People Pray For Hot Concert Tickets At This 1,000-Year-Old Tokyo Shrine
For many pop concerts in Japan, “fans enter (a lottery) for the chance to buy tickets and can only purchase them in limited quantities...
The Many Controversies Dogging This Year’s Venice Biennale
The 2026 Venice Biennale has experienced waves of uncertainty that have only grown in strength as the public opening of the world’s most prestigious...
Media Mogul Ted Turner, 87
The media business is full of big-talking executives. But Turner’s outsized public persona — some called him the “Mouth from the South” for his...
“The Devil Wears Prada” And The Rise And Fall Of Chick Lit
“Before it was a movie, Lauren Weisberger’s The Devil Wears Prada, published by Broadway Books in 2003, marked the absolute high point of that once-ubiquitous...
Can The UK Theatre Touring Model Be Saved?
“It doesn’t feel as though we have recovered any meaningful ground since the pandemic, and the fact that venues and their teams remain under...
What Research Tells Us About How Memory Works
The idea of photographic memory is simple and powerful: Experience is captured objectively, stored completely and retrieved perfectly. See it once, keep it forever....
“Death Of A Salesman” Director Joe Mantello On Working With Disgraced Broadway Producer Scott...
“I would be lying if I said … I didn’t grapple with making that decision. … I will say I do believe in accountability, and...
How A Change In SEC Reporting Might Change How Hollywood Studios Behave
The SEC is proposing to change its rules, allowing for public companies to report financials semi-annually rather than quarterly. Will major studios buy in?...
So Just How Big is the Culture Audience? (comparisons that may make you rethink)
By revenue, the nonprofit arts sector is small — about $73 billion in organizational spending compared to $1.17 trillion in total US arts and cultural production. Disney's annual revenue alone is larger than every US nonprofit cultural institution in the country combined. But the map of audience shows something entirely
In An AI Economy, Human-Made Becomes Luxury Good
We don’t value human creations solely for their beauty or their price tag. We also value them because they embody deliberate labour and expertise....
Indianapolis Symphony CEO to Step Down
James Johnson began his tenure with the symphony in 2018 after serving as president and CEO of the Omaha Symphony Association. Since then, Johnson has overseen...
For Her Second Choreography Commission From NY City Ballet, Tiler Peck Is Going Big
It’s George Balanchine’s company, after all, and he had a special gift for coordinating and synchronizing large casts. Peck particularly admires that achievement and...
Big Book Publishers Band Together To Sue Meta Over AI Plundering
Five leading publishers and a best-selling author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday, alleging that the tech...
The Met Gala Was A Failed Opportunity To Make The Case For Art
“Fashion is art” was meant to encourage attendees to think about how every human body is a canvas, and about how making an item...
What This Year’s Tony Nominations Say About International Theatre
While it’s too early to tell which of the nominated shows will go on to have an international life, we can find some hints...
At Last, Berlin’s Pergamon Museum Has A (Partial) Reopening Date
“Traditionally one of the German capital’s top tourist attractions, (the Pergamon) will reopen next year after the first part of a painstaking restoration effort....
María Nieves Rego, Co-Creator Of Worldwide Hit “Tango Argentino,” Has Died At 91
“With her dance partner and onetime husband, Juan Carlos Copes” — described as the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers of tango — “(she) formed...
L.A.’s Holocaust Museum To Reopen As Part Of New Cultural Center
“The Holocaust Museum LA, the first survivor-founded and oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, will reopen after a 10-month closure as part of...
Having Canceled Most Of Its Concerts, San Antonio Philharmonic Schedules A Couple Of New...
In mid-February, the precarious orchestra called off the remainder of this season and lost its music director. In what may be a surprising development,...
A Visit To Russia’s Exhibition At The Venice Biennale
“There weren’t any paintings or sculptures in Russia’s pale green building, which dates to before the Revolution. Instead, … the Toloka Ensemble, a folk...
Publishers And Authors Sue Meta And Mark Zuckerberg (Personally) For AI-Related Copyright Infringement
Five large publishing houses, along with Scott Turow representing authors as a class, allege in their filing that Zuckerberg himself “personally authorized and actively...
James Murdoch Is Looking To Buy New York Magazine And Its Podcasts
“Media investor James Murdoch is in advanced talks to buy Vox Media’s New York magazine and podcast division, according to people familiar with the...
A Visit To Africa’s Largest Contemporary Dance Festival
“Founded in 1997, the African Dance Biennial has spent three decades rotating across African cities — most recently Maputo, Mozambique, in 2023 — with...
Trends In Biennale Artists And Their Work
The most-visible type is an artist who digs into the history of colonialism, surfaces some charged document or symbol, and highlights it by doing...
Conductor Fired From Venice’s Opera House Speaks Out
Beatrice Venezi’s appointment as music director of Teatro La Fenice was greeted with an avalanche of criticism that she was unqualified, hired only because...
