Documents: Ticketmaster Raised Fees After All-In Pricing Was Forced On It
The Federal Trade Commission last May began requiring Ticketmaster to disclose concert ticket fees upfront – a practice known as all-in pricing. But documents obtained by...
A Crisis In Writing? Let’s Consider It Historically
For the first 40,000 years of its existence, it was simply an abstract symbolic system to process complex data; only in the last 3,000...
China Orders Audit Of All Its Museums After Nanjing Scandal
China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had...
NPR Moves Further Into Video With New Podcast
The network is launching the new video podcast and cross-platform show NPR Newsmakers, which will feature long-form interviews with some of NPR’s highest-profile reporters...
Australian Lawmakers Are Trying To Understand What The Arts Need
Last week, the Federal Government’s recently established Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy held its first significant hearing. - ArtsHub
What The People Running Dance Companies Earn
Among the Largest 50 companies, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, artistic directors earned an average of $240,741. This represents an increase compared to FY2023, during which...
Who Should Design New York City’s Next Wave Of Iconic Buildings?
New York is missing out on the ideas of designers who could find surprising paths through an obstacle course of conventions, whose experience with...
Norway’s Main Easter Pastime Is Going To A Rural Cabin And Reading Crime Novels
Ever since a publisher’s clever marketing trick in 1923, Norwegians have associated the period around Easter with crime fiction. The phenomenon is called påskekrim (Easter...
When Addiction And The War On Drugs Became Central Elements Of Crime Fiction
“Are they evil or are they sick? While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial...
Cyberattackers Strike Uffizi Galleries In Florence
The museums’ management acknowledged an attack earlier this year, but denied any major security breach or theft of data. The statement came after Corriere...
Wallace Shawn And Deborah Eisenberg Step In To Perform In Shawn’s Play On Three...
Shawn and Eisenberg, an author and actress who has been Shawn’s partner for five decades, performed with scripts in the Off-Broadway production of What...
Workers Who Built Monumental Hindu Temple In New Jersey Allege Abuse, Health Damage
The 185-acre Baps Swaminarayan Akshardham, completed in 2023 and known for its intricate carvings in white stone, has for years faced allegations of visa...
New Artistic Director At Bravo! Vail Music Festival
Composer Chris Rogerson will lead the summer festival in the Colorado resort town, taking over after the 16-year tenure of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Rogerson...
Smithsonian Board Seats Left Vacant Amid Pressure From Trump’s White House
“A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its...
Is The Historical Performance/Period Instrument Movement Still Controversial?
“Nearly half a century on, although performances on period instruments (let alone fortepianos) are hardly the norm, historically informed performance has increasingly moved toward...
Study: UK Teachers Report Decline In Student Cognitive Skills Because Of AI
Two-thirds said they had observed the decline among children who they also said no longer felt the need to spell because of voice-to-text technology....
Wallace Shawn On Reviving His Monologue “The Fever” In The Trump Era
“When I did it before, nobody was really explicitly saying the opposite of what I was saying. I was attacking implicit assumptions, unthought-through assumptions...
Why You Should Break Up With Your Kindle
The Kindle ecosystem is perhaps the apotheosis of this shift. One Guardian reporter found Amazon had recorded every title, highlight and page turn on...
Trump’s Plans For His Presidential “Library” Pretty Much Says It All
It’s hard to imagine a more finely tuned machine than the Trump Presidential Library, a glass-walled Miami tower whose video renderings were released by...
NYT Fires Freelancer For Using AI In Review. But What Really Is The Issue...
As a literary critic and scholar, I believe the deeper question isn’t whether or not critics should do more to hide their use of...
Denver’s Arts District Is Thriving. Here’s Who Keeps It Running And How.
“As of January, the RiNo Art District has split from the business and infrastructure groups it once operated alongside. Now, three separate entities share...
Major Years-Long Renovation Of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Complete
Despite several previous conservation campaigns, a carefully executed programme of works targeting its roofing, glazing systems, and masonry envelope was necessary. - Dezeen
Why Bach’s Music Is Indestructable
Bach never knew the modern piano or its flattened-out tuning, so any pianist who plays the Well-Tempered Clavier on a Steinway is making a...
Tennessee Library Director Fired Over Refusal To Move Gender-Themed Books
She was fired for her refusal to remove more than 100 books that discuss gender identity or contain violence from the children’s shelves. -...
University Partnership Gives This Ballet Company’s Dancers 80% Off Tuition
After being in the company for a full year, any full-time member of Boston Ballet can take courses toward a degree from Northeastern University,...
