Music For Video Games Is A Booming Industry For Composers
The music created to accompany and enhance the quests, missions, adventures, and world-building that unfolds in games doesn’t stay in the digital realm. “It’s...
Hollywood Musicians Sign New Contract Including Streaming Fees
The agreement, which covers basic theatrical motion picture and basic television motion picture contracts, gives musicians streaming residuals for the first time, as well...
British Museum Being Investigated For Stolen Artifacts
The artifacts are sacred wood and stone altar tablets, or tabots, that were stolen by British soldiers during the Battle of Maqdala. The items...
In One Week, This Man Was Both Named To Run An Opera House And...
Carlo Fuortes, who turned around the disastrous finances at the Rome Opera and then headed Italy's state broadcaster, RAI, was appointed superintendent of Florence's...
Alex Ross: Why Conductors Are Collecting Orchestras
Both the Concertgebouw and the Chicago Symphony are orchestras at the very highest level, and they deserve a conductor’s full attention. The definition of...
Italy Replaces Its €500 Culture Vouchers For 18-Year-Olds
Launched in 2016, Italy's 18App was the oldest such program in Europe, and all 18-year-olds were eligible. Replacing 18App are the Carta Cultura, with...
Spotify To Raise Prices Again Because… Audiobooks
It’s reportedly because of audiobooks. Spotify added audiobooks to its service last year on a trial basis. The price increase is how the streaming service...
Hundreds Of Indie Publishers Scramble Following Small Press Distribution’s Sudden Collapse
"The closing of the distributor sent shockwaves throughout the entire independent publishing community, as it came with little warning. … SPD provided distribution to...
200 Artists Sign Letter Protesting Use Of AI
Two hundred musical artists, including Pearl Jam, Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, and the estate of Frank Sinatra call on AI...
Minnesota Public Radio Sells Its Only Station In Idaho (Wait, It Had A Station...
KWRV in Sun Valley, launched in 1993 with funds raised locally, aired classical music programming from MPR's St. Paul headquarters. (MPR also has outlets...
Whitney Museum Chooses New Chief Curator
As the chief curator, Conaty said she plans to focus on Latino and Indigenous artists, who remain underrepresented in the Whitney’s collection, and invest...
The Legal Issues Involved With A Ballet Company’s Rehearsals
"According to the dancers’ union contract, the temperature must be just so to reduce injuries. The floor must have the correct level of springiness....
Over 100 Russian Avant-Garde Paintings Seized By French Law Enforcement
An attorney for collector Uthman Khatib says that the paintings — including works attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Natalia Goncharova, and collectively...
Playwright Christopher Durang, 75
"In a career spanning (over) 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown. Regarding subject and theme, he pogoed...
John Barth, Postmodernist Novelist, Is Dead At 93
"The playfully erudite author, whose darkly comic and complicated novels revolved around the art of literature and launched countless debates over the art of...
Suspect Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet
"James Sheen, 39, pleaded guilty to burglary, converting or transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the same. … The fully functioning toilet" —...
After 22 Years, Miami Lyric Opera Is Closing Its Doors
"Raffaele Cardone, the founder and long-time general and artistic director, … said the main reason for closing the company was, no surprise, money difficulties....
Edinburgh Fringe Denied By Scotland’s Arts Funder Twice In One Month
"The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society is demanding an overhaul of how culture funding is allocated in Scotland after a bid to secure £155,000 to...
Classical Music’s Image Problem
Classical music has an image problem that feels like an existential threat. The pernicious idea of “elitism” — a word that was only coined...
We’re Obsessed With Dystopias Of The Future. What About Protopias?
Protopias, on the other hand, are achievable. They present a realistic, better tomorrow. But even the protopian visions of more recent iterations of Star Trek,...
Crossword Puzzles Are All about structures Of Context
Associations, it emerges, are the currency of crosswords — the cleverest clues are dense with puns, word play and sly allusions. - Washington Post
How Censorship Wars are Impacting Theatre In Schools
A whopping 67 percent of educators told EdTA they are weighing potential controversies when they make show selections—and with good reason. - American Theatre
Why Is Adele Talking So Much In Her Concerts?
“I better warn you. I do talk a lot,” she said last Saturday night in Los Angeles. “I have 10 songs and the rest...
Our Achievement Culture Is Not Healthy
In the contemporary world, the self is no longer a subject but a project. The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made...
FCC Is Investigating Pacifica Radio’s New York City Station
"The Commission has received a petition asking it to deny (WBAI) a new license for allegedly violating rules that prohibit noncommercial stations from airing...
