If Cinema Is Dying, There’s Still Plenty To Say
Its infirmity has a number of culprits: superhero box office dominance, short-form videos eroding attention spans, streaming services hollowing out theatrical exhibition. - The Walrus
Preserving The Gullah Songs And Spirituals Of South Carolina’s Sea Islands
A group of singers, mostly in their 70s and 80s, on St. Helena Island in the South Carolina Lowcountry has been preserving the praise...
Public Media’s Slow Motion Crisis
For dozens of stations that depend heavily on federal dollars, a slow-motion crisis is now unfolding; many are already downsizing and cutting programming, and...
How Hollywood Is Pivoting To Conservative Audiences
The red-state audience that Hollywood is chasing isn’t a monolith, and there’s an experimental energy in the crop of shows catering to this newly...
Archaeologists In Peru Uncover 3,000-Year-Old 3-D Polychrome Mural
“Spanning 13-by-5 feet, the polychrome mural, … with a three-dimensional design, indicating a sophistication and artistry that is without precedent for pre-Inca cultures in...
The Individualist Trap: Hard To Believe In The Future
If you have a world in which everyone is encouraged to be a total individualist, they tend to get trapped in that mindset. It’s...
Inhabiting The Machine: Make Peace Or Fight?
Machines no longer assist our lives from the outside; they increasingly define the conditions under which we think, work, and relate. And here Skidelsky...
If AI Really Can Make Movies, Then What Does Hollywood Become?
Luma’s generative AI platform, Dream Machine, debuted last year and points toward a new kind of moviemaking, one where anyone can make release-grade footage...
San Francisco Human Rights Commission Announces, Then Withholds, $19 Million In Arts And Community...
“In June, the HRC announced it would issue awards to organizations such as the ... San Francisco LGBT Center, Chinese Culture Center, Youth Art Exchange and...
Why The Library Model Is A Great Business Model
What if long-term success is more about building environments where people feel inspired, curious, and connected? That’s what libraries do. And that’s what the...
How Spirituality Went From Uncool To Trendy In The Art World
The turn we are witnessing is wide-ranging, encompassing everything from an interest in esoteric rituals and the occult to the amplification of Indigenous, non-Western,...
How Anglo Literature Lost Its Global Influence
The imperialistic premise in this idea of literature as an egalitarian conversation between national traditions is blatant: as Milan Kundera remarked, what it took...
AI Really Is Replacing Voice Actors In This Country, And There’s No Law Or...
“If earlier a voice actor was doing 15-20 projects a month, now it's down to maybe six or seven,” says the leader of the...
Social Media Video Has Made Learning Dance More Available Than Ever — And There’s...
“Platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Instagram … (have) given access to many different forms of dance styles, and it’s had an impact on...
Linda Hodes, 94, Dancer At Heart of Martha Graham And Batsheva Companies
She went from taking classes from Graham at age 9 to dancing leading parts in Graham's works — then teaching those works to Batsheva...
India’s Government Is Now Banning Books In Kashmir
The ban threatens people with prison time for selling or owning 25 works by authors such as Arundhati Roy, constitutional expert A.G. Noorani, and...
Manhattan DA’s Office Repatriates More Looted Antiquities
The objects came from investigations into several convicted traffickers and were returned to Italy, Hungary, and Spain. - ARTnews
Oregon’s Portland Opera Appoints Music Director
Damien Geter, a 45-year-old conductor, composer (Loving v. Virginia, premiered earlier this year), and bass-baritone who was already working as interim music director and...
Pioneering Rock Journalist Michael Lydon, 82
“(He) recovered from a galling pan of the Beatles for his college newspaper to become a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a pioneering rock...
Skydance’s $8 Billion Acquisition Of Paramount Global Is Now Complete
“Skydance Media has closed its takeover, unveiled in July 2024, of Paramount Global to form what the merger partners have called a ‘next-generation media...
What Robert Wilson Meant For The Avant Garde
What made Wilson’s divergence from theatrical and classical conventions so powerful was his clear reverence for them — the careful, conscientious approach he took...
State Museum Of Pennsylvania Closes Native American Exhibit And Will Return All Items To...
“(The action is) part of the museum’s compliance with a federal law mandating the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural items held by...
LA Arts Philanthropist Glorya Kaufman, 95
Glorya Kaufman, the philanthropist who transformed dance in Los Angeles through the establishment of an eponymous dance school at USC as well as a...
Where Have All The Horses Gone? We Struggle To Accept The Future And Let...
Everything is public now, potentially: one’s thoughts, one’s photos, one’s movements, one’s purchases. There is no privacy and apparently little desire for it in...
Should Ideas Be Free? How Big Thinkers Have Thought About Intellectual Property
Should owning an idea be treated the same way as owning a physical object, or are these two forms of property rights ultimately incomparable? -...
