Troubled San Antonio Philharmonic Loses Its Music Director
“The departure of the respected conductor, pianist and educator (Jeffrey Kahane) comes as the orchestra, formed from the ashes of the San Antonio Symphony, finds...
Buffalo’s Classical Radio Station Plans To Go Commercial
“Buffalo Toronto Public Media has filed an application with the FCC to convert WNED-FM to commercial status, a move which would allow it to...
Let’s End The Justification Impulse: Art Is Water
Art has inherent value, and public and private investment in the arts should not require a strong demand for continuous justification. The social benefits...
How Artists Collaborating With Scientists Can Make The Message Sing
Research shows that emotion, storytelling and “intergenerational influence” – ideas flowing from children to adults – can outperform dry facts alone. Throughout that previous...
Justice Department Investigating Netflix’s Business Practices
The Justice Department is investigating whether Netflix has engaged in anticompetitive tactics as it probes the streaming giant’s proposed acquisition of Warner Discovery’s studios and...
Bedoya: The Imagination Of Democracy
We already carry muscle memory: voting, organizing for fairness and equity, creating the beauty of art expressed in what we share between us —...
Spotify Adds Physical Books To Its Service
The tech platform is launching Page Match, a tool that will allow readers to scan a page of a printed or e-book using their...
Longtime Musician: The Music Industry Is Broken
I’ve spent roughly 20 years in the Australian extreme metal scene – clubs, festivals, support slots with bands like Napalm Death, Psycroptic and Gorguts...
Davone Tines On Defining A Role In Classical Music
What’s too often missing for Tines in opera and classical music is an investigation into why treasured artworks remain valuable and what they may...
The Meaning Of Serious Leisure
The idea of serious leisure was coined in 1982 by sociologist Robert Stebbins, who described the unique characteristics of more structured leisure pursuits. The more we understand...
The Books Ecosystem Is Dying
In a sense, the decline of book reviews, like the decline of newspapers themselves, is a story about disaggregation. Newspapers used to bundle several...
How Architects Are Returning To The Earth
Today, as architects seek to improve the sustainability of a sector that is responsible for more than a third of global carbon emissions, the...
As ICE Roils Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Radio’s Numbers Soar
“(The network) finished the fourth quarter of 2025 as the No. 1 local public radio outlet in the United States in terms of web...
If You Want To Keep Full Access To Discord, You’ll Have To Give Them...
The (very) popular social media and community site will now require a facial scan or government ID scan for age verification. After an incident...
Music Agents Demand Casey Wasserman Leave His Agency Over His Epstein Ties, Or They...
In addition, Chappell Roan (“Pink Pony Club”) is said to be leaving the agency whether he steps down or not. And "pressure against Wasserman...
Large Software Analysis Says Turin And Philly Paintings Aren’t Actually By Van Eyck
The AI-supported “findings supported scholars who had suggested that both versions were studio paintings – produced in the artist’s workshop but not necessarily by...
Experiments With Deliberately Drunk Music Making, Wagner Edition
“Conservatory-trained musicians are expected to execute written texts flawlessly while sounding convincingly fluid and expressive. Loosening inhibition can seem like a solution to both...
It’s Not Easy Being The One Charged With Creating New Stained Glass Windows For...
Tabouret: “It’s not very French to change stuff, so I thought that interesting as well as brave and fresh. They specifically wanted figurative painting,...
Wallace Shawn May Be The Only Playwright To Be Recognized And Shouted Out Across...
Of course, that’s usually because of his acting career (especially his iconic role in The Princess Bride). - The New York Times
How The Town Of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Created The Sounds Of A Generation
Alabama had no professional recording studios before a man named Rick Hall created FAME. Then the town became songwriting and recording central. “They were...
Directors Guild Anoints Paul Thomas Anderson
Other Directors Guild winners: Amanda Marsalis for an episode of The Pitt, and the guy who directed Game 7 of the World Series. -...
How Bach Helped This Abuse Victim Stay Alive
“Every night, I would sit in my room listening to recordings of Bach, then Horowitz and Ashkenazy, pretending to play along. It was pure escape,...
The Bad Bunny Halftime Show Didn’t Say ‘ICE Out,’ But The Music, Full Of...
“After Bad Bunny said ‘God bless America’ in English, he added in Spanish, ‘Be it Chile, Argentina … ' and the countries of Latin...
Author Elly Griffiths Says Magic And Mystery Novels Share A Big Similarity
The author of nearly 30 crime novels explains a few things about misdirection - and big reveals. - Irish Times (Archive Today)
The Wooster Group Actress Who Disappeared
Libby Howes, who was central to the group’s avant-garde breakthrough Rumstick Road, left the theatre during a psychotic breakdown. “For decades, Howes’s location has...
