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NBCUniversal Seeks To Boot Nielsen From Top Of Ratings Measurement Business
Nielsen had long been the undisputed master of counting broadcast media's audience, but its traditional methods have had trouble accurately measuring the number of...
Smithsonian Kicks Off Major New Project On America’s Racial History
"'Our Shared Future: Reckoning with our Racial Past' (is) an ambitious multiyear program … that will tap into the vast expertise of the Smithsonian...
Met Opera Reaches Deal On Contract With Orchestra
"The agreement concludes several months of tension over how significant future pay cuts would be for musicians, who went for nearly a year without...
Edinburgh Fringe Starts Emergency Campaign To Raise $10 Million
"The Edinburgh festival fringe has launched a £7.5m emergency appeal after it lost millions of pounds during the COVID pandemic. … (The Fringe) was...
Whistled Languages Are Not Dead Yet
In at least 80 cultures worldwide, people have developed whistled versions of the local language when the circumstances call for it. … By studying...
Color Wars: The Art World’s Silliest Feud May Have Produced Some Actual Good
When Anish Kapoor acquired exclusive rights to Vantablack ("the world's blackest black"), Stuart Semple led a chorus of furious objections to the idea of...
Mass Exodus And An Unholy Mess At France’s Most Prestigious Classical Music Competition
The Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition is in crisis after its artistic directors — pianist Bertrand Chamayou, violinist Renaud Capuçon, and La Scala CEO Dominique Meyer —...
UNESCO Calls For Preservation Of Afghanistan’s Heritage, But Who Will Actually Protect It?
As an executive of the Institute for Art and Law tweeted: "It would be for other states, or international bodies like the United Nations,...
Under New Censorship Law, Hong Kong May Retroactively Ban Older Films
"Authorities are tightening their grip on the screening of films with a series of censorship law amendments that will include empowering the city's No....
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Makes ‘Spectacular’ Debut Before Dance World’s Elite
The company has played the Kennedy Center, and it performed at the Olympics in Atlanta (1996) and London (2012), but perhaps none of those...
“The Theatrical Arm Of The Civil Rights Movement”
The Free Southern Theater was founded by members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to travel around 1960s Mississippi, performing for poor Black farmers...
Blaxit: The African-American Artists Following In The Footsteps Of DuBois, Baker, Baldwin, And Simone
Taking advantage of the free movement a US passport provides, and tired of the disadvantages that come with dark skin at home, these performers,...
Texas Performance Venues In A Tight Spot Over Vaccine Passports
In June, Gov. Abbott signed a law making it illegal for most businesses to require proof of vaccination from customers. But a growing number...
Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie Reopens At Last
"Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, an iconic modern art museum designed by Bauhaus pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, reopened to the public Sunday after a...
Josephine Baker To Be Instated In France’s Panthéon
The expatriate American singer-dancer, who arrived in Paris in 1925 and became a legend, will become only the sixth woman, and the first Black...
How Live Dance Came To Times Square At The Very Height Of Lockdown
In the spring of 2020, mad with cabin fever, Jena VanElslander and a few friends started meeting every so often just to dance in...
The Tempestuous, Scandalous Life Of England’s First Female Fiction Writer
Lady Mary Wroth, a noble at James I's court, had two bastard children with an Earl who ignored them and dumped her. The cream...
San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House Gets New, Roomier Seats
San Francisco Opera chief Matthew Shilvock: "The seats have historically been patrons' No. 1 concern for the building. Letters to me. Letters to the...
The Supreme Court Threw Out This Filmmaker’s Suit Against North Carolina. Now He Has...
When Rick Allen sued NC for (ahem) pirating his footage of the salvage of Blackbeard's ship, the justices unanimously ruled that citizens can't sue...
The ‘Netflix Of Italian Culture’ Is Coming (And A Lot of It Will Be...
Operating along the lines of France TV's Culturebox, the streaming service ITsART.tv offers concerts, theater, dance, opera, virtual museum tours, cinema, and documentaries. It's...
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Is Sending Art Out To Small Towns
"'Uffizi Diffusi,' or 'Scattered Uffizi,' an initiative concocted by the gallery's director, Eike Schmidt, … aims to build stronger ties between the famous Florentine...
“Pass Over”, Broadway’s First Play Since Lockdown, May Be In Trouble
One unnamed producer says, "The show is bleeding money," and not all of the initial capitalization had been raised when previews began on Aug....
Actors, Get Your Damn Shots Or Get Off The Damn Stage: L.A. Times
Charles McNulty: "Whatever excuses you may have for not doing everything in your power to avoid taking up a scarce hospital bed or putting...
Substack Is Becoming A Platform For Fiction
"Authors including Elle Griffin, John McWhorter, Maggie Stiefvater, and Matt Taibbi use the service to serialize new books or publish short stories exclusive to...
Artist Chuck Close, 81
"(His) larger-than-life portraits, some composed of thousands of small but intricate paintings that served as pixels, made him one of the most renowned artists...
