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Is The Summer Group Show Disappearing From Art Galleries? No, But …

“Some have wondered if the group show is fated to die out altogether. But in talking to dealers and advisers, it seems less like the once-ubiquitous...

How Leisure Became Digital

For many Canadians, play has migrated from board games or the rec leagues to smartphone screens. It’s no longer confined to the weekend or...

How The Grateful Dead Made Live Music Sound Great At Concerts

Phil Spector had famously created a figurative wall of sound by layering instruments and orchestral sweeps. But the Dead’s wall was essentially a behemoth...

Australia’s New Funding Body For Literature And Writers: What Will It Actually Be Doing?

“On the surface, this is welcome news for Australian writers with its funding package of $26 million ($8.6 million per year) over the next...

HBO Returns, Conceding Its Brand Change Was A Colossal Blunder

The gambit to chase Netflix with a service called Max didn’t work. Warner Bros. Discovery’s leaders eventually recognized the tremendous value in the HBO...

YouTube Is Being Overwhelmed By AI Slop. So Some New Creator Rules…

Alphabet has to acknowledge not only the downsides of AI, but its potential to overwhelm platforms that rely on user-generated content—in other words, rein...

Roadshow: America’s Midwest Art Museums

Arriving at art museums after four or five hours on these roads, day after day, is reliably uplifting. Everything is reversed. You’re in a...

Japan Has A Big Ballet-Fan Community. Now It’s Working On Homegrown Ballet.

“Until recently, that audience lavished attention mostly on prestigious foreign companies that tour Japan regularly, such as the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal...

Actors Unions Approve New Video Game Contract, Ending Strike

As with the dual strikes in 2023, artificial intelligence was a big sticking point in negotiations. As such, the new contract establishes performer safety guardrails and...

Training A New Generation Of Dancers For A Different Kind Of Career

"Today’s young adults have also been through the Covid shutdown, and they’re starting their careers at a time of huge financial uncertainty." - ArtsATL

My Nightmare Job Taking Care Of Patricia Highsmith

“Pat was seventy-four and knew she was about to die. ... I was trapped in her world with her, trembling. She had weeks left...

The Bayeux Tapestry To Return To UK – First Time In 1000 Years

Art historian Linda Neagley has argued that pre-Renaissance people interacted with art visually, kinaesthetically (sensory perception through bodily movement) and physically. The Bayeux tapestry would have...

Bay Area Theatres Are Folding. The Theatre Landscape Is Collapsing

"We, in the nonprofit theater world, rely on a model that is really not working for anybody. It wasn’t working before the pandemic. The...

Trump-Announced TikTok Sale Raises Questions

M2 appears to be an end-run around this issue, allowing ByteDance to pour in those ingredients but then step away to let Americans run...

The Company Making Big Operas Work In A Small Theater

Des Moines Metro Opera performs in a house with only 476 seats, yet it has a track record of successfully staging such large-scale works...

Abu Dhabi’s Enormous National Museum Will Open This December

The world’s oldest natural pearl and an 1,100-year-old Qur’an will be among the star exhibits at Zayed National Museum, in a new building, designed...

Barcelona’s Opera House Names Jonathan Nott Its Next Music Director

The 62-year-old Briton — currently music director of the Tokyo Symphony and Geneva’s Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and formerly at the helm of...

Turns Out It’s Hard To Convict A Celebrity In A #MeToo Criminal Case

Sean Combs was acquitted on the most serious charges against him; Kevin Spacey has prevailed in both criminal and civil cases. Even Harvey Weinstein...

Now That Trump’s “60 Minutes” Lawsuit Is Settled, Can Paramount Go Ahead And Sell...

“Is there a chance the fog surrounding the company’s quest to sell itself to Skydance Media is about to lift? So far, it’s not entirely clear — not...

Another Ohio County May Use Cigarette Taxes To Fund The Arts

Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, has long used such a tax to fund arts and culture organizations. Ohio’s newly-enacted state budget includes permission...

SAG-AFTRA Formally Ends Its Video Games Strike

“The 11-month strike waged by the performers’ union was brought to a tidy end on Wednesday as members voted overwhelmingly to ratify a labor...

Artistic Director – Everyman Theatre

Currently celebrating its 35th Season, Everyman Theatre seeks a positive, collaborative, and dynamic leader to serve as its second-ever Artistic Director...

Training AI To Transcribe Cursive (Because So Many Younger Americans Can’t Read It)

It’s a particular issue for historians in and of Philadelphia, since so many 18th- and 19th-century documents are in that hard-to-read script used in...

Trump Administration Threatens Harvard Accreditation

The notification doesn’t remove Harvard’s accreditation—which would leave the school virtually unable to operate. Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged Harvard’s accreditor to work with the school...

Withdrawals Of Showings At Film Festivals Raise Questions

Festivals are also answerable to funders and to different stakeholders’ interests. Cancellations of planned films raise questions about festivals’ roles and accountability to community groups who...
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