Closing Arguments In The Live Nation Case
The heart of the case before the jury involves accusations that Live Nation has pressured artists to use the company’s promotions arm to play...
She Built Russia’s Only Major Contemporary Art Museum Outside Moscow. Then She Was Chased...
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva turned PERMM (in Perm, 700 miles from Moscow) into one of the country’s most respected museums. She tried to cooperate with authorities...
AI And The End Of Homework: AI Can Now Do All The Work
Need to take an online math quiz? Write a biology-lab report? Create a PowerPoint presentation for history class? AI can do all of this...
Pew Study On Reading: Americans Still Prefer Print Books
Print continues to be the only book format used by a majority of Americans. Roughly two-thirds of adults say they have read a physical book...
How Martin Luther Changed Music History
He realised how powerful music could be in spreading his new doctrine, that it could “incite people to do good and to teach them”....
Do All The Tax Breaks And Subsidies That States Hurl At Hollywood Really Create...
Some local jobs, yes, but probably not enough for the amount of money states are spending, according to recent research. The exceptions appear to...
Dallas Symphony Raises $50 Million For Endowment
“The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is adding $50 million to its endowment fund, thanks to donors matching a $25 million challenge grant from the O'Donnell Foundation. …...
$100 Million To Turn Studio 54 Into A Proper Broadway Theater
“Roundabout Theater Company moved into the building in 1998 and kept its disco-era name. Now Roundabout has a $100 million plan for the first...
Louisiana State Museums’ Reaccreditation Put On Hold
“The LSM system, comprising ten museums across the state — including the New Orleans Jazz Museum, Louisiana Civil Rights Museum and historic houses —...
Paramount Pictures Launches Its Own Book Publishing Imprint
“Operating under the products & experiences division, Paramount Global Publishing ‘will develop complementary publishing content inspired by its iconic portfolio of brands and franchises...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Expands Season, Hires Sondra Radvanovsky As Artistic Advisor
While the company isn't back to the schedule it had before COVID, there will be six full productions plus one opera-in-concert, longer runs, a...
Maine’s Portland Museum Of Art Buys New Building
“The building, previously owned by MaineHealth, … was sold for $14 million. The plan is for the PMA to move its administrative offices to...
Hirshhorn Museum Director To Become Guggenheim Museum Director
Melissa Chiu, who has led the Hirshhorn for more than a decade, is the fourth director of a Smithsonian museum to depart within the...
Considering The Tap Shoe
“You’ll never say you didn’t hear them coming.” - AP
Getty Center To Close For A Year
The reopening of the museum, which draws about 1.3 million visitors each year, is planned for spring 2028, shortly before the Summer Olympics come...
Sean “Diddy” Combs’s Attorneys Argue His Prostitution Conviction Should Be Reversed On First Amendment...
“Combs’s lawyers repeated claims they made before the trial judge, including an assertion that Combs’ films of sexual encounters between his girlfriends and male...
London’s Times Newspaper Reduces Story-Count, Increases Readership
Across the whole newsroom, The Times has gone from publishing more than 200 stories a day to about 150 – a 25% cut. -...
Our Zombie Entertainment Industrial Complex
Entertainment and tech companies have gotten smarter about putting consumers into bastardized flow states that leaves people feeling drained and sad rather than challenged...
Library On The US/Canada Border Gets A Door On The Canadian Side
For decades, people in Stanstead were allowed to walk around the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, but last year the U.S. limited access. Instead...
The Fight To Keep A Collection Of Landmark Art From Leaving Mexico And Going...
“One of the world’s most important collections of 20th-century Mexican art, including works by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, is set to be exported to Spain...
What The Ambitious New LACMA Building Is Trying To Do
The new LACMA, which opens to members in the coming weeks and to the general public May 4, is momentous not only because of...
What’s In The New Writers Guild Contract With Movies Studios
The studios will kick in $321 million — a record sum — to keep the writers’ health fund solvent. The health plan changes are...
South Korea Shakes Up Its Cultural Leadership
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has announced a series of high-profile appointments across its leading arts institutions, led by the naming...
Family-Friendly San Jose Theater Company Is Closing. Its Owners Blame City Government
“Scott Guggenheim, who with his wife Shannon Guggenheim owns 3Below Theaters, cited an ongoing landlord dispute as one major factor in what he called...
Who Likes To Be Sad? So Why Do We Seek Out Art That Makes...
It’s a phenomenon that has long puzzled psychologists and philosophers alike. Given that we usually dread sadness and strive to avoid it because it...
