Yearly Archives: 2023
Apple’s Classical Streaming App Has Arrived. So What’s Actually In It?
In August 2021, Apple purchased the classical-only streaming app Primephonic and immediately shuttered it, announcing that it would be reconfigured as an Apple product;...
British Theatre Audiences Are Behaving So Badly That Nearly Half Of Front-House Staff Want...
"Front-of-house staff facing violent assaults, theatregoers urinating in fire exits and mass brawls in auditoriums were among the incidents uncovered by the report from...
They’ve Discovered The Secret Ingredient In Old Masters’ Oil Paints: Protein!
"Trace quantities of protein residue have long been detected in classic oil paintings, though they were often ascribed to contamination. A new study …...
A Midwestern Network’s “Pro-Democracy” Alternative To Right-Wing Talk Radio
"With a presence in Milwaukee-Racine, Wausau-Stevens, Green Bay, and Appleton-Oshkosh and recent purchases in LaCrosse and Eau Claire markets, Civic Media's talk-formatted stations are...
Author Dubravka Ugrešić Is Dead At 73
A novelist and essayist who was for several years considered a likely Nobel candidate, "(she) found herself ostracized in the (newly-independent) country of Croatia...
Three-Quarters Of The Chorus Would Quit If English National Opera Leaves London: Survey
"Most chorus members … would be forced to leave their jobs if the company relocates outside London, because of ties that include children at...
Scotland To “Pause” Participation In Venice Biennale
"A spokesman said that in 'the present financial and planning environment' it was necessary to 'review the current model of delivery'. … Scottish involvement...
Global Museum Attendance: Which Museums Have Recovered (And Those That Haven’t)
That 141 million is double the number we recorded last year, and nearly three times that of 2020. But there is still some way...
What Elephants Are Teaching A Neuroscientist About Music
Elephants tend to keep a steadier beat than humans do, a study by the neuroscientist Aniruddh Patel later found, and Luk Kop’s sense of...
How Public Radio Could Fill Gaps In Local News
With more staff, local public radio stations could help fill the information gap created by the decline of local newspapers. They could afford to...
Something’s Terribly Awry With The “Creator” Economy
For the past few years, social-media platforms have used creator funds to lure content creators from their rivals with the promise of money to...
Sorry, The Problem Isn’t Misinformation, It’s “Knowingness”
In 21st-century culture, knowingness is rampant. You see it in the conspiracy theorist who dismisses contrary evidence as a ‘false flag’ and in the...
Ibrahim X. Kendi: Changing The Definition Of An Intellectual
The traditional construct of the intellectual has produced and reinforced bigoted ideas of group hierarchy—the most anti-intellectual constructs existing. But this framing is crumbling,...
When Spain’s Largest Newspaper Started A Book Club
The culture editors at El PaÃs had been considering starting a reading group for several years, but they only went ahead and launched the...
Met Museum Attendance Down By 1.7 Million In 2022
The Met was not alone among New York’s major institutions in experiencing a drop in attendance compared to 2019, with the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Arts Funding In New York State Faces A Sharp Drop As Pandemic Relief Cash...
"According to a summary of the (Governor's) executive budget released by the state Senate, the proposed fiscal year 2024 (arts) budget is $42.8 million,...
Hong Kong’s New M+ Becomes One Of The Most Popular Museums In Asia
M+ reported 2,034,331 visitors for the whole of 2022, placing it 18th on our table of the world’s most visited art museums. If visitors...
American Ballet Is Still Hung Up On George Balanchine, And He’s Been Dead For...
The new season of the podcast The Turning looks at the life of the choreographer; the heights, the difficulties, and the suffering that dancers...
Family Discovers Hidden Brueghel “Masterpiece” Behind Door In Their House
The family, who wishes to remain unknown, had asked Malo de Lussac of auctioneers Daguerre Val de Loire to estimate the value of their...
Florentines Invite Floridians To Come See For Themselves Whether Michelangelo’s David Is Pornographic
The director of the museum housing the work said that the board, parents and students of Tallahassee Classical School to come see the white...
How Artists Are Fighting Back To Protect Their Work In The World Of AI
Artists are fighting back, using a range of tactics from legal action to IT hacks, in order to protect their creative output and secure...
Countertenor James Bowman, One of The First Stars Of The Early Music Revival, Is...
Starting in the 1970s, he overtook Alfred Deller as the world's leading male alto through his work with David Munrow's Early Music Consort of...
Canada’s Regina Symphony Is Cancelling Performances Because Of Low Ticket Sales
This was supposed to be the first full season since the pandemic for the orchestra in Saskatchewan's capital. Ticket sales, however, are down...
Actors’ Equity Is Forming Its Own PAC
"The union ... will be launching the PAC in the first week of April, with the goal of contributing money to federal candidates who...
Yet Another Prosecution Setback In The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting Case
The special prosecutor originally assigned to the case was legally obliged to withdraw, and now the judge has told Santa Fe's district attorney, whose...
