NEA: Arts Economy Shrank At Twice The Rate Of Overall Economy
New data released last week by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) quantifies the extent of the damage: Between 2019 and 2020, the arts economy...
As Tech Marches On And Formats Fade Away, Preserving Old Audio Becomes Ever More...
"Modern digital storage is still expensive and data and audio/video can be lost when older websites are no longer technologically supported, when links become...
Teheran Museum Director Fired After Performance Art Mishap
The dismissal came in the wake of a performance art mishap at the museum that saw Yaser Khaseb accidentally fall into a large, artist-designed pool of...
NK-Pop: The Kitschy, Catchy Music Of Kim Jong-Un’s Workers’ Paradise
"Try to imagine a mashup between a communist Kraftwerk and an authoritarian Abba." Classic "hits" include "Let's Defend Socialism", "Peace Is On Our Bayonet",...
Top Editors Quit Buzzfeed News, Big Cuts On The Way
The high-profile departures come on the same day that BuzzFeed released its fourth-quarter earnings report, which showed a 12% drop in earnings before interest,...
Listeners Using Smart Watches May Be Added To Radio Ratings
In Australia, "measurement provider GfK began rolling out its MediaWatch, a wristwatch that uses audio matching technology to identify what stations participants are listening...
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,...
