“Princess” Evicted From Rome House Containing Caravaggio
The US-born Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi was escorted out of the 16th-century Villa Aurora by police on Thursday after receiving an eviction order amid a long-running...
Report: Piracy Costs Streaming Services $113 Billion
By 2027, there is a projected loss of $113 billion for streaming video providers serving U.S. customers due to content theft, according to a...
A Pair Of Amateur Investigators Tracks Down Art Treasures Looted From India
"These sleuths, with the help of a small, anonymous global team of volunteers from various fields – who communicate mostly online – have brought...
Has Twitter Lost Its Cultural Relevance?
Musk’s takeover of the platform has not only strained the dinner-party metaphor (a new host comes in and dominates the conversation, demanding money from...
An Architect Uses Traditional Oaxacan Materials And Techniques To Create Beautiful Modern Buildings
"Juan José Santibañez has almost single-handedly revived ancient construction techniques in the area, created a market for artisanal brickmakers from miles around, and proven...
Remembering The Cultural Relevance Of Buzzfeed
I don’t mean to sound self-aggrandizing, but it is legitimately hard to capture the cultural relevance of BuzzFeed to the media landscape of the mid-2010s, and the excitement...
Publisher Michael Denneny, A Central Figure In Gay Literature, Has Died At 80
His Stonewall Inn Editions was the first gay imprint at a major publisher (St. Martin's Press), where "(he) released canonical titles by ... Larry...
Congress Considers “Tax Fairness” For Performing Artists
Experts estimate that arts workers spend between 20 and 30 percent of their income on necessary work-related expenses, including headshots and management fees. If...
Streaming Studios Find That A Theatrical Release Is Great Marketing
"Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes. … (Yet) companies like...
How Does Art Resonate? And Why?
I am partial to having opinions myself, provided they are carefully justified, and I am not convinced that verdicts are always artifacts of incuriosity:...
The San Francisco Ballet Company That’s Really Putting Gender Equity Into Practice
Smuin Contemporary Ballet may be named after a male (its founder, who died in 2007), but it now has women as artistic director, associate...
How Do Actors Find Places To Live When They’re On Gigs Away From Home?
"The ease of the task depends on where they are on the call sheet. Big names get the red carpet treatment. … Somewhat lesser...
French Publishing Exec Arrested And Interrogated On His Politics While Traveling To London Book...
"Ernest Moret, a French foreign rights manager with Editions La Fabrique was stopped as he attempted to enter the UK at St. Pancras train...
Lee Strasberg Institute Sued By Former Student Alleging Sexual Assault
"A former student alleges that then–artistic director Mitchell Nestor 'raped and sexually assaulted' her in the early 1970s. The lawsuit … names the school...
Prosecutors Drop Manslaughter Charges Against Alec Baldwin In “Rust” On-Set Shooting
After making several previous missteps, prosecutors in New Mexico decided to withdraw the involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor upon the discovery of new...
Amid US-China Tensions, New York Philharmonic Will Tour To Hong Kong And Taiwan
"The New York Philharmonic, saying it hoped to use culture to help ease political tensions, announced plans on Thursday for a summer tour in...
BuzzFeed News Is Being Shut Down
"Going forward, BuzzFeed will concentrate its news efforts in a single profitable news organization — HuffPost, which it acquired from Verizon in 2020, per...
Oh, Oh: AI-Created Song Featuring Artists We Know Just Became Popular.
This “ghostwriter” is essentially taking the likeness of two artists and creating a song they had nothing to do with. It’s particularly an issue...
New Museum Of Shakespeare To Open In London
It will focus on the culture of London in the 16th Century and the life and inspirations of the famous playwright. - BBC
Egyptians Protest Netflix’s Black Cleopatra
An Egyptian lawyer has reportedly filed a complaint demanding that legal measures are taken to block Netflix outright in Egypt, to prevent the show...
Public Libraries Have Become Battlegrounds
Public libraries—once as popular with libertarian autodidacts as leftists—have become targets of the Republican Party. Local-library systems, and local librarians, are being vilified nationwide...
An AI-Generated “Photograph” Just Won An International Photography Competition. Question: What’s A Photograph Now?
Beyond the rights and wrongs of the images themselves, we should be asking if it is fair that photographers might find themselves losing out...
George Will: Lessons From Declines In College Enrollments
There are powerful, immediate financial incentives to study, say, computer science rather than Victorian literature, but economic incentives only partially explain today’s flight from...
Our Brains Aren’t Just Gray Matter, They’re White Matter, Too — And Its Shape...
"A host of researchers (is) probing subtle differences in white matter to better understand ... its role in making us who we are —...
Roundabout Theatre Leader Todd Haimes, 66
As the artistic director and chief executive officer at Roundabout, Mr. Haimes had an extraordinarily long and effective tenure. He led the organization for...
