Big Corporate Streamers May Be Having Trouble, But Niche Streaming Services Are Thriving
"About two dozen smaller, low-cost specialty streaming services have generated significant subscriber growth over the last couple of years. … This includes streamers from...
“The Broadcast Land Grab”: Trump’s Next Administration May See Wave Of TV Station Acquisitions
"The incoming Trump administration has made it clear that deregulation will be at the top of its priority list, and the companies that own...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Site InfoWars (This Is Not Satire)
In a classic case of life imitating parody, the liberal-leaning humor outlet ("America's Finest News Source") purchased Jones's conspiracy-mongering far-right website at a bankruptcy...
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever: $1.27 Billion Worth Of Chinese Ceramics
"The 1,700 pieces dating from the third to the 20th century have been given permanently by the Sir Percival David Foundation. They had been...
U.S. Cultural Institutions Seriously Rattled By Fallout From Gaza War
"Shock waves from the war have been felt throughout the arts and cultural world, with movie productions, museums and book festivals — not to...
Notre-Dame’s Official Reopening Date Is Set, Events Scheduled
"With just 23 days to go until the Dec. 7 reopening, the (office) of President Emmanuel Macron and the Archdiocese of Paris detailed the...
Metropolitan Opera Names Daniele Rustioni Principal Guest Conductor
The 41-year-old Italian maestro, currently principal conductor at the Opéra national de Lyon in France, will conduct at least two Met productions per season,...
Theater Festival Brings Solace To Capital Of Troubled Burkina Faso
The dry, landlocked West African nation used to be known for its lively cultural scene; in recent years, the country's stability has been wrecked...
Has The Internet Trapped Fiction In A No-Man’s Land?
Even beyond social media, the internet seems to flatten prose. This is likely due to the distinct ways our brains interpret text – or,...
Pacific Symphony Picks A New Music Director
The 45-year-old Englishman enjoys a substantial social media following; he’s a fan of multidisciplinary performances combining music with other art forms; he’s passionately devoted...
Pitchfork Festival Abruptly Pulls Out Of Chicago
New York–based media giant Condé Nast, which owns Pitchfork Media, the longtime online music criticism website, broke the news on Instagram Monday that the festival would...
At Age 80, Soprano Lucy Shelton Finds Herself With An Opera Career
For decades she has been one of America's leading singers of avant-garde classical music, premiering dozens of pieces by composers from Elliott Carter to...
Constructing A Workable Philosophy For Coping With Hard Times
What is needed is a path forward that allows us to cope with tragedy and injustice without abandoning the value of people we care...
A Stroke Disabled Randy Travis From Singing. Now AI Is Helping Him Sing Again
AI gets so close to replicating Travis’s voice that it has, in a sense, brought him back as a full recording artist. The music...
What Role For The Arts In These Times? Perhaps Critics Are Needed Even More...
Our storytelling is necessarily derivative, since we’re responding to works of someone else’s imagination. And yet in how we frame the plays and operas...
Lou Donaldson, Master Jazz Saxophonist And Walking History Lesson, Has Died At 98
"An alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style, (he) was a key figure in the development of three styles of jazz" — bebop, hard...
Report: UK Careers In The Arts Are Dominated By The Upper Classes
A report from the Sutton Trust found stark overrepresentation in the arts for those from the most affluent backgrounds, which it defines as those...
How One Artist Uses AI To Collaborate
Mr. Leeman was most struck by the cheeky mischief — like the A.I.-generated snubs of the artist’s show that rotated on a wall display,...
Librarians, Increasingly Under Attack, Are Facing Burn Out
Librarians around the country are struggling to reconcile their desire to serve their communities with their need for self-preservation, especially as libraries have become...
French News Outlets Sue X (Twitter) For Running Their Content Without Paying For It
The lead plaintiffs are the dailies Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and Le Monde, with smaller outlets such as Nouvel Obs, HuffPost France,...
Dance Is Increasingly Finding A Home In Museums
Though museums have long featured dance performances, today choreographers and companies are being given long-term residencies, exhibitions of their own with performance elements baked...
Rough Times For Dance In Chicago As A 52-Year-Old Company Shuts Down And A...
The troupe Chicago Moving Company has announced its closing, nine years after the death of founder Nana Shineflug. Meanwhile, Links Hall, a 46-year-old venue...
Working In Public View, Conservators Begin Restoration of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch”
"The process" — taking place in a glass chamber in a gallery at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum — "will involve removing varnish that was applied during...
How Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s Musicians Saved Their Bankrupt Orchestra
"They got in touch with its foundation and creditors, and built a new board. ... The newly-formed team of directors and musicians spent months...
Vatican Sets Up AI Replica Of St. Peter’s Basilica
"The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s...
