Artists Tried Influencing The Election With Billboards. Did They Sway Anyone?
How do you evaluate something as subjective and mercurial as billboard art? - The New York Times
Drake Sues His Record Label For Promoting “Defamatory” Recording
Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song...
Criticisms Of Spotify? The Don’t Hold Up
What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one...
In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel
European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the...
Christie’s Picks A New Leader
Bonnie Brennan, a 51-year-old Michigan native, succeeds Guillaume Cerutti, a 58-year-old Frenchman who is stepping down after an eight-year run. Cerutti plans to continue as...
The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores
The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and...
The Lost Music In The LA Fires
In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The...
Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82
"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope...
Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors
"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the...
Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing...
Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space...
Conductor Hannu Lintu Named Singapore Symphony’s Next Music Director
The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his...
Alt-Weekly Chicago Reader Is At “Imminent Risk Of Closure”
The paper, which was owned by the Sun-Times for six years before being sold to a not-for-profit in 2018, has continued to be plagued...
Bristol, UK City Council Poised To Eliminate Arts Grants And Cut Culture Budget By...
The city government is facing possible bankruptcy due to a £52 million budget gap over the next five years. Among the drastic measures being...
Can “The Conversation” Do For Local News What It’s Done For Academic Research?
"The nonprofit outlet has built a brand on connecting the knowledge of professors and researchers to both the news cycle and a general audience...
Former Theatre Company CEO Faces Trial On Multiple Sexual Abuse Charges
Timothy O’Connor, former chief executive of the Harvest Rain Theatre Company in Brisbane, Australia, faces charges from seven accusers aged from 12 to 29;...
The Tyranny Of Reading Lists
The urge to track our reading habits is never so strong as it is near the turn of the year, when cultural forces press...
No – Harvard Didn’t Break How America Works
The danger of blaming the Ivy League for today’s overreliance on blunt ranking-and-sorting instruments is that we may be tempted to wait for the...
Movie Audiences These Days Are Laughing At Some Pretty Intense Stuff
"(Chuckles) ripple through the crowd when Nicole Kidman laps up milk from a saucer on her hands and knees in Babygirl, when Lily-Rose Depp...
How Virtual Reality Is Changing The Designing Of Buildings
VR brings clarity to architectural design. While traditional blueprints and 3D renderings can mainly convey spatial relationships, lighting conditions and material finishes, VR immerses...
The Extraordinary Efforts To Save The Getty Center From Fire
Fire extinguishers in hand, the museum said, the Getty’s staff scours the sparse ground beneath their boots as well as the canopies of oak...
A Plan For Making The Arts “The Next Big Thing” In Downtown Chicago
"A group of civic, business and community leaders calling themselves 'Team Culture' wants to reimagine major parts of downtown — filling vacant, often shadowy...
Studying How The Brain Works Is Fine. But What About Imagination?
Imagination of a sort is central to all experience. We construct our perceived world from incomplete information, interpreted via inner representations of our environment, that...
Artwork Lost In LA Fires
Ron Rivlin said he had lost more than two dozen Warhols — he owns a gallery in West Hollywood that specializes in Warhol — along with...
What’s With All the Bizarre Stuff Behind TV Credits?
All of them seem to have collectively decided that the best way to convey the sense of epic event TV is with an overture...
A Proposal For Keeping The Wanamaker Organ Safe And In Regular Use
The instrument's landmark status only means that it can't be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy's...
