For The First Time In Its 167 Years, This Newspaper’s Reporting Is 100% Paid-For...
The Irish Times (like most outlets) always depended on advertising to fund its operations. This year, thanks to the strategy followed by its leaders...
Recent US Post Office Delays Are Hitting Publishers Hard
Recent USPS service problems aren’t exclusive to newspapers. But for a business where timeliness is baked into the value proposition, they can be uniquely...
The Broadway Director Who Helped Stage The Milan Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
Creative coordinator Sammi Cannold: “I think what would surprise people most is how mathematical it is. From the outside, it looks like pure spectacle...
How Ukrainian Musicians Think About Russian Music
For some Ukrainian musicians, the new reality they have chosen is “no Russian words from my lips, no Russian music from my hand”, as...
Workers At Hollywood’s Writers Guild Union Strike Against The Union
The union maintained that “Guild management has surveilled workers for union activity, terminated union supporters, and engaged in bad faith surface bargaining, showing no...
An Evolving Notion Of Literacy That Explains Everything
Literacy literally restructured our consciousness, and the demise of literate culture—the decline of reading and the rise of social media—is again transforming what it...
Grand Rapids Ballet Lays Off Executive Director And Eliminates Position
“Grand Rapids Ballet has dismissed executive director Mary Jennings after less than two years in the role, replacing her with an interim CEO as...
Why Frederick Wiseman Was The All-Time Best Documentary-Maker
Between 1967 and 2023, he made forty-seven features (nearly one a year), many of them running considerably more than two hours. His body of...
How Consolidation Has Wrecked Publishing
Here’s the problem: Those Big Five control over 80% of the trade publishing market. Indie publishers exist, but they need more support—a lot more...
Judy Chicago Walks Away From “Nightmare” Google Project
The celebrated visual artist Judy Chicago has walked away from a major commission at Google’s headquarters project in the Loop, comparing an aspect of...
California City Reports $1.5 Million Embezzled From Its Arts Funding Agency
“The statement from (Fresno Arts Council), which handled public grants set aside by the local parks and arts tax for the past few years,...
If The UK’s Biggest Institutions Are Struggling, There’s A Structural Problem
If the National Gallery – one of Britain’s leading attractions with over 4 million visitors a year – is struggling to balance its books, it indicates wider structural problems...
Russia Produces Great Artists. Why Not Great Science?
Russia produces world‑class artists and brilliant scientific inventors, yet few globally successful technologies. Why? - Nightingale Sonata
CBS’ Attempted Censorship Of Colbert Backfires Spectacularly – 10X Online Views As Typical Ratings
CBS lawyers tried to block Stephen Colbert’s interview with Texas legislator James Talarico, but Colbert posted it online instead—where it exploded, drawing far more...
Algeria’s Most Famous Author Faces Legal Cases For Misusing A Terror Victim’s Story
Kamel Daoud's Goncourt-winning novel Houris is about a woman whose throat was slit at age 5 during a terrorist massacre and who can now...
Another San Francisco Institution Cancels Its Next Show Due To Money Troubles
Lamplighters Music Theatre, the Bay Area’s Gilbert and Sullivan specialists, has called off its spring 2026 production of Patience. Company leaders blame not only...
Saudi Arabia Commissions World’s Largest Mural, Which It Hopes Will Be Visible From Space
The job — to create a painting 50,000 square meters large, roughly the size of nine football fields, in the Saudi capital, Riyadh —...
Louvre’s No. 2 Official Says Ticket Fraud Is “Inevitable” At Large Museums
“Which museum in the world, with this level of attendance,” said Louvre general administrator Kim Pham, “would not at certain moments have some issues...
How Will Academy Voters Decide Which Movie Should Win Best Casting Oscar?
“Yes, casting directors are finding the right person to carry the weight of the movie, but they are also responsible for nearly every face...
Oscar-Nominated Co-Writer Of “It Was Just An Accident” Released From Iranian Prison
Mehdi Mahmoudian, who wrote the screenplay for the Cannes-winning film alongside director Jafar Panahi, has been released on bail after 17 days. He was...
Actor Shia LaBeouf Arrested In New Orleans After Alleged Mardi Gras Fistfight
He is charged with two counts of simple battery following incidents in the midnight hours of Tuesday morning. This is, of course, by no...
Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Final Building Was A Diner In Leipzig
The great Brazilian modernist, best-known for the futuristic government buildings in Brasilia, had recently turned 103 when he drew the first sketch for what’s...
Stephen Colbert Says CBS Censored Talarico Interview On His Late Night Show
Colbert said that CBS lawyers had told him “in no uncertain terms” that an interview he had planned for Monday’s show with State Representative...
A Rare Edition Of Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Stolen And Damaged. Now That It’s...
When in 2010, Durham University got back the Folio which had been stolen in 1998, the book’s leather cover, boards and end papers were...
Michael Silverblatt, A Radio Interviewer Who Really Knew His Subjects’ Work, Dies At 73
Michael Silverblatt, the longtime host of the KCRW radio show "Bookworm" — known for interviews of authors so in depth that they sometimes left...
