Amazon Sues Companies That Created Fake Sites To Get Their Competitors Taken Down
Amazon claims the three groups "were abusing its takedown system by filing thousands of illegitimate copyright complaints against other products in a bid to...
In London, Gilbert And George Open Their Own Museum
"The Gilbert and George Centre, which they have planned for years, is a built representation of their slogan 'art is for all' and designed...
An Elegy For The Twitter Of Yore
"I required a reminder that there were quick and even wise people in the world with ideas, quips, even lectures that would force me...
How Disney May Have Defeated DeSantis’ Attempted Takeover
Wow, OK: "Disney can hold on to power of this land for possibly the next 100 years, if one of King Charles III’s grandchildren lives...
Hold On, Let’s Talk More About This National Portrait Gallery-Getty Joint Buy
The sale hasn't closed, so why all of the PR? To get Britain to pay up. "It’s Britain, after all, not the Getty that...
Italian Court Stops Puzzle-Maker From Reproducing Famous Leonardo
Ravensburger was brought to court by the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, where the real Vitruvian Man lives. The museum claimed that it was owed financial compensation...
Aesthetics As Data (Slave To Measurement?)
Where Quantitative Aesthetics is really newly intense across society—in art and everywhere—is in how social-media numbers (clicks, likes, shares, retweets, etc.) seep into everything as...
Reconceiving “New York, New York” Around Its Dance
Like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse before her, Susan Stroman is a director-choreographer who should really be called a choreographer-director. In this show, “we...
How Atlanta Theatres Are Struggling To Recover
According to the letter, “coupling lower than average attendance with the fact that arts funding is the smallest fraction of philanthropic giving means that...
Robert Falls On American Theatre As He Leaves The Goodman
"I remain optimistic that the theatre has been around for a long time, and it’s going to continue. I just feel that way. There’s...
Please Please: Are We At The End Of Hollywood’s Superhero Obsession?
So far, this year's two superhero releases, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania and Shazam! Fury of the Gods, have underperformed at the box office and received...
How On Earth Did A Spice Cabinet Survive For 500 Years At The Bottom...
It's the cold waters of the Baltic that kept intact the remains of the wrecked Gribshunden, the flagship of King Hans of Denmark and...
Apple’s New Classical Music App: Embracing Idiosyncrasies
Apple has turned classical music’s diversity of metadata into the new app’s raison d’être. And, with so many of what Apple calls “data points”—over 50...
The Gay Cherokee Playwright Who Wrote The Source For Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”
Lynn Riggs rode a cattle train, worked in New York as an extra in cowboy movies and in Hollywood churning out studio screenplays, wrote...
Riccardo Muti Reflects On America As He Completes Chicago Symphony Tenure
"In my life, thanks to Philadelphia and Chicago, I’ve been to Wichita, Des Moines, Ames, Toledo… For me, to make music, it’s not that...
How Poster Design Helped Reshape Japanese Society After World War II
"Curator Erin Schoneveld breaks down five seminal posters from the exhibition (at New York's Poster House Museum) that reveal how art reflects history —...
How AI Could Actually Improve How Students Write
If and when machines can “write essays” that are more deftly organized, more thoroughly researched, and more persuasive than our student’s efforts, then...
Dispelling Some Myths About Hilma af Klint
Julia Voss, author of the first-ever biography of Europe's first abstract artist, talks about the influence which the 19th-century scientific revolution had on the...
Performance Space New York’s Jenny Schlenzka Steps Down
Her most radical initiative was “02020,” a plan to hand over the programming, the keys to the building and the entire annual production budget to...
“Shucked” On Broadway: Why The Preview Grosses Are Low But The Seats Are Sold...
"Lead producer Mike Bosner … and his team enacted the old-school practice of preview pricing: selling tickets for a show's pre-opening period at a...
There Was Some Backsliding In Diversity Last Year, Finds UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report
"As Hollywood emerged from the pandemic, its biggest film productions dipped in diversity after years of incremental progress. … Opportunities were notably greater for...
The BBC Is About To Cut A Lot Of Programming
"The BBC is set to slash its annual output by 1,000 hours worth of shows to cope with savings requirements that have shot up...
Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist And PBS Perennial, Is Dead At 90
"From the waning years of Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration through the presidencies of 10 succeeding chief executives, Mr. Russell poked fun at the foibles...
The Texas Observer Is Saved By An 11th-Hour Crowdfunding Effort
"Three days after voting to cease publication and lay off its journalists, the nonprofit publisher of the Texas Observer said on Wednesday that it...
The “Festival Of Brexit” Actually Met Its Targets — Once Those Targets Were Greatly...
"The final evaluation has found that the Unboxed festival, commissioned by Theresa May in 2018 and named a 'festival of Brexit' by Jacob Rees-Mogg,...
