During The Pandemic Shutdown, Unemployment Among US Arts Workers Was Double The National Average
"In the early months of the pandemic, unemployment in the arts and culture sector spiked to nearly 30% while the national rate hit about...
New York City’s New Arts Czar Has Faced Some Pushback
Mayor Eric Adams's appointee to head the Department of Cultural Affairs is Laurie Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and...
The World’s Biggest Theatre Award Goes To A Little Company Of Disabled Actors In...
Back to Back, a company made up of neurodiverse and disabled performers based in Geelong, a city about an hour southwest of Melbourne, has...
LA’s New Academy Movie Museum Will Rethink How It Portrays Industry Founders
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was not far past its 2021 opening when people began asking how, in a museum devoted to a diverse and...
Report: Hungarian Government Is Suppressing Artists
The report's authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists...
Scientists Watch A Memory Being Formed In A Living Brain
From earlier work, they had expected the brain to encode the memory by slightly tweaking its neural architecture. Instead, the researchers were surprised to...
Lab In Virginia Working To Save Ukraine Treasures
Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling...
The iPhone Uses AI To Enhance Images. Is It Too Smart To Take Good...
A careful examination of the 13 Pro noted visual glitches caused by the device’s intelligent photography, including the erasure of bridge cables in a...
The World Heritage Sites At Risk In Ukraine
Among the UNESCO World Heritage monuments in immediate danger of destruction is the irreplaceable 11th-century cathedral of St. Sophia in Kyiv. - The Conversation
Researchers Are Using AI To Understand Animal Language
Researchers are using AI to parse the “speech” of animals, enabling scientists to create systems that, for example, detect and monitor whale songs to...
The Oscars And Baseball: “Fixing” Them Is Making Them Worse
Last year’s broadcast saw a 58 percent drop in viewership from 2020, according to Nielsen. But it may be that viewers are tuning out because the...
Universal Music Buys An Ape NFT To Lead NFT Music Group
On Friday, Universal's 10:22PM label said it paid $360,817 to purchase Bored Ape #5537 - a female character now known as Manager Noët All,...
Rare Marvel Comic Sells For $2.4 Million
The book, Marvel Comics No. 1, published in 1939, is so valuable because it is known as the pay copy, in which the publisher recorded...
TV Ratings Giant Nielsen Rejects Private Equity Takeover Bid
Nielsen ratings were the gold standard for decades, but "the rise of streaming and mobile video has challenged the company, with its clients calling it...
Demanding Cultural Literacy Isn’t An Inherently Conservative Position
"I wholeheartedly agree with something that the great historical sociologist Orlando Patterson said in a summer teacher seminar: If you want to critique western...
Why CODA Should Indeed Win The Best Picture Oscar
"There is some sniffiness out there towards Coda as best picture material: the feeling that it’s too blatant a crowdpleaser, machine tooled to leave...
How Fans Forced A Finish To A Canceled Adaptation Of An Incomplete Jane Austen
The show was canceled in Britain, where the fan movement started - "a fan group called the Sanditon Sisterhood, which began a mass Twitter campaign."...
Broadway Fans Now Have Their Own Pop-Up Store
It is, of course, located in New York - in a corridor of the Columbus Circle subway station. It's "physical arm of the Broadway Makers...
Where To Turn When You’re A Breakout Movie Star Who Doesn’t Have A Ticket...
TikTok, of course. (But honestly, how the heck did this happen?) - Variety
The Last Time Campion And Spielberg Went Head To Head
That would be 1994, when The Piano and Schindler's List were up against each other for various things, and the directors were neck and...
The Joys Of Singing In Harmony With Others
"The voice is the oldest musical instrument of all – and the most complicated. At root it is just an exhaled breath, the noise...
Now The Movie Editors Group Is Calling For The Oscar To Reinstate Live Awards
The letter reads, "Treating certain categories differently from others has struck a nerve within our community, with the overwhelming majority of our membership feeling...
The Parents Of The Late Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins Are Trapped In Ukraine
The cinematographer was shot and killed as she filmed the movie Rust. Her widower "Matt Hutchins said in a tweet that his late wife's...
Need A Film That Truly Captures The Process Of Making Theatre?
Then you're in luck with Oscar nominee Drive My Car. The three-hour Japanese film is "an impeccably textured elucidation of a group of strangers...
Why Are Publishers Fighting Libraries So Very Hard On E-Books?
Maybe because people love them so much. No, seriously, what's up with all of the lobbying against state legislatures trying to give libraries...
