Even Marvel Can’t Save Movie Theatres
But they can be saved, with some creative planning. "Theaters balance the immersive spectacle of art and technology with the emotional network of a...
Filmmaker And Screenwriter Paul Haggis Ordered To Pay Millions In Rape Case
Haggis was ordered to pay $7.5 in damages and may end up owing more in punitive damages related to the 2013 sexual assault. Five...
Country Music Continues To Be All About Looking Backward, In Music And In Attitudes
"It’s all compounded by the fact that country music, like all genres, is struggling to adapt to the future of streaming, confronting a touring...
A New Era In Arts Activism
This shift in activism reflects a new generation of players whose futures, and those of their sports, are dependent upon climate mitigation. - ArtsHub
How Three Seattle Arts Groups Are Coping Post-PPP Money
A lack of PPP funding has left a large hole in their revenue, but 2022 ticket sales or enrollment numbers generally still aren’t what...
Inflation, Changing Audience Behavior Are Muting A Broadway Rebound
Amid the spate of new shows, producers are facing higher costs due to inflation and extra understudies, as well as the added stressors of...
Man Repatriates Artifacts After Reading Newspaper Story
John Gomperts, who lives in Washington, realised that the ancient pieces worth up to £80,000 – including two seventh- and eighth-century BC Cypriot vases...
SFMoMA’s New Director Lays Out A New Direction For The Museum
Now after nearly six months in charge, Bedford is beginning to lay out his vision for SFMOMA and announcing his first initiatives as director....
Wow This Is Hard: How To Get Comfortable With Ambiguity
In this classical view of the world, all fundamental entities are either one or the other. To my undergraduate brain, this simply made sense....
“Symphony Of Sirens”: The Mammoth, Raucous 1922 Concert That Would Have Made The Italian...
Arseny Avraamov's work, written and performed in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan for the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution, "included the entire Caspian flotilla, cannons,...
An English National Ballet Dancer On The Clarifying Impacts Of The COVID Shutdowns
Prescious Adams credits the time spent training in lockdown with giving her technique more clarity – “I think of my body as this geometrical...
The Plays Of Henrik Ibsen, Where Women, Philosophy, And Theater Intertwine
"The male philosophers in Ibsen's plays do not fare well. In fact, they are a bunch of ramshackle figures – either adding sheer comedy...
New York’s New Wage Transparency Law Exposes Art’s Low Wages
In some cases, the new law has served to expose just how meager some salaries in the cultural sectors remain. As museum workforces across...
Philadelphia’s Merriam Theater Was, Well, Problematic. As The Miller Theater, It’s Getting Fixed
Well, partially fixed: even the planned $30 million renovation can't address all the issues from decades of deferred maintenance. But leaks will be fixed,...
Paul Allen Art Sale Exceeds $1.6 Billion
Spanning 500 years of art history, art from Allen's collection was offered on Wednesday and Thursday, with all proceeds going to philanthropic causes. Christie's...
Julie Kent Has Made A Huge Difference For The Washington Ballet
"When Kent arrived in Washington, she brought a radiant star power that was undeniable. ... While praise for Kent is uniform in the dance...
The Complicated Seattle Arts Legacy Of Billionaire Paul Allen
When Allen was alive, critics categorized his funding, at times, as based on whims. Some local artists and nonprofits still have flashbacks from 2014,...
Watching The Decline Of Social Media
"Mark Zuckerberg's empire has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and laid off 11,000 people. ... Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter has...
The Reason Deaf People Were Historically Excluded Wasn’t That They Couldn’t Hear
"Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of deaf exclusion throughout history. People who were born deaf, or were deafened before they...
California Voters Approve Major Arts Education Ballot Initiative
"With the overwhelming approval of Proposition 28, California will now lead the nation in funding for the arts in every classroom. ... The passage...
Jury Finds Filmmaker Paul Haggis Liable For A Rape In 2013
"The jury deliberated for nearly six hours and the unanimous panel of four men and two women awarded the plaintiff, Haleigh Breest, $7.5 million...
HarperCollins Workers Are Officially On Strike
"Some 250 copy editors, marketing assistants and other employees at HarperCollins Publishers went on strike Thursday, with the two sides differing over wages and...
Museum Directors Warn Climate-Protesting Art Vandals: The Art Is Much More Fragile Than You...
"Climate activists targeting masterpieces around the world are not fully aware of how delicate the artworks are, the directors of almost 100 galleries have...
Now The Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Are Coming After Classical Music
At the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam last week, members of the activist group Extinction Rebellion interrupted Verdi's Requiem, shouting "We are in the middle of...
UK Culture Funding Cuts: Leveling Up? It Might Have The Opposite Result
New Prime Minister Rishi Sunak inherits the nation’s shrunken, crumbling pie, desperately searching for easy bits to scrape off. And the arts—international and outward-looking,...
