Netflix Backs Out Of Offer For Warner; Paramount Wins
Netflix said that it would not raise its offer to counter a higher bid made earlier this week by Mr. Ellison’s company, Paramount Skydance,...
BBC Radio 3 Fires Norman Lebrecht Over Email To Yuja Wang
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on...
Cappella Romana Founder Alexander Lingas Steps Down After 35 Years
In the decades since its founding concerts, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the premier exponent and explorer of the...
How Awards Have Defined The Canadian Music Industry
National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part of a cultural system that help define who belongs, who succeeds and what counts as “Canadian” in...
35 Rembrandt Etchings Rediscovered After A Century In A Safe
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s...
A Rebirth In Critic-ing?
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of...
Cellist Steven Isserlis On Composer György Kurtág, Now Aged 100
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical...
LA’s New Golden Age Of Museums
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts,...
London’s Globe Theatre Launches “Environmental Playwright” Prize
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it...
Study: Gen Z’s View Of Masculinity Is Changing
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and...
A Reporter Starts A “Book Club” For Newspaper Articles
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its...
The Existential Challenges Facing Disney’s New CEO
There’s a phrase that’s used around the Magic Kingdom to describe this phenomenon: “the Josh Effect.” D’Amaro — tall, slender and silver-haired — has a politician’s ability to make anyone he encounters feel...
The Qualities Of Ethics Required For Good Government
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder...
Did This LA Arts Icon Personally Profit From Foundation Grants?
They allege Judy Baca personally benefited from a $5-million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to expand “The Great Wall,” sold the project’s archives to the...
Should Young Girls Really Have To Wear Makeup For Dance Class? Or Even Competitions?
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. …...
Misty Copeland Recovering From Hip Replacement Surgery
“A few months ago, I stepped off the stage after my final bow with @abtofficial, closing one chapter and unknowingly preparing for the next,”...
Why Daniel Radcliffe Is Doing An Audience-Participation Play — Gladly, No Less — On...
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting...
Podcasts Have Now Have More Listeners In The U.S. Than Talk Radio
“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of...
Ann Godoff, Founder Of Penguin Press And Legendary Editor, Has Died At 76
After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher, she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she...
Nova Scotia’s Arts Sector Hit Hard By “Unprecedented” Provincial Budget Cuts
“Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs...
As The Bidding War For It Began, Warner Bros. Discovery Lost A Quarter-Billion Dollars
In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was...
Paris’s Other Wildly Popular Museum, The Musée d’Orsay, Also Has A New Director
The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais....
Refresher: What To Know About The Louvre As It Changes Directors And Navigates Crises
Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which...
Is This, Scientifically, The Best Way To Learn A New Language?
A correspondent tries a method designed by professors of cognition to mirror language-learning in the real world. The tasks basically simulate how we would...
How One Dance Spread An Indigenous Movement Across The American West
On New Year’s Day 1889, a young Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision in which God taught him a ceremony. The Ghost Dance...
