“Easy Rider,” The Messy Movie That Changed Hollywood
The 1969 road movie had an unusually messy shoot, thanks largely to director/star Dennis Hopper. (Co-star/producer Peter Fonda later described Hopper as "a bit...
Atlantic Magazine Becomes Profitable, Reports 1M Subscriptions And Returns To Monthly Print
It’s an everything-old-is-new-again finding that also explains the continued success of some books, luxury magazines and literary journals. - CNN
Data: How Massachusetts Arts Sector Has Recovered From Covid Shutdowns
Organizations remain very reliant on declining revenue sources. In 2022, 65% of expenses were covered by contributed revenue. However, the rate of contributed revenue growth...
What Alvin Ailey Built
What he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black audiences—general Black audiences, like the folks Acocella probably saw applauding “Revelations”—should...
How American Sign Language Is Transforming “American Idiot”
"Now, this revival of that show is proving, with gusto, that American Idiot can be yet another thing: a near-scientific study of the innumerable...
Royalties Lawsuit Against Giant Music Producer Rattles The Industry
In a lawsuit filed in California, attorneys representing Durst, Limp Bizkit and Flawless Records accused UMG of using software “deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including...
Japan’s Hidden Clutter Culture
Homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: gomi-yashiki (trash-mansions). And in areas where space is limited, cluttered...
Flat Broke And Desperate, This Artist Signed Away His Works And His Rights. Now...
Bjarne Melgaard, whose career soared in the 2010s, developed some very ill-advised habits (including crystal meth) and ran up big debts. Two investors gave...
Study: How Authenticity Matters
The emotional and psychological ties people have with places contribute to their perception of authenticity. Just as much as the exposed bricks and wooden...
Young People Won’t Read Books? That’s Just Not True!
"The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical...
Darren Walker Is New Director Of The National Gallery
Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one...
Meet The Woman Leading The Digitization Of The U.S. National Archives
"It makes a weird kind of sense that the government worker who understands the value of providing online advice and information to far-flung Americans...
University Of Texas At Dallas Is Building A New Arts District
"The new district, named the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, will have two museums, a performance hall, a music building and an outdoor...
One Building In, UT Dallas’s Arts District Has Already Gone Awry
The designers of the project, the L.A. starchitect firm Morphosis, have abandoned the original plan (around a garden) for a paved pedestrian artery that...
TikTok Bosses Know Very Well About The App’s Bad Effects On Teens, Documents Reveal
"For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American...
Trial For Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie Postponed Again
"The attempted murder trial of (Hadi Matar,) the man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack was put on...
One Year After Cyberattack, British Library Is Gradually Coming Back
"The time it is taking us to bring our services back is an exact measure of the destructiveness of the original attack, which directly...
A Revisionist History Of Music File Sharing And The Music Industry Response
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath....
“Suffs” To Close On Broadway
The show has struggled to sell enough tickets to defray its running costs, and on Friday night the producers announced that it would close...
Study: Those Who Learn A Second Language Develop More Brain Connections
Scientists found that bilingual individuals have more efficient communication between brain regions, notably between the cerebellum and left frontal cortex. - Neuroscience News
Seattle’s Book-It Theatre Rises Again
This new incarnation of Book-It will not be a producing company. They are not hiring a staff or planning a full season. You cannot...
African Museum With Priceless Prehistoric Artifacts Faces Crisis
The Nairobi National Museum, flagship of Kenya’s museum system, is in trouble, overwhelmed by a bounty of specimens and a lack of money to...
A Room Of One’s Own: Creative Space For Writers
Every writer is different. The path to telling stories about our world is hard won, and the space that’s necessary to allow us to...
Robot Conductor Makes Its Concert Debut
The artistic director of Dresden’s Sinfoniker, Markus Rindt, said the intention was “not to replace human beings” but to perform complex music that human...
I Was An Established Writer. Then I Went Back To School And Learned…
Despite all the one-click-away distractions, my peers had insightful queries, if rather too many, interrupting lectures as if pressing every hyperlink. Rarely were they...
