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The TV Audience In Britain Is Shrinking As Even Older Viewers Start Streaming
"As a result, the proportion of people watching any traditional TV broadcast in a given week has declined from 83% in 2021 to 79%...
Worldwide Spending On Cultural Infrastructure Is Back To Pre-COVID Levels
"Total costs of completed and announced projects in 2022 hit an estimated overall value of $15.1 billion. … Museums and galleries continue to dominate...
Training AI Tools For The Languages (Even Major Ones) That Don’t Dominate The Internet
English alone counts for almost half the internet; add other European languages plus Chinese and Japanese and it's 95%. For other languages — even...
Pianist And Teacher Ruth Greenfield, Who Bridged The Racial Divide In 1950s Miami, Is...
"In 1951, eight years before … the first school in Miami-Dade to desegregate, Greenfield founded the Fine Arts Conservatory, one of the first racially...
AI Has Arrived In The Publishing Industry, Too
"Some authors are using A.I. as a writing and editing assistant that can help them brainstorm, organize material, develop characters or create an outline....
As Writers And Actors Strike, Hollywood Is Looking To Hire A Bunch Of AI...
"Some recent job listings are for fairly traditional tech-world roles, such as software engineers (who write code) and product managers (who guide projects to...
Historical Novelist Philippa Gregory Is Writing Her First Play, A Rehabilitation Of Richard III
"Gregory's play opens, aptly enough, with Richard bursting up from his grave in a Leicester car park to challenge the way his reputation has...
“I Was Now The Boss. That Was Very Uncomfortable For Me”: David Hallberg Talks...
"One of the biggest adjustments for me was how everyone looks to you for decision making about even very minor things. I always want...
The Company Behind The Immersive Van Gogh, Monet, And Kahlo Shows Declares Bankruptcy
The Toronto-based corporation Lighthouse Immersive Inc. is going through insolvency proceedings in Ontario, and it has filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in Delaware in...
Oregon Symphony’s New CEO Comes From New York Philharmonic
Isaac Thompson will be leaving his position as the NY Phil's managing director (overseeing operations, artistic matters, business, and DEI work) to begin his...
Lizzo Is Sued By Three Ex-Backup Dancers For Sexual Harassment, Fat-Shaming (!), And A...
"The suit … accuses Lizzo and employees of (her touring company) of interrogating dancers about their weight and pressuring them to engage in sexually...
UNESCO Calls For Venice To Be Put On The World Heritage In Danger List
The draft resolution, to be put before UNESCO's World Heritage Committee next month, states that there has been no "significant level of progress in...
In London, Relief As the Tourism Economy Comes “Roaring Back”
"After two years wiped out by Covid restrictions and a third that only saw a tentative recovery, … two million more international visitors are...
Louisville Ballet Makes Cuts To Next Season And Is Trying To Raise $3 Million...
"Tax documents from 2010-2020, which are the most recent available from the IRS, show that's an optimistic number, and in some cases, hundreds of...
Hong Kong’s Big New Arts Center Is Facing A Terrifying Fiscal Cliff
The West Kowloon Cultural District was meant to be funded by income from adjacent office buildings — but, since COVID, the office market is...
Well, There’s One Big Show Business Event Unscathed By The Hollywood Strikes: Montreal’s Just...
"To be sure, stand-up artists gathered in Montreal like summer camp for their industry have been looking with great interest to the stalled contract...
Threads: How A Small Team Built An Alternative To Twitter From Scratch In Seven...
"(The app's fast creation and launch) has become something of a marvel inside Meta. … Many see its quick rise as a reminder that...
Why “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” Was So Brilliant At What It Did
"(The show) made perfect sense. Kids are wigged-out surrealists by nature; it takes grown-ups to regiment their impulses into predictable TV formats. ... Maybe...
Paris Olympics Organizers Say The Bookseller Stalls Along The Seine Must Move, And The...
The opening ceremony, rather than being in a stadium, will be a parade of boats down the river through the city, and authorities say...
Judi Dench Says She Can No Longer See On A Movie Set Or Read...
Says the 88-year-old actress, who had already revealed her macular degeneration, "You just deal with it. Get on. It's difficult for me if I...
Myth Debunked: Antiquities Trafficking Is Not The World’s Third-Largest Illegal Trade, Finds Study
"Though (the researchers) agree that the illegal trade in antiquities is a matter of serious concern, they argue that the reiteration of and reliance...
Last Of The Big Holdouts Gives In: Hyperion Records Is Finally Making Its Catalog...
The classical label's founding father and son, Ted and Simon Perry, insisted for years that they'd allow their recordings to be accessed only by...
Paul Reubens, Actor Who Played More Than Pee-Wee Harman, Is Dead At 70
He first developed the Pee-wee character in the 1970s as a member of the Groundlings, then went on to a popular stage show, two...
The National Braille Press And How It Works
"NBP has been at the forefront of braille publishing since 1927. … Today, NBP produces and distributes braille books, reading materials, and technologies for...
One Of Japan’s Leading Kabuki Actors Will Face Trial For Assisting His Parents’ Suicide
"The indictment … alleges that Ichikawa gave an excessive amount of sleeping drugs to his father, Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danshiro IV, and his mother...