Britain Is So Far Behind Europe In Arts Funding That It’s A “Crisis”: Study
"The findings of the academic 'crisis' report, ... by the University of Warwick and the Campaign for the Arts pressure group, … (show) that...
Why Conservatives Killed The Federal Theatre Project
The Federal Theatre sought to democratize the dramatic arts. But it also tried to use theater to invigorate democracy, which is where the program...
Is This The Way We’ll Watch Movies In The Future?
Some parts involve passive viewing, like a sequence in which the supervillain Thanos is on trial for theft. But there’s also a lot of...
Ford Foundation’s Visionary President To Step Down
Darren Walker announced Monday that he would step down as the president of the Ford Foundation at the end of 2025 after what will...
Study: Musicians Who Are Public Advocates Increase Their Fan Base
Publicly backing charity causes on both an intermittent and regular basis earned musicians more likes, shares and comments. These artists also increased music sales,...
20 Years Of Introducing New Choreography
“There is something so special about being the first to see something. These fresh new works are in progress, developing and that draws an...
The Library Of Congress Has 175 Million Works. How Does It Decide What To...
There are three principles: The first is that we should have everything that Congress needs to do its work. The second is that we...
Art World Reconsiders NFTs As Market Slows
"We know that there is a provenance verification opportunity here. We all know it and we all know that the art world is resisting...
What Experts Said About AI At Christie’s Art+Tech Summit
Numerous panelists obliquely referred to the fears around AI, offering reassurances without ever saying the words automation, labor, climate change, or super-intelligence. - ARTnews
The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, Say New Old Musicals
“One of the ways to preserve and expand the musical canon is to let everyone have a shot at it — especially the people...
AI Can’t Truly Make Music, But The Use Of It Still Threatens Musicians
“What is becoming clear now is that the coming war is not really one between human and machine creativity; the two will forever be...
The People Who Rebuilt Notre Dame
“ The devastation was immense. The spire had gone, its collapse having destroyed part of the vaults at the crossing of the transept. ......
The Memeing And Remixing Of Presidential Candidate Harris
Millennials and Gen Z are taking over now. "The KHive has ditched the bee and gone coconuts now that Joe Biden has dropped out of...
How Does Order Emerge From Chaos In Large Systems?
It’s confusing and not fully theorized, but “over the past few years, a community of physicists, computer scientists, and neuroscientists has been working toward...
Long Before The Trial Was Tossed Out, Jurors Had Doubt About Alec Baldwin’s Guilt
One juror: “'Alec Baldwin is an actor, right?’ she said, adding that she would not have expected him to know a lot about gun...
Portland’s Beloved Actor Sam Mowry Has Died At 64
Mowry, in a 40-year career, was an “actor and director known both for his personal gentleness and generosity and for his deep, profoundly captivating...
So What Happened To The Racist, But Very Popular, South African Comedy The Gods...
The movie played until the film broke at cinemas across the world. “Made by a white director with funding from the apartheid government yet...
Esta TerBlanche, Fan Favorite Soap Opera Star, Has Died At 51
Esta TerBlanche was a South African actress whose first language was Afrikaans, so of course she played a Hungarian princess - who ad-libbed a...
How Doing A Comedic Horror Movie Sent Penelope Wilton’s Fame Sky-High
Sure, yes, she’s the prime minister when the Daleks come in Doctor Who, but what really helped her with the Youngs was acting in...
On TikTok, True Crime Survivors Are Owning Their Stories
“True crime podcasts, movies and investigative TV series are wildly popular, often raking in profits for their producers and platforms. Many, though, are made...
Los Angeles’s Westwood Is Losing Two Historic Cinemas This Week
One, “the Village Theatre, is expected to close only temporarily, thanks to a high-profile effort by director Jason Reitman and others to save the once stately 170-foot white...
How Do You Make A Movie About Tornadoes Increasing In Intensity But Never Mention...
Welcome to a scared Hollywood. “'I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like is putting forward...
Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Tries To Recover From Bloody Russian Destruction Of Printing Plant
“Seven employees were dead, with more than 20 wounded, their blood on the walls that had not blown apart. And under a caved-in roof...
Why Did Melania Trump Choose Beethoven?
“Serenading an audience fresh from four days of divisive rhetoric, immigrant bashing and attacks on LGBTQ people with music from a sonic icon of Europe’s post-World War II...
Trying To Organize A Music Festival In A War Zone
When the Russians might bomb you out at any second, what’s the point, really? “People need some joy in their lives, even through these...
