Bleak News About The Baltimore Sun Drives A Surge In Subscriptions To Competitors
"The news organization best positioned to take on the mantle is The Baltimore Banner, the bustling nonprofit digital newsroom described from launch as the Sun’s crosstown...
British Theatre Is Stuffed With Performances, But Not Revenue
"Words like 'challenging,' 'volatile' and 'unsustainable' feature in some theatres' annual accounts, which have been filed in recent weeks. Some have changed their programming...
Does A New Actor On White Lotus Support Putin’s War On Ukraine?
Ukraine says so, and has footage of Milos Bikovic accepting an award from the Russian president in 2018. But "the day after the invasion...
Climate Protesters Throw Soup At The Mona Lisa
"'What’s the most important thing?' they shouted. 'Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?' They added: 'Our farming system is sick. Our...
Netflix Has Changed, And There’s No Return To The Old Ways
It's all about the advertisements - and live pro wrestling, which never has an off-season. - The Verge
And Now, The Obie Award Winners
In the latest Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway awards, Ryan J. Haddad's Dark Disabled Stories won best new play and a host of other awards, while...
The Art Shanties Of Winters In Minnesota
It started small, but now, "the frozen lake becomes a temporary arts community with about 20 shanties, each with a different theme, which host...
Stephen Sondheim Is Gone, But His Musicals Are Forever – And Especially For Now
"Heading into 2024, one of the most noticeable things about the ties that unite the live theater-scape, from the Great White Way through to...
Taylor Swift Can Inspire Anything, Even The Potential Regulation Of AI Deepfake Images
Wow: "U.S. politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed...
What, Specifically, Makes For A ‘Very Los Angeles’ Ring Cycle?
Hollywood, of course. But also, an understanding of the supernatural: "In L.A., bizarre gods have tended to operate more in realms of grand fantasy....
Who Won Sundance?
Basically, indies. (And, don't tell the Oscars of 2025, but a lot of women directors crushed it at Sundance too.) In the Summers, the...
Influenced By TikTok, Pop Music Has Reined It In
It's not just TikTok - "The average song length peaked at 4 minutes 21 seconds in 1992," or about 30 years before TikTok came...
The Man Who Set Fire To A Japanese Anime Studio Has Been Sentenced To...
The fire was an "arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more." - BBC
The Accountants Seem To Be Running The Show At Netflix And Other Streamers
"Why would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The...
Why Did The Santa Barbara Museum Of Art Suddenly Cancel A Show And Let...
The show was focused on the legacy of Michael Fried's 1965 show Three American Painters. The new show, Three American Painters: Then and Now, was...
Tiler Peck’s Smooth Move From Prima Ballerina To Company Choreographer
Peck isn't giving up the stage at City Ballet; indeed, she wore pointe shoes as she choreographed her new work. "If they tell me...
The Music Meant To Calm The Anxious, Angry Flying Public At LAX
In LAX's Orchestrina, "he light dims to a soothing cerulean. Swells of ambient music rise to meet passengers as the moving sidewalk whisks them...
Paper Tickets Are Being Replaced By QR Codes. We’re Losing Something
Even now, after mask and vaccine card protocols have abated, most theatergoers rely upon proof of purchase displayed on a screen. Will call is...
Why The Music Business Is Collapsing Around Us
A generation ago, this kind of laziness didn’t exist in the music business. Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The...
Gen Z Has Discovered The Public Library
Gen Z seems to love public libraries. A November report from the American Library Association (ALA) drawing from ethnographic research and a 2022 survey found that gen...
Why Is France’s Oscars Committee So Bad?
Over the last three decades, a number of French movies have earned Oscar recognition, but none have been the official French Oscar submission. -...
Universities — The Essential Ingredient Should Be Free Speech
Teaching a subject is important; it is also in a sense incidental. The classroom is, first and foremost, a place to train young minds...
How “Conglomerate” Publishing Works
I found that, if we look beyond just “authors”—if we also take into account agents, scouts, editors, marketers, managers of subsidiary rights, wholesalers, distributors,...
Dan Wagoner, Performer And Choreographer At The Center Of Midcentury Modern Dance, Has Died...
"A child of small-town Appalachia for whom the idea of going to New York City was like 'going to the moon,' he … danced...
Art, Oligarchs And Fraud
We think of oligarchy as a foreign concept, but the truth is that American oligarchs abound, and many of them collect art. It’s a time-honored...
