Free Speech’s Corporate Media Problem
Paramount isn’t the only media company that needs FCC approval for something — and thus finds itself needing to kiss Carr’s ring. Nexstar, which...
What Happens To Democracy When The Comedians Are Gone
"Because there’s no platform, no space or infrastructure for that kind of satire to be accepted, we were basically pushed out … We are...
FTC, Seven States Sue Ticketmaster Over Deceptive Practices
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, accused Ticketmaster of deceptive practices that advertised lower...
Actor Gary Busey Sentenced To Probation For “Criminal Sexual Contact”
“The 81-year-old Buddy Holly Story star had pleaded guilty in July to a single count of criminal sexual contact for touching a woman’s buttocks ‘over clothing...
Time To Rethink What An “Emerging” Artist Means?
Our institutions insist on enforcing chrononormativity. They set age caps, define categories vaguely, and reward those who stay closest to the script. My experience...
Harvard Is Translating Archives Into AI Databases
In June, the initiative shared nearly a million books from a Harvard Library collection with AI researchers, spanning more than 254 languages and dating...
Are Visa And Border Issues Causing International Performers To Reconsider US Tours?
Performers, event presenters, booking agents and lawyers tell NPR that they are dealing with a lot of uncertainty right now – and they have...
Fire Devastates Artists’ Complex In Brooklyn
The four-story former warehouse, built in the 1870s in the Red Hook neighborhood, was home to the 400-member Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition as well...
Inside Philly’s New Calder Museum
It is one of the strangest cultural complexes to be built anywhere in recent years. On an unpromising site no larger than a football...
What AI Doomers Get Wrong About Artificial Intelligence
To take one of their examples, a superintelligent chatbot “trained to delight and retain users so that they can be charged higher monthly fees...
How Late Night TV Fell Apart
Though late-night shows still attract millions of viewers across more channels than ever—including YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram—writers say that networks have still not figured...
Executive Director Who Fired Dallas Black Dance Theatre’s Dancers Is Out
Zenetta Drew, who presided over last year’s fiasco — which cost the company $560,000 in a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board and...
Times Square Casino Plan Killed In Victory For Theater Folks
“A state-commissioned community advisory committee brought the curtain down on the $5.4 billion plan to redevelop an office tower into a Caesars Palace-branded hotel, gambling and...
Taliban Bans Books By Female Authors And Books On Human Rights From Afghan Universities
“Some 140 books by women — including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" — were among 680 books found to be of ‘concern’...
Despite Federal Funding Cuts, Rhode Island’s Public Radio And TV Avoid Layoffs
“Rhode Island’s newly created public media entity will not lay off any employees, after enough workers opted to take voluntary buyouts, Pam Johnston, CEO...
Vancouver Symphony Musicians Vote Overwhelmingly To Authorize Strike
The musicians, who voted 97.4% in favor of the authorization, have been without a contract since July and have been negotiating with management since...
Baltimore Symphony And Musicians Agree To Three-Year Contract
Base salary will increase by 12% from $92,811 to $101,350 over the next three years. The musicians’ union and orchestra management described the deal...
DDP’s 2025 Report On Gender Balance In Ballet Company Leadership
This report analyzes the gender distribution of Artistic, Executive, and Associate/Assistant Directors, as well as Heads of Schools, Heads of Second Companies, Rehearsal Directors,...
Behold The Art Deco Splendor Of The Restored Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
“SOM's all-encompassing makeover of the 1.6 million-square-foot building involved returning to the original blueprints and faithfully restoring details that had been gradually altered over...
The Character Sketch As Philosophical Genre
The character sketch is a genre that is descriptive by nature, and that today reads as a little sociological, a little literary, and more...
Immersive Theatre Comes To Your Hotel Room
By taking the work into unconventional, donated spaces, they’re betting on a future where audiences don’t just consume theater but inhabit it. Time Out New...
The Japanese Island Dedicated To A Centuries-Old Theater Form
Sado Island, just northwest of central Honshu, is home to 34 of the roughly 100 Noh theaters remaining in Japan. Elsewhere, Noh is considered...
Inside The Hyper-Engineered Theme Park Experience
To manage the thousands of people who descend daily, operators have studied visitors’ behavior and engineered their parks to move people around without anyone...
Why The Death Of Criticism Debate Is Annoying
Media organizations do not want cultural criticism the same way they do not want war reporting or fluffy opinion pieces as those specific things. They...
The Arts Are Under Attack. So What To Do?
You have always believed the arts are necessary ingredients of a healthy community, whether or not you used that language explicitly. We now know, through...
