Global Music Sales Jump To Record Level In 2021
Revenues surged by 18.5% to $25.9bn (£19.5bn) in 2021, the highest level since records began in the 1990s. The growth was driven by streaming,...
A New Generation Of Women Choreographers Arrives On Australia’s Stages
In the decade before the pandemic, male choreographers were getting three times the number of commissions female ones got from major companies in the...
The Latest Example Of Why Writers Should Stay Out Of Twitter Fights And Avoid...
Lauren Hough's Leaving Isn't The Hardest Thing was a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Memoir — until this week, when...
17th-Century Tapestry Is Complete Again, 42 Years After A Portion Was Cut And Stolen
In 1980, an art thief known as "Erik the Belgian" stole a set of half a dozen Flemish tapestries, created by a follower of...
For Its First New Immersive Show In Nine Years, Punchdrunk Chose A Timely Story
The Trojan War and siege of Troy are the subject of The Burnt City, the latest environmental theatre piece from the creators of Sleep...
For The Arts In Other Post-Soviet Republics, It Is Not Business As Usual
"Putin's distortion of history and second-guessing sovereign states is a direct threat to our country also," said one Latvian arts executive. "Aside from experiencing...
Striking Technicians At Chicago’s PBS Station Are Serious
Says one official at the IBEW union local, "We've had a contract with WTTW since 1955 and we've never had a problem of this...
Russians Bomb Ukraine Art School
The G12 school is the second cultural institution in the besieged city of Mariupol to be attacked in a matter of days. On March...
Has Education Entered A Dark Age?
"What I soon discovered was that none of them had much idea how to make an argument in any context. Nor were they particularly...
Is “Moral Clarity” — Even About Ukraine — Anti-Democratic?
My Russian training prompted a question: How could a situation where everyone was morally bound to agree help overcome a collectivist mindset? Freedom and...
We Need A Sign Language Literature
Most of the time, when we translate something, we think about the act of translation as changing the meaning that comes from one language...
Norway’s Much-Delayed $500 Million Museum Finally To Open
Located on Oslo’s western waterfront, the £500m museum will be the biggest in the Nordic region when it opens on 11 June. - The Guardian
Petition Against Premiere Of New Emmet Till Opera
Mya Bishop first launched her petition earlier this week, which has already received over 10,000 signatures, asking the public to "urge" the college to "cancel the...
The New Museum Housing Vast Treasures Of Medieval Georgian Art
The region of Svaneti, a pair of protected valleys high in the Caucasus Mountains, was where the rest of the country sent its finest...
Okay, So The Arts Shouldn’t Take Fossil Fuel Money. What’s The Alternative?
What are the alternatives to corporate arts partnerships with links to fossil fuels? (Because, let’s face it, once you start looking, coal, oil and...
Collector Budi Tek, Who Helped Create The Contemporary Asian Art Scene As We Know...
A Chinese-Indonesian who made his fortune in poultry, Tek, through avid collecting, helped provide artists with livelihoods, and his generous loan policy helped those...
How Barcelona’s Superblocks Idea Could Be Adopted In Other Cities
As cities become more dense—moving in the direction of the “15-minute city,” where offices and simple errands are a short walk or bike ride...
Five More Ancient Egyptian Tombs Are Unveiled At Saqqara
"The tombs, which are believed to have housed senior officials from the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate period, date back to as long ago...
Evolving COVID Policies Are Putting Cultural Institutions In Impossible Positions
Cultural institutions are left having to figure out not only which policies are right to protect their patrons, but which ones their patrons want,...
The Authors Of Books Banned From Schools, Or Entire Countries, Speak Out
Art Spiegelman: "This is the most Orwellian version of society I've ever lived in." Margaret Atwood: "They're playing woke snowflakery back." Hamid Ismailov: "I'm...
Progressives Are Fighting Book Bans (And Getting Them Overturned)
The progressive wins are a development that looked unlikely as the right wing, often through organizations with connections to wealthy Republican donors, has introduced bill...
After Almost 20 Years, The Art Scene In Baghdad Is Showing Signs Of Revival
As bad as things often got after the wars started in 2003, art and artists in Iraq's capital never went completely dormant. Now galleries...
What The Fictional President Zelensky Played On TV Shows Us About Real-Life Ukraine
On Servant of the People, Volodomyr Zelensky played a teacher who becomes president after a video of him fuming about corruption goes viral. Ashley...
With The Kiev City Ballet In Their Unexpected Exile
The company left Kyiv for a tour in France one day before Putin's army invaded. The city of Paris has given them a residency...
How Did A Classical Radio Station Get To No. 1 In The Ratings In...
"Theories abound as to why non-commercial 'Classical 89.9' WDAV Charlotte suddenly went to No. 1 in Nielsen's January survey. Here are the numbers behind...
