Now That It’s Safe, Gustavo Dudamel Visits Home Again
This was also his first trip to Venezuela in six years. Inciting the wrath of President Nicolás Maduro, Dudamel had become politically persona non...
Canada Doubles Down On Canadian Content Rules For Media
The CRTC's moves toward greater flexibility for radio include introducing new criteria to determine whether a song is Canadian, including refining content categories to...
The Gamification Of Everything Is A Fraud
The application of game design principles like leaderboards, progress bars, points, badges, levels, challenges, and activity streaks to nongame ends has seeped into just...
A Seattle Business Blasts Classical Music To Harass Homeless Encampment
Nearby business owners said the Comcast Service Center has been playing loud music from a surveillance system with a speaker for about a month...
Big Cable Networks Are Failing In The Age Of Streaming
NBCUniversal, Paramount Global and Walt Disney together own dozens of underperforming cable networks that are quickly losing relevance in the age of streaming. -...
Theatre Director Quits After UK Arts Funding Cuts
Roxana Silbert has quit as the north London theatre’s artistic director because of the financial constraints it is facing after Arts Council England’s decision...
Indian Classical Dance As Journalism? Well, Yes, Sort Of …
Nadhi Thekkek and her San Francisco company, Nava Dance Theatre, use the style and vocabulary of bharatanatyam to tell contemporary stories taken from the...
Hollywood’s Streaming Ambitions Hit A Business Model Collapse
“It was our belief that cord-cutting losses would be offset by gains in streaming. This has not been the case. We are primarily a...
The Paris Opera Starts Up Performing Arts Training Programs In French Guiana
"As well as offering workshops in ballet, contemporary dance, hip-hop and singing, she explains, the Paris Opera will also launch an apprenticeship programme for...
Qatar’s Unreal New Landscape Of Amazing New Buildings
Qatar spent a reported $220 billion preparing for the tournament, conjuring new buildings, new neighborhoods and even an entirely new city. To be here now...
Edgar Allan Poe’s Final Mystery: What Killed Him?
He was a lifelong alcoholic, so the common assumption has been that he died of alcohol poisoning or related organ failure — but medical...
The Gender Pay Gap In The Arts In Australia Is Really Pretty Wide
"A survey of professionals across the performing and visual arts found overall incomes for women were 25% less than their male counterparts, ... almost...
Behind Disney’s Bob Swap
It’s a story about how to structure a company like Disney. Then you add in the complexity of the shift to streaming, the future...
A New York Times Classical Music Critic Makes His Metropolitan Opera Stage Debut
Joshua Barone writes about becoming one of the throngs of supernumeraries in the Triumphal March of the Met's very grand production of Verdi's very...
The Choices For 2022’s Word Of The Year Are Weird And All Over The...
The selections: a word that describes 2022 entirely too well; an all-too-common behavioral M.O. these days; a now-overused term derived from a Hollywood movie;...
“Fam and Yam”, The Edward Albee One-Act You Probably Never Knew About
A thinly veiled swipe at playwright William Inge (and at himself), the play seems to have been deliberately omitted by Albee from his collected...
Latvia’s Government Revokes The Broadcasting License Of Russia’s Leading Dissident TV-Network-In-Exile
"Dozhd — also known as TV Rain — had been fined earlier this month for airing a map labeling Crimea as Russian territory, and...
Metropolitan Opera Is Hacked; Website And Ticketing System Are Paralyzed
The attack was discovered Tuesday morning and is ongoing; rehearsals and performances are going on more or less as scheduled. The perpetrators have not...
“STOMP” Is Closing After A 29-Year Run Off-Broadway
The long-popular show, which combines rhythmic movement and comedy with percussion, much of it using everyday objects, opened in Manhattan's East Village in 1994. ...
Turner Prize For 2022 Goes To Sculptor Veronica Ryan
At 66 the oldest person ever to win Britain's top art award, Ryan was honored for her memorial to the Windrush generation of Caribbean...
The Cost Of Over-Selling Products With Ideas
Rather than informing a population of philosophically fulfilled, elevated beings, the ubiquity of all this bite-sized meaning has had an adverse effect, fuelling our...
Canceling “Exotic” In Ballet?
Demanding apologies and cancellation might seem an over-the-top reaction to the staging of this apparently benign ballet staple. However, the representation of many of...
AI-Generated Avatars Are Wildly Popular. Artists Aren’t Happy
Multiple artists have accused Stable Diffusion of using their art without permission. Many in the digital art space have also expressed qualms over AI models producing...
KPOP Musical Closes On Broadway After Only Two Weeks
The wager on “KPOP” hasn’t paid off, ticket sales data show. “KPOP” was one of Broadway’s lowest-selling shows in recent weeks, according to the Broadway League,...
What’s The One Thing That Profanity Throughout The World Has In Common? Phonemes.
The phonemes they lack, that is. "They're less likely than other words to include the consonant sounds L, R, W or Y. And more...
