As We Lose The Ability To Write By Hand, What Else Are We Losing?
Even if you're unmoved by the idea that we're losing touch with a physical human practice thousands of years old, there are measurable cognitive...
Consumers Highly Value Reviews. Problem is, Most Are Fake
Survey participants placed the value of online reviews above price, free shipping, brand, and recommendations from family and friends. The survey found 94 percent...
Remembering Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Plowright was “perhaps the greatest Anglophone actor of the 20th century”, in Variety’s words. She was certainly a leading pioneer in post-war British theatre’s modernisation –...
How Maria Tallchief Changed American Ballet
"Her centennial is this year — she died in 2013, at 88 — and she remains widely regarded as America’s first prima ballerina. …...
What’s The Real Difference Between Fiction And Non-Fiction?
What is fiction in the first place? Despite common usage, philosophers agree that we can’t equate ‘fiction’ with ‘false content’. On the one hand,...
What Publishers Are Expecting In The Second Trump Administration
While threats to funding for arts and humanities organizations are one big worry, the primary ethical concern for most in the book business is...
Restore Musical Instruments Or Conserve Them? (A Debate)
How much reworking is too much? Should the instrument be made playable or simply maintained in its present condition? And in the case of...
Parkland School Shooting Parent Makes Theatre With His Grief
"Joaquin “Guac” Oliver and 16 others were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018. Manuel Oliver turned...
Data’s In: The State Of The Music Business In Canada In 2024
The findings paint a picture of an industry in transformation: streaming numbers are soaring, physical formats are showing surprising resilience, and superfans are reshaping...
Among Trump’s Day One Executive Orders: Canceling Biden’s Arts Initiative
Among Trump's executive orders on the first day: canceling Biden's Executive Order 14084 of September 30, 2022 (Promoting the Arts, the Humanities, and Museum...
Founder Of IMDb To Step Down As CEO After 35 Years
Col Needham started building the database that later became IMDb in 1990. He remained CEO even after selling the website to Amazon in 1998, overseeing...
Thomas Søndergård Makes His Mark On The Minnesota Orchestra
Since succeeding Osmo Vänskä as music director in the fall of 2023, he has shown a flair for programming, thrown himself into community engagement...
For Musicians, How Old Is Too Old?
Since the elimination of mandatory retirement in symphony orchestras and with union protections making it difficult to fire older players, many orchestras include members...
Controversy Over Two Oscar Contenders’ Use Of AI On Actors’ Voices
The re-recording mixer for Emilia Pérez said that AI software was used to extend the vocal range of star Karla Sofía Gascón to reach...
Why Scotland’s Government And Its Arts Funding Agency Are Like A “Dysfunctional Divorcing Couple”
Alan Cumming, who made the comparison, provides a good example: he was hired in September to run the Pitlochry Festival Theatre and "invite the...
KERA, Dallas’s Public Radio & TV Outlet, Announces $100 Million Expansion
"The station, which began broadcasting on television in 1960 and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary in radio, is expected to move out of its...
The British Museum And Its 8 Million Objects, 6 Million Annual Visitors, Hundreds Of...
"It is a sprawling, chaotic reflection of Britain’s psyche over 300 years: its voracious curiosity and cultural relativism; its pugnacious superiority complex; its restless...
Large Ancient Bathhouse/Spa Uncovered In Pompeii
"The newly unearthed spa complex comprises the classic Roman trio of thermal rooms — calidarium (hot), tepidarium (warm), and frigidarium (cold) — alongside a...
Britain Should Offer Tax Deductions For Corporate Arts Philanthropy As France Does
"Introduced in 2003 by then culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon, this policy incentivises corporate philanthropy for arts and charities by offering a 60 per cent...
Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, 95
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and children’s book author was one of the most humorously neurotic literary voices of his generation. … (He)...
We’ve Always Been Worried About Distraction (So What’s The Crisis?)
Haven’t critics freaked out about the brain-scrambling power of everything from pianofortes to brightly colored posters? Isn’t there, in fact, a long section in...
CEO Of Music AI Company: Making Music The Traditional Way Sucks
“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now. It takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you need to get...
Warning: Hollywood Screen Music Production Is Endangered
Los Angeles is facing a loss of artists, producers and executives ranging from sound to visual effects. Musicians, and the players behind them, are a...
Is Netflix Deliberately Dumbing Down TV For The Internet Generation?
Is it inherently bad to cater to people who may prefer their viewing on the more casual side? Is it snobbery to believe that...
Classical Music’s Identity Crisis: Political Music Under Biden
Classical music has long been wandering in the desert of its own identity crisis, and 2016 was an unexpected checkpoint. Overnight, it seemed that...
