What Do Ticket-Buyers Value Most When Choosing A Seat?
Among the findings of the study are that people value being closer to the stage than further away. Reserved seating is more valuable than...
Attention Has Now Become Our Most Precious Resource
Every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention. It is now...
Canada’s New “Online News Act,” Meant To Help Journalism, Has Been A Disaster For...
The hare-brained Online News Act has only been in effect for a few months, but already it has proved a disaster for small and emerging news...
Britain’s Nonprofit Theatre Business Model Is Broken: Study
National Theatre CEO Kate Varah: "Many I speak to in the sector feel they are at a breaking point with limited funds and conflicting...
Sotheby’s Changed Its Buyer Fees. It Didn’t Go Well
The changes demonstrated a miscalculation of not just the economic dynamic of the art market—for which supply is harder to stimulate than demand—but also...
Question Everything? Then What Does Anything Mean?
The more time you spend having your mind changed online, the more you might sense that there’s something odd about the way in which...
What’s Up With The Increasing Childishness Of Pop Culture?
Over time, digested in larger quantities, this entertainment sands away the distinctions between this and that until context collapses into a river of color and sound. - The...
Reviving The Practice Of Writing Letters By Starting A Giant Pen Pal Club
"New Yorker writer Rachel Syme was in the stir-crazy early months of the pandemic, scribbling notes to friends and family, when she put out...
The Missing Song From Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” Has Been Unearthed
"'Hot For You Baby,' written by Australian singer John Paul Young and produced by John Carter, was originally meant to be included on the...
Does Trump’s Executive Order Mean All Federal Buildings Will Have To Look Like The...
The order, revived from his first term, says policies should ensure new buildings "respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage in order to uplift...
Two Major Studios Wage Court Battle Over Streaming Rights To “South Park”
"Paramount must face some claims in a lawsuit from Warner Bros. Discovery accusing it of setting in motion a breach of a $500 million...
Delhi Court Seizes Two Artworks For Offending Religious Sentiments
"The judge gave the police permission to confiscate the drawings (by MF Husain) after a lawyer, Amita Sachdeva, complained that the artworks featuring two...
Painter Jo Baer Dead At 95
"(She was) a trailblazing painter who gained accolades as a Minimalist during the 1960s before diverging from the movement later on" in favor of...
Academy Says Oscars Will Proceed As Planned
Execs said the March ceremony will "celebrate the work that unites us as a global film community and acknowledge those who fought so bravely...
I Was The Merch Girl On The “Girls Gone Wild” Tour Bus
"On the surface, my job was simple: travel around with a producer and cameramen and sell branded merch to the drunken masses at 'parties'...
The Oscars: A History Of Adapting To Disaster
This is far from the first time that the Academy has had to adapt to calamity. The closest analogy may be 1938, when another...
Krishna Thiagarajan Out As Seattle Symphony CEO; Two Other Senior Execs On Leave
Thiagarajan’s Symphony tenure was rocky. - Seattle Times
Regulating Social Media: Like Cigarettes? Or Like Junk Food?
History suggests that our collective approach to social media may be approaching a fork in the road. These laws are more like junk-food regulations...
Coming This Summer: The National Ballet Of Texas
The new professional company, based in the large Dallas exurb of Plano, will debut in August and will follow with a three-show mainstage season...
Cameroon Opens A Spectacular New Museum
Housing over 10,000 objects, it offers more than 600 years of history in its display of the treasures of the Bamoun kingdom, one of the...
Five Years After COVID: How Australia’s Theatres Are Doing
While it would be misleading to take the dollar figures in isolation as the only measure of these companies’ ‘post-COVID’ build-backs, their financial statements...
Can You Really Fit Plays Into 45-minute Cookie-Cutter Slots?
The problem is that while Radio 4 does indeed feature drama, no regular slot there allows for anything other than a play lasting 45...
British Government Announces £60 Million In New Arts And Culture Funding
"The £60 million funding package includes £40 million for initiatives such as the Create Growth Programme, the Supporting Grassroots Music Fund, the UK Games...
The Winning Strategy For A Successful Bookstore: Be Nice To Customers
In this challenging retail environment, my local bookshop has hit on an incredible strategy: simply being nice to anyone who walks in. - The...
David Schneiderman, Village Voice Editor and Publisher, 77
After being named editor in chief in 1978, Mr. Schneiderman elevated The Voice’s journalistic game, diversified a newsroom that was nearly all white and...
