The Blues Collector
Smithsonian Folkways is gearing up for another epic release - this of Robert "Mack" McCormick's "unruly collection" that he called "The Monster." - Washington...
Taylor Swift’s And Beyonce’s Concert Movies Are Changing Cinemas And Production
"The artists cut out the middleman by producing their own films and working directly with theatres to release them. It's a savvy move that...
Frankfurt Book Fair Cancels An Award For Book By Palestinian Author
"The novel, by Adania Shibli, is titled “Minor Detail” in English and tells the true story of the 1949 rape and murder of a Palestinian Bedouin girl...
Yayoi Kusama Apologizes For Past Anti-Black Comments
"My lifelong intention has been to lift up humanity through my art. I apologize for the pain I have caused." - Hyperallergic
Living At The End Of Time
"This is in fact the end of time, and you have to be a tech bro or a fascist, or both, to think that...
Nobel Prize-Winning Poet Louise Gluck Has Died At 80
Glück also won the Pulitzer in 1993. She "wrote about childhood, family, loneliness and death, drawing inspiration from Shakespeare, William Blake, ancient mythology and...
New Technologies Usually Arrive In Clusters. So What’s Coming With AI?
The potential — and hype — surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence, and especially generative AI is everywhere. Some are predicting a full suite of...
Disney Is 100-Years-Old: Its Business Smarts Have Been Its Superpower
The business acumen of those behind the scenes at Disney have been central to the peaks and troughs of the company’s enduring presence in...
When Public Art Is Funded By Corporate Interests (Yes, There Are Issues)
While publicized as an investment in art and beautifying the city, the location, impact, and funding sources of these murals seem to correspond closely...
Why Disney Is Going All In On Sports Betting
Sports betting company Penn Entertainment will pay Disney $1.5 billion in cash while ESPN will receive warrants worth about $500 million to purchase shares...
What It Costs When A Big Concert Is Canceled
Generally speaking, a sudden cancellation could mean an arena loses out on roughly $500,000 in revenue, according to some estimates. For music’s largest shows—stadium...
The Lines Between Galleries And Museums Has Blurred
In an increasingly difficult fundraising climate, dealer involvement in museum shows has become ever more prevalent. This begs the question: are the works we...
Why Does Ukraine’s National Ballet Perform For Only 400 People At A Time?
Because that's how many people the bomb shelter at their home theater in Kyiv can hold. (No, this is not a joke.) - Toronto...
The Movie “Oppenheimer” Versus The Opera “Dr. Atomic”: Is Opera Better At Ambiguity?
Is musical drama better suited than film to represent tragedy without manipulating its audience? - Van
The Block On Enforcing Florida’s Anti-Drag Law Remains In Place For Now, Rules Appeals...
"A panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s granting of a preliminary injunction stopping the law...
Public Radio’s Largest Station Steps Back (A Bit) From Podcasts
Last week, 6 percent of New York Public Radio’s workforce was let go — with most of the cuts targeting its podcast vertical, WNYC...
AI Has Helped Read The First Word Deciphered From Ancient Scrolls Carbonized By Mt....
The scrolls, intact but carbonized and impossible to unroll, came from a library in Herculaneum destroyed by the 79 AD eruption that both wiped...
Best Buy On The Leading Edge: Will (Finally) Stop Selling DVDs
“To state the obvious, the way we watch movies and TV shows is much different today than it was decades ago,” a Best Buy...
New York’s Under The Radar Festival, Canceled By The Public Theater, Is Revived By...
The January festival of new and experimental theater has been reassembled by founder/director Mark Russell, indie production company ArkType, and over a dozen theater...
Coming To A Mall Near You: Bricks-And-Mortar Netflix Stores
The stores will sell merchandise based on hit Netflix shows, so you can finally snag that Lincoln Lawyer coffee mug you’ve always dreamed of. - Engadget
Painting Stolen From Glasgow Museum 30 Years Ago Has Been Returned
In 1989, a group of thieves disabled an alarm system and broke into the Haggs Castle Museum of Childhood and stole a cache of...
Kharkiv’s Opera House Has Been Wrecked By Russian Missiles, But Its Company Continues To...
"In this, the 148th season of the company, the tiny core of remaining artists" – most of them escaped to Lithuania and are touring...
Chicago Seems Unable To Keep A Period-Instrument Orchestra. So It’s Adopting Cleveland’s.
The city's own Baroque-instrument ensembles seem to run out of energy and money after no more than ten years. (The venerable Music of the...
“Extraordinary. And Exhausting.” How The Staff Is Coping With Management Chaos At Sacramento’s Capital...
"An audit showing unpaid bills. More than half of CapRadio’s board later resigned. Potential conflicts of interest came to light. News from competitors ......
PBS’s Fall Schedule Is Almost Completely Unaffected By The Strikes. How Did They Pull...
"In fact, according to PBS’s chief programming executive, … just one program on its fall lineup was impacted by the strikes: John Leguizamo’s American...
