Norway Takes On Meta’s Ads And Wins
How to defeat Zuckerberg? Well, money talks. - Wired
Dancers Across The Country Vogue At Gas Stations In Resistance After A Murder
"The protests centered on vogue as resistance. The dance style, born out of the ballroom scene in Harlem in the 1980s as a source...
Anna Netrebko Sues The Met For Lost Wages
Netrebko, fired by the opera house for her support of Vladimir Putin, "accuses the Met of discriminating against her because she is Russian; of...
Honoring The Handwritten Word, By The Thousands, On The Champs-Elysees
Traffic was blocked and 1,700 desks set up by the Arc de Triomphe, for "a public dictée. Anyone who's studied French knows the importance...
What Michael Chabon Did During The Early Days Of COVID
In those quiet, terrifying times, lo these long three years ago, Chabon did what any nerd might do: He built a replica of the...
Where Have All The Villains Gone?
"Hollywood’s sudden hostility to hostility is even playing out in cinemas now. One of the few traits shared by both Barbie and Oppenheimer is...
Can You Make A Successful Film Festival Without The Big Stars?
It's an existential crisis: How, exactly, does a splashy, global celebration of movies survive without movie stars? - Washington Post
Judgment Of Judgment: Serious Criticism In Crisis
"No clear economic reason for art criticism that is not glorified public relations to exist, so it barely does. While art is an extreme...
Is Hip Hop Really 50 Years Old? The Debate Intensifies
In a genre that has always valued volume as much as it loves liberation, the elders still compete over the story’s beats, much as...
Netflix Changed The Way TV Is Produced. Writers Want it back The Way It...
Netflix habitually pays more for its productions up front, but because it did away with the syndication model and keeps its viewership data to...
New Diagnosis: Scientists Studying Beethoven’s Hair Discover Something New
Several locks confirmed as far more likely to be from the composer's head demonstrate his death was probably the result of a hepatitis B...
Australia Is Festival-Happy – But Does Melbourne Need Another?
With a $2.7 million major investment from the City of Melbourne and a further $1.25 million from the Victorian Government, Now or Never is...
Who Invented Public Libraries? Roman Emperors
"If Asinius Pollio was the one who 'first by founding a library made works of genius the property of the public', it was Augustus...
Conductor John Wilson On Reinventing The London Sinfonia
“Most of us enjoy that; that’s why we come back. We want to be in that very demanding, high-achieving environment, where most of us,...
Meet New York Magazine’s New Theatre-Critic Tag Team
"Alongside longtime entertainment reporter Jackson McHenry … will be Sara Holdren, a theatre director who stepped into the job for a brief, blazing tenure...
Subscription-Happy: Apple Reports It Has 1 Billion Subscribers
Its services business continues to grow at a rapid pace, hitting $21.2 billion in the quarter, up from $19.6 billion last year. - The Hollywood...
Staffers At Picasso Museum In Málaga Will Strike Next Month
"Citing wages and working conditions that they claim are unequal to those of other Spanish art institutions, workers at the museum announced plans to...
The Art Of Conversation – And Why It’s More Difficult Today
“To speak to the converted or the entirely familiar is not to truly converse,. It is to have one’s beliefs reinforced; it is self-soothing...
“He Wasn’t The 21st-Century Robert Moses; He Was Moses In A Hurry”: Justin Davidson...
"Every time someone sees a show at the Whitney, buys a saw at Bronx Terminal Market, commutes by subway to Hudson Yards, or watches...
Ticket Prices Have Gotten Crazy. Here’s Why.
A 2018 Government Accountability Office study shared by the White House earlier this year found service fees to hover around 27 percent of the face value...
The Broadway Musical With Choreography For The Audience: “Here Lies Love,” With Its In-Theater...
"As at a disco, those standing can dance as they like. But they are also herded by wranglers in magenta jumpsuits with light-up wands...
SAG-AFTRA Strike Waivers: An Explainer
"Some independent films and television productions are being granted waivers by the union that will allow them to continue … amid the strike. …...
Public Radio Has Been Losing Listeners, But Revenue Is Steady
"Pew Research Center's just-published findings … as part of its bi-annual 'State of the News Media' show that public radio's audience trended down in...
For Its Upcoming Expansion, Dallas Museum Of Art Selects Spanish Architects Little-Known In U.S.
"Widely respected in European architecture circles but virtually unknown in the United States, Nieto Sobejano was chosen from a field of six finalists, among...
The Rape Trial of Opera Star David Daniels Begins
Daniels, one of the first countertenors to find wide success in mainstream opera houses, and his husband, Scott Walters, were charged in 2019 with...
