“There’s A Financial Cliff Ahead Of Us”: For Performing Arts In L.A., COVID Recovery...
As one director of a presenting venue puts it, "It's like, we're driving straight up (to) the cliff ... but we're swerving and bumping...
Enough Museums Want To Return Looted Benin Bronzes That There’s Now A Backlog
So far, of 56 US institutions surveyed, 16 museums are in the process of returning Benin Court artworks, and five more would do so...
“It Sounds Like A Spy Novel”: How Masha Of Pussy Riot Escaped From Russia
Maria Alyokhina had been under house arrest for months, but when, in April, Putin announced that she was to be sent back to a...
How Many Ukrainian Cultural Sites Have Russian Forces Destroyed In This War?
UNESCO's confirmed count stands at 127, while President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that the number is nearly 200. Much of that destruction was...
European Box Office Still Hasn’t Recovered From COVID-19
Attendance and revenue at movie theaters in the EU and UK are up from 2020 and 2021, yes, but they're still well below half...
After $500 Tickets Made News, Prices For West End’s “Cock” Are Suddenly Down By...
Just a day after incredulity and scorn over £400 ticket prices (double those of Hamilton) hit social media and then news outlets, seats in...
Josh Hawley’s Copyright Law Proposal Is Deeply Unserious
This is not a radical rethinking of copyright. It is regression as a meme, a fart in the wind, an empty and cynical gesture meant...
Of NFTs, Art, And Cynical Branding
Setting aside the fact that this may be one of the most depressing sentences that anyone has ever written about art, if “branding” does...
Ukraine Makes Finals Of The Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine’s folk-rap band Kalush Orchestra has qualified for the final. But the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which organises Eurovision, ruled that no Russian act would be...
Geroge Carlin Is Popular Today — Comedy That Outlives Its Time
Carlin is a venerated figure in his chosen field who unites performers as disparate as Joe Rogan and Jim Gaffigan, but he’s also someone...
How To Recover Post-Great Book
This "post-book blues" thing is a side-effect that doesn't seem to get mentioned much, if at all. It's not an in-person relationship as such,...
The Rise Of Right Wing Comedy (And Why You Should Take It Seriously)
While liberals lost their way doing “Orange Man Bad” comedy during the Trump administration, a new ecosystem emerged of right-wing comedians—on podcasts, YouTube, and, yes,...
Brazilian Town Erects Christ Statue Even Taller Than Rio’s
The figure of Christ the Redeemer that reigns over Rio de Janeiro is 98 feet tall (not including the pedestal or the mountain it...
The Difficulties Of Protecting Cultural Heritage In War
“It’s still a way to erase identity,” said Corine Wegener, on why culture continues to be a major target in contemporary warfare. Some 200...
Making An Opera Out Of “Hamlet” Is A Very Tricky Feat. How Did Brett...
For a start, you have to cut more than three quarters of Shakespeare's four-hour text. And you have to find some way to make...
The Decline And Demise Of Print Magazines
This accelerating erosion has not been big news during a time of pandemic, war and actual erosion, and yet the absence of magazines authoritatively documenting...
“She Became America’s First Starlet”: Edna St. Vincent Millay And The Price Of Youthful...
"During the 1910s and '20s, Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. ... But fame...
Apple Finally Kills The Iconic iPod
The iPod debuted in 2001, and it changed everything. While other devices existed that let you carry around your MP3 collection, the iPod quickly...
Brave Defiance Or Foolhardiness? Ukraine’s Largest Art Museum Is Reinstalling Its Collection
The Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery, like most of its counterparts in Ukraine, hid its collection to protect it from destruction or looting...
Netflix Says Ad-Supported Streaming Will Debut Late This Year
Netflix offers a variety of payment tiers for streaming access; its most popular plan costs $15.49 a month. The new ad-supported tier will cost...
A Tourist Trips, Falls On, And Rips A 17th-Century Painting
An elderly American woman, who may have been feeling ill or may have tripped on the slightly raised platform, landed on Guido Reni's St....
Dancers At An L.A. Strip Club Have Unionized And Are Picketing Their Employer
When two of their colleagues were fired for complaining to management about unsafe working conditions, the dancers at Star Garden in North Hollywood voted...
So What’s Happened To The Troubled Magazine “The Believer”? It’s Been Bought By The...
As an Instagram post by Believer co-founder Ed Park put it, "Not a joke." - The Daily Beast
They’re Going To Put A Zipline And Cable Car Into Old Jerusalem
The plan, first approved by Netanyahu's government and just affirmed by city authorities, will involve a half-mile zipline from a ridge between East and...
To Punish Disney, Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces A Bill To Curtail Copyright
"Hawley's bill would dramatically rewrite U.S. copyright law, shortening the total term available to all copyright holders going forward by several decades. It would...
