Well, The Super Bowl “Volunteer” Halftime Dancers Won’t Be Working For Free This Year...
"Four hundred volunteers working for up to 72 hours as 'field cast participants' during this weekend's Super Bowl LVI halftime show will be paid...
Did This Year’s Oscar Nominations Show The Usual Art-Versus-Popularity Divide? It’s Not That Simple...
"The definition of success (is) more slippery than ever. Gone are the days when box office is the only metric; streamers calculate their investments...
Maybe Ridicule Works: The Original Ending Of “Fight Club” Has Been Restored For Streaming...
The Chinese streaming giant Tencent had — to much criticism and mockery — removed the final scene, in which buildings explode as an anarchist...
The Kirov Academy Ballet School Is Closing (Note: This Is Not In Russia)
Don't panic: this school isn't connected with the St. Petersburg company now known as the Mariinsky, although its first directors came from there and...
Why Some Of Us Seek Out Painful Experiences
Under the right circumstances and in the right doses, physical pain and emotional pain, difficulty and failure and loss, are exactly what we are...
Restitution Of Cultural Artifacts Is Gaining Momentum
International co-operation and resolve is growing firmer, as seen most recently in December, when Greece’s resolution, “Return or restitution of cultural property to the...
NBC Uses Olympics To Test New Way Of Measuring Audience
To boost its efforts to offer an alternate means of counting the video-watching masses, NBCU is working with more than 30 different advertisers to...
Unesco: A Worldwide Cultural Crisis Because Of The Pandemic – 10 Million Culture Jobs...
“What was already a precarious situation for many artists has become unsustainable, threatening creative diversity.” - The Guardian
Why Joe Rogan Matters
He channels his audience into extended conversations with famously smart people who are willing to give them hours of attention. Through him, they feel...
Why It’s Important To Listen To Old Recordings
Today, of course, technical perfection is an overriding concern. But there are other aspects of performance practice today, some of which are wonderful but...
Oh, Great — Even More Damage To What’s Left Of The Bamiyan Buddhas
The new Taliban governor of Bamiyan province somehow heard a rumor that there's buried treasure under what used to be the large 6th-century statues...
That Line Between Work And Play
Adults taking hobbies too seriously can be a pathetic spectacle, but it is also a staple of comedy. - 3 Quarks Daily
21st-Century London Is Developing A New Dialect Of English
Linguists have dubbed it Multicultural London English (MLE); it has developed organically among young people in a city where hundreds of languages are spoken,...
What Makes The Architecture Of LA’s New Stadium (and Home Of This Week’s Superbowl)...
“Thinking about the Getty Villa, the Getty , Dodger Stadium, the cliffs in Malibu or Laguna,” shaped the way the team thought about...
The Most Dancerly Skater At The 2022 Winter Olympics
Jason Brown, a 27-year-old American, probably won't get an individual medal at these games because he doesn't have a consistent quadruple jump. Yet, writes...
Why Netflix Is Going To Fail
Netflix’s proprietary approach— based on sole control of intellectual property and intense hostility to all other players—is destined for long term failure. - Ted...
One Of The Most Recorded Singers In History Has Died Of COVID At Age...
No voice was so completely associated with the music of Bollywood movies as that of Lata Mangeshkar: she sang on the soundtracks of more...
Inside The Brutal World Of Testing Video Games
QA testing doesn’t involve leisurely trying out different video games, but is instead an intense and often tedious process of making sure that every...
Did COVID-19 Change American Opera? It Was Changing Already.
"For years now, opera has been in a sort of cocoon-like transition period as it explores new works and ways to move beyond its...
For The First Time, The RSC Casts A Disabled Actor As Richard III
Playing the last Plantagenet king will be Arthur Hughes, 30 years old and born with radial dysplasia. (He identifies as "limb-different".) The production opens...
Archaeologists Discovered An 800-Year-Old Imperial Palace Where One Of The Winter Olympic Villages Was...
The site — at Zhangjiakou, where most of the skiing and snowboarding events are being held — is believed to be the Taihe Palace,...
A New Guaranteed-Income-For-Artists Program In New York State
"Spearheaded by the Mellon Foundation, ... the $125 million initiative, Creatives Rebuild New York, will issue monthly, no-strings-attached payments to up to 2,400 artists...
Right-Wing Platform Offers Joe Rogan $100 Million To Leave Spotify And “Save The World”
"The CEO of the Canadian video-sharing platform Rumble (tweeted) … 'How about you bring all your shows to Rumble, both new and old, with...
The Picasso “Guernica” Tapestry Was Taken From The UN Last Year. Now It’s Back.
Last year, to the surprise of many (including the Secretary General), the tapestry's owner, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., had it taken from its place...
Thomas Dausgaard Is Out Of Another Job, And BBC Scottish Symphony Has A New...
The recently-departed music director of the Seattle Symphony hasn't been to Glasgow to conduct his other orchestra for nearly two years, and his contract...
