British Government Approves Purchase Of Telegraph Newspaper
“Axel Springer’s planned £575 million takeover of Telegraph Media Group has been approved by the UK Government. It is still awaiting regulatory approval in...
Born in the DSA*: “The American Dream” Evolved Into the Cruelest, Most Dangerous Con...
What a grift. It only exists to make folks feel worthless, angry, and divisive. As such, it’s the perfect tactic to sow national unrest.
A Dynastic Succession In The Kabuki Theater World Is A Dramatic Affair
“Handing down a name over generations is a central part of the traditional Japanese artform, … and that ceremony gets celebrated at theaters and...
The Pressure To Go Viral: These Days You Can’t Be An Artist Without It
All of a sudden, chefs, lawyers, podcasters, critics – all people with jobs once associated with an off-camera existence – are turning the lens...
France Passes Law To Expedite Return Of Looted Artworks
“The bill aims to simplify the return of cultural property taken illegally from France’s former colonies, particularly focusing on items taken between 1815 and...
Man Wins $1.2M Picasso In Christie’s Raffle
"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the 58-year-old asked when he was told he was the new owner of the 1941 work...
Why Movie Theatre Owners Are Fighting The Paramount/Warner Deal
“Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access...
I Survived A Year Inside Stephen King’s Archives
This book is Caroline Bicks’s account of what happened when King gave her permission to spend a year in his archive, poring over the...
At This Point, Alec Baldwin Just Wants To Retire
The accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, the two (unsuccessful) prosecutions in New Mexico, finishing the film in another state...
What 100 Years Of Data Shows Us About Who Gets Guggenheim Grants
If 100 years of data are any indication, then an outsized share of the new recipients work at the most renowned universities in the...
Millions Of People Are Pretending To Be Chatbots, And Making… Art
The site forces its human users to approximate the speed at which a machine would return a response; there's a 75-second time limit. So...
Action Star Jackie Chan To Direct… Puccini?
Chan, known for films like Rush Hour and Rumble in the Bronx, will introduce martial arts into the storytelling as a means of emotional expression. Each character...
Move Over, Nollywood, Nigeria Has A Second Thriving Movie Industry
Nigeria’s film ecosystem is known mostly for Nollywood, the industry headquartered in Lagos. In the largely Muslim north of the country, however, there’s Kannywood,...
Two Major Atlanta Museums Ponder Their Place In The City
The two museums now share a similar challenge: to reach across racial, economic, educational and even geographic lines to feel vital and necessary to...
The Decades-Old Little Box That Has Fans Raving About The Guitar Again
The quest to achieve the “Mk.gee tone” spawned a series of “How Does He Make His Guitar Sound Like That?” YouTube videos; musicians compared...
Victoria & Albert Museum Deleted Images From Catalogues That Violated Chinese Censorship Laws
The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese printing company to delete maps and images from at least two recent...
Philadelphia Ballet Gives Its Long-Awaited New Home A Test Run
“Dancers danced at the company’s new North Broad Street building for the first time. Even as construction workers continued their own choreography of spackling and power-driving...
Ex-COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Pleads Not Guilty To Theft Charges
“On Tuesday, during (Brady) Lum’s arraignment in federal court in Atlanta, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia accused Lum of...
This 95-Second Scene Change At The Met Opera Is An Astounding Feat Of Coordination
In the company’s staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, seven stage managers, four prop masters, and a big flock of stagehands transform the set...
Kennedy Center Boss: See? We Really Do Need To Renovate!
“Matt Floca, the new executive director and COO, is leading tours this month that show water damage and intrusion to expansion joints, marble slabs...
Hampshire College Will Shut Down At End Of Year
“Founded in 1965, and opening its doors to students five years later as a campus determined to ‘radically reimagine liberal arts education,’ the small...
Performing Arts Touring In England Is “In Crisis” And Needs “Radical Rethink”: Report
“A report commissioned by Arts Council England finds that touring is ‘in crisis’, though ‘not entirely broken’, given some parts of the sector, such...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is Saved, Three Weeks Before It Was To Close
“The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofit parent organization of The Baltimore Banner, reached an agreement with Block Communications to acquire the I, which was slated...
Other Legacy U.S. Newspapers Which Have Gone Nonprofit
So far, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the fourth large one (not including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which remains for-profit itself though it is owned by...
Jury Rules Ticketmaster and LiveNation Are Illegal Monopolies
The ruling is essentially a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s settlement with Live Nation last month — reportedly ordered directly by President Donald Trump —...
