Streaming Revenue In US Should Go Well Over $100 Billion This Year
"Total spending on streaming services and software is projected to reach a record $112 billion in 2021, an 11 percent growth over 2020, according...
Smithsonian Gives Up On Long-Planned $2 Billion Redesign
"When the Smithsonian introduced a futuristic plan for the 17 acres around its iconic administration building, the National Historic Landmark known as the Castle,...
Patricia Loud, Matriarch Of America’s First Reality TV Family, Dead At 94
"Ms. Loud was a California mother of five. She drank, she plotted her divorce, she adored, and accepted, her openly gay son. She did...
St. Louis Symphony Musicians Accept 15% Pay Cut
"Musicians will retain 85% of their base pay and 80% of other compensation, including career track and overscale … in addition to health benefits...
Some Good News From A Bad Year: US Book Sales Well Up In 2020
"With all major categories posting increases, unit sales of print books rose 8.2% in 2020 over 2019 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan....
Opera Australia Sued Over COVID-Related Job Cuts, Alleged ‘Intimidation’
"Opera Australia has paid out tens of thousands of dollars in confidential settlements to musicians it sacked at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic....
What I Learned About Myself When I Got Amnesia
"We all forget things, of course – who your 6th-grade social studies teacher was or what you had for lunch a month ago are...
How Our Media Diet Has Changed
While Covid-19 quarantines have made television one of the more dominant mediums around, they’ve also altered the diet of what we watch within that medium. Pre-pandemic,...
The Fictional America And How It Powers Fictions No Longer True
"In the extraordinary drama of America, fiction is paramount to preserving systemic structures of imbalance. That’s how it has been for centuries, and that's...
For-Profit Immersive Museums Are Investing Big For After The Pandemic
While traditional museums are discussing closures and mergers, the for-profit industry around experiential or immersive art is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into...
Miami Museum Planned Exhibition As Investigation. That Proved Problematic
By the time the exhibition closed in March, because of the pandemic, the college had scaled back a plan to host programming that directly...
After 43 Years, Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Howard Reich Retires
He reflects on his career and (in typical fashion) leaves readers with a basketful of music, book and video recommendations. - Chicago Tribune
The Architect of the Capitol Assesses the Damage: Our Nation’s Art & Architecture (if...
This was a week when blogging-as-usual struck me as irredeemably frivolous. Trying to promulgate commentary about art and the artworld seemed fatuous, at a...
Aaron Copland: “One Red to Another”
“If they were a strange sight to me, I was no less of a one to them. It was the first time that many...
For The Third Year In A Row, Last Year UK Opened More Independent Book...
Released as part of the BA's annual membership survey, the number of independent bookshops holding membership at the end of 2020 rose to 967...
The Center Of Hollywood’s COVID Outbreaks
Eleven more cases came from The Kominsky Method, a Michael Douglas-starring Netflix series where aging actors confront mortality. Around the same time, according to...
Louvre Reports 72 Percent Drop In Admissions For 2020
The museum has reported one of its worst attendance figures ever, with around 2.7 million visitors—a 72% drop compared to 9.6 million in 2019....
Simon Rattle To Leave The London Symphony For Munich
Rattle said his reasons for accepting the Munich job were “entirely personal, enabling me to better manage the balance of my work and be...
Images From An Insurrection
Whether or not these fever-dream images show the actual point of insurrection or are, more likely, the inevitable byproduct of twenty-first century-rioters armed with...
Sign Of The Times: Choir Rehearsals And Concerts Via Car
The founder and conductor of Canada's Luminous Voices, which now uses the cars' FM transmitters, a mixer, and wireless mics for rehearsal and, crucially,...
On Hearing The Music While You Read
Writers have to listen as well as read. "As I read The Waves, I started to 'hear' language as if for the first time....
Writer Jenny Offill On What Can Be Done During The Pandemic
If you have elderly parents and kids to care for, not much. "The pandemic has been through all these different stages and you’re constantly...
Kansas City Ballet Took A Long Time, But Finally Canceled The Rest Of The...
The ballet joins Kansas City's other major performing arts organizations, which will certainly have an economic impact on KC's central performing arts center. -...
Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?
The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin...
With A New Book Called ‘I Hate Men,’ A French Author Has Truly Hit...
That's not the only work making a claim that France has an extremely long way to go in reckoning with gender inequality in every...
