Yearly Archives: 2023
Fired Banff Center Board Chair Explains Conflict With Former CEO
"Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of...
Why Is This Man Reviving A Ballet Company That Closed 27 Years Ago?
Christopher Marney: "My mum took me. We didn’t see the companies in London. We lived in Essex and we'd see London City Ballet at...
About Time: Justice Department Begins Investigation Of Live Nation Practices
The deals that Live Nation offers artists to land their events, and what restrictions those agreements might include, are among the practices the Justice...
The Musical That Acquired Millions Of Online Fans Before It Ever Took The Stage
"Unlike Beetlejuice, Heathers or Dear Evan Hansen, which all parlayed onstage popularity into huge digital followings, Treason is turning the formula for musical success...
Big Tech Argues That Proposed Regulation Would Send Innovation Elsewhere
"Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme...
WordTheatre, Where Big-Name Actors Read Little-Known Literature Aloud
"The organization brings together well-known actors from film, TV and theater to share dramatic readings of literary works. … (Since 2003, it has) expanded...
The Malcolm X Opera Opening At The Met On Friday Is A Family Matter....
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X has a score by veteran African-American composer Anthony Davis; scenario by his brother, actor-director and market...
Why Was Tucker Carlson Really Fired From Fox News? Basically, Because He Had It...
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think,...
How Is The Philadelphia Inquirer Getting Millennials To Buy Subscriptions? Inside Jokes.
"The ads lean into the city’s quirky culture across sports, food, and the arts, and evolve quickly to respond to news events so the...
Emory University’s Art Museum Admits — Reluctantly — That Some Of Its Antiquities Were...
"Emory University’s Michael C. Carlos Museum is quietly relinquishing ownership of five antiquities to Italy as it acknowledges, for the first time, that some...
Disney Is Buying The One-Third Of Hulu That It Doesn’t Already Own
"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the...
An Elderly Couple, A Bric-A-Brac Dealer, And Gabonese In France Are Fighting Over A...
"A retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 have gone to court for a share of...
Louis Armstrong, Media Star
“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent...
Increasingly London Theatre-Goers Are Complaining About Rising Ticket Prices
“Theater is becoming very elitist. The minute there’s a well-known person in a play, it’s unaffordable.” - The New York Times
Why An Artist Acquired 6000 Copies Of “Da Vinci Code, Pulped And Turned Them...
It all began in 2017, when a thrift store in Wales, put a notice in its window imploring people to stop donating copies of “The...
How California Became A Hotbed Of New Music
Ara Guzelimian, who grew up in Los Angeles and now leads the Ojai Music Festival nearby, described California’s classical music culture as “the lingering...
How Did HGTV Come To Define Our House Aesthetic?
These bundled aesthetic commonalities aren’t just coincidences, and they can’t be entirely described as trends—at least not in the sense of bottom-up collective favor...
A North Carolina School District Removes Popular Sarah Maas Books
A favorite on TikTok’s “BookTok” community, the series has sold over 13 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 37 languages, according to Bloomsbury. A...
It Comes As No Surprise That Henry Winkler’s Charming, …
"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap,...
Britain’s Ruling Conservatives Seem To Have No Plan For The Wayward Arts Council
Conservatives used to be intelligent patrons of the arts. In the 1930s, you had the most sophisticated cultural operation of any political organisation in...
The Stone Sculptors Of Zimbabwe, Once Collectors’ Favorites, Now Struggle To Keep Their Work...
Stonecarving is a centuries-old craft among the Shona people, and it thrived until the start of this century, when the violent turmoil caused by...
We Have Forgotten How To Disagree In The Arts
The list of such fundamental divisions is long, and it is synonymous with multicultural liberalism. For this, many democracies maintain two-party parliamentary systems. Goading...
Norman Lebrecht Goes To A Yuja Wang Concert And Sees The Future Of Music
That triggered a subversive thought: why can’t all solo recitals be like this? Why won’t Carnegie Hall enhance its pianists with works of Pissaro...
Are OpenAI-Written Broadway Musicals Coming? No — They’re Already Here.
Peter Marks: "How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge...
Great Contemporary Novels Are Being Turned Into Story Ballets
"Choreographers’ interest in tying ballet directly to literature is a notable turnaround from the 20th century’s Balanchine-influenced rise of abstract, plotless ballets. Using ballet...
