Has BookTok Passed Its Prime?
We’ve had enough of endless, disappointing BookTok recommendations that promise payoff, not to mention its other cons. So are we finally at the end of BookTok’s chapter?...
The Most Arts-Vibrant States, Ranked 1 To 50
"In its second annual release, our State of the Arts: Arts Vibrancy Rankings analyzes measurements of arts-vibrancy for all 50 states, using a comprehensive,...
Report: Podcast-Listening Continues Strong Growth
While podcasts’ popularity grows overall, the strongest momentum is with watchable podcasts. The data shows four in ten say they like actively watching a...
New Black-Centered Arts Center Is Coming To Boston
"Castle of Our Skins, an arts institution that celebrates and aims to generate curiosity in Black music, cut the ribbon on Thursday … at...
Yuval Sharon Is Leaving The Industry, The Experimental L.A. Opera Company He Founded
"The company's executive director, Tim Griffin, who came on board in summer 2023, will ... become both executive and artistic director. Co-artistic directors, Ash...
Bayreuth Festival Makes Deep Cuts To Its 150th Anniversary Season
Blaming its cash shortfall on the public-service sector employee contracts it has with staff and an inability to raise more revenue, Bayreuth management cut...
“The Nutcracker” Is Saved! San Francisco Ballet Dancers’ Union And Management Agree On Contract
"San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker season will kick off as planned, despite concerns that opening night would be canceled due to a stall in contract...
The Guardian Approves Sale Of The Observer To Tortoise Media
"Tortoise agreed to invest £25 million ($31.9 million) in the British title over the next five years and has pledged to keep publishing the...
In His 80s, Claude Monet Developed A Visual Superpower
When cataracts had rendered him almost completely blind, Monet finally agreed to the eye surgery he had been avoiding for years. When he recovered,...
Lessons Learned From A Century Of Hollywood Box Office Flops
There are three rules for avoiding a cinematic flop.Rule one: don’t pick a title that is boring, misleading or hard to pronounce. - Literary Review
What Do Right-Wing Media And Improv Theater Have In Common? A Lot
Two researchers of information ecosystems find that the structures and mechanisms of improv theater and the right-wing media ecosystem are surprisingly similar — which...
Workers Found More Than 1000 Artifacts Under Notre Dame
It would have been unfathomable to dig up the famous cathedral before the fire. However, archaeologists now had the chance per a French law...
Anonymous Donor Gives Millions To Milwaukee Museum To Make Admission Free To Kids
The gift will enable the museum to establish a endowment that will fund the admission waiver in perpetuity. The gift went into effect the...
Reviving George Washington Carver’s Patented Prussian Blue Pigment
His recipe for making blue pigment from the clay soil of Alabama is of one of the few things the great African-American inventor patented....
How Our Weird Obsession With Youth And Beauty Blinds Us To Real Meaning
With a crazed sense of humor and geysers of gore, these works demand recognition of simple and obvious facts: that looks aren’t everything and...
The Doctor Is In: What Is The Health Of That Painting?
Just as it is with a medical doctor, discretion is part of Suzanne Siano’s business model — she does not reveal to anyone what...
Tennessee Museum Asks Visitors To Sign Waiver Before Viewing Show Criticized By Republicans
“By suggesting that some works may be construed as hate speech and requiring visitors to sign a waiver, the sign not only misrepresents the...
How The Chinese Communist Party Overhauled The Nation’s Comic Books
Lianhuanhua, read by children and adults alike, are palm-sized books with two or three lines of text and one image per page, and they...
Report: Workers In The Music Sector Will Lose One Quarter Of Their Incomes To...
The report concluded that while the AI boom will substantially enrich giant tech companies, creators’ rights and income streams will be drastically reduced unless policymakers...
Inside The Race To Rebuild Notre Dame
While the people of France supported the effort in the immediate aftermath—within days of the fire, there were donations of more than $900 million—the...
How Taylor Swift’s Tour Has Changed The Concert Business
Music executives say Swift has raised the bar for the concert industry, not just with ticket and merchandise sales, but conceptual ambition, stage production,...
A New Kind Of Music Therapy? Music Could Help Change The Way You See...
"People often think of these musical memories as fixed snapshots of the past. But recent research my team and I published suggests music may...
What It Takes To Be An Orchestra Librarian
"They obtain scores and parts, consult with conductors and concertmasters, check the music for accuracy, ensure that page turns are realistic, and make corrections...
A Way To Teach Pointe Work That Won’t Wreck Dancers’ Feet
Lynne Charles, artistic director of English National Ballet School, has developed a method she calls 4Pointe. "There are all these methods ... but there’s...
What’s The Point Of Being A Theater Critic? This Is.
"Why would anyone want to be a critic? As I’ve admitted before, it wasn’t in my case an aspiration but a series of accidents...
