Philadelphia Folk Festival Cancels This Year’s Edition, Says It’s Broke
"The Philadelphia Folksong Society is teetering on bankruptcy and won't put on its annual festival this summer for the first time in more than...
Nezet-Seguin Talks About His Next Chapter
Now in his 11th season as music director, he’s hired 23 new musicians and commissioned 37 works, including from composers of different cultures, backgrounds,...
Canada’s CBC Is Heading To A Digital-First Future, Says Its President
“If we’re going to be audience first we have to be digital first. We get up every day and say, ‘What do our audiences...
New Numbers: North America Is No Longer Netflix’s Biggest Market
Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) quietly became the streamer’s biggest region in terms of subscribers, overtaking the combined user figure for the...
New Research: Vermeer’s Major Patron Was A Woman
The identity of Vermeer’s patron is of vital importance, since they purchased half of the artist’s entire oeuvre, at least 20 paintings. Equally significantly,...
Disney Will Reduce Spending On “Content” By $3 Billion
Disney still expects its content spending to remain “in the low $30 billion range” for fiscal 2023. - The Hollywood Reporter
The New Zealand Government Just Boosted Its Culture Funding. So How Will It Be...
While this Ministry of Culture and Heritage announcement is money already in the kitty for the sector’s from the COVID recovery fund rather...
Why There’s Such A Fuss Over Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nomination: An Explainer
"(She) managed a surprise best-actress nomination last month that quickly turned from boon to boondoggle. It's the story everyone in Hollywood is talking about,...
We’re Learning Lots About How Brains Work. Here Are Three Misconceptions
From the myth that humans only use 10 percent of their brain to the idea that creativity and logic is a "right-brained" versus "left-brained" issue, there are many...
Righteous Anger, Rightly Directed: Edouard Louis’s Books About Working-Class Poverty And Pain
"Louis's depiction of poverty is more radical in its honesty. Deprivation doesn't just cause pain and hunger; it also fosters hostility. Circumstances warp behavior....
Is It Time To Rethink The Idea Of States In America? (Do Mega-Cities Make...
The modern U.S. economy is really made up of metropolitan regions, not states whose boundaries are arbitrary compared to local economies. A 2009 study...
How American Not-For-Profit Theatres Fared In 2021: A Look At The Numbers
"Sharp reductions in expenses coupled with large growth in government contributions and investments kept theatres afloat. ... As audiences return to live performances, theatres...
America’s Theatres Are Struggling After COVID
"The key question is, what are the things that are being done in order to emerge from the pandemic in a sustainable way?" said...
Confessions Of A Metropolitan Museum Guard
"I was attracted by this idea of doing something straightforward and honest and useful, like keeping people's hands off of some of the most...
Why Can’t We Get Certain Songs Out Of Our Heads?
I’ve got my Pods in and, for reasons I can’t explain but that they may one day understand, I am compelled to listen to...
Why Harry Styles’s Dancers At The Grammys Had To Rework Their Choreography Live On...
The song was performed on a giant rotating turntable. "After a week of rehearsing this piece perfectly going one way," explained a dancer, "the...
Burt Bacharach Dead At 94
"One of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th century, ... he created songs that became standards in their own right....
Search Engines’ AI Chatbots Could Soon Answer Questions Without Giving Links. What Happens To...
Microsoft is incorporating ChatGPT into Bing, and Google's at work on its own AI bot, called Bard, for its search engine. Organizations are very...
China Has Produced Deepfake News Videos And Released Them On Social Media
The videos, by a purported outlet called Wolf News, "were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance...
Sagrada Família In Barcelona Has A Big Problem Brewing With The Neighbors
Antoni Gaudí's great church has been under construction for over a century. Huge progress has been made in recent decades, and it's time to...
Stop Assaulting The Staff, Says Edinburgh Playhouse Boss To Audiences
"They have been verbally and physically assaulted by a small number of audience members while trying to do their job. Two weeks ago one...
Disney Co. Will Lay Off 7,000 Employees And Restructure
"With CEO Bob Iger back at the helm, the new organizational structure of (the company) is taking shape, with 7,000 layoffs planned. On Wednesday,...
One Of The Gun Charges Against Alec Baldwin Has A Big Legal Problem
"Prosecutors in New Mexico charged Alec Baldwin last week with a gun allegation that was not on the books at the time of the...
How LA’s Shiny New Football Stadium Became A Venue For Art
A representative for SoFi Stadium told Hyperallergic via email that “over 15,000 guests have bought tickets to tour the Collection, but hundreds of thousands...
AI Image Generators Can Offer Some Pretty Creepy Results. But That’s Not The Only...
What stood out to me, even more than the witchy, misshapen fingers, was that the couples were all white. Every single one of them. -...
