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The Crash Is Here: NFT Sales Have Fallen By 97% In Nine Months
"In January 2022, $17.2 billion was traded on the NFT market, a stunning high that eclipsed 2021's NFT mania. ... But since the start...
Two Years After Being Sued, Brown Paper Tickets Still Owes A Lot Of Arts...
In 2020, the attorney general of Washington state ordered the Seattle-based ticketing service to pay what grew, six months later, to a total of...
“It Was Unfinished Business”: The Revamped David Geffen Hall Is What Deborah Borda Came...
She ran the orchestra in the 1990s, and left partly because she saw no real will to fix the Phil's long-problematic venue. After 17...
World’s Second-Largest Cinema Chain Says Attendance Won’t Be Back To Normal For At Least...
"Exhibition giant and Regal owner Cineworld Group, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S., predicted on Friday that cinema admissions...
Wendell Pierce Is Broadway’s First Black Willy Loman, A Role He Never Knew He...
"Even though Pierce has enjoyed a robust career, which includes long stints on prestige television shows and an Obie award for sustained excellence of...
The Smiley Face, At 50 Years Old, Is Very Big Business
"The smiley – at least, this particular version of it – is a trademarked image. Want to use it? You gotta pay. Today, the...
At 87, Choreographer Yvonne Rainer Has Created Her Final Work
"Given her age, it makes sense. But is it really true? 'Yeah, I feel it's my last production. ... I don't know. I have...
Why Folks Are Flipping Out About The New Anthony Bourdain Biography
Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of...
What’s Really Extraordinary About Whoopi Goldberg
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ......
Experience Shows: Four Veteran Stage Actors Discuss The Good Things About Acting Past Age...
"What I think is so wonderful about getting older in this work is that you learn how much you don't have to do. You...
A First Look At The Renovated David Geffen Hall (Yes, A Look) By The...
Michael Kimmelman won't say anything about the acoustics until there are actual concerts, but he recounts the venue's star-crossed history of expensive disappointments and...
Dallas Public Radio Station KERA Is Buying The Daily Newspaper In Denton, Texas
"North Texas Public Broadcasting, the parent company of news/talk KERA Dallas (90.1), is in the process of acquiring the Denton Record-Chronicle. ... Facilitating the...
US Securities And Exchange Commission Sues Former Execs Of MoviePass For Fraud
"The market regulator said that for more than two years, Theodore Farnsworth and former Netflix executive Mitchell Lowe, who were CEOs of Helios and...
President James Madison’s Crystal Flute Gets Played By Lizzo
The instrument is one of the 1,900 flutes in the Library of Congress's collection, the world's largest. Last week, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla...
France Increases Its Arts And Culture Funding By 7% To €4.2 Billion
Rima Abdul Malak, the country's minister of culture, announced the record-high budget earlier this week. €208.5 million of that money will go to the...
Dayton Ballet’s Artistic Director Will Step Down At The End Of This Season
Karen Russo Burke's decade-long tenure included a merger with the city's orchestra and opera company into the Dayton Performing Arts Alliance and has seen...
Was Piet Mondrian The Austere Ascetic People Took Him To Be?
No. No, he was not. - The New Yorker
Not Every Device Shakespeare Used Makes Sense After 400 Years. How Do Today’s Directors...
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people...
Pop-Up Libraries In Vacant Storefronts Are Helping Bring Post-Pandemic Melbourne Back To Life
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy...
The Amazing, Fantastic, Incredible Phenomenon Of “Semantic Bleaching”
"(It's) like staining all the color out of our words, and it happens with overuse. Another way to describe it is supply and demand....
Who Owns Rights To The TV Coverage Of Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral, The Broadcasters Or...
"The BBC, ITV and Sky News have been given until Monday to produce a 60-minute compilation of clips they would like to keep from...
The Court Cases Over Texas’s And Florida’s New Anti-Moderation Laws Could Save, Or Destroy,...
"If these laws take effect, platforms will be forbidden from prohibiting or deprioritizing certain kinds of content — creating the potential for a future...
How Adnan Syed’s Release Mirrors The Change In True Crime Media
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for...
Cleveland Orchestra Receives An Extraordinary Gift: The Only Complete Manuscript Of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony
The score, written between 1888 and 1894, was donated by orchestra board member Herbert Kloiber, who purchased it in 2016 from the estate of...
UK Amends Museums Law To Allow Deaccessioning Items For “Reasons Of Morality”
"The country's High Court of Justice ruled in 2005 that, per the British Museum Act 1963, national museums could not remove items from their...
