Netflix And Amazon Want To Make Lots More Programming In India, But Hindu Nationalists...
"U.S. video streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are looking to the Indian market to power their global growth. But their shows...
Boris Johnson Says The Elgin Marbles Will Not Be Returned To Greece
"Boris Johnson has used his first interview with a European newspaper since becoming the UK's prime minister to issue a point-blank rejection of the...
What Should A COVID Memorial Look Like?
Justin Davidson: "No memorial, no matter how grand or artful, can encompass the infinite varieties of pain, or comfort everyone who experienced a global...
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Will Happen This Year, But Outdoors Only
"Even by the standards of 2020, Jacob's Pillow had a tough year. Not only did the dance center in Becket, Mass., have to cancel...
Comparing Different Countries’ Pandemic Relief Funding For The Arts
"We added up the total emergency cultural aid packages from nine countries around the globe to show you how they compare. We looked at...
Why Did It Take Four Years For Spain’s National Library To Report The Theft...
"The technical department had known that the original had been replaced by a copy since May 2014, when book restorers discovered it by accident...
This Year, The Salzburg Easter Festival Will Be The Salzburg All Saints Festival
The state of the pandemic being what it is just now, management didn't want to cancel the event entirely as they did last year,...
Irish Dance As A Sport (On Tik Tok)
The brothers frequently refer to Irish dancing as a “sport”. “It’s not that we don’t consider Irish dancing an art form because obviously it...
The BBC Has Dominated Audio Content In The UK. Now Podcasters Are Taking Root
While Britain hasn’t seen the cash influx — about $2 billion — that streaming and traditional media companies have spent snapping up the American...
How The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Has Been Dismantled Over The Past Year
The Metropolitan Opera House has been dark for a year, and its musicians have gone unpaid for almost as long. The players in one...
How Independent Bookstores In The US Survived Over The Past Year (Or Didn’t)
The Washington Post talked to the owners of six indies about how they weathered the year. What follows is an oral history of these...
The Lessons Of Generation X Seem Even More True Today
When Generation X was published, Douglas Coupland observed: “information overload meant 50 TV stations instead of ten.” In the current era where internet connections...
AAMD’s Deaccession Dilemma (& the Met’s Equivocations)
Is the “slippery slope” on the verge of becoming even more treacherous? In conversations with its members this week, the Association of Art Museum...
How Robert Fulford’s Arguments With Glenn Gould Shaped Him As A Critic
As students, Fulford and Gould would argue about music. Fulford was acquiring a taste for jazz and other forms of popular music, which Gould...
The Problem When Everyone Is Right
We are aware, of course, that we might be wrong, because we know that on certain issues we have changed our minds, and therefore...
A Losing Proposition For Independent Bookstores
Despite the pandemic, book sales were up over all last year, but mostly for places like Amazon; bookstore sales fell by more than twenty-eight...
Mad Magazine Artist Al Jaffe Turns 100
He started drawing for the magazine 65 years ago. “Hitting the century mark in age, it’s a nice number” for the brain to consider,...
A Year Into COVID, Canada’s Performing Arts Have Been Devastated
The performing arts, heritage sector and spectator sports – areas of the economy that depend on ticket sales– have lost more than 60 per...
Flory Jagoda, Keeper Of Sephardic Music Traditions, 97
Jagoda sang and wrote songs that connected her to her grandmother in Yugoslavia. "They were songs of home and family, of love and Hanukkah,...
Want To See The Complete List Of Oscars Nominations?
Of course you do! (And there are articles about the highest profile snubs everywhere as well.) - Variety
Even The Grammys, Which Are Awarded Primarily For Sound, Had Major Sound Issues
Can there be hope for regular humans when the Grammy Awards can't get the sound right on Zoom? "The multiple acceptance speeches during the...
TikTok Is Now Where Musicians Go For Rough Drafts
TikTok has dramatically changed how songs, pop in particular, get made. "In some cases, performers are trying out ideas on the platform to see...
The Book ‘Empireland’ Is Selling Well – And Britain’s Imperially Nostalgic Are Flinging Hate...
The author is pleased by the support from his publisher, but the hate has truly ramped up. Sathnam Sanghera: "In a way, it proves...
Fiction Isn’t Memoir, And Yet
"The belief that every novel is a self-accounting is timeworn: Some early readers of Lolita suspected that only someone with the mentality of a...
Why Woody Allen Defenders Are So Upset By The New Documentary
Perhaps they're not used to the world of 2021. "The truth underlying their emotional, often highly personal defenses of Allen is that he’s become...
