Amateur Ballerina Held By Russia After $50 Donation To Ukraine Charity
Russian authorities apparently accessed Ksenia Karelina’s phone and discovered she had donated approximately $50 to Razom, a pro-Ukrainian charity, in 2022. - The Guardian
Duplass Brothers Bring Their Indie-Film Model To Television
With the passing of Peak TV, they found themselves getting turned down by studio after studio, just like most of the other independent creators...
If We’re So Polarized, What Is The Culpability Of Technology?
So what is the ideology of the Internet? An optimist might invoke the idea of democratization, pointing to the medium’s ability to amplify otherwise...
Street Art, Graffiti, or Advertising? How L.A. Decides Which Is Which
"How to keep murals thriving while keeping them from intruding illicitly into neighborhoods, how to keep businesses from simply ginning up wall-sized ads and...
Editor William Whitworth’s Outsized Influence On The Atlantic Magazine
Bill was a mentor to two generations of writers—writers of narrative reporting, primarily, but also novelists, biographers, intellectuals, essayists, and humorists. He expanded The Atlantic’s...
One Of The Craziest Treadmills In Television: Casting Director For Procedural Dramas Like “Law...
"Each week’s new cases require new clients, new patients, new victims and killers and crooks, some at least mildly famous and each of them...
Why Theatre Resonates: What A 19th Century Ibsen Play Has To Say About Today
It would be challenging to find a 19th century drama that speaks as directly to our pandemic-scarred society as this one. - Los Angeles...
Public Libraries Must Pay A Higher Price For E-Books Than Consumers Do, And It’s...
"While one hardcover copy of (Robin) Cook’s latest novel costs (a) library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy — a price...
Nashville’s Arts-Funding Agency Discriminated When It Withdrew Already-Awarded Grants, Finds Investigation
"An investigation into the clawback of Metro Arts grant funds intended for underserved artists (found) probable cause of discrimination. … Six people, including five...
Canada’s Shaw Festival Reports Both Record Revenue And Record Deficit
"The repertory theatre company, based in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., reported at its annual general meeting that cost escalations and attendance shortfalls led to it ending...
Malachy McCourt, Author, Actor, And Professional Irish-American, Has Died At 92
"As an actor, talk show guest and broadcaster, Mr. McCourt was a boisterous and entertaining counterpart to his more dour and literary-minded brother Frank,...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Who Targeted A Vermeer Are Let Off The Hook By Appeals...
"Three Belgian climate activists who were previously sentenced to prison for a protest targeting … Girl with a Pearl Earring will no longer face...
Esa-Pekka Salonen And Disco Pioneer Nile Rodgers Win 2024 Polar Music Prize
"Nile Rodgers, American songwriter and co-founder of the influential 1970s disco band Chic, and esteemed classical composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen won the 2024...
Indie Classical Label Chandos Is Sold — Not To Naxos, But To Its Owner
"The British label Chandos Records … has been acquired by Naxos Music Group founder Klaus Heymann. Chandos will continue to release recordings and worldwide...
Arnold Schoenberg’s Hollywood
He played tennis with George Gershwin, who idolized him. He delighted in the American habits of his children, who, to the alarm of other...
Yerba Buena CEO Quits After Controversy
Sara Fenske Bahat’s departure follows weeks of turmoil at the center. After artists Jeffrey Cheung and Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo alleged that YBCA prevented them from...
UNESCO Talks About Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage
The Unesco convention defines intangible cultural heritage as: “Practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated...
NY Times Co-Chief Art Critic To Retire After 32 Years, 4,500 Reviews
Roberta Smith started freelancing for The New York Times in 1986, after writing for Art in America and The Village Voice, and after a...
Proposed Law To Increase Streaming Royalty To A Penny A Stream
Streaming has grown to represent 84 percent of recorded music industry revenue, but that Spotify, the leading music streaming platform, only pays an average...
Those Round-Up Purchase Donations Have Added Up To Be Big Money
In 2022 alone, charities raised $749 million nationwide through so-called point-of-sale donations, a 24% jump from 2020, according to Engage for Good, which tracks...
The Evolutionary Roots Of Our Attraction To Music
Groups that could make music together - whether a simple drumbeat or a beautiful melody - were more cohesive, communicative, cooperative and defensive. Natural...
Technology And Teaching The Violin. What Will AI Change?
A team at the University of Maryland (UMD) has received almost a million dollars from the US National Science Foundation (USNSF) to study the...
The Gay Best Friend Was A Tired Trope, Sure, But Did He Really Need...
“For a long time now, popular culture has been moving forward without a once-essential style accessory: the Gay Best Friend. We’re not supposed to...
The International Booker Longlist Showcases The Strength Of Latin American Fiction
The 13-book longlist "signals a 'second ‘boom’ in Latin American fiction', said judges, with a quarter of the nominated authors being South American." -...
Let’s End The ‘Best Supporting Actress’ Curse Now
“Taking home one of the industry’s most prestigious awards might seem to indicate that an actress is one worth paying attention to, making it...
