Time Was, Respectable Newspapers Hated Word Games — Even Crossword Puzzles
"As far as the journalistic establishment was concerned, crosswords were another mindless fad used (by tabloids) as a substitute for good editorial, to keep...
The Audience At This Musical Behaved So Badly That The Director Just Ended The...
Northern Ireland Opera's performance of Sondheim's Into the Woods in Belfast last Saturday was cut short at the intermission after spectators moved around and...
The Problem With Orchestras Programming Movies With Live Accompaniment
It's a good idea: audiences like it, and excellent music gets revived in the context it was meant for. It's not the technical difficulty...
Art Generated By Artificial Intelligence Cannot Be Copyrighted, Rules U.S. Copyright Office
"Last week, a three-person board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, who tried to copyright a picture on behalf of an algorithm he...
One-Third Of The Oscar Categories Will Be Moved Off This Year’s Live Telecast
Of the 23 competitive awards, eight — editing, sound, makeup, original score, production design, and the live action, animated, and documentary shorts — will...
An End To International Touring For Orchestras?
Orchestras still face the possibility of disruption by future waves of the virus, making planning difficult. In some bustling international markets, including China, quarantine...
BP To End Longterm Sponsorship Of London’s National Portrait Gallery
Pressure group Culture Unstained called the news "a major win for the campaign against fossil fuel sponsorship". - BBC
How a Small Quebec Publisher Flipped The Page On Diversity
What happens when a press does more than increase its roster of writers of colour? What happens when diversity is built into its very...
Analyzing The Books That Paris’ Shakespeare & Company Lent In The 1920s
The Shakespeare and Company Project is a relational database and web application. The Project uses documents from the Sylvia Beach Papers at Princeton University...
UK Culture Secretary: We Have To Save The BBC
“Our responsibility is to save the BBC from itself, because it is that polar bear on a shrinking ice cap,” she said. “It’s a...
The Streaming Problem
The streaming age has been hard on independent musicians. In 2020, analytics company Alpha Data examined data based on 1.6 million artists who released...
De Wain Valentine, Who Pioneered The Use Of Plastics As An Art Medium, Dead...
In particular, he was the first to use polyester resin and Plexiglas to make sculptures. (He learned how to shape and sand them in...
Public Broadcasters Having Difficulty Meeting DEI Goals
Managers and staff who are leading DEI initiatives at their stations describe unanticipated delays in implementing action plans, misunderstandings over the roles of staff...
Whatever Happened To The Statue Of Voltaire In Paris That Got Pulled Down In...
It hasn't been seen since; many people feared that city authorities decided to melt it down, as the Vichy regime did with its predecessor...
Understanding The Evolutions Of Traditions
Although small modifications do not undo a tradition, small changes can aggregate into significant deviations. For example, if someone is tall, then if they were...
How Aleshea Harris Puts Black Life Onstage
Hilton Als: "Harris's aim as a playwright is to remove the kitchen sink and slather the stage with blood and celebration. … Just as...
The New Online Choreographers
Among this blossoming crop of teachers and influencers, and the legions of creators making their moves into memes on TikTok, Angela Trimbur, 40, stands out. Underpinned by an...
Serge Diaghilev Was Not A Good Guy: Bronislava Nijinska
The pathbreaking choreographer once wrote, " He victimised the ballet artists when they left his company and tried by all means possible to prevent...
Could Our Conscious Minds Exist In Virtual Worlds?
Once one has been presented with the hypothesis that we could exist as the conscious beings we are in a purely fabricated world of...
“What Does It Mean To Make Black Film History Accessible?” Why Maya Cade Created...
"My driving question for all of this ... has been: What does this mean to a Black person? And not just the Black people...
“I’m A Fool, What Have I Done” — The Museum Guard Who Drew Eyes...
"Aleksandr Vasiliev, a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, told journalist Elena Pankratieva that he believed the 20th-century work by Anna Leporskaya...
Why Some Composers Are Fuming About This Year’s Classical Grammy Nominations
"Letters of complaint have been sent to the organisers, the Recording Academy, arguing that the tracks in question – by two separate artists, Jon...
The Editor Who Published “Maus” Recounts His Decision To Go Ahead With It
Tom Engelhardt, then at Pantheon Books: "The feeling that I simply had to do Maus was one of the two least rational decisions I...
Why Is There A Staff Exodus At Philadelphia’s Public Radio Station?
"In interviews, 10 former and six current WHYY staffers cited lower pay than at other media outlets, a lack of opportunities for advancement, a...
Scotland Allocates Yet More Money To COVID Arts Recovery
£16 million may not seem like much to Americans, but it can go a long way in a nation as small as Scotland. -...
