Archivists Are Going To Have A Hard Time Documenting The Digital Era
It’s two problems in one. The detritus — diary entries, to-do lists, correspondence — in which researchers often discover key details rarely gets put...
Oh, Great! AMC Theatres Is Going To Run Commercials Alongside Movie Trailers
“AMC Theatres has agreed to show pre-movie advertising before features begin as part of a new deal with National CineMedia, … the in-theater advertising company.”...
National Portrait Gallery Director Is Still At Work, Despite Trump’s Announcement Of Her Firing
“Kim Sajet’s refusal to abide by Trump’s decision (will test) the bounds of presidential authority over the Smithsonian. ... It is not a traditional...
Almeida Theatre, London’s Pint-Sized Powerhouse, Appoints Dominic Cooke Artistic Director
The 325-seat playhouse in Islington, which has a long history of spawning award winners and West End and Broadway hits, has chosen Cooke, formerly...
Behold London’s Serpentine Pavilion For Summer 2025, by Marina Tabassum
“Named A Capsule in Time, the Bangladeshi architect’s partially-sheltered pavilion, made from wood and polycarbonate, comprises four arched timber structures that take on the...
Montreal Dance Studio Drops Its Classes In Gaga Technique Because It Was Created In...
Last month, Studio 303 publicly joined the BDS boycott, including “all cultural and academic products that normalize the State of Israel." That includes Gaga,...
Are We Having Second Thoughts About Capitalism?
I’m not claiming that most people are saying “Let’s get rid of capitalism,” because it still delivers the bacon, to some extent. But I...
“Z Literature” — Fiction Designed To Convince Young Russians To Fight In Ukraine
These novels, aimed at young men who will soon be targets of recruitment drives, often feature hyper-nationalist, crudely-drawn “accidental travel” plots, wherein the hero...
Major UK Museums Make Plea For Negativity Towards Corporate Sponsors
The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have backed a letter calling for an end to the “relentless negativity”...
’78 Recordings Are Essential Music History
While 33-rpm vinyl reigns supreme in popular culture and the central role of LPs in hop-hop sampling and scratching, 78s were by far the...
“Bone Records” — How Forbidden Jazz And Rock Were Smuggled Into The Soviet Union...
It turns out that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched on by an electromechanical lathe. So one could take exposed X-ray film...
Indiana Legislature Passes Bill That Could Slash Hundreds Of University Degree Programs
More than half of the bachelor's degrees offered at Indiana's public colleges and universities could be eliminated under an eleventh-hour provision slipped into the...
Edinburgh Fringe Loses Major Sponsor, Seeks City Help
No new sponsor has been found for the Fringe to replace Johnnie Walker, Fringe chiefs have admitted, as they draw up plans to demand...
Survey Of Tech At Non-Profits: Haves and Have-Nots
The findings reveal a sector at a crossroads, where organizations that can afford to modernize are pulling ahead, while those that can’t fear being...
How The Broadway Cast Of “Purpose” Coped With Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Constant Rewrites
Glenn Davis: “The hardest day I’ve ever had as an actor: Branden rewrote our two scenes in the second act. ... We rehearsed the...
Trump Asks Congress To Cancel Funding For Public Broadcasting
The proposal, sent to lawmakers by White House budget director and key policy architect Russell Vought, asks Congress to “rescind,” or repeal, $8.3 billion...
Seattle International Film Festival Lays Off Twenty Percent Of Its Staff
“SIFF leadership has been addressing the need to cut expenses in an intensive way since the summer of 2024: reducing administrative costs and significantly...
The Lakota Project: Two Musical Traditions Come Together on the Plains of South Dakota
Classical institutions like to talk a big game about making social justice a part of their mission, but the South Dakota Symphony and the...
Peru Reduces Protected Area Around Nazca Lines By Half, And Archaeologists Are Alarmed
“The Nazca Archaeological Reserve has been reduced from approximately 2,162 square miles to 1,235 square miles. … The area now excluded from the environmental...
They’re Making An Animatronic Walt Disney For Disneyland. Walt’s Granddaughter Says He Would Hate...
Joanna Miller expresses great admiration for the skills of the Disney Company’s animatronics team. But she argues that "two minutes with the robot will...
Smithsonian Leadership Is Conspicuously Silent About Trump’s Firing Of National Portrait Gallery Director
Since the firing last Friday, leaders at the Institution have been considering whether, in a lawsuit or even in public statements, to challenge a...
GBH, Boston’s Public TV Powerhouse, Has Third Round Of Layoffs
“GBH on Monday announced it laid off 45 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce. … Home to national programs like Frontline and Antiques Roadshow, GBH is...
Novelist Edmund White, 85
The novelist, five-time memoirist, and co-author of the pioneering 1977 book The Joy of Gay Sex “was a major influence on modern gay literature,...
Kennedy Center Ticket Subscriptions Are Down By Over One-Third
“Sales of subscriptions for the coming season … are down by about $1.6 million, or roughly 36%, compared with last year.” A current staff...
Former Met Opera Chorus Director Heads To Chicago Symphony
Donald Palumbo, 76, is credited with revitalizing the Met chorus during his 17-year term (2007-2024) and, before that, the chorus of Lyric Opera of...
