Sonny Rollins As Revolutionary Force
Some musicians evolve, others effect personal revolutions. Rollins is in the latter category, and his work bears the shuddering force of his drastic, self-imposed...
Movie Box Office Memorial Day Weekend Disaster Averted
Studio insiders told TheWrap they were projecting $190 million for the four-day weekend, well below last year’s holiday weekend of $330 million. But Monday...
The Savannah Banana Phenomenon: What It’s Becoming
The Disney comparison is not necessarily a coincidence. Multiple players mention an overlap between Disney fandom (including Disney adults) and bananaball fandom, and Jesse Cole,...
You Couldn’t Design A More Anti-News Internet If You Tried
It’s like an invisible tax levied on our communities that we pay civically, cognitively and sometimes even literally, in the form of higher local...
Heinz Endowments Changes Priorities In Its Arts Funding Grants
The Pittsburgh-based foundation is ending grants for one-time projects and for individual artists in favor of funding arts organizations and cultural infrastructure in the...
Spotify: Our AI Pivot Is Better Than Slop
Spotify’s chief executive has defended the company’s move into AI-generated music, claiming it offers users and creators a better alternative to piracy and unregulated...
A 2018 Fire Destroyed 80 Percent Of Brazil’s National Museum Collection. It’s Working To...
The fire on September 2, 2018, began with an electrical issue, but it spiraled out of control when the hydrants next to the building proved...
Remembering Sonny Rollins
He was the last of the Mohicans1 — an essential piece of jazz’s midcentury-modern picture, the only surviving subject in Art Kane’s iconic yearbook photograph A...
Opera Australia Has Turned Its Troubled Finances Around
After posting an operating loss of $10.6 million (US$7.6 million) in 2024, the company — boosted by a 29% increase in ticket sales —...
The Heroic Effort To Rebuild Brazil’s National Museum, Almost Completely Destroyed In A Fire
“The news arrived (in September 2025) with both excitement and a pang of grief: The oldest national history museum in the Americas was slated...
Jazz Pianist John Eaton, Evangelist For Great American Songbook, Has Died At 91
“Across a more-than-six-decade playing career, he recorded albums for the Chiaroscuro label, took requests from Nancy Reagan at the White House, delighted audiences at...
Behind The Scenes At Second City, Watching A New Show Get Made
“What people don’t know about the process is that when the old cast is done, on their final day, usually a Sunday, the new...
What It Costs These Days To Produce A Show In London’s West End
“Mounting a play in the West End now requires between £1 million and £2 million pounds in upfront investment, while staging a musical requires...
Barn At Oscar Hammerstein II’s Pennsylvania Farmstead Collapses In Storm
Highland Farm, just outside Doylestown in Bucks County, was where Hammerstein wrote the words for many of the musicals he created with Richard Rodgers....
Since It Gave Up Government Funding, Finances At London’s Wigmore Hall Are Stronger Than...
The city's most respected chamber music venue has seen a 25% increase year-on-year in ticket sales since it left the funding portfolio of Arts...
“The World’s Greatest Orchestra” — Take Two: Today’s Metropolitan Opera
Yevgeny Mravinsky I find myself still gorging on live recorded performances by the greatest orchestra I ever encountered –
How The Cherokee Bible Reveals Differences Between European And Native American Worldviews
One can learn quite a bit by noticing which English words and phrases had no Cherokee equivalent — and in how translators chose to...
Why Has The World Stopped Making Babies?
Some blame technology, particularly smartphones and social media. Others blame a kind of 21st-century weltschmerz—a sadness about the state of the world and our uncertain...
How The Big Art Auction Houses Engineered Their Roaring Comeback
“The houses leaned into spectacle — including a promotional video featuring Nicole Kidman dancing around a bronze Brancusi head — and prearranged deals …...
CBS Paramount Drops Copyright Claim Against Colbert After Parody Show
CBS and parent company Paramount have backed away from efforts to limit reposting of Stephen Colbert's mock appearance as host of a Michigan public...
Colleges Are Hemorrhaging Student Enrollment. One Oregon College Hits The Wall
According to the plan released, “We are maintaining an infrastructure built for 30,000 students while currently serving 20,000.” Other options “have been exhausted” and...
Paris’ Pont Neuf Becomes A Stone Grotto
French artist JR has taken over Paris’s Pont Neuf—the oldest bridge over the Seine, and the city’s first built from stone, not wood. JR’s hotly awaited hometown installation La Caverne...
What’s Missing From Dance Funding In The U.S.? Here’s What One Of The Leading...
Ashley Ferro-Murray of the Doris Duke Foundation: I’m interested in … funding resilient models for the future as well as legacy models that ......
4,500-year-old Structure Recreated Close To Stonehenge
Reaching more than 20 feet in height, the hall was built over the course of nine months by a team of more than 100...
What Impact Does Free Admission Make On Museums?
“What we have seen, across the country, is that institutions that have eliminated admissions have generally not seen an increase in visitation in any...
