Artists Don’t Feel Better About Spotify Just Because Founder Daniel Ek Sort Of Stepped...
One artist who removed his music: “Spotify is going to have to make Herculean efforts to roll back tons of damaging choices they’ve introduced...
How Romance Became The Publishing Industry’s ‘Recession-Proof’ Category
Romancelandia is big, and “the rest of the industry wants to emulate this success, but as many editors know, chasing a trend can be...
What Happens When You Start Dancing In Your 60s
“By now I’ve spent upward of 5,000 hours in ballet classes, and roughly 1,600 hours more in other, non-ballet dance classes. … I dance...
The V&A Has A New Exhibition Area – Its Storage Space
At the V&A East Storehouse, “visitors have the option to choose up to five via the ‘order an object’ service and have them delivered to a...
The Trump-Epstein Statue Is Back
“‘Just like a toppled confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to...
Yet Another Shortlist For Yet Another Literary Award, But This One Is The Cool...
Of course all, or at least many, books are cool. But the Goldsmiths Prize is for fiction that “breaks the mould or extends the...
Can The National Stonewall Museum Survive Trump?
Things aren’t going well right now, and the Florida-located museum and archives may need to find a new home. Corporate “contacts no longer return...
Kiran Desai On The Dark Side Of Fame
Becoming the (at the time) youngest person to win the Booker Prize wasn’t all fun and games for the novelist, and it took her...
Jenny Stein, The First Woman To Helm Britain’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, Has Died At...
“Despite financial pressures, Jenny continued the gallery’s tradition of innovation, exhibiting trade union banners and showcasing new and radical artists such as Joseph Beuys.” -...
Good Riddance To ‘Best American Poetry,’ For Reasons
"If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?”...
Running The Million-Dollar Digital Sets For The New Met Opera Kavalier And Clay
“Two lighting technicians and a video operator bring the opera to its full pyrotechnic life. Hunched over banks of consoles, screens and keyboards, they...
Shakespeare Experts Are Totally OK With Taylor Swift’s Bard Fandom
“‘I love Shakespeare,’ Swift said earnestly during the movie, and then made fun of herself for saying something so obvious. ‘It holds up! It’s...
A Local Right-Wing Government’s Attempt To Quash Reporters In England Runs Up Against The...
“County council leader Mick Barton banned the Nottingham Post and its online arm, Nottinghamshire Live, from speaking to him and other councillors ‘with immediate effect’ on...
Actor Malcolm McDowell Says No Matter Whom He Plays, He Would Make A Terrible...
“I would be a total disaster, because I do love to gossip. I would be going: ‘You know that guy? I think he’s working...
Idea: Artistic Directors Should Create, Not Control, Space
“For theatre to remain ambitious, kinetic, and meaningful, we can’t let institutional constraints like funding models or planning cycles become barriers to fresh perspectives,...
Did The Man Who Wrote The English Libretto For Les Miserables Ever See His...
Herbert Kretzmer's letters to Cameron Mackintosh would indicate he did not. “I must emphasise that Les Miserables is not a show translated or re-written, but...
In Austin, Ten Artists Get A Small But Pleasant Surprise
The Frick Arts Foundation “was formed a year ago to ‘offer emotional encouragement to artists at the most difficult beginning stage of their careers,’ according to...
Ashleigh Brilliant, Who Made A Living In Seventeen Words, Has Died At
“While Mr. Brilliant never truly stopped — he kept writing lines that he emailed to friends — among the official 10,000 are these: … No. 826:...
Are Punk Rockers Sowing Seeds Of Revolution In, Of All Things, The Musician Memoir...
“It’s been nearly 50 years since punk first set out to smash the vanity and artifice of rock-and-roll. … What a beautiful thrill to...
The Dearly Beloved, Long Missed Reading Rainbow Returns
Can Mychal Threets, “America’s favorite librarian,” make the show work again? - HuffPost
The History Behind Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”
Swift’s satirical suggestion that Ireland’s poor breed their children as food for elites wasn’t really an attack on the English (even though he suggested...
The Orange County Museum Of Art “No Longer Exists” After University Merger
“OCMA as it existed no longer exists. The employees and everything else pertaining to the museum is transferred to the university.” - Los Angeles...
European Museums Report Increased Political Interference
Museum organisations across the continent reported various types of interference. Three key areas were outlined by the questionnaire. - The Art Newspaper
Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Director to Step Down
Padrón, who joined the theatre in 2019, led the nonprofit through a period of change that included adopting a new producing model, staging performances...
Chicago Makes Another Try At A Period-Instrument Baroque Orchestra
The city has had notable trouble keeping such a group. The long-established Newberry Consort performs earlier repertoire; Baroque Band folded in 2016; Haymarket sticks...
