Spotify Signs Joe Rogan Podcast to Deal Worth ~$250 Million
Rogan’s podcast will stream on Spotify, but also will also be available on Apple, Amazon and YouTube under the revised distribution strategy that Spotify...
Andrew Scott’s Secret For Onstage Sex Scenes That Aren’t Embarrassing
It's "one neat trick" that he learned while playing all the parts in an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya in London's West End last...
The Case For A Better Internet
“Think about how much of your life you live online, how much of your identity resides there. . . . Whom do you want in control of...
Seattle Dance Company Whim W’Him Buys And Builds Itself A New HQ
Given the costs of new flooring, lighting, and sound systems, director Olivier Wevers says, "'investing in a space you don’t own seems perilous.' When...
Conversations About The Parthenon Marbles Drag On
Seeking a fair resolution on the marbles can hardly be said to open the floodgates. First of all, the marbles are as close to...
Anne Edwards, 96, Prolific Biographer And Novelist
"(She was) a prodigious and peripatetic author who published best-selling books about the actresses Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn as well as 14 other...
Reconsidering Rachmaninoff
We are drawing a new musical map. Looking back, the 20th no longer seems the century of Stravinsky. Prokofiev once eclipsed Shostakovich—but no longer....
A New Movie Version Of “The Master And Margarita” Is A Smash Hit In...
Says one source, “The propagandists are both envious and also hateful that a movie with an anti-censorship, anti-totalitarian, anti-war message is getting so much...
Music Piracy Significantly Up Last Year
There were more than 17 billion visits to music piracy websites worldwide last year, a staggering 13 percent increase from 2022, according to research...
Visitor Falls To His Death Inside London’s Tate Modern Gallery
"(Ambulances) didn’t arrive quickly enough to revive the man, who was pronounced dead around 10:45 a.m. local time. Few other details about the fatal...
World Monuments Fund Hands Over Management Of Three Angkor Sites To Cambodian Government
"This new chapter for the Ta Som and Preah Khan Temples, alongside the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery in Angkor Wat, coincides...
Stanford Undergrads With Mental Health Problems Are Being Prescribed A Dose of The Arts
"As a supplement to more traditional offerings such as one-on-one counseling, support groups or medication, students can now get a referral to attend a...
San Diego Does Its First-Ever Study Of What The Arts Contribute To Its Economy...
"San Diego County's arts and culture nonprofit sector generated $1.37 billion in economic activity in 2022. … A parallel study of the city of...
Radio Giant Audacy Lays Off One Quarter Of Its Podcast Division
"Audacy has laid off … a quarter of the staff at (Pineapple Street Studios,) the division that produces shows such as the recent hit...
The Brooklyn Museum Prepares To Celebrate Its 200th (Yes, 200th) Anniversary
"This year, the museum will sing a song of itself" (the reference is to noted Brooklynite Walt Whitman) "for its 200th anniversary, with a...
Washington State Legislature Advances Bill To Block School Book Bans
"The bill would make it so that school boards cannot implement policies that intentionally remove or restrict materials in the library or in classrooms...
The Met Opera’s Curious Artistic Pivot
Why has the Met, a literal gilded temple of European art, started staging middle American malaise? - Van
How Anna Weyant Became The Art World’s “It” Artist
I know why Weyant’s friend protested the dress: It could fuel the fire hose of attention that the glamorous, photogenic, and precocious painter has...
Today’s Version Of The Personal Essay Is A Dark Form
If contemporary fiction’s capacity for objectivity and thus critique is threatened by first-personalism, these failures are consolidated, Kornbluh argues, by a broader celebration of...
The Literature That Explains The Messiness Of Higher Education
Academia is a serious place, and it takes itself seriously. But it is also, like Hollywood or Washington, profoundly ridiculous — the kind of...
The Quiet CEO Rebuilding Penguin Random House
Nihar Malaviya, 49, has been at the helm of Penguin Random House for a year — not enough time to turn a battleship, but...
How LEDs Are Transforming The World
LEDs have also transformed cultural events involving creative lighting. They’re why stadium shows and EDM festivals look so freaking awesome, to fangirl for a...
Disabled Actors On Claiming The Role Of Richard III
As controversy continues over Michelle Terry, artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe (and able-bodied), casting herself as Shakespeare's only explicitly disabled character, actors with disabilities...
331 Artists Chosen For This Year’s Venice Biennale
The number of artists featured in this year’s Biennale far surpasses the 213 artists that were included in the 2022 edition. - ARTnews
Is An Old Romantic Ballet Like “Giselle” Too Dated To Take Seriously Today?
Having seen audience members, viewing an admired staging considered as close as possible to the 19th-century original, laugh and applaud at inopportune times, Matthew...
