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...
The World’s Smallest Commercial Theatre Has Been Saved
Located in Malvern, England, the Theatre of Small Convenience was once a public toilet; it measures 107 sf and seats 12. It was opened as a...
Against Free Speech. Really?
In another generation, intellectual historians like Dabhoiwala will look back to the present and ask themselves how it happened that, early in the 21st...
Glenn Lowry’s Warning On Leaving MoMA
"If we want a museum that will collect and display the most daring and challenging artists of our time, then we will have to...
Presenting The Dance Magazine Award Honorees For 2025
“A tradition dating back to 1954, the Dance Magazine Awards are given in appreciation of the artistry, integrity, and resilience that dance artists have...
The TikTok Deal: China Would Keep The Algorithm
Ultimately, China gets to keep the TikTok algorithm, simply licensing the algorithm to the US instead of handing over the heart of TikTok's success....
Pandora – The Music Streaming Service That Won’t Die
In its first decade, Pandora users had created eight billion stations, logged 74 billion hours of listening, and rated 55 billion songs with its...
Gaudi’s Sagrada Família Is Almost Finished. Is It A Masterpiece Or Is It Kitsch?
Gaudí’s structure is a head-spinning mixture of morphing geometrical forms, many inspired by nature. Its conical Art Nouveau pinnacles have the lumpy beauty of...
Without Federal Funding, Tribal Public Radio Stations Fear For Their Survival
“If we lose the radio station, it’s like you lose an arm or a leg,” said the tribal council vice-chair in Warm Springs, Oregon. Said...
Moscow Court Sentences Members Of Pussy Riot To Prison In Absentia
“(Five members) were sentenced to periods ranging from 8 to 13 years for ‘spreading knowingly false information containing data about the deployment of the Russian...
Meet The Attorneys Fighting For Public And School Libraries And Against Book Bans
“Libraries, and public libraries in particular, are often in financial crunches and depend on tax dollars to keep the lights on. They rarely have...
Internet Archive And Record Labels Settle $621 Million Lawsuit Over Old 78 RPM Records
The case, with Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment as lead plaintiffs, targeted the Archive's Great 78 Project, an initiative to digitize, and make...
Emergency Campaign For Alaska Public Radio Stations Raises $3.5 Million
The state’s far-flung public radio stations are among the most vulnerable to the rescission of federal funding. The legislature has eliminated state funding as...
NPR Cuts $5 Million From Next Year’s Budget
“CEO Katherine Maher announced during a board meeting that while listener donations have surged (since the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting), it’s...
