Statistical Profile: Which Artists Are Being Shown In America’s Museums
I looked at more than 200 museums, and counted which artists were on view any time during December. The resulting list includes a little...
Striking Seattle Art Museum Guards Allege Union-Busting
“A full-time job should serve the basic things you need to take care of yourself, housing, food, health, even mental health. I’ve struggled to...
The Record For Most Expensive Musical Instrument May Soon Be Broken
The Stradivarius on which Joseph Joachim played the world premiere of Brahms's Violin Concerto will be auctioned on February 7, and Sotheby's is estimating...
UK Theatres Warn Of Cuts Because Of Cost Increases
UK Theatre joint chief executive Claire Walker warned that “unplanned increases in staffing costs” were adding to a theatre sector already at “risk”. -...
Terry Loftis Named New CEO Of New Jersey Symphony
Loftis goes to the New Jersey Symphony from his position as Chief Advancement and Revenue Officer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO), where he...
Phantom AI-Generated News Websites Are Taking Over Old Community Newspapers
The reality was that none of the people allegedly working for the Ashland Daily Tidings existed, or at least were who they claimed to...
Yet Again, Republicans Are Trying To Defund Public Radio And TV. Should We Be...
"Efforts to defund NPR and PBS … (along with) their member stations and their primary funding mechanism, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting … have...
Where’s The Next “New Berlin”?
Lately, “new Berlin” has become shorthand for an under-visited European city that is cheap, fun, and up-and-coming. Ever since creeping gentrification and a massive...
The Creator Economy Is Huge: 360M Creators In 20 Countries
They generate a cumulative economic impact of $368 billion, a figure comparable to the GDP of Hong Kong and more than the entire economic...
Musicians Sign Letter Opposing Attacks On Internet Archive
“We, the undersigned musicians, wholeheartedly oppose major record labels’ unjust lawsuit targeting the Internet Archive,” the Musicians for Fairness and Preservation Open Letter reads. “We don’t...
Can Germany Still Afford Its Famously Generous Arts Funding?
The regional government for Berlin intends to cut its cultural budget by 12%, and other state and municipal governments are similarly strapped. The German...
Saudi Arabia Will Give €50 Million Toward Pompidou Center’s Renovation
"This move to support France’s national museum of Modern and contemporary art, which is scheduled to begin a massive €262 million renovation later this...
Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore, Where Staffers Want More Than Minimum Wage
"The store’s 110 unionized workers went on strike in the middle of the busy holiday season, leaving the shop’s '18 miles of books' to...
San Francisco Symphony Extends Musicians’ Contract — For About Six Weeks
The short-term extension comes amid long and contentious bargaining between SFS management, which insists that huge deficits must stop for the organization to survive,...
Dallas Black Dance Theatre Must Pay Over Half A Million To Dancers It Fired
Under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board, "10 fired dancers, and three whose offers of employment were rescinded, will receive over $560,000...
Poet Nikki Giovanni, 81
"A poet of rage and revolution as well as love and longing, (she) emerged as a fiery voice of Black liberation in the 1960s...
‘Polarization” Is Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Year For 2024
And the reasons the word is an apt choice go well beyond politics. - AP
Why Are People Hating On This Year’s Pantone Color Of The Year?
Today alone, people have been coming out in droves to express their deep-seated hatred for or utter confusion about Mocha Mousse in various comments sections. USA Today even insinuated...
Here Are 2025’s Golden Globe Nominations
On the TV side, FX/Hulu’s “The Bear” continues its trophy domination with the most nominations for any series; that’s five for the restaurant-set dramedy....
Canva Changed How Ordinary People Design. Can Canva Survive AI?
Canva’s vision has always been to enable you to take your idea and turn it into a design, and reduce the friction between those...
Taylor Swift’s Finally-Completed Tour Took In An Astonishing $2 Billion
Through its 149th and final show, which took place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Sunday, Swift’s tour sold a total of $2,077,618,725 in tickets. That’s...
Why The Novel Matters
It does not have to be clear or obscure. In the voyage out between these binaries – between the oil spills, thistles and phantoms...
The Creative Work That’s Coming Out Of Copyright This Year
Copyright will expire on Buck Rogers, Captain Easy, Horace Horsecollar, Tintin, Hal Foster's first Tarzan comic strips and, yes, Popeye. - Creative Blog
Those Cursed “Best Of” Lists? They’re Actually Valuable
Detractors of year-end lists argue that they too frequently reward work that has already been heavily promoted and acclaimed, especially in a category like...
When Barnes & Noble Bought One Of This Country’s Most-Storied Independent Bookstores
"When Barnes & Noble took over they were saying, 'Hey, this is the Tattered Cover. The name Barnes & Noble will be nowhere in...
