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Good Newspaper News! Britain’s The Independent Posts Six Consecutive Years Of Profit
And that's in spite of a 66% fall in profits from the previous fiscal year, due partly to increased spending on reporting from the...
Jackass Tourist Carves Juvenile Love Graffiti Into Wall Of Rome’s Colosseum
"The video, which was posted to Reddit, shows a man using his keys to scratch the words 'Ivan + Hayley '23' on an exterior...
Leaky Berlin Museum Is Reduced To Covering A Rembrandt With Plastic And Duct Tape
"On June 23, as heavy rains in Germany flooded streets and shut down rail transportation, staff at Berlin's Gemäldegalerie taped up some plastic sheeting...
BAM Lays Off 26 Staffers To Address A “Sizable Structural Deficit”
The Brooklyn Academy of Music's president, Gina Duncan, "said that the changes were necessary in part to help BAM to 'weather the downturn in...
Tulsa Opera Cancels 2023-24 Mainstage Season
"In addition, Ken McConnell, who served as the company's general director and CEO since 2018, has resigned. Aaron Beck, a longtime Tulsa Opera staff...
Was This Man America’s First Published Black Composer?
Occramer Marycoo, abducted from the Gold Coast of West Africa to Newport, Rhode Island in 1764 and renamed by his enslaver as Newport Gardner,...
What Belgians Are Doing With All The Beautiful Old Churches Nobody’s Worshiping In Anymore
"On average, each of the 300 towns in Flanders has about six churches and often not enough faithful to fill a single one. Some...
What Do You Get When You Cross Hip-Hop With Ballet?
Hiplet, of course. (That's pronounced "hip-lay.") "The dance style — a captivating fusion of hip hop and ballet, with some jazz and modern thrown...
We Are Living Through The End Of The Useful Internet. Just Look At What’s...
"Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely-embarrassing-but-occasionally-amusing, to actively harmful, to — mainly by accident — essential. … The internet's best resources...
Sheldon Harnick, Lyricist For “Fiddler On the Roof,” Is Dead At 99
"Starting in the late 1950s, Harnick and Jerry Bock spent a dozen years at the summit of Broadway songwriting teams. They collaborated on five...
How They Turned The Broadway Theater Into A Disco For “Here Lies Love”
"Scenic designer David Korins, … , who worked on Beetlejuice and Hamilton, put it this way: 'I've done some complicated and ambitious work on...
“It’s A Crazy-Quilt Of Faulty Incentives, From End To End”: Even Deeper Problems With...
"The Brooklyn Museum wanted to do an exhibition with a Netflix celebrity, so the institution isn't going to say anything too plainly about the...
The 100 Most Significant Political Films of All Time (Not Best. Most Significant.)
A poll of 79 film critics, with the results assembled and curated by J. Hoberman and Julian Epp. (There's also a separate reader poll.)...
Political Films? What Makes A Film “Political”?
Everyone's criteria will be different. (One critic declined to participate in TNR's poll by saying "Every film I care about is political.") And yet,...
The Problem When Billionaires Buy Great Newspapers To Save Them
"That provided a lifeline, but, it was pretty widely said, also a risk: What if the billionaires tired of the money they were losing,...
Eight Months After It Shut Down, Bookforum Will Be Back
"On Thursday, it announced a new partnership with the left-leaning magazine The Nation, and that its next print issue would arrive in August. …...
Vice Media Has Been Bought Out Of Bankruptcy
"The acquisition of the one-time media powerhouse by its three creditors — made up of Fortress, Soros Fund Management and Monroe Capital — is...
The Problem With “It’s Pablo-Matic”? The Exhibition Itself Doesn’t Agree With Hannah Gadsby About...
Well, besides Gadsby's "'neener-neener-you're-a-weiner' style of commentary." Ben Davis: "After spending four hours in it, I started to suspect that what makes the show...
An Unknown, Unfinished Novel By Françoise Sagan Arrives On Shelves
"The Four Corners of the Heart … was discovered seven years after Sagan's death in 2004 by her son, and ends on a cliffhanger....
The Unsung Hero Of Wes Anderson’s Movies? The Key Grip.
"It's a rough job, pushing and pulling a camera mounted on a dolly — a setup weighing up to 900 pounds — along hundreds...
They’ve Put Up A Geodesic Dome At The Dalí Museum in Florida. Here’s Why.
"We now have the answer: 'Dalí Alive 360°,' a new immersive experience showcasing the Spanish surrealist's works. It opens sometime this summer." - Tampa...
North Carolina’s Triad Stage Is Closing Its Doors
"This spring, the professional regional theater in downtown Greensboro stopped selling tickets to shows while examining its options amid financial struggles. The group's volunteer...
A Depressing Report On Freelancing In The British Theatre Industry
"A comprehensive report published by Freelancers Make Theatre Work … reveals significant disparities in pay between male and female workers, amounting to a gap...
San Francisco Has Changed Its Arts Funding Priorities, And Some Groups Have Gotten Quite...
"Many arts organizations," including such flagships as the San Francisco Symphony, "have seen their city funding reduced drastically or eliminated altogether. At the same...
Motion Picture Academy Changes Rules For Best Picture Oscar
"Under the new rules, … a film will need to continue its run beyond the current requirement, a one-week theatrical release in one of...
