Australia Imposes New Streaming Quotas
The rules require Netflix, Prime Video and the other global streamers with more than one million Australian subscribers to spend 10% of their total Australian expenditure –...
What Immanuel Kant Still Has To Teach Us Today
The central insight that these disparate thinkers took from Kant is that the world isn’t simply a thing, or a collection of things, given...
Movie Theater Owners Are Freaking Out Over Possible Sale Of Warner Bros. Discovery
“Multiple theatrical executives … conveyed a sense of grave concern, if not panic, over the possibility of a studio that grossed more than $4...
What Do We Need Hobbies For?
Although many have outward-facing aspects, a hobby is ultimately a form of self-cultivation, pursued for reasons of personal satisfaction. Our society values publicity and...
Not Bulldozing The White House Was A Convention, Not A Law. Many Things In...
After the architects’ convention in 1900, public officials turned to specialists to address questions of aesthetic and space planning that had previously been matters of...
Documenting The Present Is Resistance
Let this be painfully clear: The future will only remember what is preserved today, and the choice is between standing by as stories are...
Ohio Law Could Void Cleveland State University’s Transfer Of Its Student Radio Station To...
“The Cleveland State University-Ideastream deal over WCSB 89.3 could be invalidated because the college did not follow Ohio public meetings law, an expert on...
A New Hall Of Fame For Dance, Complete With Its First Inductees
“A new Dance Hall of Fame has been established to honor the significant contributions to the discipline of dance. Included in the freshman class...
Arts School In New Jersey’s Largest City Abruptly Closes
Without warning, a note appeared on the website of the Newark School for the Arts that it is “closed until further notice.” Founded in...
Actress Diane Ladd, Three-Time Oscar Nominee, Has Died At 89
She received nominations for Best Supporting Actress for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Wild at Heart, and Rambling Rose; she performed in the latter...
Las Vegas Philharmonic Makes Surprise Announcement Of New Music Director
After artistic advisor Leonard Slatkin finished conducting Saturday night’s concert, he introduced the audience to the orchestra’s next music director, Japanese-American conductor Rei Hotoda....
Revered Pianist Maria João Pires Retires From Performing
The 81-year-old — who found viral fame through an old video where she’d been told to prepare the wrong Mozart concerto but pulled off...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandal Who Targeted Degas In D.C. Gets 18 Months
“A federal judge in Washington, D.C., sentenced Timothy Martin after a jury found him guilty in April on two counts of conspiracy and injuring...
Climate Protestors Who Vandalized Stonehenge Acquitted
“Niamh Lynch and Rajan Naidu sprayed orange cornstarch-based powder over three of the megaliths at Stonehenge; … Luke Watson helped plan the protest and...
Inside Princeton’s Ambitious New Museum
Despite its upgraded size, the redesigned museum never felt daunting. There’s something intimate about how the installation of its collection—one of the oldest in...
So AI Is Coming For Your Job. We Have To Think About Jobs Differently
AI’s automating powers are indiscriminate. They are affecting blue-collar manufacturing jobs and white-collar office jobs. Many who spent years, and thousands of dollars, developing...
Susan Orlean On The Glory Days Of The New Yorker
Orlean allows that if there’s anything anyone should be jealous of, it’s that she had been encouraged to pursue ideas most magazine editors would...
Universal Music Makes Big Licensing Deal With Spotify
“The agreement includes all aspects of YouTube’s various music services and platforms, embodies our artist-centric principles and drives greater monetization for artists and songwriters.”...
We Make Things That Make Life Easier. But There’s A Big Downside…
The more these systems anticipate and deliver what we want, the less we notice what’s missing—or remember that we ever had a choice in...
Harvard Is Cutting Back On PhD’s. That’s A Problem For Academia
Some might be wondering why anyone should care if, for example, the number of Harvard history Ph.D.s drops from 13 to five. Although these...
American Ballet Theatre @85
Ballet Theatre was renamed American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 1957; journalists don’t often use “essay” as a verb anymore (though maybe we should); and...
The Resurrection Of Books-A-Million
The retailer is in the process of opening 15 new outlets this year, which will keep the total number of outlets at over 220...
The Humanities Aren’t A “Vibe!” The Slippery Slope Of AI
The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the...
Trump Is The Most Consequential Art President In Our Lifetime. We Need A Counter...
Merely nine months in, the Trump administration is poised to become the most consequential, effective arts presidency in American history—peerless in impact since at...
The Costumers Behind Your Favorite Ballet Are Sewing As Fast As They Can
The Boston Ballet’s Howard Merlin: “During the dress rehearsal, something looks really, really bad. … It’s my job to make sure it looks really,...
