Her Uncle Writes Plays, And She Turns Them Into Operas
Composer Emma O'Halloran had had her Uncle Mark adapt two of his scripts, Mary Motorhead and Trade, into librettos to which she's written one-act...
How Americans Lost Confidence In Journalism
When ratings drop, and with them advertising revenues, correspondents change, anchors change, coverage changes. News, especially but not only cable news, is curated for...
As A Black Man Running The Pasadena Playhouse For 20 Years, George Epps Has...
"There were years when it was me shouting into the wind and nobody was really listening. There are more voices now. They've been voices...
Translating Franz Kafka’s Diaries Was A Total Head Trip
"(I was) groping and straining to make sense of Kafka's groping and straining to make sense. Not only could I not always — or...
“Enshittification” — How TikTok Is, Inevitably, Ruining Itself (And Us)
Cory Doctorow: "Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for...
It Would Have Been America’s Biggest Solar Farm. It Was Killed For The Sake...
The 14-square mile project was to be on Federal land in eastern Nevada — on the way to Michael Heizer's 1970 work Double Negative,...
A Statue Of A Roman Emperor Pretending To Be Hercules Is Discovered In A...
"The marble sculpture, showing a Hercules-like figure with the hero's trademark lion skin and club, was unearthed on Jan. 25 (in) the Appian Way...
Brexit Has Cost The Arts In Britain $200 Million In Funding
"Work by the UK Trade and Business Commission found that ... had Brexit never happened, the UK's creative industries would have received an additional...
Chicago Budgets $11 Million In New Arts Funding
"Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events on Thursday announced $11 million in grants for nonprofit arts organizations,...
Facial Recognition Is Here To Stay At Entertainment Venues
Whereas Madison Square Garden is using face recognition to deny entry to people previously expelled from the venue—and certain lawyers—many stadium and entertainment center...
Museums Begin To Rethink Their Expensive Climate Control Practices
A growing awareness of the impact of those systems on the climate has led a number of major institutions to rethink their most fundamental...
Tracking Study: Women Still Remain Under-represented In The Music Industry
The Southern California Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report reveals that while the amount of women represented in Billboard’s year-end Hot 100 chart jumped 28.7% last...
Colleen Hoover Sold Tons Of Books. Then She Published A Coloring Book And It...
It Ends With Us is a book about domestic violence. Hoover detractors who say she romanticizes abuse had a new weapon in their arsenal: How...
How Wikipedia Distorts Indigenous History
Generally, U.S. history pages follow one strict interpretation of history written in the 1960s and ’70s, and most editors treat these matters as settled....
The People Who Have Been Marking Dickens’ Birthday Every Year Since 1905
The Toronto branch of the Dickens Fellowship, a group of dedicated Charles Dickens fans who have celebrated the birthday of the Immortal Boz annually...
You Know What Led To Impressionism? Smog, That’s What.
"While this monumental shift has long been attributed to shifting stylistic preferences, a new study ... argues that it was also due to a...
Why We’re Fascinated By Unbuilt Buildings
Sometimes buildings are designed as a way to create prototypes and visionary schemes for the future – architects allowing their creativity to be unbounded...
Meet The Hottest Talents In Dance Who Don’t Go Onstage
"A lot of people work behind the scenes to put dance on stage. Here are some of the current talents, new and established, who...
Are The Language Wars Alienating Rather Than Including?
The flap over the French underscores the ongoing project to revise terminology in ways that are meant to be more inclusive — but which...
Hollywood Glommed Onto Documentaries. That’s A Problem — Several Problems, Actually.
"All this has left the documentary world suffering an identity crisis. What even is a documentary anymore? There is more money than ever, but...
ChatGPT Reaches 100 Million Users – Fastest-Growing Digital Service In History
The report, citing data from analytics firm Similarweb, said an average of about 13 million unique visitors had used ChatGPT per day in January,...
Germany’s “All Quiet On The Western Front” Has Nine Oscar Nominations. The Germans Hate...
"They're right. They're right to take issue with the mangling of Remarque's timeless narrative into what is essentially a grisly picaresque, a high-budget Black...
Study: Public Radio’s Important Role In Local News
“Strengthening local public radio stations is a democratic imperative. With additional funding, public radio has the capacity to fill much of the gap in...
Lost Play By “The Spanish Shakespeare” Identified By AI
"Artificial intelligence technology used to transcribe anonymous historic works at Spain's National Library has uncovered a hidden gem — a previously unknown play by...
Russian Culture Ministry Orders Tretyakov Gallery To Conform To “Spiritual And Moral Values”
"The Russian Ministry of Culture reportedly sent a letter to Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery demanding that it change its exhibits to be in line with...
