Yearly Archives: 2023
Swathed In 10,000 White Marble Sculptures, An Enormous New Hindu Temple Rises Deep In...
"The path to God runs down the New Jersey Turnpike. About an hour from the Holland Tunnel, … a mirage appears: swirls of stone...
Is There Now Enough Cultural Data To Inform Public Policy?
This article intervenes in this debate by assessing the use and value of the long tail of metadata associated with the UK’s rich cultural...
The Craft And Art Of Wigmaking For Theatre
"Some hairpieces are bobby-dazzlers: towers of Restoration foppery, ravishingly long Rapunzels. Others slink by unnoticed, disguised in realism. Who makes them? Who pins them...
This Year’s Grammy Nominations Announced
Female acts make up seven of the eight nominees in the top three categories — with SZA leading the pack with nine overall nominations while Taylor Swift, Olivia...
A Grand Old Master Of Classic Afghan Song Returns To The Stage At Age...
Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, one of the last living stars of a golden era for Afghan music, fled the Taliban in 1991, settled in London...
Rhode Island’s Public TV, Public Radio Plan To Merge
“This was not a financial decision for either one of us. I mean we’re two both very strong organizations financially. This is purely about...
The Ukrainian Filmmakers Who’ve Become Experts At Drone Warfare
Cinematographer Yaroslav Pilunskiy uses his skills to give the best possible sense of depth and scale to, say, trenches hidden in forests. Film editor...
Jackson Pollock Didn’t Invent Drip Painting. A Ukrainian Immigrant Grandma Did.
"Janet Sobel experimented. She would squirt paint directly out of a tube, drip it with an eyedropper, even pull wet paint across the canvas...
The Agent Who Turned Serious Literature Into A Serious Moneymaker
"Over the past four decades, Andrew Wylie has reshaped publishing in profound and, some say, insalubrious ways. He has been a champion of highbrow...
Can Small-Scale Arts Events Rebuild Community In Atomized American Society? This Project In Boston...
"'If you want to see a diverse and vibrant cultural community come to fruition, you have to build it," said Guy Ben-Aharon, founder of...
Robert De Niro’s Ex-Assistant Awarded $1.2 Million For Gender Discrimination And Retaliation
The actor was not found personally liable, but his Canal Productions was found liable for former staffer Graham Chase Robinson's "emotional distress and reputational...
Fistfights Outside The Museum Of Tolerance In L.A.
"Street fights erupted between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance after a private screening of video showing the Oct. 7...
Mike Shuster, Longtime Foreign Correspondent For NPR, Is Dead At 76
"He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories. … During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his...
How Movie Scores Shape Intensity
These features shape audience expectations through repetition, creating unease when anticipated development fails to emerge. - The Conversation
Comedians: Want To Have A Career? You Have To Be Online
“You have to be a small business first, not just somebody asking for business,” he said. “You have to be your own PR person....
A Year After Their Funding Was Cancelled, Here’s What UK Theatres Have Done
For many, spending months trying to really understand why they have lost investment and feeling they are no closer to an answer has made...
Brooklyn Museum Workers Okay First Contract
The agreement guarantees a 23 percent wage boost over the life of the contract, raising the minimum wage and promising annual raises. The cost...
Why Do Artists Have To Pronounce On Everything?
"The growing tendency of artists to pronounce on everything from microaggressions to macropolitics shows that we need a fundamentally different understanding of the role...
Disney+ Adds Three Million Subscribers, Tops 150M
These results come after a quarter that saw an exodus of 12.5 million Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions amid a strategy shift to move away from...
Why This School District In Far North Texas Interfered With A High School Production...
Well, the stated reason was this: "It was brought to the District’s attention that the current production contained mature adult themes, profane language, and...
How Streaming Reinvented TV (Then Broke It Again)
Eliminating the intervening week between episodes meant they could fracture their narratives. They used flashbacks, flashforwards and even flashsideways to begin episodes without totally...
One Out Of Every Five Jobs In London Is In The “Creative Economy”: Municipal...
"More than 1.1 million jobs in the capital (21.1%) in 2021 were held by people employed in the creative economy, up from 882,000 (16.9%)...
HBO Max Loses 700,000 Subscribers
Despite the huge drop, streaming revenue at Max, which is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, were up 5 percent—with a 30 percent year-on-year jump...
What Value Does (And Doesn’t) The American Public See In Higher Ed Today? Here’s...
"Opinions vary markedly — by subgroup and by which aspects of colleges people are considering. Find out who said what about how degrees help...
Scottish Government Proposes Culture Funding Cuts
The £6.6m cut had been reversed earlier this year after a campaign by people working in the Scottish arts but it was reintroduced in...
