Countries Are Only A Social Construct
A common mistake is to confuse a country with its inhabitants with its government. This leads to statements that are strictly meaningless at best...
Want To Watch ‘I Shot Andy Warhol’ Or ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’? You...
"A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to 'locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate...
Why The Rich Stay Rich
The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) would argue that it was precisely through the proliferation of such norms in our culture—wherein the inequalities of...
Have Audiences Forgotten How To Behave? (Or Is It Just London?)
"Complaints about drunken, chaotic and argumentative audience behaviour have been reaching fever pitch. 'It feels like every bloody day there's a new debate about...
Overwhelmed By Culture (What To Do?)
For years now, each day has brought a torrent of new TV shows to watch, movies to see, albums to listen to, podcasts and...
After An Artists’ Rebellion And Board Troubles, New York’s Flea Theater Is Trying Something...
"Now, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit theater is fighting to come back — this time with a new hybrid structure built to give complete...
Sensitivity Readers? Why Publishers Need Them
"My background as an author is in young adult fiction, an area in which sensitivity readers are common, especially in the US, so I’m...
Maine’s Largest Museum Plans A Big Makeover
"The Portland Museum of Art has embarked on an $85 million project leaders say will fundamentally transform the museum, bolstering its endowment and unifying...
“The Father Of Computer Art”, Charles Csuri, Dead At 99
"While he may never have been the subject of a proper survey at a major museum, Csuri's status within the history of digital art...
The Ballet World Faces The (Early) Fallout From The Invasion Of Ukraine
It's more than resignations and cancellations. The Kiev City Ballet , on tour in France when Russian forces attacked, is now stranded. A principal...
World Monuments Fund’s 25 Most Endangered Cultural Heritage Sites
Awkwardly, the list was finalized before Putin's forces attacked Ukraine. The locations included range from world-renowned (Teotihuacán) to very ancient (cave paintings in the...
Proposed Idaho Law Could See Librarians Jailed For Lending “Harmful Materials” To Kids
The state House of Representatives has approved an amendment that removes the exemption libraries, museums, and schools had from a longstanding law against exposing...
Getty Trust Sues Investment Firm Over Loss Of $71 Million From Endowment
"The J. Paul Getty Trust, a nonprofit that oversees the Getty museum complex in Los Angeles, is suing the financial services firm Allianz Global...
Staffers At Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Scramble To Protect Collection In Case Of Attack
"In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum (in Lviv), employees placed carefully wrapped baroque pieces into cardboard boxes. A few...
Is Tourism Bad For Us?
Tourism is attractive because it underwrites a desire that, when we go overseas, stuff doesn’t get too strange, risky or foreign. Increasingly, we travel...
Can The New Bandcamp Save Indie Music?
Bemused gamers and tech experts, meanwhile, wondered what possible uses a company such as Epic – itself 40% owned by Chinese gaming megacorp Tencent...
This Artist Lost A Decade Of Work To Fire Just Before The Pandemic Caused...
But the artist says the aftermath has made him calmer, and more focused on different goals. "I’ve been attempting to make paintings which speak...
Peak Subscribe: Are You Paying For Too Many Subscriptions?
The maturity of the subscription market varies by industry, but in some of the categories best known for these kinds of services, there are...
Netflix Quits Russia
Earlier this week, the streaming service had announced that it would pause all future projects and acquisitions from Russia, joining a growing list of...
Meet The Russian Oligarch On The Guggenheim’s Board (Until Last Week)
“Vladimir Potanin has advised the Board of Trustees of his decision to step down as Trustee effective immediately,” the museum said. “The Guggenheim accepts this...
How The Hermitage Artwashes Russia
According to the 2021 State of Artistic Freedom Report by Freemuse, Russia detained 17 artists in 2020, a number exceeded only by Cuba. Artists are regularly...
International Arts Organizations Scrutinize Russian Artists
Institutions are demanding that artists who have supported Mr. Putin in the past issue clear condemnations of the Russian president and his invasion as...
Kyiv Dancers Quit To Fight In Ukraine Military
Images have circulated online of a principal dancer and ballerina at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, in camouflage holding weapons. - ClassicFM
More Expensive Tickets For ‘The Batman’ May Mean More Expensive Tickets Forever
Sure, AMC raised prices over The Batman's opening weekend, but Regal and Cinemark had already started raising prices with another blockbuster - Spider-Man: No...
The Difference Between An Indie Bookstore And An Amazon Bookstore
A physical bookstore "requires superb customer service, dedicated staff who provide knowledgeable advice about what to read, an inviting environment in which to browse...
