Is English National Opera “Managing Decline”?
“This is a plan of managed decline, rather than an attempt to rebuild the company and maintain the world-class artistic output for which ENO...
Remembering Editor Steve Rubin
“Steve Rubin did more for music criticism than anybody — first, in the searching articles he wrote as a young man; later, as a...
Hillary And Malala Are Co-Producing A Broadway Musical About Suffragettes
Shaina Taub's show Suffs, which had a sold-out but critically-mixed premiere run Off-Broadway last year, will open on Broadway next April with a largely...
The Music Industry Has Become “Always On” For Musicians
There is a "very real fear that the algorithm will ‘forget’ artists if they do not keep up a steady flow of social posts...
La Scala Opens Its New 17-Story Tower, Designed By Mario Botta
There are new rehearsal spaces for the ballet and orchestra (the latter equipped for studio recording), a big space for unloading and assembling sets,...
NEA Report: Significantly Fewer Americans Are Attending Arts Events
That number represents a six-point drop from the most recent survey in 2017, amplifying alarm bells that the arts community is struggling to regain...
Can This New Director Stabilize Germany’s Biggest, And Most Beleaguered, Ballet Company?
The Staatsballett Berlin, an amalgamation of three pre-1989 companies, went through three artistic directorships in less than a decade while also dealing with recalcitrant...
Simon Woods: We Need To Rethink Orchestra Governance
"We can’t hide from uncomfortable questions about to what extent we should be connecting capacity and generosity with power and influence in a world...
How Far Apart Are SAG-AFTRA And The Studios? Nearly Half A Billion Dollars
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture...
For The First Time In 33 Years, The Pacific Symphony Is Choosing A New...
Pacific Symphony’s leadership change is happening at a time when audiences have become increasingly choosy. - CultureOC
How The Scholastic Book Fair Made Itself A Target For Both Sides In The...
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic...
The Very Meticulous, Very Determined Architect Of The New Arts Center At Ground Zero
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard...
Royal Albert Hall’s Archive Rescued From Flood Damage In £1 Million Project
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of...
Cairo Film Festival Is Canceled
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of...
Barnes & Noble Is Reviving Business By Dropping Something Chains Almost Never Drop: Visual...
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James...
Half A Dozen More Stolen Paintings Get Delivered To Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to...
Jazz Pianist Carla Bley, 87
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She...
A New AI Worry – Its Ability To Manipulate Viewers Subliminally
A.I.-centric handwringing concerns the potential to generate images with hidden, subliminal messages. The supposed danger is that brands will start producing carefully doctored images...
Uncanceled: Kevin Spacey Performs At Oxford
“In an era of cancellation and defenestration we sometimes forget that we cannot go on like this and that we have been here before....
What Happens To An Artist’s Work When The Technology It’s Created In Goes Obsolete?
Rather than keep stockpiles of expensive and obsolete technology in storage, museums have to find clever ways around software updates, from video game emulators...
Barenboim: My Israeli/Palestinian Orchestra Found Common Ground. We Need To Move Forward
Do we surrender to this terrible violence and let our striving for peace die – or do we insist that there must and can...
Generative AI And The Next Generation Of Spirituality
We’re in a spiritual revolution. Access to astrology and other spiritual practices has proliferated across witchy corners of the internet, with many tools fully...
Ukraine’s National Orchestra Regathers Its Musicians And Tours
Many of the orchestra’s musicians scattered. Some stayed, volunteering in field kitchens, doing what they could to help the effort to push back the...
The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of...
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and...
Startling: Americans Without A College Degree Have Dramatically Lower Life Expectancy
For those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention...
