Actors’ Equity UK Loses Years-Long Lawsuit Against Casting Directory Spotlight
“(The judge) ruled against Equity’s claim that Spotlight is an employment agency … (and) concluded that Spotlight, a website widely used by U.K. talent...
What Esa-Pekka Salonen’s New Jobs Say About Orchestras (And The San Francisco Symphony)
It turns out there are arts administrators — some of them right here in California — who understand the importance of innovative creative leadership. They understand that the...
Met Opera Makes Deal To Perform Seasons In Saudi Arabia
The company has reached a lucrative agreement with the kingdom that calls for it to perform there for three weeks each winter. - The New...
Movie-Making Is Broken. We Have To Rebuild From The Ground Up
“We need to rebuild it from the ground up. I believe AI can help us do that, because as it lowers the cost threshold...
Kabuki Is, Amazingly, The Subject Of Japan’s Latest Megahit Movie
“Kokuho, which means ‘national treasure,’ has already grossed more than 10 billion yen ($68 million), making it the second-highest grossing Japanese live-action film of...
An Enormous Number Of Impressive New Museums Are Opening. But Aren’t Museums In Distress?
Is it the idea that the art museum as we’ve understood it is under genuine existential threat, a relic of a battered Enlightenment worldview?...
An Awful Summer At The Movie Box Office
Is it time for Hollywood to concede that a lot of moviegoers in North America are never coming back? That movie theaters have permanently...
Classical Music Is Expensive To Make. How To Finance It?
In the end it comes down to a simple question. Western classical music as a living art form – do we want it or...
James Patterson’s Latest Plan To Give Away His Riches: The “Go Finish Your Book”...
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors:...
The Surprising Thing About The New LACMA’s Concrete Walls
Turns out the walls are easier to drill into, and to accurately level the art being hung, than drywall. What’s more, they can be...
USA Today Visits Five Smithsonian Museums To See If They’re Really Too “Woke”
The Nation’s Newspaper checks out the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History,...
A Canadian Province Banned “The Handmaid’s Tale” From Schools. So Margaret Atwood Wrote A...
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’...
Climate-Protesting Architecture Vandals Throw Paint On Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia
“Two activists, representing the campaign group Futuro Vegetal, targeted the basilica on Sunday, August 31, spraying the colored powder over a column while shouting...
The Dances Are A Big Revenue Driver For The Game “Fortnite.” Do The Choreographers...
Hundreds of these dances, known as emotes, have been released on Fortnite, where players can buy them for a few dollars each. Epic Games,...
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Names John Storgårds Its Next Music Director
The 61-year-old Finn, currently Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra in Finland, takes up his post in...
Chief Marketing & Experience Officer – Roundabout Theatre Company
Roundabout Theatre Company seeks to hire their next Chief Marketing & Experience Officer.
Creative Folks May Not Like It, But It’s Sports That’s Propping Up Entertainment TV
“Sports is defying ratings gravity, exerting even more influence with each passing season as by far the dominant genre that people prefer to watch...
AI Bots Are Destroying The Web
When AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and OpenAI (20%) leading the way, clobber websites with as much as...
How Indie Music Became The Voice Of A Generation And Then Ate Itself
The real reason that indie started to die is Spotify. As streaming supplanted downloads and album sales, it automated music discovery. Instead of reading Pitchfork or...
Why Media Coverage Of School Shootings Is Dwindling
“Our attention span — or patience — for enduring these far-too-frequent tragedies appears to be shrinking. The horror persists, but the novelty is fading,...
After Cuts WGBH Lays Off Staff For “American Experience” History Series
WGBH, the bellwether public TV station in Boston, has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series “American Experience” and announced...
Why So Many Of Our Novels Are Driven By TV
Novels are better than television, but the surest way to make money from novels is to write with television in mind. - n+1
Postmodern Irish Step-Dancing — With Beyoncé’s Seal Of Approval
Kaitlyn Sardin, a twentysomething African-American from Orlando who won her first junior world championship in 2009, now mixes up traditional Irish dance with hip-hop,...
Director Says Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum Will Have To Close If Urgent Repairs Aren’t...
Director Emilie Gordenker says the original building, which is owned by the Dutch state, is in such poor condition it needs urgent and extensive...
Meta Created AI Versions Of Celebrities Without Permission
Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens...
