Report: How Canadians’ Listening Habits Are Changing
The yearly report shows a clear trend away from radio and physical media, led not surprisingly by younger Canadians. - Ludwig Van
Norman Lear At 100
“I think the big secret is never forgetting to wake up in the morning. It starts with getting out of bed,” Lear says. “But...
US Copyright Office Declines To Target Web Aggregators
The U.S. Copyright office, contrary to the approach taken in Europe, has declined to add an ancillary copyright for publishers to protect them from...
A New Hotel That’s All Broadway
All through the hallways and suites and lounges of the Civilian, a new 27-story, 203-room hotel a block from Times Square, guests can face everything...
Why Is San Francisco Opera Presenting An Opera On The Wrong Side Of History?
The idea that “the unborn” are in any sense people has always been an appalling misrepresentation. Today, in the wake of the recent Supreme...
Netflix Is In Trouble
Dreams of the company building a global base of 700 million or even 800 million paid memberships now seem far-fetched, given the company has stalled out...
Six Months After Firing Its Artistic Director, Toledo Ballet Hires A New One
Eric Otto, who has danced and choreographed at companies throughout the eastern and Midwestern US, begins his term this fall. Much of the Toledo...
The Epic Battle For Control Of A Legendary Music Club
This roadhouse drama has pitted neighbor against neighbor in a remote area where lots are the size of baseball fields and police cars seldom...
The World’s First Graphic Memoir Has Been Found — And It Dates From World...
Until now, the earliest example of the genre was thought to be Will Eisner's 1978 A Contract with God. What's just turned up is...
Hollywood Flocks To Eastern Europe
Attracted to places like Vilnius, where Moscow and Paris collide at a fraction of the cost — and tens of millions of dollars in...
A Visit To Beeple’s New $10 Million Studios
Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike...
The Writers Using AI To Help Them Create
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break...
London’s West End Has Its First New Theatre In 50 Years
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no...
Kaija Saariaho On Life As A Composer
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today,...
Playwright Christopher Durang Diagnosed With Progressive Aphasia
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory...
Why Is Adapting Jane Austen For The Screen So Tricky?
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the...
How Evelyn Glennie’s Brain Works: The Neuroscience Of Deaf People’s Experience Of Music
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in...
Want A Career In Classical Music? You Need To Be Either Rich Or Very,...
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic...
Cal Shakes Director Eric Ting Resigns
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a...
HarperCollins Staffers Stage One-Day Strike, Demanding Less-Appallingly-Low Pay
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages,...
Record Number Of New Cultural Buildings In 2021
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016...
The African Artist Collective Turning Colonialism On Its Head
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a...
What, Actually, Is A Paragraph? Punctuation? Idea?
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as...
How Corporations Became Art Patrons
After 1945 a new form of artistic patronage arose, reflecting the rise of that icon of midcentury capitalism, the American corporation, and creating a...
Chicago Art Institute’s Lions Return After Vacation
The lions were removed for their spa treatment on June 14, having been outside for 128 years, Art Institute objects conservator Rachel Sabino told the...
