TikTok’s Rate Of Subscriber Growth Has Plummeted
"In the fourth quarter of 2023, the video service lagged Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Yes, you read that right: The ancient big blue...
U.S. States Spend Billions In Tax Credits To Woo Film & TV Production. Is...
Industry lobbyists, and the lawmakers on their side, insist that the subsidies create $6 or $7 of "economic activity" for each $1 of state...
Salonen’s Departure From San Francisco Symphony Is A Warning To Its Board — And...
"The board now presents the San Francisco Symphony as a survivor forgoing experimental treatment and in need of a cautious caretaker. … What has...
As Traditional Subscription Models Sink, Arts Organizations Are Experimenting With More Flexible Options
With due reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jeremy Reynolds reports on what The Pittsburgh Symphony, Opera, and Ballet Theatre are trying,...
M. Emmet Walsh, One Of Hollywood’s Busiest And Most Distinctive Character Actors, Is Dead...
"With his distinctive lumbering form and droll delivery, Walsh was an ideal supporting player. A master of off-kilter comic delivery and dogged edginess, he...
Met Opera Forced To Do Semi-Staged “Turandot” After Backstage Lift Is Jammed
The 1987 Franco Zeffirelli production is one of the company's most lavish, and doing the opera without most of it really does diminish the...
Three Rubens Works, Allegedly Looted By Nazis, Must Remain At London Museum
"A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory...
And Now… The Scary Immersive Theatre Experience
"A scared-sounding young man told me that there was a monster in his closet. Obviously, I was supposed to tell him to open the...
Banksy Tree Mural Defaced With White Paint Days After It Appeared
Despite being surrounded by a protective metal fence, white paint was thrown onto the artwork and discovered by local residents on the morning of...
Machine Breakthrough In Reading Ancient Texts
Using a non-invasive method that harnesses machine learning, an international trio of scholars retrieved 15 columns of ancient Greek text from within a carbonized papyrus...
Silicon Valley Disruption Comes To A Books Model
Authors Equity brings Silicon Valley–style startup disruption to the business of books. It has a tiny core staff, offloading its labor to a network...
The Artworld Hoax That Fooled Virginia Woolf
For most of their adult lives, the two women employed an elaborate hoax in which Hepworth’s paintings were exhibited and sold under Preece’s name....
What Do We Do With All Those Mountains Of Worn-Out Ballet Pointe Shoes?
Pacific Northwest Ballet goes through 2,000 pairs per year; during Nutcracker season, New York City Ballet uses up 500 pairs a month. And they're...
Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers
Leisure reading has been linked to a range of good academic and professional outcomes—as well as difficult to fully explain. But a chief factor seems to be the...
The 18th-Century Engineers Who Saved Michelangelo’s Dome At St. Peter’s From Collapsing
"When Pope Benedict XIV sent a team of three mathematicians to inspect the dome in 1742, they found, as Benedict suspected they might, a...
Review Of Arts Council England As Agency Under Fire
The UK scientist Mary Archer will scrutinise how Arts Council England (ACE) distributes public subsidies as part of a wide-ranging review overseen by the...
Polyglots In fMRI Machines Help Researchers Study How The Brain Processes Language(s)
"With one intriguing exception, activity increased in the areas of the cerebral cortex involved in the brain's language-processing network when these polyglots — who...
How Universal Music Group Is Lobbying On AI
UMG played an instrumental role in bringing together a coalition of 150-plus organizations both in and outside the industry last year for the Human Artistry...
Artist Sets Up Ladies-Only Lounge In Museum. Man Sues For Gender Discrimination. Artist Is...
The installation at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is by Kirsha Kaechele, wife of museum founder David Walsh, a math prodigy...
What It Was Like To Be Martha Graham
Graham began her aesthetic experiments some 40 years before government arts funding was a gleam in anyone’s eye. The dancers sewed their own costumes,...
La Mama Theatre To Cease All Performances Next Year (No, Not The One In...
This La Mama is in Melbourne, and (not unlike its American namesake) it has played a crucial role in the development of contemporary theatre...
One Of The World’s Oldest Working Film Studios Is Destroyed By Fire
"It took hours for firefighters to get the blaze under control and several buildings near (Al-Ahram Studio) in Cairo's Giza district had to be...
American Bible Society Is Closing Its $60 Million Museum Less Than Three Years After...
"(The Society) had projected that the museum, centrally located on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, would draw 250,000 visitors a year. The revenue from ticket...
In Toronto, Classical Music Really Is Pulling In New Listeners
"Key organizations are striking out on new paths to energize audiences and solidify their cultural relevancy. (Veteran) arts leaders ... are now ceding control...
Reconstruction Of Notre-Dame In Paris Is Headed Toward Conclusion
"The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history, film and literature has been gradually rebuilt over the past five years, through challenges that have included...
