Pittsburgh Ballet Set Attendance Records For 2023’s “Nutcracker.” Maybe It’s Time To Bring Back...
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre once had a live orchestra for all of its “Nutcracker” performances, but in an ugly move that still rankles local musicians,...
How TV Has Lost Its Way (Looking At You Netflix and HBO)
Eventually, TV’s contraction will yield a new Netflix, a new HBO, looking to exploit a desire for bold programming. In the meantime, this year’s...
How Algorithmic Curation Has (Is) Changing Culture
It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of...
This Year’s World Monument Fund Preservation Projects
This year’s efforts include responses to last year’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and repairing damage in Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing war. - Artnet
Turns Out Louisa May Alcott Wrote Under Pseudonym
One of the pseudonyms is believed to be E. H. Gould, including a story about her house in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story along...
A Novelist Visits The CIA’s Creative Writing Group
Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency has a creative writing group for staffers; it's called Invisible Ink. Johannes Lichtman recounts his visit there, including his...
The Doctor Musicians
Some reached the level where a career as either a professional musician or a doctor lay before them, before choosing the unquestionably sounder career...
For Those Who Saw “Gutenberg! The Musical!” And Want To Know Who This Gutenberg...
Scholars don't really know all that much about the 15th-century German who invented the movable-type printing press, but here's a rundown of what is...
Why Don’t Arts Organizations Pay More Attention To Their Digital Presence?
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. -...
An El Sistema Grad Founds An Orchestra For Refugees In Sweden
Ron Davis Álvarez, a Caracas native, had settled in Gothenburg as director of El Sistema Sweden. When he saw crowds of teenagers from Syria...
Growing Number Of Countries Call For Limits On Streaming Platforms
The international campaign argues that the independence and viability of the global screen industry will remain under threat unless mandatory quotas for local content...
Slovakia’s Government Zeros Out Funding For The Country’s Main Contemporary Art Museum
The Kunsthalle Bratislava, which has no permanent collection, was known for its politically progressive and inclusive focus, with particular support for the LGBTQ community....
Why Is It So Difficult To Define Consciousness?
One problem is that consciousness means different things to different people. For example, some researchers focus on the subjective experience — what it is...
Third Coast Baroque, Chicago’s Period-Instrument Ensemble, Is Shutting Down
"'As referenced in a recent DCASE study,' the (board's) statement read in part, 'inflation and reduced grant funding, coupled with diminished ticket sales due...
Young Britons Just Don’t Bother With BBC News. A New Podcast Is Trying To...
The Reliable Sauce podcast "sounds as if you are listening in to a conversation (the hosts) might have over a coffee, or on the...
After A Decade Without A Single Increase, Colorado’s Arts Budget May Be About To...
"Gov. Jared Polis’s proposed budget" — likely to be adjusted by legislators — "includes a one-time $16 million tax credit for creative workforce housing, an additional...
Fired Director Of Cleveland Ballet Launches Her Own Ballet School — Right Next Door
Gladisa Guadalupe, recently dismissed as the company's artistic director following a misconduct investigation, founded the Cleveland School of Dance in 2000 before co-founding the...
Thanks To Prop 28, California Schools Are About To Get $1 Billion For Arts...
"There are complexities to bringing $1 billion into classrooms — and restoring programs that have often been the ones to go when money is...
Peter Schickele, Creator Of P.D.Q. Bach And Composer In His Own Right, Has Died...
In a five-decade career, "the Juilliard-trained Schickele generated agreeably melodic chamber music, vocal works, symphonic scores and film soundtracks. But he drew his greatest...
Royal Shakespeare Co. Launches New Low-Price Ticket Scheme
"The (company is) offering 25,000 tickets at £25 as the theatre’s new artistic directors aim to 'throw open the doors' to a more diverse...
Algorithms Are Flattening Our Taste
"For us consumers, they are making us more passive just by feeding us so much stuff, by constantly recommending things that we are unlikely...
Conde Nast Is Folding Pitchfork Music Magazine Into GQ And Laying Off Staff
The move will result in an undetermined number of layoffs at the website, including the loss of Editor-in-Chief Puja Patel. - Daily Beast
How Video Game Music Is Changing Composers And Audiences
The impact of video game music has helped the music industry by creating a new audience for the classical orchestra. Popular concert cover albums of game...
Is Social Media The Fuel For Populists? (It’s Complicated)
Populists in particular latch on to social media today as a way to connect directly with people, bypassing restraints on their behavior that political...
Why Do Coffee Shops Look So Much The Same? Algorithms That Drive The Generic
Of course, there have been examples of such cultural globalisation going back as far as recorded civilisation. But the 21st-century generic cafes were remarkable...
