Yearly Archives: 2023
The Strange Saga Of The $55 Million Netflix Project That Was Never Made
Netflix burned more than $55 million on Mr. Rinsch’s show and gave him near-total budgetary and creative latitude but never received a single finished...
Non-Profit Theatres Are Finding Ways To Survive
The leaders of these theaters define success differently than they did before the pandemic, but they are optimistic about the future and intent on...
Time For Another Go At Fixing Sn Francisco’s Davies Hall?
You may like Davies or not, and there are some valid concerns about aspects of it, but the SF Symphony’s major problem is not...
Russian Pop Stars Displaced From Home Because Of The War
Now forced to operate at a distance from most of their fan bases and, in many cases, labeled traitors by their government, they are...
Spotify Changes Musician Royalties Payouts; Claims $1 Billion More To Artists
The company claims the updates will drive an additional $1 billion toward artists, by re-directing the payments that had previously gone to fraudulent streams,...
Spotify’s Secret Sweetheart Deal With Google
Google head of global partnerships Don Harrison confirmed Spotify paid a 0 percent commission when users chose to buy subscriptions through Spotify’s own system....
Cleveland Ballet CEO Resigns Under Controversy
The board had suspended Michael Krasnyansky and his wife, Artistic Director Gladisa Guadalupe, pending results of the investigation. - The Plain Dealer
Rethinking Where Theatre Happens (And How It Changes Depending On Where)
At the height of the pandemic, each theatre focused on a medium that allowed them to reimagine storytelling unbound by the proscenium stage. From...
Spotify Quits Uruguay After Lawmakers Mandate Equitable Pay For Artists
Article 285 will put into copyright law the “right to a fair and equitable remuneration” for all “agreements entered into by authors, composers, performers,...
We Need To Redefine Work For A “Post-Work” World
Radical politics should aim for a world in which work’s social role is utterly transformed and highly attenuated—a world in which work can no...
Globally, People Paying For TV Has Started To Decline
In North America, pay TV penetration has almost halved from a high of 84 percent in 2009 to 45 percent in 2023, “caused by a...
The Fascinating Business Model Behind An Improbably Very Valuable Photograph
Over the last 30 years, roughly 600 signed and numbered copies have been sold, at prices that typically range between $15,000 and $30,000. The...
Architect Yasmeen Lari Vowed To Build One Million Flood-Resilient Homes For Poor Pakistani Villagers....
"The latest update from the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan, founded by Lari, is that the rebuild programme has so far provided 333,000 homes for...
Museums And Cathedrals: Both Are Suffering For Audiences
The museum’s role and fate risks replicating that of the church it seemed set to replace. The museum faces fundamental challenges. It is haunted...
At Last, Native American Playwrights Are Getting The Chance To Tell Their Peoples’ Own...
Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play), Mary Katheryn Nagle (Manahatta), and Madeline Sayet (Where We Belong) are three writers at the center of what they...
Arts Policy Under The UK’s Conservative Government Has Been A Disaster. Would Labour Be...
Since 2010, the arts have been praying for a change in Government. Polling suggests their wish will be granted. But what would Labour do...
How Public Radio’s Podcasts Are Like The Oakland A’s In “Moneyball”
Ben Brock Johnson, the executive producer of podcasts at Boston's WBUR, says his station "isn’t alone in the discovery that swinging for the fences...
Argentina’s New President Wants To Privatize All State-Owned Media Outlets
"Javier Milei, a libertarian economist and self-described "anarcho-capitalist," … described the public media outlets he wants to make private as amounting to 'a covert...
Talent Agency Drops Susan Sarandon After Remarks On Hamas/Israel War
United Talent dropped Sarandon after remarks at a rally in New York City: “There are a lot of people that are afraid, afraid of...
Maintenance Worker Stabbed To Death At One Of The Netherlands’ Top Concert Halls
At around 7 a.m. Sunday at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, a 41-year-old worker for the venue's cleaning contractor was attacked and murdered by a...
Syracuse City Ballet Fires Most Of Its Dancers After They Spent A Week On...
Out of eight professional dancers in the company, five were fired and another put on administrative leave. The dancers say they have had concerns...
Cultural Tourism Adds $11.4 Billion To Ontario’s Economy: Study
"The report, titled the Ontario Arts and Culture Tourism Profile, is based on data from Statistics Canada. A key takeaway from the document is...
Behold A 6,400-Square-Foot 4th-Century Mosaic Recently Uncovered In Turkey
"The villa (that contained the floor mosaic) has roots in the Roman and Byzantine eras and was used long after the Turks arrived in...
Sarah Palin’s School District Sued By ACLU, Parents, and Students Over Book Bans
"On November 17, eight local plaintiffs joined by the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska and advocacy group the Northern Justice project filed suit...
Award-Winning Palestinian Writer Who Was Arrested In Gaza Has Been Released
"Palestinian poet/essayist Mosab Abu Toha, whose 2022 poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza won an American Book...
