Taylor Swift Sets Another All-Time Record
Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl was released...
Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling
“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” -...
To Be An Artist In Canada Is To Be Prisoner Of Subsidy
Even if an artist can afford to turn up their nose at it, the entire structure that allows them to show, see, and otherwise...
James Wood On László Krasznahorkai
For many ordinary readers, the idea of entering a fictional world constantly teetering on the edge of a revelation that is always imminent but...
At 93, Is Gerhard Richter Our Greatest Living Artist?
That much will certainly be made clear in a massive Richter retrospective opening this month at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Comprising some...
How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées
In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine
Gertrude Stein’s Language Experiments Were Considered Difficult. But Let’s Reconsider
“Devotees of her cult professed to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compared her effusions to the rantings...
American Education Is In A Desperate State. It Is Failing Its Students
We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not...
AI Has Been Trained With What’s Online. Not All Knowledge Is Online
These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising...
Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96
“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a...
Broadway Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians' most recent contract expired August 31, 2025. Since then, the union has been trying to achieve a new contract that includes increased wages,...
Was L’Affaire Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson For The Importance Of Late Night TV?
Amid all the headlines about falling ratings, production cutbacks and monetary losses, it's easy to forget that late-night TV programs have historically occupied a...
The Museum Specially Built For The Benin Bronzes Has Nothing But Clay Replicas. Why...
“About 150 original bronzes have been returned to Nigeria over the last five years. … Their public display inside the $25m state-of-the-art museum in...
Marc Maron Talks About The End Of His Podcast, One Of The Most Influential...
“There’s a part of me that feels a responsibility to these listeners. I get all kinds of emails, stuff that I would never have...
I Survived The Bombing Of Ukraine’s Largest Book Festival
Fiona Benson, an editor of Exeter University’s Ukrainian Wartime Poetry Project, was invited to BookForum in Lviv by Arthur Dron’, a poet and war hero. On...
Easter Islanders Always Said Their Moai Statues Walked To Their Places. New Research Says...
That’s not to say, mind you, that the moai walked by themselves. A new paper published by two archaeologists lays out, through observation and...
Public Radio Cuts Could Have A Disastrous Effect On Classical Music In America
Roughly 96% of the classical music on terrestrial radio in the U.S. is broadcast on public radio stations — and those stations often have...
What Are The Issues Behind The Threatened Broadway Strike?
The Broadway League, which represents Broadway producers and landlords, is currently in tense negotiations with two different unions: Actors’ Equity (performers and stage managers) and...
Unpublished Jack Kerouac Story Discovered In Mafia Boss’s Papers
“The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled ‘The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing’ and is dated 15 April...
How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music
As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces....
How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant
In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no...
Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art
An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of...
Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down
The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously...
What Happened to Kevin Costner?
The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers...
My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress
Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema....
