Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service....
After Decades Of Trying, Republicans May Finally Get To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting...
The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of...
Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died...
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic,...
For The First Time In 40 Years, A Dance Company In Dallas-Fort Worth Has...
In contrast to the mess at Dallas Black Dance Theatre last year, when dancers voted to join a union and were promptly fired, leading...
Facebook Banned Rebecca Solnit After Her Essay About Los Angeles Riots
The author and activist reported on Bluesky last week that her Facebook account on Facebook was suspended, later adding that she was told the decision...
After Two-Year Restoration, Tintoretto’s Monumental “Crucifixion” Is Back On View
The 17-foot-by-40-foot painting is back in the board room of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, “painstakingly liberated from thick yellowed varnish,...
Wikipedia “Pauses” AI-Generated Summaries Of Entries
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of...
National Endowment For The Humanities Lays off Almost Two-Thirds Of Its Staff
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the...
Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82
“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created...
The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves...
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE...
This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth...
A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater...
How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on...
Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI
Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has...
For North America’s Beleaguered Indie Publishers, A New Distributor Is Coming
With the sudden closing of Small Press Distribution last year and the impending disappearance of National Book Network, the avenues for small presses in...
At BET Awards, Stars Call Out Trump Administration
Doechii, the Grammy-winning rapper, and entertainment mogul Tyler Perry made overt statements about the current administration and its multi-pronged attacks on communities of color....
UC Irvine In Negotiations To Run Orange County Museum Of Art
“The university would run the museum. The details are being worked out. Negotiations are ongoing and a finished agreement is months away with the...
Smithsonian Will Conduct Content Review Of Collections after Trump Request
“The board directed the secretary to assess content in museums and make needed changes to ensure unbiased content, including personnel changes,” a Smithsonian spokesman...
Barbara Holdridge, Co-Founder Of Caedmon Records (And The Entire Audiobook Industry), Has Died At...
“Ms. Holdridge, along with her best friend, Marianne Mantell, built the label, Caedmon Records, into a recording industry dynamo by releasing LPs of such...
How I Rediscovered The Joys Of Reading In BookTok
To read for joy, for wonder, for emotional truth is to hold onto something deeply human. And in a moment when the stories we’re...
Trump DOJ Says President Can Abolish National Monument Protections
The May 27 document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink...
A New Arts-And-Culture Journalism Outlet Is Opening In London
“Founder of culture and city guide Broadsheet Nick Shelton (explains) why the title is expanding from Australia and New Zealand into London. It currently has 85...
The Duplass Brothers Are Bringing The Indie Film Studio Business Model To TV
“Traditionally, TV creators pitch ideas for shows to big studios, which (front) the money to get the project rolling and then own the final...
Watching The Tryouts For The Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
“The Metropolitan Opera’s stage door, a plain entrance hidden in the tunnels of Lincoln Center, routinely welcomes star singers, orchestra musicians, stagehands, costumers and...
Some Of Paris’s Leading Museums And Monuments Are Raising Prices For Non-EU Visitors
“Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums — including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles — will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up...
