Our Collapsing Attention And The Difficulty Of Story-Telling
When all time is flattened into the present, narrative form begins to erode. Instant communication collapses tenses into an interminable “now,” and live streams...
How Director Gennadi Nedvigin Has Reshaped Atlanta Ballet
The key is hiring — in particular, hiring dancers proficient in both classical and contemporary techniques, since Nedvigin wants to present top-tier renditions of...
A Stolen Art Expert Talks About The Louvre
The main takeaway, for me, is that museums have a vulnerability—a technical, physical vulnerability—that is mirrored by the vulnerability of the public’s reaction, the...
Inside The Emptying Out Of The Pompidou Centre
It felt like visiting your childhood home stripped of its furniture — intimately familiar yet deeply disorienting. How would Paris get through five years...
How Audiobooks Infiltrated My Reading Habits
Like many audiobook devotees, I’m sheepish about my conversion, which seems blasphemous for a writer at the Book Review. I wonder whether listening “counts” as...
“Imagineer” Eddie Sotto, Who Transformed The Visitor Experience At Disney Theme Parks, Is Dead...
“While Sotto's best-known masterworks are overseas, (such as) the creation of Main Street, U.S.A., for Disneyland Paris …, he had a reputation for fighting...
The Most Influential Theatre Of The Past 25 Years
This is not a “best of” list. What we asked hundreds of theatre folks to do was send us 10 titles they felt had...
Floods Of Music: AI Swamps The Music Market
While the technology quietly reshapes the industry, the first-order effect of AI’s ease of use is simply the existence of more music—a lot more....
Pirate Group Says It Copied All Of Spotify’s Catalog
The world’s largest music streaming service has been scraped by a pirate activist group. According to a blog post from Anna’s Archive, it says it gained...
Rome to Start Charging Visitors To Trevi Fountain
“Starting on 1 February 2026, the Italian capital is introducing €2 tickets for tourists to descend the steps to the area around the water-filled...
American College Theatre Festival Quits The Kennedy Center After 58 Years
The theater festival involves collegiate theater students from across the United States, and includes eight regional competitions that have long culminated in a week-long...
The Case For A National Theatre In The US
In the Abbey’s century-long history as a public institution lies a persuasive story about what a national theater could have done—or still might do—for...
The Psychology Of Fashion
Much of the sculptural, breathtaking artistry of haute couture finds a way to dramatize the friction between the composed selves we offer the world...
More Details About The Mess At The Philadelphia Art Museum
Staffers are feeling cautiously hopeful about new CEO Daniel Weiss. The “cautiously” part would seem to be because of what staffers have been through...
The Met Opera Is Courting Influencers (And The Young People Who Follow Them)
“Newcomers to opera (many are self-described theater enthusiasts), … they share with their followers their delight and surprise at what they have found: the...
New York’s Public Theater Hit By Yet More Layoffs
“A decade after Hamilton opened on Broadway and the Public Theater began reaping roughly $100 million for helping to develop the blockbuster musical, the legendary downtown...
Trump’s First-Term NEA Boss Is Back
“The United States Senate voted to confirm Mary Anne Carter as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. It will be Carter's second...
Major Off-Broadway Theater Is Sued For Discrimination Over Discounts For Ticketbuyers Of Color
According to the lawsuit, Playwrights Horizons promoted the discount with the language ‘For this BIPOC Night performance, we welcome folks who are Black, Indigenous...
Tech Mega-Billionaire Makes Massive Guarantee To Back Up Paramount’s Hostile Bid For Warner Bros.
“On Monday, Skydance-owned Paramount announced that Larry Ellison — the founder of Oracle and father of Paramount CEO David Ellison — had personally agreed...
Kennedy Center Trustee Sues Trump For Renaming Venue
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (D-OH), one of the Congressional representatives on the Center’s board, argues in her court filing that Trump and the trustees who...
What The Arts Could Learn From The Data Revolution In Gambling
Not long ago, many online casino experiences were built around flashy graphics and simple luck-based mechanics. Today, game development has become a sophisticated data-informed...
Death Of The Dictionary?
Like the rest of the analog world, legacy dictionaries have had to adapt or perish. - The New Yorker
Is The Reason Our Culture Seems Stagnant Because… Lack Of Critics?
If someone has spent years of their life on a work, they deserve a serious, sustained response. Critics who write such reviews aren’t just...
Europe’s Approach To Developing AI Is Deeply Different
The differences between Europe and the United States when it comes to AI regulation aren’t so easy to fix; they’re rooted in deep cultural differences that have informed how the tech industries...
Might AI Help Us Unlock More Creative Ideas?
Generative AI will indeed make many tasks easier and quicker to perform, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs. But we think that one of the...
