Superstar Concert Ticket Prices Soar, Pricing Out Many
“Even with the inflated prices, I’m still going to go to gigs because music is what I live for. But working-class people are getting...
Tracking Broadway’s Uneven Reopening: Winners And Losers
The quick upshot: While the formerly $15 billion industry was still recovering, many shows made up much, if not all, lost momentum. But the...
Spotify’s Real Problem: Unrealistic Ambition
What’s become increasingly clear in recent weeks is that the source of Spotify’s headaches isn’t Rogan. It is Spotify’s own corporate ambition to dominate...
US Treasury Department Warns Of Money Laundering Through Fine Art
The treasury department did find evidence of money laundering in the high-value art market. A common theme is that criminals use shell companies to...
Cellist Leslie Parnas, 90
From the mid-1950s to the early 1960s, Parnas was the principal cellist of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. He went on to be a prizewinner...
Here’s How China’s Influence On American Culture Works
“Red Dawn” would become a case study observed by every producer in Hollywood who needed this market to make a profit. And soon, it...
Is Hollywood Rethinking The Romantic Gender Age Gap?
“Men on screen have a whole life, and women only have a shelf life,” says Nicky Clark, the founder of campaign group Acting Your...
Perhaps We Need A True Oscars Villain To Know Movies Can Come Back From...
The true way to unite a culture is to give the Best Picture nod to something like Crash. (Please do not, though. Please.) -...
Henry Darger’s Landlords Inherited The Rights To His Art, But Should They Have?
Good question, though without the landlords' advocacy, the world might never have heard of the artist and his work. "Now distant relatives of Darger...
How Physics Shape Opera, And The Rest Of Reality
It's all about resonance. "A system’s natural frequencies depend on its intrinsic properties: For a flute, for instance, they are the frequencies of sound...
It’s Possible That On Tuesday, The Oscars Will Nominate No One New For The...
The trend is weirdly strong: "If you read the tea leaves put forth by the nominations for the DGA and SAG, there’s a strong...
Artist Damien Hirst Faces His 16th Accusation Of Plagiarism
Can one plagiarize a painting of cherry blossoms? Perhaps. "English artist and writer Joe Machine ... says they look just like his own cherry...
Why Are People Upset About The Sudden Demolition Of This 1945 House?
The Marcel Breuer-designed Geller House "embodied the optimistic, now-vanished values of postwar suburbia: technological progress and a lifestyle built around children’s needs." - The...
Along With COVID Disinformation, Turns Out Joe Rogan Was Peddling The N-Word An Awful...
Spotify has removed 70 episodes wherein Rogan used the N-word, but none of the episodes removed were related to the protest over Rogan's habit...
A Harvard Student Has Created An Entire Musical For A Korean Disney Princess
Julia Riew's senior thesis at Harvard is "complete with script, screenplay, and more than 15 original songs. Her Disney-inspired work tells the story of...
One Way Singapore’s Theatre Actors Have Kept Busy During The Pandemic
Would you believe that interactive Zoom mystery theatre is a thing? Actor Bright Ong says, "The tectonic plates under have shifted, and the...
The New Trend In Indie Movies Is Female Silver Foxes
But whew, the discourse. For instance, Emma Thompson isn't "brave" for acting in sex scenes; she’s "an actress who’s still at the top of...
Virginia Woolf Was Many Things, But She Was Not A Great Cook
In To the Lighthouse, "these dishes are described with great fanfare but, as any competent home cook will know, beef stews are neither challenging...
Yiddish Scholars Are Helping Rescue Immigrant Women’s Fiction From Obscurity
For decades, the early 20th century fiction written by Yiddish women was "dismissed by publishers as insignificant or unmarketable to a wider audience." Luckily,...
Why Are So Many Artists Placing Sculptures On The Ocean Floor?
It's climate change, dummy: "Activist artists are working to get humanity to change course before it’s too late. They are sculpting major artworks that...
The Rise Of The Literary Thrill-Seeking Complex
"New narrative booms. Its dissociative forms and themes — the anxiety/bliss of romance/sex, psychic roleplay, identity-in-ideology, dream states, trauma, more sex — now serve...
What To Do On Broadway When Your Leads And Nearly A Third Of The...
As Music Man showed, you shut down for days; keep paying everyone; and hire great swings. "We had swings covering seven roles and trying...
Composer George Crumb, 92
While rejecting the sometimes arid 12-tone technique of Modernists, Mr. Crumb beguiled audiences with his own musical language, composing colorful and concise works that...
What Could Possibly Account For The Popularity Of The Mediocre Movie Encanto And Its...
The Disney movie and its soundtrack, by Lin-Manuel Miranda, sit at the center of several global changes in media and music power. - The...
No One Cares About The Oscars, Except When They Very Much Do
The Oscars maintain a "strange aura ... as a gold standard of cinematic achievement: For several months a year, people fret and discuss and...
