An Agreement On The Parthenon Marbles?
“I would just say that we are, without changing … our fundamental position about the ownership of the sculptures, we’re trying to explore a...
The New York Times Tries Out “Enhanced Bylines”
"Stories online will no longer include a traditional dateline that tells where a story was reported from. Instead, certain stories will have 'enhanced bylines'...
TikTok Creators Sue Montana Over Its Ban Of The App
"Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana's first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an...
COVID Cost California’s Performing Arts Sector Ten Years’ Worth Of Job Growth
"California's performing arts sector lost a decade's worth of jobs within a two-year period, with 2021 employment dropping to 2010 levels, according to a...
Spoleto Festival USA Tries Out A Pay-What-You-Will Ticket Program
"An anonymous donation this year made affordable rates for a quarter of the festival's shows possible, (subsidizing) about 1,300 tickets, valued at about $50,000....
Amid Italy’s Catastrophic Floods, Museums Close, And One Becomes An Emergency Shelter
It's still too early to assess damage to museums and heritage sites in Emilia-Romagna, where 13 people have died and 10,000 are displaced amid...
Salman Rushdie Makes First In-Person Appearance Since Attempted Murder
"Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event's...
Of Racism, Music And Musicology
John McWhorter on musicologist Philp Ewell's new book: "The assumption, then, is that the “whiteness” or “maleness” of any given proposition must automatically be...
Canada Sets New Canadian Content Rules For Streaming Music
Before C-11, online broadcasters were under no obligation to stream any Canadian content. In essence, Bill C-11 looks to put streaming and other Internet...
The English National Opera Does Eurovision
This all feels like ENO letting off some steam. For an hour on a Tuesday afternoon in May, a group of musicians, blissfully under-rehearsed...
From Global Star To… What Happened To Valery Gergiev
Sources close to him report that Gergiev—who, before the war, would drop by the theater three or four times a month—now spends most of...
Survey: Audiences Uncertain About Using AI For Movie/TV Scripts
According to the survey, consumers remain uncertain about how they feel about the use of AI in the entertainment industry, but they’re also open...
Why Buzzfeed And Vice Fail And The NYT Is Thriving
Reversals of fortune are nothing unusual in the news business. But in the last few weeks it’s been gobsmacking to see Vice facing bankruptcy and BuzzFeed shuttering its...
Immersive Theater Meets Mexican Masked Wrestling
Aa a joint project of the La Jolla Playhouse and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, designer David Israel Reynoso and theater company...
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Understanding Iceland’s Musical DNA
There's a very small population in Iceland, and people tend to do everything. You might be playing in the symphony orchestra in the morning, in...
Culture Is Now Utterly Boring, Argues William Deresiewicz, And It’s Because Of Far More...
"Decent we have, sometimes even good: well-made, professional. But wild, indelible, commanding us without appeal to change our lives? I don't think we even...
LACMA Has Become A Contemporary Art Museum
How lopsided has the program been? Of the 11 shows on view at the museum last year, just two centered on historical art. The...
As The Hollywood Writers’ Strike Continues, Writer-Directors Are In A Bind
Directors Guild members are bound by the customary no-strike clause while their contract term lasts, and they're supposed to make necessary minor script changes...
The Case For Making Art In A World Undergoing Transformation
Making joyful art while the world burns is a necessity, especially when that joy comes through deep questioning. My neighbors don’t care that my...
Sam Zell, The “Grave Dancer” Mogul Who Nearly Destroyed Great Newspapers, Is Dead At...
While he got that nickname for making his fortune by buying distressed real estate cheap, he earned his greatest notoriety for his leveraged buyout...
US Supreme Court Rules Against Warhol In Copyright Case
The case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, No. 21-869, concerned the limits of the fair-use defense, which allows copying that...
A Setting Of The Orthodox Liturgy, Kept Hidden For A Century, Is Heard In...
Konstantin Shvedov composed his setting of the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom in 1913. It was kept secret through the Soviet years until Irina...
After A 15-Month Struggle, The Topless Dancers Of North Hollywood Have Finally Unionized
"Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar," Star Garden, "will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the...
Europol’s Most Recent Operation Pandora Raids Recovered 11,000 Stolen Artworks And Artifacts
"Pandora VII, which resulted in crackdowns across 14 European countries and was led by Spanish authorities, involved checks across airports, ports, border crossings, auction...
Penguin Random House And PEN America Sue Florida Over Book Bans
"PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a group of parents have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district...
