Canadians Are Buying Canadian. How About Music Too?
Canada has been neglecting our (excellent and varied) music scene for the past decade. A post-pandemic evaluation of the government’s Canada Music Fund revealed...
A New Contemporary Art Prize Is The UK’s Largest — £200,000
“The Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize, as it will be called, will be awarded every other year to an international artist who will...
Netflix: Viewership Of Southeast Asian Content Up 50 Percent In 2025
More than 100 Southeast Asian titles have appeared in Netflix’s Global Top 10. Over 40 of those titles charted in 2025 alone. Titles from...
Cliches Have Gotten A Bad Rap
While I agree that leaning on a cliché might be a prosaic get-out-of-jail-free card, I do think they get a bad rap. The general...
Why Close Reading Is Having A Moment
I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me...
Royal Danish Ballet Returns To The Classic Choreographer Who Made The Company Great
August Bournonville directed the company in the mid-19th century, and his works and style became thoroughly identified with the institution. Yet for some years...
How A “Broken” Reader Learned To Loving Reading Again
It took weeks for me to realize that I was a broken reader. I assumed I’d just had a streak of bad luck in...
A Race To Save Our Recorded Music History
A huge portion of the world’s recorded musical heritage is stored on magnetic tape, used regularly from the 1940s into the digital age to...
Hamnet — The Shakespeare For Our Times?
Most of all, I was struck by how the film chose to portray William Shakespeare, the greatest poet in the English language, as a...
Suddenly The Anti-Gay Slur “F******” Is All Over New York Theater
Erik Piepenburg: “This year at least six theater productions have used “f*****” in their titles. … Why is a slur that a stranger hurled...
Why We Need Systemic Support For Arts And Humanities
Arts and humanities scholarship is not an ornament, it is the record of what human minds have made, imagined and endured. To let those...
Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Internet Providers Can Be Liable For Music Piracy
The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with the practical implications of a closely watched copyright clash testing whether internet providers can be held liable...
Christopher Knight Reflects On His Career At The LA Times
Sprawl is usually cast as an L.A. negative, but it was good for art. The horizontal city is just too big to fully gentrify;...
Reddit Forum r/Art Goes Completely Off The Rails (And, For Now, Offline)
The subreddit, on which thousands of artists post images of their work, has strict rules against anything resembling marketing, sales or self-promotion. When one...
Kevin Spacey’s Legal Troubles Are Not Over Yet
The actor, who was artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London from 2004 to 2013, was acquitted on nine sexual assault charges...
How’s Hollywood Handling The Steady Decline Of Cable TV Subscriptions?
With mergers, mostly. “While efforts are already underway by pay TV operators like Charter Communications, Comcast and DirecTV to reinvent the bundle and by...
“NPR Network” Fundraising Project Has Done Unusually Well
The fundraising program brought in more than $30 million in fiscal 2025, well above projections. Half of the donations and 20% of the podcast...
$200K Grawemeyer Award For Composition Goes To Liza Lim
The Australian composer won for her cello concerto A Sutured World, composed for Nicolas Altstaedt and co-commissioned by the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony,...
Louvre Will Raise Ticket Prices For All Non-EU Visitors
“(The) museum has approved a ticket hike from €22 to €32 ($25 to $37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul...
Australia’s Leading Dictionary Names “AI Slop” 2025 Word Of The Year
“The Macquarie Dictionary dubbed the term the epitome of 2025 linguistics, with a committee of word experts saying the outcome embodies the word of the year’s...
Have We Given Liberal Arts Institutions Too Much Credit?
While liberal arts institutions do have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever. A...
Why Perfectionism Is Killing Our Culture
This fetishization of perfection might not be surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less damaging. You cannot learn or grow while trying to...
Tom Stoppard, Man of Ideas
A man of consummate urbanity who lived like a country squire, he was a sportsman (cricket was his game) and a connoisseur of ideas,...
Museums Struggle To Reinvent In A Shifting Landscape
As public funding evaporates, political scrutiny intensifies, and donor behavior shifts, museums are confronting a turning point: adapt or risk irrelevance. The museums best poised...
Carrie Soloway, The Real-Life Person Who Inspired Prime’s ‘Transparent,’ Has Died At 88
“Dr. Soloway went to red carpet events related to the show,” but she didn’t love them. “She was very humble in terms of publicity;...
