The Astoundingly Rapid Fall Of Conductor François-Xavier Roth
It took about two days for this lavishly-praised maestro to lose or cancel all his future engagements, and he'll likely be fired from his...
Finally Fed Up With Instagram, Hundreds Of Thousands Of Artists Leave For Startup Rival
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000...
Here’s Benjamin Millepied’s First Big Event With His Paris Dance Project
"The Paris Dance Project, which Millepied formed last year with Solenne du Haÿs Mascré, is not a dance company, but an organization that creates...
Folks In Portland, Maine Can’t Agree On Whether Or How To Expand The Museum...
The museum's director, backed by the city council, thinks it'll take the amenities in a new $100 million building to attract visitors back to...
Remember When The Berkshire Museum Sold Its Norman Rockwells And Other Art? Here’s What...
The $53 million in proceeds from the 2018 sale is funding a major renovation and redesign of the building as the museum, located in...
SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practices Complaint After Layoffs At Chicago Public Radio
"The charges at the National Labor Relations Board allege the nonprofit parent company of WBEZ and the Chicago-Sun-Times 'failed and refused to provide information...
Mitsuko Uchida Gets Testy With The New York Times (And Arguably Disses Her Colleagues)
Q: "Tell me what excites you about the Ojai Festival." A: "You think I go to Ojai because I get excited? No. I go...
Royal Swedish Opera Fined $300,000 For Workplace Death Of Stage Technician
The technician died in September of last year after falling more than 40 feet from a balcony while carrying out work. Authorities investigated the...
Baillie Gifford Just Gives Up On Sponsoring Literary Festivals
The Hay and Edinburgh festivals ended their relationships with Baillie Gifford because participating writers threatened to withdraw unless the firm divested from fossil fuels...
How AI Is Leveling The Field For Small Organizations
By using it to provide ideas, options, and solutions beyond the capabilities of a small and, perhaps limited, management team, smaller companies can overcome...
Canada Needs To Rethink Humanities Education
While students continue to seek and enjoy advanced study of the social sciences and humanities, the question of “What can you do with that?”...
Roy Lichtenstein At 100
Roy Lichtenstein, a luminary of the Pop Art movement alongside Andy Warhol, would have celebrated his hundredth birthday last October. His legacy reverberates through the...
Sales Of Audiobooks Are Solidly Growing
Robert Thompson, CEO of HarperCollins parent company News Corp, has repeatedly called Spotify a game changer for the audiobook market; the 14% rise in audiobook sales at...
New Zealand’s Creative Sector Is Becoming Financially Unviable
A Creative New Zealand report in 2023 revealed creatives earn considerably less than other wage earners: $37,000 a year compared to a general median of $61,800. This...
Costco To Stop Selling Books
Beginning in January 2025, the company will stop stocking books regularly, and will instead sell them only during the holiday shopping period, from September...
Zines: A Brief History
"The zine — that unruly riff on the glossy magazine, often handmade, always self-published — has long been associated with revolution. DIY dabblers and...
Prominent Publisher Lays Off Seven
The layoffs, which the company described as part of a corporate restructuring, come as major publishing companies have been buffeted by sluggish print sales...
Paris Opera Ballet Is Creating A Junior Company
"Led by director of dance José Martinez, the inaugural ... cohort will include 18 dancers — 9 males and 9 females — ages 17...
Two Seattle Companies Say They Will Merge
Seattle’s ACT Contemporary Theatre and Seattle Shakespeare Company — two of the city’s most enduring theater companies — may soon become one entity, the...
This Brave Choreographer Has Created The Fourth Movement Of “Jewels” That Balanchine Never Got...
Mr. B's initial plan for Jewels included, along with the now-standard "Emeralds," "Rubies," and "Diamonds," a section titled "Sapphires." Balanchine said he never finished...
Is AI A Threat To Our Egos And Sense Of Self Worth?
As artificial intelligence systems outpace human performance on an increasing array of cognitive tasks, they risk undermining the intellectual supremacy upon which we have long staked...
Here Comes AI That Will Let Viewers Create Their Own Episodes Of TV Shows...
"Fable Studio … (has) announced Showrunner, a platform the company says can write, voice and animate episodes of shows it carries. Under the initial...
Is Technological Change Outrunning Our Ability To Evolve?
The modern world is replete with things that make our once-adaptive instincts go awry. - Phys.org
How Spotify Got Itself Into Several Great Big Messes At Once
"(CEO Daniel) Ek probably isn’t too bothered by the lawsuits, or the burdens of running a (post-massive-layoffs) operation, or outrage ... over a more...
Broadway Box Office Grosses And Attendance Are Basically Flat From Last Season. That’s Worse...
"'Every year our expenses go up at least five percent, if not more, because we so outpace inflation,' says Ken Davenport, producer of the...
