How Streaming Platforms Are Transforming Bollywood
"The benchmark in the minds of the audience is content that they have watched from across the globe. That has pushed Indian filmmakers, writers...
Ideas Worth… Wait, What Did TED Talks Accomplish?
“We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say...
How “Sleep No More” Has Changed New York Theater — And Itself
As the loose, famously immersive adaptation of Macbeth restarts after two years of COVID, Alexis Soloski considers the influence the show has had on...
Survey: How Canadian Orchestras Are Approaching Streaming
The bad news is that digital isn’t covering the costs associated with it — not yet, at any rate. The larger problem is that...
The Two Pieces By George Crumb That Changed American Contemporary Classical Music
Both works were written in 1970, and both gained acclaim well beyond the tiny circles of new classical music at the time. One of...
The Real Problem With Spotify (And It’s Not Rogan)
At its best, Spotify is an elegant tool—a conduit between artist and art and listener. But at its worst, it’s a bad actor in...
A Childhood Friend Of Charlie Chaplin Remembers His “Always Hungry”, “Ragged” Early Years
In a 1983 interview that has resurfaced, the then-92-year-old Effie Wisdom remembers how the dirt-poor, parentless London child (his father ran away with a...
Brooklyn Academy Of Music Gets A New Leader
Gina Duncan, who previously served as BAM’s first vice president of film and strategic programming, has been selected as the organization’s new president, the...
The Former President Of The Brooklyn Academy Of Music Remembers 36 Years In The...
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic...
Captive Audience: Why Mazdas In The Pacific Northwest Only Tune This NPR Station
It was as if the infotainment center had decided to team up with the ghost of HAL. You remember that malfunctioning, soft-spoken and ultimately...
The Real Story Behind The Famous Bust Of Nefertiti (It’s Not What You Probably...
It was not an object of veneration, it was not meant for public display, and it wasn't considered valuable in its day except to...
One Of Ukraine’s Strongest Defenses Against Russian Aggression Is The Ukrainian Language
For much of the past century in Ukraine, Russian has taken precedence over Ukrainian, even in the post-Soviet period. These days one hears more...
There’s A Whole Body Of Women’s Novels In Yiddish That Are Finally Reaching English-Speakers
The originals were mostly published as serials in Yiddish newspapers and never made it into bound volumes in any language until now. Says one...
Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Why Some Of Us Seek Out Painful Experiences
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are...
Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum
International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the...
NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience
To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to...
Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs...
“What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” - The Guardian
Why Joe Rogan Matters
He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel...
Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings
Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern. But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
That Line Between Work And Play
Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. - 3 Quarks Daily
