 2023-24 season, along with classics by composers like Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, and Verdi, the Met added three recent American operas with significant politica...

Extinction Rebellion's churlish protest at New York City's Metropolitan Opera reflects a broader cultural shift

Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” The performance later resumed.

A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a turn.

Members of ecological activist organization Extinction Rebellion on November 18 occupied the spiraling central atrium of New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

Police arrested 13 activists with Extinction Rebellion after they protested at the American Museum of Natural History and the Guggenheim.