A Worldwide Vinyl Shortage
Around the world, vinyl pressing facilities are stretched to the limit with 24-hour, nearly seven-days-a-week production still not meeting demand. - CBC
Will This Movie Be The Last Of Its Kind, The Big-Budget World War II...
"Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, a $100 million historical drama about … the creation of the atomic bomb, could be considered one of an endangered species....
They’re Restoring The 1920s-Era Hollywood Sign
Crews uncovered in the foundation the names and handprints of some of the workers on the 1978 rebuild’s crew. The remnants of a “lean-to...
Cary Grant, Aldous Huxley, And Clare Boothe Luce Dropping Acid Together: The Musical (We’re...
Yes, the actor, the writer, and the playwright/politician/doyenne all experimented with LSD in the 1950s, when it was legal. They never did it together,...
Abu Dhabi Says It Will Build Two More Major Museums
“In Abu Dhabi there has been a very clear and conscious decision to invest in culture, and investing in culture does not just mean...
Patrick Reyntiens, Who Worked Miracles With Stained Glass In Britain’s Bombed-Out Cathedrals, Dead At...
While he did a great deal of high-quality work, his most admired projects were in two modern monuments which replaced medieval landmarks destroyed in...
What Does An Investment In Mental Health For Dancers Look Like?
Encouraging dancers to pay attention to their mental health is one thing, but actually providing access to services sends an entirely different message. -...
New York Times Declares, “Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Now New York’s Conductor”
Zachary Woolfe, classical music editor: "Omnipresent and energetic, he has been one of the central figures in New York's cultural re-emergence, and certainly the...
Song-writer Dave Frishberg, 88
His songwriting wit was for grown-ups, yet he reached his widest audience with sharpshooting ditties for kids as a regular musical contributor to ABC-TV’s...
New Buyers Are Painting San Francisco’s Colorful Old Houses “Gentrification Gray”
"To their proponents, they're understated and contemporary, with paint jobs that will take a beating without ever looking dirty. To their detractors, they're unimaginative,...
French Dictionary Adds Gender-Neutral Pronoun; Education Minister Is Horrified
Because younger people are starting to use it, lexicographers at Le Petit Robert added the pronoun iel (a portmanteau of il and elle). The...
Are All-Female- Or All-BIPOC-Composer Programs The Best Way To Diversify Classical Music?
For example, the group Resonance Works Pittsburgh, which has committed to make half of all works it plays by women and at least one-third...
A First Printing Of The US Constitution Is Now The Most Expensive Document Or...
The price was $43.2 million, and the anonymous winner outbid an impromptu group of cryptocurrency players who raised money via blockchain over a few...
“I Knew That My Actions Were Wrong And Illegal”: Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Pleads...
He had previously pled not guilty to several charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft; in an apparent plea deal, he confessed to...
Qatar Says It Will Make Itself A “Vast Outdoor Art Museum” For World Cup...
The public art project will ultimately involve 100 installations (70 are now in place), by both local artists and Western big names such as...
Australia’s Conservative Government Refuses To Insure Arts Against COVID Closures
"(Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Coalition) government has rejected a call by the Greens and Labor to provide Australia's live performance sector with an insurance...
Talk To The Hand – How Our Hands Help Us Communicate
I hadn’t perceived how hard it is to read the responses of one’s audience when the most expressive part of the face is hidden. -...
Will The Supreme Court Finally Declare Copyright Piracy Theft? (Wait… What?)
For quite some time, there’s been an esoteric debate running in intellectual property circles as to whether copyright infringement is best characterized as thievery. -...
Why Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla Is Stepping Down In Birmingham
If this period of enforced home life made her reassess her priorities – she lives in Salzburg with her husband and their two children...
A Sharp Rise In Demands To Ban Books In Libraries
“We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges. I’ve worked for ALA for 20 years, and I can’t recall a time when we had multiple...
Why Did We Organize Time Into Seven-Day Weeks?
The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, David Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule....
Why Does Sad Music Make Us Feel Better?
It can act as a social surrogate. Sad music can be experienced as an imaginary friend who provides support and empathy after loss. -...
The Scheme That Saved Classical Music In Melbourne Is Expanding To The Rest Of...
Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed 430 performances, with over $1.6 million going to musicians during one of the longest, strictest lockdowns in the world....
Education As A Class Indicator (But Maybe Not How You Think)
Historically, in America, the true strength of the Classics and of a Classical education has not been among the elite but among the rising...
Climate Change Is Damaging Australia’s Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art
Veteran archaeologists have noted visible changes just over the past half-century or less. Much of the rock art is painted on sandstone, which absorbs...
