New Help For Creative Industries IN UK Budget
The new permanent rate covering theatres, museums and galleries - 45% for touring productions and 40% for non-touring shows - is below the current...
Netflix Is Back On Top. How?
How did Netflix defend its bulwark when there are still multiple streaming services fighting for eyeballs? - Los Angeles Times
How Schoenberg’s Ideas About Music Shaped Movies
Film composers have taken up serialism as an important technique, employing this to yield a high degree of dissonance and ethereal sounds. - The Conversation
How American Outsider In Popular Media Shaped Our Culture
As we entered the new millennium, three daring TV series remade the television landscape, and they all featured a new breed of outsider: lawless,...
Can Literature Shape Law?
What does it mean to credit the written word with such capacious potencies, to charge it with such real-world responsibilities? And how is literature,...
Architect Turns To Local Materials, Builds Schools That Stay Cool In 100+-Degree Heat
“We don’t need air conditioning, which is an incredible energy saving." Temperatures in this region of the world remain at about 40C (104F) during...
Thirty Years After The Fall Of Apartheid, South Africa’s Film & TV Industry Is...
"On the surface, there is much reason to cheer. No country on the continent has benefited as much from the disruption of global streaming...
Paris’ Own Outlaw Street Artist — The French Banksy
Like Banksy, the British street artist he is sometimes likened to, Invader is elusive, fiercely protective of his anonymity and operating on the margins of...
He Went From Hip-Hop Moves In Iraqi Kurdistan To New York’s Hotbed Of Contemporary...
Hussein Smko learned his first hip-hop at age 9, from an American soldier in Erbil, and founded a street dance troupe there when he...
Architect Antoine Predock, 87
In a 65-plus-year career, he sought to create buildings that were, as he often put it, “grounded in the earth yet soaring toward the...
Just How Did South Korea Get To Be A Cultural Powerhouse?
"Some have framed South Korea’s cultural advance as a government-led mission. The Korean state has been instrumental in turning cultural identity into an exportable...
Annals Of Bad AI Ads: This Orchestra Ad Imagines A Fake Audience
“Want to do something different this Saturday? Come see an orchestra play,” reads the ad. It was apparently created by someone who has never seen...
The Academy Awards And U.S. Elections Need The Same Voting Reform
In fact, this reform is already in place in Maine, Alaska, New York City, San Francisco, and the Twin Cities — and in the...
Texas Public Radio Pioneering Leader Dies At 66
Joyce Slocum was instrumental in TPR’s growth from an organization of modest size and ambition to one whose reach and influence is recognized nationwide,...
A Perennial Question Arises Again: Why Won’t More Major American Orchestras Hire American Music...
Before Leonard Bernstein, it was a given that U.S. orchestras wanted their maestros to be European. Yet by 2008, American conductors were music directors...
Playwright Edward Bond, Who Helped End Censorship Of Theatre In Britain, Is Dead At...
"The battle to remove censorship from the British stage was fought primarily at the Royal Court Theatre in London during the mid-1960s. The plays...
Chicago’s New Mayor Fired The City’s Cultural Affairs Commissioner, And The City’s Arts Community...
Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took office last May, dismissed Commissioner Erin Harkey in February, and nobody knows why (other than wanting to replace his...
Gabriel García Márquez’s Final Book Is Being Published. Should It Be?
During the '00s, Gabo went through several drafts of Until August and planned to publish it. But by 2012, afflicted with dementia and unable...
The World’s Largest International Comedy Festival, Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Is Cancelled For 2024
"Groupe Juste pour rire Inc. said that it is seeking protection from its creditors as it begins formal restructuring under Canada’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency...
As Kronos Quartet Celebrates Its 50th Season, Two Longtime Members Are Retiring
Violist Hank Dutt, 71, who's been with the group for 46 years, and violinist John Sherba, 69, who joined one year after Dutt, will...
With The Olympics Coming, Paris’s Museums Have Jacked Up Admission Prices
The Louvre is seen as the worst offender (tickets up from €17 to €22), though most other state museums have raised prices as well....
Here’s What Happened When Chicago’s Public Radio Merged With The Sun-Times Newspaper
Now deep into the five-year grant, the combined newsrooms reach 2.8 million readers and listeners; newsletter subscriptions total 760,500; and the Sun-Times’ pageviews increased...
Artists Warn Censorship Is Rising
Censorship is on the rise globally, say artists and art professionals: two groups that carry the unofficial but historic burden of speaking truth to...
State Of Texas Took Over Houston Schools. Now School Libraries Are Being Emptied
According to circulation data from the Houston Independent school district, the number of books checked out per student at NES schools dwindled to nearly zero compared...
Why The EU’s Fine For Apple Is Important
“This decision sends a powerful message — no company, not even a monopoly like Apple, can wield power abusively to control how other companies...
