What America Listens To: Mostly Oldies (Is That A Problem?)
According to MRC Data, old songs now represent 70% of the US music market. Those who make a living from new music—especially that endangered species...
Dutch Theaters, Concert Halls, And Museums Offered Haircuts And Workouts Because That Was The...
Following a full lockdown over Christmas, salons, gyms, and brothels were allowed to reopen this week while arts venues had to remain shuttered. So...
LA Review of Books Founder Talks About The Challenges Of Running A Literary Publication
We had to learn to insert ourselves into social media conversations, and that will continue to be a series of moving goalposts. Facebook, for...
England Ends Mandatory Protective Rules Introduced After Omicron — And Performing Arts Folks Are...
COVID passes will no longer be required to attend performances, and while many venues will continue to ask patrons to remain masked, that will...
Documenting The Shrinking Of Seattle’s Arts Organizations
It shows the arts-and-culture nonprofit community shrinking almost in real time. - Seattle Times
What’s The Optimum Length For A Radio Ad? This Study Says …
"Ads that ran for 30 seconds outperformed others on most key performance indicators such as engagement, brand effect, and recall, and were also heard...
Jon Stewart Awarded The Mark Twain Prize For American Humor
He'll receive the honor (the first since COVID arrived) at the traditional Kennedy Center tribute, this year on April 24 — joining a comic...
Faith Ringgold’s First Public Art Commission Will Be Moved From Riker’s Island To The...
She painted the mural For The Women's House at the women's wing of the New York City prison complex back in 1971. She visited...
Philadelphia Orchestra Set For Its First Tour Since The Pandemic Began
"It will be a short sojourn, with the ensemble playing a total of four concerts in Iowa City, Iowa; Stillwater, Oklahoma; and Ann Arbor,...
YouTube To Cut Way Back On Its Plans For Original Programming
An executive announced that the platform will only go forward with programs that have already been contracted through the Black Voices and YouTube Kids...
New York State’s New Governor Wants To Expand COVID Tax Credit For Commercial Theater
"(Kathy) Hochul on Tuesday proposed budgeting $200 million for the New York City Musical and Theatrical Production Tax Credit, which provides up to $3...
Right After His First Post-Lockdown Concerts, Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s Music Director Announces Departure
Josep Caballé Domenech, who succeeded Lawrence Leighton Smith in 2011, said that he'll step down after next season (May 2023), when his current contract...
Music Streaming Subscriptions Grew Spectacularly In 2021
Worldwide streaming subscriptions grew by a healthy 26.4% in the second quarter of 2021, standing at 521.3 million subscribers at the end of that...
How A Small British Columbia Community Theatre Erupted In Controversy
So how did a quaint, 175-seat theatre at the end of a quiet, dead-end street in the Rockland area find itself at the centre...
Why The Art World Needs To Do More About Climate Change
It’s not just that we could use more art and exhibitions about climate change. The art world and its institutions need to lead the...
Report: Americans Are Reading Fewer Books
“US adults are reading roughly two or three fewer books per year than they did between 2001 and 2016,” according to the report. -...
King Of Clowns (But Geez Is He Tough)
Phillippe Gaulier has been teaching clowns for about half a century, but his stature has grown in recent years, becoming an influential and divisive...
There’s Been An Explosion in “Public” Philosophy
There are, of course, books on philosophy, but also numerous popular live events, courses, podcasts, television and radio programmes, and newspaper columns. Philosophy today...
How Joss Whedon Went From Television Deity And Feminist Hero To Pariah
It's a long tale, and not a simple one, but it makes sense — even, in some ways (but not others), to Whedon himself....
How Writers Create Fictional Maps For Their Narratives
As different novelistic styles, genres and methods of production have risen to prominence, they have enabled their own particular way of creating fictional terrain....
French Actor Gaspard Ulliel Dead At 37 Following Ski Accident
Best known in the anglophone world for the title roles in Hannibal Rising and Saint-Laurent, and one of the stars of the upcoming Marvel...
Why I Left The CBC
Those of us on the inside know just how swiftly — and how dramatically — the politics of the public broadcaster have shifted." -...
Molière Is Refused Reburial In The Panthéon, And Une Grande Querelle Breaks Out
Actor-director Francis Huster has campaigned for years for the "father of the French language" to be admitted to the ranks of les immortels. Yet...
How The Ratings Hit “Yellowstone” Is Bucking Cultural Trends
Streaming was supposed to be the great equalizer, for either access to content or its segmentation into competitive platforms warring for their niche and...
Venice Tries The Tulsa Tactic: Luring Remote Tech Workers To Live There
The project, called Venywhere, aims "to convince people who can do their jobs from anywhere to do so in Venice — and its founders...
