The ability to create a fully analog recording in 2025 is exceedingly difficult and expensive. Analog recording decks require specialized maintenance, and the tape used for master recordings is vastly more expensive than recording to a hard drive. - Digital Trends
"Among the issues are determining what private philanthropy’s role should be in maintaining the arts-and-culture ecosystem and forging a unified effort to advocate for increased public funding." Key to the latter is forming partnerships with organizations elsewhere in Wisconsin, so as to counter "deep Milwaukee skepticism" in the state legislature. - Milwaukee Magazine
Among the findings of the study are that people value being closer to the stage than further away. Reserved seating is more valuable than general admission seating. However, for people with children and older respondents, reserved seating held significantly more value. - Butts In Seats
Every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. It is now the defining resource of our age. - The Atlantic
The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news media in Canada, with the country’s Indigenous media perhaps the hardest hit. - Canadian Dimension
National Theatre CEO Kate Varah: "Many I speak to in the sector feel they are at a breaking point with limited funds and conflicting demands. … They are being asked to find new revenue streams to stimulate national economic growth with reduced core funding and no central, annual capital maintenance fund." - WhatsOnStage (UK)
The changes demonstrated a miscalculation of not just the economic dynamic of the art market—for which supply is harder to stimulate than demand—but also its psychology. - The Art Newspaper
The more time you spend having your mind changed online, the more you might sense that there’s something odd about the way in which opinions tend to be formed and held today. To any question you can ask, there’s apparently already an answer; in fact, there seem to be more answers than questions. - The New Yorker
Over time, digested in larger quantities, this entertainment sands away the distinctions between this and that until context collapses into a river of color and sound. - The New York Times
"New Yorker writer Rachel Syme was in the stir-crazy early months of the pandemic, scribbling notes to friends and family, when she put out an open call on social media: Was anyone interested in a pen pal? Yes, some 15,000 people." - Vanity Fair
"'Hot For You Baby,' written by Australian singer John Paul Young and produced by John Carter, was originally meant to be included on the 1984 album." It will be included in the upcoming 40th anniversary edition of Private Dancer, to be released on March 21. - AP
The order, revived from his first term, says policies should ensure new buildings "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift and beautify public spaces." No, that does not mean only Greco-Roman style. - NPR
"Paramount must face some claims in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery accusing it of setting in motion a breach of a $500 million licensing deal for the exclusive rights to South Park, a court has ruled." - The Hollywood Reporter
"The judge gave the police permission to confiscate the drawings (by MF Husain) after a lawyer, Amita Sachdeva, complained that the artworks featuring two Hindu deities 'hurt religious sentiments.' … The two drawings showed the Hindu gods Hanuman and Ganesha alongside naked women." - ARTnews
"(She was) a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on" in favor of "'radical figuration.' … Across more than six decades of work, Baer found innovative — and challenging — ways of exploring how the eye perceives an image." - ARTnews
