Is It Okay To Resell An NFT Artwork If You’re The Artist?
Part of the problem with NFTs is that there is not yet any shared culture around reproductions or derivative works of short video, animations,...
Why John Newbery Is Considered The Father Of Children’s Books
Beginning in 1744, he published about 100 storybooks for children, plus magazines and “ABC” books, becoming the leading children’s publisher of his time. -...
Book Blurbs Have, In Fact, Existed For Centuries
"The word 'blurb' was coined in 1907 by the comic writer Gelett Burgess but they have been around a long time. ... One of...
Motion Picture Academy Elects Most Diverse, Gender-Balanced Board In Its History
The elections increase the number of women on the organization’s 54-member board from 26 to 31, marking the first time in the group’s 94-year...
Venezuela Is Down To Just One Ballet Company, And That One Is Teetering
"Ballet Teresa Carreño in Caracas … is the last ballet company remaining in the country, a hallowed institution that was already on its last...
New Antitrust Crusader Confirmed To Run The FTC — And Big Tech Shudders
Lina Khan's bipartisan confirmation to the FTC is as strong a sign as any that she has Congressional backing for her most ambitious ideas....
If The U.S. Won’t Do Another Federal Theatre Project, The States Should
"With state-based funding for the regional theatre system, we could return to a repertory model with full-time employment for actors and serve our local...
Giant “Marilyn” Statue Unveiled In Palm Springs — How Offensive Can It Get?
The aim is to saunter between a woman’s spread legs, look up her billowing dress and snicker at her panty-clad crotch — or, better...
Documentaries That Compete For An Oscar May No Longer Compete For An Emmy, Period
The decision by the Television Academy settles the questions over "double-dipping," where a documentary that entered Oscar competition but did not get a nomination...
How The Boston Symphony Changed In Mark Volpe’s 23 Years At The Helm
It's been a consequential time for our culture, and the role of an orchestra has changed enormously. - Boston Globe
Outgoing Boston Symphony CEO Mark Volpe Admits In So Many Words That He Fired...
"I sat with him and explained we couldn't go forward. And I said, 'You know, you're a phenomenal teacher.' And he looks at me....
Why The Pompidou Center Is Putting Its American Branch In Jersey City
"Free space and funding, mostly (and that 15-minute PATH ride to Manhattan). In fact, the museum agreed to the four-story warehouse space sight...
Roku Says Tons Of Folks Are Watching The Shows It Picked Up From Quibi...
"According to Roku, more active accounts streamed a Roku Original in the first two weeks on the Roku Channel than the number of Quibi...
Soprano Gianna Rolandi, 68
New York-born, South Carolina-raised and Curtis-trained, she became one of the top American coloraturas of her generation and one of the stars of New...
The Industry, Yuval Sharon’s Opera Company In L.A., Adds Two Artistic Directors
Sharon, the MacArthur fellow who founded the company in 2012 and who became artistic director of Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit last September, isn't...
Banksy Loses More Trademarks In Europe
"The European Union's intellectual property office just reinforced last month's invalidation of a trademark owned by the British street artist Banksy. The latest rulings...
Venice Will Go On UNESCO’s Endangered List If It Doesn’t Ban Cruise Ships
In March, the Italian central government issued a long-awaited decree barring cruise ships from the historic city, citing the damage that the enormous vessels...
How To Make Audiobook Narrators More Diverse?
Most novels feature characters with an assortment of different backgrounds, and this can require narrators to voice characters with identities very different from their...
Why There Are So Few Skyscrapers In Europe
Of the 218 skyscrapers constructed on the continent to date, 66% of them are located in just five cities – London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow...
Champs Elysee To Be Converted To Long Park As Paris Turns Away From Cars
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo hopes to bring the road back to its people by removing its outer lanes, widening pedestrian areas, planting more trees...
How Disney Mishandled The Star Wars Franchise
George Lucas’s original vision famously inspired an era of big-budget blockbuster movies whose creators, just as famously, eventually ran out of new ideas and...
Behind The Controversy Over Canada’s First Prime Minister
Why does a motivated minority want to erase the honors paid to his memory? John A. Macdonald stands accused by his detractors less of...
Bombed Beloved Bookstore In Gaza Gets Flooded With Donations To Rebuild
The shop, founded 21 years ago, was a much-loved part of the local community and contained tens of thousands of books in various languages...
Misogynist Artwork In China Draws Furor (In A Way It Didn’t Eight Years Ago)
The artist proceeded to rank the women “from the prettiest to the ugliest,” stringing together around 5,000 grainy clips into a nearly eight-hour-long video...
Why UK Music Festivals Are Dying
The problem for festivals is that preparation and planning – let alone building a site – stretches over months and often costs millions, and...
