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...
When Seven Artists Withdrew Their Work From An Exhibition, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum...
The artists demanded control of their works' presentation and that the Contemporary Jewish Museum both boycott Israel and divest from companies doing business there;...
Ben Vautier, Fluxus Co-Founder Who Declared “Everything Is Art,” Commits Suicide At Age 88
The artist, who usually styled himself as simply "Ben," was known primarily for enigmatic slogans, scrawled in white or bright-colored paint, which he sometimes...
The Kind Of Job “Most Artistic Leaders Only Dream Of”
"The support (Barry) Diller has pledged to Little Island’s programming, millions of dollars with no end in sight, is the kind most artistic leaders...
Israel Museum’s Roof Damaged By Fire In Possible Arson
A bushfire that started in Jerusalem's Valley of the Cross spread quickly to the museum — home to, among other archaeological riches, the Dead...
Two More Brit-Lit Festivals Give Up Sponsorship By Baillie Gifford
Following the decisions by the Hay Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival, both prompted by withdrawals and boycott threats by participating writers, the Borders...
Adobe Called Out For Selling Ansel Adams-Style AI Work
“We don’t have a problem with anyone taking inspiration from Ansel’s photography,” said the Adams estate. “But we strenuously object to the unauthorized use of...
Symphony For 1000 Smartphones
“Even in a Mahler symphony, the largest number of performers you could have is 120,” says the Chinese-American composer from his New York apartment....
“Fake” Dega Bought For $1000 Online Turns Out To Be Real
The work was last seen in public in 1952 when Joan Llonch Salas leant it to a group exhibition at the Barcelona gallery Gaspar,...
The Arts Are Being Strangled By Increased Costs
Last year, data released by audience research company Patternmakers showed somewhat of a rebounding of audience numbers from COVID levels, which was promising. But it also...
Are Big Concert Ticket Sales Finally Softening?
Now with the streaming era and things like that, that it's really shifted, where instead of selling the tour to get people to buy...
Is This Year’s Maligned Venice Biennale The New Globalism Frame?
It is a symptom of the fact that the whole system of art consumption and display otherwise feels itself deeply vulnerable to all kinds of other...
See What Thomas Heatherwick Plans To Do With An Empty Island In Seoul’s Han...
What he plans to do looks a lot like what he did with Little Island in New York City's Hudson River — create a...
Subscriptions Now Come In Many Flavors. What’s Working?
Are subscriptions in free fall, and if so, what does that mean for the continuing health of theatres? Are subscriptions still a viable model,...
Meet The First-Ever Winner Of The $50,000 Knight Choreography Prize
Rosie Herrera, who founded her own company in Miami in 2009, will receive $30,000 in an unrestricted cash reward and $20,000 in programmatic support...
Inside Student Life At The Curtis Institute Of Music
Even among conservatories, it is exceptional, with a wide age range — from preadolescence to post-baccalaureate adulthood — and a personalized approach, of schedules...
Netflix And Ava DuVernay Settle Defamation Lawsuit Brought By Central Park Five Prosecutor
Linda Fairstein sued DuVernay and Netflix in 2020, alleging that in the 2019 miniseries When They See Us she was falsely portrayed as a...
Philadelphia’s University of the Arts Owns Important Downtown Buildings. Now What?
The collapse of a major art school, which has operated and invested in Center City since the 1800s, will also put a large real estate...
Why Was The New Deal’s Federal Theater Project So Inspiring? It Never Took Theater’s...
"(Hallie) Flanagan and her colleagues made theater an important expression of the American democratic experiment through force of will, passion, and ingenuity. And although...
Why Do We Read News? Anxiety? Entertainment?
How do the reasons we read the news line up with the reasons we say we read news? Do we claim dedication to noble civic virtues...
San Francisco Symphony Board President And CEO Give Their First Interview Since Esa-Pekka Salonen’s...
“Last season, we were facing what would have been roughly an $11 million deficit on a roughly $80 million budget. … We’ve had a...
Faculty Sue Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Over Abrupt Shutdown
"The plaintiffs — a group of professors, department heads and administrators — say the school did not give them 60 days' written notice of...
Exit Interview: Antonio Pappano On His 22 Years As Music Director Of London’s Royal...
"I believe that an opera performance should be something unified — so that what’s going on in the orchestra pit and onstage make complete...
