The Fight For New Music
Concert programmers and soloists who wish to stray from the beaten concerto path must often summon their powers of persuasion to get new and...
Minnesota Picks 24-Year-Old Artist’s Design For New State Flag
The image at the centre of the 1893 design—depicting a pioneer with a rifle, a farmer and a Native American on horseback with a...
How Jewish Immigrant Irving Berlin Created A Christmas Song That All Americans Could Embrace
"This was a new kind of Christmas carol. It didn't mention the birth of Jesus, angels or wise men." Bing Crosby sang it in...
Movies Are Becoming More And More A Global Business (A Trend Accelerated By The...
I think that we’ve always been an international industry, but the pandemic has really illuminated that fact in some ways, both in physical production,...
How “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” Was Transformed From Morbid Movie Dirge Into...
The original lyrics written for the film Meet Me in St. Louis began "Have yourself a merry little Christmas / It may be your...
Why Christmas Panto Is Big Business
For many Brits, panto is their first experience in the theater. For some, it’s their only experience. It’s woven into the fabric of the...
A Pioneer Of Drag Queen Story Hour Launches Her Own Publishing Imprint
In 1998, Michelle Tea, who started the first series of events called "Drag Queen Story Hour," published her first novel with Semiotext(e), publisher of...
Josh Kosman: 2023 Classical Music Highlights Dominated By New Music
“New” is the key factor here. In compiling my best-of list for the year gone by — a list that has now swollen year-over-year from...
Ozy, The Defunct News Site That Wildly Inflated Reader Numbers, Sues Semafor And Ben...
"The shell of Carlos Watson's Ozy Media (has) filed a lawsuit against Semafor co-founder Ben Smith, his news site and his former outlet, BuzzFeed,...
Donald Runnicles Appointed Chief Conductor Of Dresden Philharmonic
The orchestra said that Runnicles will take up the post in the 2025-26 season and will lead the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra as Chief Conductor Designate from...
An Afghan Radio Scriptwriter On The Day The Taliban Forced Her To Stop Working
"After our family tea, I remembered to switch on my phone. I saw a notification from my office WhatsApp group. My hands trembled as...
As Paramount Looks To Merge With Warner Bros. Discovery, It Gets A Bid To...
Paramount Global planned to sell the Black-oriented cable network earlier this year but backed off after deciding that the purchase offers were too low....
Francesco Ventriglia Appointed Artistic Director Of Calgary’s Alberta Ballet
The Italian-born choreographer was a principal at La Scala Ballet, created works for that company's ballet school, and founded his own company, Heliopolis, before...
Here’s The Successor To “Mao’s Last Dancer” At The Helm Of Queensland Ballet
Li Cunxin, who found fame beyond the dance world with the memoir and documentary with that title, announced in June that he's retiring as...
Countertenor And Convicted Sexual Assaulter David Daniels Expelled From AGMA
"This week (the union) released a letter of censure dated Nov. 20 in which Daniels was informed he was permanently barred from the guild....
What’s The Average Income Of Broadway Theatergoers?
Far higher than that of Americans as a whole, according to the Broadway League's demographic report on the 2022-23 season. Now we know why...
One Of Raphael’s Madonnas Is Partially De-Authenticated. (Partially?)
"A team led by scientists from England’s University of Bradford used artificial intelligence to determine that the face of Joseph in the Madonna della...
The New Yorker’s Choice Of Best Theatre Of 2023
Over all, dark, meditative productions prevailed, often with their sets literally sunk in shadow. The shows that drew us took place in primordial woods,...
How The Ability To Write Changed Us
One of the big debates which lasted up to the Renaissance was about who invented writing. With both archaeology and chronology all but unknown,...
The Warhol Authentication Problem
Today, discerning which Warhol pictures are genuine is the business of authenticators, whose trained eyes and in-depth knowledge are supposed to be bulwarks against...
Powell’s Books Employees Get A New Union Contract
The ratification follows 10 months of negotiations and multiple rejected contracts, including one proposed by Powell's management in August and another in November. - Publishers Weekly
The British Museum’s Terrible No Good Very Bad Year
The thefts took place over 30 years, and many of the 2,000 missing items were among millions in the museum’s collection that had not...
What Theatre Ticket Prices Look Like Across The UK
The average top-end ticket outside of London comes in at £49.19, compared with £141.37 for West End shows, while the average cheapest ticket in...
Outfest Was L.A.’s Oldest Film Festival. How Has It Ended Up Near Collapse?
"(The 41-year-old LGBTQ+ festival's) dramatic reversal of fortune began with a series of clashes between board members and the group's former executive director over...
Pulitzer Winners Join Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Copyright
The writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Taylor Branch, Stacy Schiff and Kai Bird told the court on Tuesday that the companies infringed their copyrights by using...
