What If We Removed The Politics From Social Media?
Most social media algorithms are programmed to optimise the spread of inflammatory content, “fuelling the maelstrom of online political debate and, despite what the...
Inside The Struggle Over Casting A Trans Teen In A Texas High-School Production Of...
In November, school officials in Sherman, Texas objected to the casting of trans student Max Hightower in a male role and ordered that actors'...
Remembering The Outsized Impact Of Diane Ragsdale
As an activist-thinker, Diane understood the ecologies of culture. She mapped them at the intersection of aesthetics, economics, and ethics, circling versions of the...
Hagia Sophia In Istanbul Is Now Charging Tourists €25 To Enter
"The change is part of a greater effort to separate tourists and worshippers, who will now access the structure through separate entrances. Additionally, instead...
Marketing And Hype Are Overwhelming The Creative Economy
Rather than cajole or badger, campaigns now invite consumers to join the conversation. They’ve recognized that anyone can amplify their message, whether through social...
Ewa Podleś, A Rare Coloratura Contralto, Has Died At 71
"(Her) darkly molten, three-octave-plus voice and commanding presence made her … something of a cult figure, one of the singers that fans make a...
Celebrities Are Mad About AI Deepfakes. Congress Might Make A Law (Uh-Oh)
The new bill, called the No AI FRAUD Act and introduced by Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) and Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA), would establish legal definitions...
Black Cast Member Of “1776” Broadway Tour Sues For Discrimination Because She Was Denied...
Zuri Washington: "I was made to feel like I did something wrong in the course of this entire experience, and I know I didn't...
New Orleans Opera Names A New General Director
"British-American producer and librettist Lila Palmer (has been named) general and artistic director. Effective from 15 May, Palmer succeeds Clare Burovac, who steps down...
2024 Oscar Nominations: “Oppenheimer” Leads The Field With 13 Nods
"The fantasy film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, followed with 11, while the Martin Scorsese drama Killers of the Flower Moon got 10 nominations....
Des Moines Art Center Will Dismantle Its Major Land Art Installation
"Created between 1989 and 1996, Mary Miss's Greenwood Pond: Double Site is one of the very few environmental installations in the collection of any...
Dave Eggers Wins Newbery Medal For Best Children’s Book; Vashti Harrison’s “Big” Wins Caldecott
"Eggers's The Eyes & the Impossible, the great adventure of a very fast dog, has received the John Newbery Medal for the year’s best...
One Sexual Assault Charge Against Gérard Depardieu Is Dropped
"The sexual assault complaint by actress Hélène Darras was dismissed by a French court" due to the statute of limitations. (The alleged assault was...
Berlin Repeals Anti-Antisemitism Clause In Arts Funding Requirements
"The clause required all recipients of city funding to commit themselves against antisemitism as defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, (which) says it...
Director Norman Jewison, 97
Jewison, whose career began in Canadian television and spanned more than 50 years, was, like his close friend Sidney Lumet and a select few other directors,...
Tanya Berezin, Broadway Force, 82
At the Circle Repertory Company, where she said her goal was to “confuse people,” she nurtured a new generation of writers and actors in...
Pitchfork Was Iconic. So What? The Kids Have Moved On From Reviews Of Any...
Forget the death of newspapers and magazines (that’s old news about old news), we are now in the end of the era of websites...
Speculating On The Whitney Museum’s Murky Handling Of The Hopper Estate
The museum simply used me to avoid the scandal that would result if the public learned that many works said to be by Hopper...
Netflix Is A Giant. But The Streaming Business Has Gotten Significantly More Difficult
To be Netflix these days is to occupy the strange dichotomy of being a company that has won the war but still has plenty of...
A Heroic Effort To Save Pittsburgh’s National Opera House, Home To A Rich African-American...
It was supposed to cost $3 million to flip the house from a crumbling ruin to a vibrant community center with musical performances and...
How A Small Technical Change By Apple Sent Podcast Listener Stats Plummeting
A user who listened to a show a few times, subscribed, but stopped listening would continue to count as a download indefinitely. Even better under...
Study: Kids’ Reading Comprehension Goes Up Reading Physical Books Compared To Reading on Screens
A soon-to-be published, groundbreaking study from neuroscientists at Columbia University’s Teachers College has come down decisively on the matter: for “deeper reading” there is a clear...
How Apple Could Win Back The Music Business From Spotify (And Pay Musicians)
In his plan, Apple would take each subscriber's monthly fee and distribute 90% to the artists that subscriber listened to that month (pro rata based on...
A Window On The Future Of Opera
Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright. - Washington Post
Miguel Cervantes’ Eight Year Run As Hamilton Has Come To A Close
Cervantes played Alexander Hamilton for more than two thousand shows, through the early days of the pandemic and much more - including the death...
