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...
The Gettysburg Review Is Abruptly Shut Down By Gettysburg College
The college's president granted that the Review is "a superb literary journal, does really extraordinary work … (but) its purpose is not the education...
Scrotum-Nailing, Bank-Burning Russian Refugee Artist Sentenced To Prison In France For Leaking Sexts
Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined €20,000 for broadcasting sex videos of politician Benjamin Griveaux, this driving him out of...
Robot Fido Scours Pompeii And Finds Work As Tour Guide
After Learning to Paint and Patrolling the Ruins of Pompeii, a Robot Dog Is Helping Humans Visit an Abandoned Monument in a State of...
The Rewards Of Learning To Love More Complicated Music
When repeated listenings do deliver, the satisfaction can be deeper than the feeling the easier kind of music brings, at least for me. - The...
Vancouver Opera Gets A New Artistic Director
In February of this year, the Orchestre Classique de Montréal named Jacques Lacombe its new artistic director and principal conductor. - Stir
FTC Wants To Go After Junk Fees (Including On Tickets)
FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement that “by hiding the total price, these junk fees make it harder for consumers to shop for the...
Report: Teens Are Now Spending More Time On YouTube Than Netflix
Time on YouTube rose since the spring, adding nearly a percentage point, while Netflix fell more than two percentage points. - CNBC
How Images Are Shaping The Middle East War Narrative
In the 20th century, Americans saw war through the eyes of professional photojournalists and camera operators. Today, it is those doing the fighting or...
A Queer Cowboy Ballet? Yup.
Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his...
Norway’s Biggest Newspaper Is Using An AI Voice To Read Its Stories (And Finding...
Comparing the number of unique listeners of Aftenposten’s podcasts with those who have used the AI-generated listen-to option on its text articles, the publisher...
These Are Hard Times For Arts Organizations, And Even Harder For Small Ones
Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on...
Short Films Have A Category Problem
A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s...
“Unlike Anything Else I Was Seeing In The Theater”: Ben Brantley On Nobel Prizewinner...
Watching his A Summer Day, "I succumbed to a strangely paradoxical feeling of calm, continuous dread. … I could understand why Fosse’s work had...
This City In Arizona Is Carless. It Changes The Way People Live
“It is amazing how much the urbanism improves, both in terms of experience and efficiency, when you don’t need to store automobiles.” - The...
This Literary Magazine’s Publisher Is Giving Up Its Online Version To Keep The Print...
Amy Mae Baxter, founder of Bad Form: "As costs rise for everyone, it doesn’t feel fair for me not to be paying our contributing...
Fluxus: An Art Aesthetic For Our Time?
Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of...
This Seaside Resort Was A Retirement Haven Nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room.” Then The Turner...
"Locals are hoping it will change (Eastbourne's) reputation and place it on a (larger) cultural stage. But as shown by the experiences of other...
This Actor Quit Theater Because It Simply Didn’t Pay Enough. Now He’s Artistic Director...
Lance Gardner, who'd given "rock-star performances" in a huge variety of roles, gave up acting in 2019 to become live events producer for public...
Opera Philadelphia’s O23 Festival Was Considerably Smaller Than In Previous Years. How Did It...
Mostly well, writes Peter Dobrin. The three major offerings got a very warm reception from audiences and critics alike; one sold out its last...
Talks “Suspended” As Hollywood Studios Walk Away From Negotiations With SAG-AFTRA
"On Wednesday night, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declared that negotiations with SAG-AFTRA are suspended, given that the gap between the...
Art Bridges, Alice Walton’s Foundation, Gives $40 Million To U.S. Museums In A Program...
"The grants, ranging from $56,000 to more than $2 million for a three-year period, are intended to fund programs to attract new audiences, whether...
State Of Utah Sues TikTok Over The Mental Damage The App Allegedly Causes Young...
"Utah became the latest state to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is 'baiting' children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits....
NPR Left Twitter Six Months Ago. The Cost In Web Traffic? Tiny.
"A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially...
Hi, My Name Is Paul. I’m An Audiobook Addict
The audiobook’s ascent into full-blown aesthetic autonomy came with the arrival of the iPod and its MP3 file format in 2001, and, as of...
