Classical Music Is Expensive To Make. How To Finance It?
In the end it comes down to a simple question. Western classical music as a living art form – do we want it or...
James Patterson’s Latest Plan To Give Away His Riches: The “Go Finish Your Book”...
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors:...
The Surprising Thing About The New LACMA’s Concrete Walls
Turns out the walls are easier to drill into, and to accurately level the art being hung, than drywall. What’s more, they can be...
USA Today Visits Five Smithsonian Museums To See If They’re Really Too “Woke”
The Nation’s Newspaper checks out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History,...
A Canadian Province Banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” From Schools. So Margaret Atwood Wrote A...
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’...
Climate-Protesting Architecture Vandals Throw Paint On Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Two activists, representing the campaign group Futuro Vegetal, targeted the basilica on Sunday, August 31, spraying the colored powder over a column while shouting...
The Dances Are A Big Revenue Driver For The Game “Fortnite.” Do The Choreographers...
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games,...
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Names John Storgårds Its Next Music Director
The 61-year-old Finn, currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, takes up his post in...
Creative Folks May Not Like It, But It’s Sports That’s Propping Up Entertainment TV
“Sports is defying ratings gravity, exerting even more influence with each passing season as by far the dominant genre that people prefer to watch...
AI Bots Are Destroying The Web
When AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and OpenAI (20%) leading the way, clobber websites with as much as...
How Indie Music Became The Voice Of A Generation And Then Ate Itself
The real reason that indie started to die is Spotify. As streaming supplanted downloads and album sales, it automated music discovery. Instead of reading Pitchfork or...
Why Media Coverage Of School Shootings Is Dwindling
“Our attention span — or patience — for enduring these far-too-frequent tragedies appears to be shrinking. The horror persists, but the novelty is fading,...
After Cuts WGBH Lays Off Staff For “American Experience” History Series
WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced...
Why So Many Of Our Novels Are Driven By TV
Novels are better than television, but the surest way to make money from novels is to write with television in mind. - n+1
Postmodern Irish Step-Dancing — With Beyoncé’s Seal Of Approval
Kaitlyn Sardin, a twentysomething African-American from Orlando who won her first junior world championship in 2009, now mixes up traditional Irish dance with hip-hop,...
Director Says Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Will Have To Close If Urgent Repairs Aren’t...
Director Emilie Gordenker says the original building, which is owned by the Dutch state, is in such poor condition it needs urgent and extensive...
Meta Created AI Versions Of Celebrities Without Permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens...
AI Is Changing Who Gets To Be A Musician
Generative AI, with its ability to spit out seemingly unique content, has divided the music world, with musicians and industry groups complaining that recorded...
Is Or Isn’t This A Genuine Vermeer? Compare And Decide For Yourself
The Guitar Player, housed at Kenwood in London, is signed by Vermeer and accepted as authentic. There’s a slightly different version in the Philadelphia...
“Hamilton” Was A Huge Success. And Then The Mood Turned Sour
The world that received “Hamilton” in July 2020, however, was not the world that had made it the toast of the 2016 Tony Awards. The show’s...
Familiar Playbook: A War On Freedom Of Ideas
Despots over the ages devised a lopsided way of funding science that punished blue-sky thinkers and promoted gadget makers. Mr. Trump’s science policies, experts say,...
Kentucky Church Urges Parishioners To Check “Offensive” Books Out Of Libraries And Never Return...
“Yes — we have urged Christians, both locally and across the country, to search their libraries for books that promote sodomy, gender confusion and...
Italy Struggles With All The Damage Caused By Tourists Behaving Badly
People carving their initials into the Coliseum, trashing Bernini’s fountain in Rome, driving a car down the Spanish Steps, mounting and humping a nude...
Audiences For Met Opera’s Cinemacasts Are Down By Half, Says Peter Gelb
“Our audience globally is about 55% of what it was before the pandemic. We still have a significant audience. We reached countries across eleven...
Anna Wintour Names Her Long-Awaited Successor As Editor of Vogue
“Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloé Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue. — Wintour, 75,...
