Authors And Publishers Win Almost $8 Million In Suit Against E-Book Pirates
"A federal judge has issued a default judgment against a major overseas e-book piracy operation known as the KISS Library after its operators failed...
Romance Novels About Nonwhite Characters Are Finally Breaking Through In The Marketplace
And the authors of those books — who, not long ago, couldn't get a single look from publishers — can thank social media: Booksgram,...
What Public Radio Stations Use Ratings For
Says one exec, "While we don't live or die by ratings, as at commercial stations, learning when and for how long people are listening...
Jeanine Tesori And The Art Of Musical Storytelling
Tony Kushner: "She either comprehends or intuits, not what necessarily is the most obvious choice for dramatic action, but what's under the surface, where...
The Art World’s Biggest Controversies Of 2021
"The public continued to interrogate museums over their treatment of workers, their attachments to patrons with problematic sources of wealth, and their dragon-like hold...
AI Robots Are Digitally Reconstructing Lost Works Of Great Art
It's happening with works by the likes of Klimt, Picasso, Rembrandt. Most controversially, if the only surviving photos of a lost work are in...
Censored Versions Of Books And Films Released In Spain Under Franco Are Still In...
The dictatorship's censors were all too thorough: scenes were even cut from It's a Wonderful Life — and the doctored version of that film...
Paris Revives a Cultural Icon – The Seine
Swimming has been officially banned since 1923. More than two-thirds of all French have a negative perception of the river. And yet when French officials unveiled...
We’re Overwhelmed By The Amount Of Culture Being Produced Today
It is impossible to overestimate the volume of stuff that is being produced, edited, and put online today. The content cup runneth over, and...
How Streaming Devalues Movies
You can sense it in all the calculations Disney has been making with regard to what goes to theaters, what’s PVOD, and what goes directly...
Second 1887 Time Capsule Found Under Robert E. Lee Statue
News accounts described its dozens of donated artifacts, including Confederate memorabilia. Based on historical records, some have also speculated the capsule might contain a...
“A Movie In Conversation With Its Own History”: How Spielberg And Kushner Retrofitted “West...
"Vulture's theater desk, Helen Shaw and Jackson McHenry, discuss the 2021 version, how it alters a hugely familiar piece of art, and how and...
Will Crutchfield: New Opera Is Thriving
New opera, by any reasonable definition – by any defensible amalgamation of the definitions commonly put forward over the years – is thriving. -...
Dostoevsky And The True Crime Craze In 1860s Russia
How the pulp nonfiction devoured by the public during Tsar Alexander II's reign led to Crime and Punishment — and how Dostoevsky used the...
The Best Books Of The Past 125 Years? The NYT Book Review Asked Readers…
In November, we presented a list of the 25 most-nominated books (one per author) for a vote. After tallying more than 200,000 ballots, the...
Good Things Happen When A Variety Of Black Viewpoints Can Be Seen On Broadway
"In the last few weeks, I've seen … Trouble in Mind, Caroline, or Change and Clyde's. Individually, their plots and period settings offer great...
The Rare Fabric That Was Coveted 200 Years Ago That No One Now Knows...
Made via an elaborate, 16-step process with a rare cotton that only grew along the banks of the holy Meghna river, the cloth was...
Latin American Telenovelas Are Old Hat. The New Hotness Is Turkish Dizis
In many countries these days, including Spanish-speaking ones, the Turkish serial dramas are replacing telenovelas on TV schedules. The popularity of dizis has now...
How Orchestras Are Trying To Diversify Audiences
Orchestras are approaching these audiences through multilingual websites, artist and repertoire choices, and outreach activities, connecting more firmly with the communities they touch. - Strings
Creating Choreography For Animated Characters
Sherrie Silver, who usually works with film stars and models, talks with a reporter about how she created, and then communicated to animators, the...
How Merce Cunningham Upended Concert Dance’s Conventions: Technology, Philosophy And Randomness
"This video from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis explores six aspects to Cunningham's 70-year career, from dance maker, collaborator and chance taker, to...
Once Threatened, This One-Million-Pound Artwork Is Being Rehomed
Elyn Zimmerman's rock-and-water installation Marabar was erected in 1984 in the courtyard of the National Geographic Society — which now has other plans for...
When Someone Hears Music That Isn’t There
Here's an explainer about Musical Ear Syndrome — which isn't a form of tinnitus or of audio hallucinations caused by a psychiatric condition. In...
99 Finds: The Most Exciting Art And Artifact Discoveries Of 2021
Sorted into categories such as "Missing masterpieces", "Ancient art", "Prehistoric peoples", African-American and indigenous North American history, and "Royal treasures", here are nearly a...
Saudi Government Wants To Make Its Country The Arab World’s New Filmmaking Capital
With Egypt's once-dominant industry stagnating under the Sisi dictatorship, the government led by Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is dropping lots of money...
