The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra And The Role It Tries To Play
In the face of these vast geopolitical movements, and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe, you can’t help but consider the purpose and the impact of cultural...
Why Are We Attracted To Fear? (As Entertainment?)
Why do we do that—why do we crave small doses of terror? Why do we like “safe” fear? - The Believer
Why The Can Can Dancers In The Olympics Opening Ceremonies Couldn’t Couldn’t
"We were so dissapointed. It started to Rain just before the Can Can began. 10 seconds before you saw us. We were trying to...
Is Culture An Industry? It Doesn’t Work As An Argument
The policy discourse framing culture as an industrial sector, which became a trend in the 1980s, has not proven effective - for the economy,...
Pole-Dancing’s Long, And Probably Futile, Struggle To Become An Olympic Sport
Despite the long and serious effort to codify it as an athletic discipline, complete with approved moves, scoring, and judging criteria, pole dancing has...
Podcasts: Where The Big Money Is
There are still nearly 450,000 active shows that have published recent episodes, according to Podcast Industry Insights. But the top 25 podcasts reach nearly...
A North Texas Deputy Spent Two Years Trying To Charge School Librarians With Obscenity
Scott London, a chief deputy constable in the rural DFW exurb of Granbury, secured subpoenas, filed public records requests, received names of students who’d...
This Year’s Booker Prize Longlist (Just What Critics Feared?)
In a development that might raise the hackles of those who criticized the now decade-old rule change that broadened eligibility for the prize, six are...
Journalists At Five Of Australia’s Major Dailies Are On Strike For Higher Pay
"Editorial staff at Nine Entertainment, which owns The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Melbourne), The Australian Financial Review, the Brisbane Times and WAtoday, stopped...
Fake Images Are Getting Harder To Spot. Here’s How To Tell What’s Real
Try it the next time you get a weird feeling about a photo. Just be sure not to focus on the wrong things. To...
Professor Fired For Showing Medieval Persian Image Of Muhammad Settles With University That Fired...
"Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has reached a settlement in its religious discrimination case with former art history professor Erika López Prater." The...
Russia’s Artists Say Putin Regime Is Killing Russian Culture
Musicians, actors and writers who oppose the war are being hounded into exile or driven underground — while artists remaining in Russia are compelled...
A High-End Jeweler Has Become A Major Worldwide Supporter Of Contemporary Dance
Van Cleef & Arpels has sponsored a months-long festival called Dance Reflections in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York, and, this year, Kyoto....
BBC Cancels Next Year’s Cardiff Singer Of The World Competition
The broadcaster will replace the 2025 edition of the biennial event, which has a history of discovering major opera stars, with a gala concert...
“Sleep No More” Owes $4.5 Million In Back Rent, Claims Landlord
Centaur Properties, owner of the McKittrick Hotel, where the immersive production has been playing since 2010, has been in a legal contretemps with PDNYC...
Internal Board Dispute Threatens Fledgling San Antonio Philharmonic
As the orchestra prepares, with new music director Jeffrey Kahane on the podium, to begin its third and most ambitious season, a struggle has...
The Original Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Convicted And Will Go To Prison
On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland started the protest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-call-attention-to-climate-change-by-vandalizing-artworks phenomenon by throwing tomato soup at van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at London's National...
Strike At Disneyland Avoided; New Contract Has Largest Pay Raise Ever
The four unions representing over 14,000 "cast members" at Disney's southern California resort properties ratified a three-year agreement which includes an immediate 20% increase...
Composer Wolfgang Rihm Is Dead At 72
"(He) was considered one of the most original and prolific musical voices in Europe and the most performed German composer of contemporary classical music....
Engineering Popularity of Music: Fans Are Getting Restless
There is a fundamental disconnect between what feels popular and what is statistically popular, which has contributed to this weird tension among pop fans....
How Kids Learn: Not All Screen Time Is Equal
Instead of worrying about the quantity of screen time that preschoolers engage in, the new guidelines suggest, parents should consider the quality of it....
Deadpool And Wolverine Has Biggest Box Office Weekend For An “R”-Rated Movie
The movie brought in $205 million in its first weekend domestically at the box office, according to Comscore estimates. It cost $200 million to...
How The Enrollment Industrial Complex Is Harming Higher Ed
“The concept is to award financial aid in a way that results in the maximum total amount of net tuition revenue for the institution.”...
A Performance Artist Steals A Coin From The British Museum. Is It Art?
The central focus of the project was the coin, its removal from its display and its deposition in a donation box at the museum....
What I Learned Memorizing A Poem A Day
Because the process is as simple as it is stultifying, memorizing a poem always begins as a crime. The tedium of repetition reduces the...
