San Francisco Symphony Facing Its Biggest Crisis Ever
The symphony believes one way to attract audiences is to showcase what few cities have, a one-of-a-kind performing arts scene, which also includes the...
How Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker” Has Remained An Important Book For 50 Years
"Half a century after its publication, (this) epic biography of urban planner and city-destroyer Robert Moses needs no revival. From the moment it was...
Ace Auctioneer: 14 Factors That Make Art Valuable
"I have put together a list of 14 criteria that convey financial value to a work of art. While the first point is emotional, all...
Universal Music: Betting The Future On A Superfans Strategy
Streaming equalizes the monetization across all fans, despite the fact that superfans listen to music a few hours every day, and yet casual fans...
Universal Music Chief: Streaming Will Power Music Business For Years To Come
“Fact number one”, according to Grainge, is that “streaming has resulted in a quantum leap forward in music access and monetization and streaming will continue to...
Black Artists And Artisans In South Carolina Return To A Crop That Once Made...
As with the Lowcountry's other 18th-century cash crop, rice, slavers deliberately abducted Africans skilled in growing and working with indigo and transported them to...
Classical Music Really Can Help With Depression, Finds Neuroimaging Study
"By using advanced brainwave measurements and neural imaging, the scientists identified that music engages a circuit connecting the auditory cortex and parts of the...
Comparing Tim Walz And J.D. Vance On Arts Issues
Vance has spent little effort in the Senate on the arts: his only notable action was introducing a Consequences for Climate Vandals Act, which...
“The West Wing” At 25: The Politics Were Beside The Point, Says Aaron Sorkin
“I thought, ‘What if there were a show about our leaders where these people are as competent and committed as the doctors and nurses...
Six Academic Publishers Targeted In Antitrust Lawsuit
"A group of scientists and scholars … filed a class action lawsuit against Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Taylor and...
LACMA Calls Off Plans For Satellite Museum In South L.A.
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has officially ended plans to establish a satellite campus at the South Los Angeles Wetlands Park in...
Elias Khoury, Among The Greatest Of Arabic Novelists, Is Dead At 76
"As a novelist, (he) was often compared with the American writer James A. Michener, who … attempted to capture epic swaths of history in...
The Booking System For Comedy Clubs Is Broken
In comparison to the theater, live comedy has recovered from the pandemic in great commercial shape. But with success comes the danger of insularity,...
The Great Bells Of Notre Dame Cathedral Return To Paris
"A convoy of trucks bearing eight restored bells — the heaviest of which weighs more than 4 tons — pulled into the huge worksite...
The Digital Age And The Collapse Of Self-Worth
What we hardly talk about is how we’ve reorganized not just industrial activity but any activity to be capturable by computer, a radical expansion of what...
Richard Pettibone, Progenitor Of “Appropriation Art,” Has Died At 86
"Nearly 60 years since his gallery debut, Pettibone remains best known for his works copying modern art superstars like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella....
California’s New Laws Regulating Use Of AI Now In Force
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a handful of artificial intelligence-related bills that would give actors more protection over their digital likenesses and fight...
Hollywood’s Film And TV Business Is In Sharp Decline. What To Do?
Despite differences over solutions, there is a consensus on the problem: California is simply not competitive with many other states and countries that offer...
Delphine von Schauroth Was A Celebrated Child Prodigy In The Early 19th Century. Why Did...
The German virtuoso pianist and composer was hailed as a musical genius by critics for her powerful and inventive performances and her original and...
Choreographer Silas Farley Takes On The Largest Project Of His Career
Four Loves, a 30-minute ballet with a cast of more than 20, is inspired by C.S. Lewis's book The Four Loves, which examines storge...
The Fights Over How To Teach Reading…
Improving literacy is urgent, but the “crisis” framing can encourage quick fixes over substantive change—and promote top-down solutions that exclude the perspectives of professionals...
Are Translators Merely Mimics?
Throughout my career as a translator, I’ve been told that my job is to “capture the spirit” of the foreign text. But I have...
Why Do Some People Choke Under Pressure?
The researchers found that, in jackpot scenarios, the activity of neurons associated with motor preparation decreased. Motor preparation is the brain’s way of making...
“Arts For Us All”: A New Plan From Britain’s Oldest Socialist Organization
The report from the Fabian Society, founded in 1884 and one of the progenitors of today's Labour Party, calls for removing the "class ceiling"...
Is Life Simply A Product Of Algorithms?
Today, it can be digitally simulated, biologically synthesised or made from entirely different materials to those that allowed our evolutionary ancestors to flourish. These...
