Spotify Removes Half-Million Streams After Suspicious Kalshi Activity
Spotify has removed more than 500,000 registered streams from Malcolm Todd‘s Earrings, after the song’s rise to No. 1 on the platform’s daily US chart was tied to bets...
Pondering The Statue Of Liberty As An Art Object
Financed by public subscription, powered by photography and P.R., the Statue of Liberty is now so identified with her adopted home that she has...
Anna Deavere Smith’s Latest Theater Piece Is About Her Own Great-Great-Grandfather
“’Basil Biggs’ premieres this month in Philadelphia, written for the nation's 250th anniversary. The title character is her great-great-grandfather, a free Black man who...
Vijay Gupta: Classical Music Needs A New Why
"My teachers made it clear that music was sacred. But after I got into the LA Philharmonic at 19, playing the most celebrated music...
The Two Versions Of Who We Really Are
Jean-Paul Sartre, for instance, insists that for humans ‘existence precedes essence’. We do not have an essence until we give ourselves an essence. In short, ‘man...
AI Company Midjourney Attempts To Force Movie Studios To Reveal AI Use
The studios sued the AI image lab last year, accusing it of enabling massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has claimed “fair use” and has...
Atlanta’s Second Ballet Company Celebrates Ten Years
“Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre has been making movement magic in Atlanta for a decade. Artistic Director John Welker spoke to ArtsATL about its accomplishments so far...
How JD Vance’s Book Put bell hooks’ 2002 Book Back On The Bestseller List
In 2002, the Black feminist writer and scholar bell hooks published a book titled “Communion,” which argues that women have been conditioned to search...
Attendance Has Plunged At Europe’s Jewish Museums
Across Europe, many Jewish museums have seen visitor numbers drop, patrons back away and security threats rise since the fall of 2023. The association’s...
Appeals Court Reverses Lower Court Ruling That National Park Signs Had To Be Restored...
The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday halted the ruling, which would have restored park materials that the administration says were purged as...
To This We’ve Come: An AI Fake News Article Complaining About AI Fake News...
“The headline was a grabber: ‘The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup Killed 47 Weekly Newspapers and No One Noticed.’ It...
“Avenue Q” Director On Reviving The Show For A New Generation
Jason Moore, who has restaged and updated the show for London: “Once I revisited, I was like, ‘Oh, right, we made this in our...
The Man Who Invented American Popular Song: Stephen Foster At 200
Born on July 4, 1826, Foster’s legacy is as influential, and as mixed, as that of his nation. Some of his songs were written...
Paris Opera’s Historic Theater Has Lead Poisoning
“Planned restoration work (at the Palais Garnier) that was supposed to take two years is now projected for five, with evaluation for the best...
New York City’s New Budget Has Record-High Arts Funding
“The city government will give $323.8 million to (the Department of Cultural Affairs), which administers public funding to arts institutions throughout the city. The...
Robert Kimball, Broadway Treasure Hunter, Has Died At 86
“(He) often acted as a kind of Indiana Jones of song, as when he helped excavate a treasure trove of manuscripts by George Gershwin,...
Actor Danny Glover Reveals Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
The four-time Emmy nominee, who received an honorary Oscar in 2022, says he was diagnosed with the disease three years ago. His 80th birthday...
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks Director of Marketing
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts seeks Director of Marketing. Salary is in the range of $120,000 to $125,000.
Waits of 9 hours for tickets to the Bayeux Tapestry
Rebecca Makkai pulls back the curtain on how judging for book awards actually works — idiosyncratic judges, no institutional input, winners that surprise even...
In Bali, Sacred Dance Lives On
A photo journal of more than 30 teenage girls performing the Rejang dance for the Kuningan holiday, the close of a ten-day Balinese Hindu...
Video On Social Media Platforms Is Now The Leading Way People Worldwide Consume News:...
“Worldwide” is the key word here: demand for news video on third-party platforms, while certainly growing, is lowest in Europe and North America, with...
How Book Prizes Really Work
In every prize I’ve ever judged or heard firsthand reports of, everything else is up to the judges and their idiosyncrasies. There’s no input from anyone...
Why The Pittsburgh Symphony’s Budget Jumped By $7M
Special concerts, especially the live-with-film concerts, are now programmed further in advance and are more predictable in terms of their revenue. This has led...
The Wrong Way To Criticize The Humanities
This poorly argued case that it may be time to restrain the principles of academic freedom and faculty autonomy is not helping the situation....
Paris Has Become Europe’s Nexus For Black Culture
“Paris draws together communities from west, central and north Africa, as well as the Caribbean, and its density creates the conditions for encounters that aren’t...
