Yearly Archives: 2023
When Public Art Is Funded By Corporate Interests (Yes, There Are Issues)
While publicized as an investment in art and beautifying the city, the location, impact, and funding sources of these murals seem to correspond closely...
Why Disney Is Going All In On Sports Betting
Sports betting company Penn Entertainment will pay Disney $1.5 billion in cash while ESPN will receive warrants worth about $500 million to purchase shares...
What It Costs When A Big Concert Is Canceled
Generally speaking, a sudden cancellation could mean an arena loses out on roughly $500,000 in revenue, according to some estimates. For music’s largest shows—stadium...
The Lines Between Galleries And Museums Has Blurred
In an increasingly difficult fundraising climate, dealer involvement in museum shows has become ever more prevalent. This begs the question: are the works we...
Why Does Ukraine’s National Ballet Perform For Only 400 People At A Time?
Because that's how many people the bomb shelter at their home theater in Kyiv can hold. (No, this is not a joke.) - Toronto...
The Movie “Oppenheimer” Versus The Opera “Dr. Atomic”: Is Opera Better At Ambiguity?
Is musical drama better suited than film to represent tragedy without manipulating its audience? - Van
The Block On Enforcing Florida’s Anti-Drag Law Remains In Place For Now, Rules Appeals...
"A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law...
Public Radio’s Largest Station Steps Back (A Bit) From Podcasts
Last week, 6 percent of New York Public Radio’s workforce was let go — with most of the cuts targeting its podcast vertical, WNYC...
AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt....
The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped...
Best Buy On The Leading Edge: Will (Finally) Stop Selling DVDs
“To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” a Best Buy...
New York’s Under The Radar Festival, Canceled By The Public Theater, Is Revived By...
The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater...
Coming To A Mall Near You: Bricks-And-Mortar Netflix Stores
The stores will sell merchandise based on hit Netflix shows, so you can finally snag that Lincoln Lawyer coffee mug you’ve always dreamed of. - Engadget
Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of...
Kharkiv’s Opera House Has Been Wrecked By Russian Missiles, But Its Company Continues To...
"In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists" – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring...
Chicago Seems Unable To Keep A Period-Instrument Orchestra. So It’s Adopting Cleveland’s.
The city's own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the...
“Extraordinary. And Exhausting.” How The Staff Is Coping With Management Chaos At Sacramento’s Capital...
"An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors ......
PBS’s Fall Schedule Is Almost Completely Unaffected By The Strikes. How Did They Pull...
"In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American...
The Gettysburg Review Is Abruptly Shut Down By Gettysburg College
The college's president granted that the Review is "a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education...
Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts
Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of...
Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide
After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of...
The Rewards Of Learning To Love More Complicated Music
When repeated listenings do deliver, the satisfaction can be deeper than the feeling the easier kind of music brings, at least for me. - The...
Vancouver Opera Gets A New Artistic Director
In February of this year, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal named Jacques Lacombe its new artistic director and principal conductor. - Stir
FTC Wants To Go After Junk Fees (Including On Tickets)
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement that “by hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the...
Report: Teens Are Now Spending More Time On YouTube Than Netflix
Time on YouTube rose since the spring, adding nearly a percentage point, while Netflix fell more than two percentage points. - CNBC
How Images Are Shaping The Middle East War Narrative
In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or...
