Our Best Writers Challenge And Discomfit Us
Our best writers can unfreeze us. They override the notion that we’re helpless, and sometimes they do it paradoxically, by depicting people who are...
The Co-opting Of Art In A Changing World
“Our art has become exhaustively political, but it is no longer discernibly subversive,” observed the writer Greg Jackson about the literature of the Trump...
This Year Even Music By The Biggest Stars Isn’t Selling
Beyoncé isn’t the only superstar who’s struggling to make a hit with staying power. The past year has seen superstars release new music to...
The Meaning Of Purgatory
While the idea of an intermediate state after death is present in many religions – Buddhism has its bardo, Judaism its Sheol, Islam its...
Facebook Stops Paying Publishers For News
Facebook has paid publishers who participate in the News program. The company signed deals worth tens of millions of dollars with news organizations such...
Trial Over Mega-Book Publisher Merger Set To Begin
The closely watched case holds major implications for a publishing industry that has been grappling with consolidation for years. It also looms as a key...
Qin Yi, Last Of China’s “Four Great Actresses” And Whose Career Spanned Chinese Cinema...
"She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. ... Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese...
How Our Music Habits Change As We Age
“We find clear differences between users at different points of their off-platform lifecycles, with younger listeners consistently exploring less and exploiting known content more.”...
Melbourne Will Go Three Years With Little Or No Large-Scale Ballet Or Opera
The State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne, the city's venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, is closing in March 2024 for three...
New Canadian Radio Format Focuses On Audience And Wins Listeners
Key to Conversation Radio's success is the higher level of interaction between hosts and the audience. “The hosts skilled in storytelling, the life...
On Stand-Up Comedians And Their Water Bottles
"Their purpose seems obvious — to quench thirst, duh — but stage actors get dry mouths, and no Hamlet puts down his sword to...
Mexican Town Sets Off Debate About Authentic Culture And Branding
The decree has generated conversations in the tourist-heavy, gentrifying borough about history, art, and the effects of globalization: How should a city balance the...
Restoring The Cree Language To Everyday Use
"In Maskwacîs — an area with four First Nations reserves on the Alberta prairie between Edmonton and Calgary — Cree, the most widely spoken...
Wisconsin Nutcracker Stars In Challenge To Public Health Rules
The public health officer categorized the socially distanced ballet as a “high-risk sport” and counted each of the ballet’s eight segments as a separate...
Plans For A New Art Gallery Of Nova Scotia Have Been Put On Ice
"The new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia planned for the Halifax waterfront is on hold. Premier Tim Houston said his government had decided the...
In US Ballet Companies, Far More Men Than Women Are Artistic Directors, but More...
In both positions, though, men are paid more than women in the same job — and for artistic directors at the 50 largest ballet...
How Technology And Social Media Have Changed American Sign Language
It's not only a matter of adjusting signs so that they can be seen on a video chat screen. Think of telephones 100 years...
The Smithsonian Has A Cultural “Rapid-Response Task Force”
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative began in 2010, initially to help mitigate the damages to museums, churches, and archives in Haiti due to that...
The New Yorker And The Archivist It Just Fired Are Trading Insults On Twitter
The magazine's archive editor, Erin Overbey, was fired last Friday for (per the termination letter) "a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the...
The Golden Globes And Its Sponsor Sell Themselves To A Private Investment Company
"Eldridge Industries is taking over the Golden Globe Awards, which will be turned into a private entity separate from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's...
Minnesota Orchestra Goes Nordic (Again) For Its Next Music Director
"The 52-year-old Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård succeeds — and bears some resemblance to — Osmo Vänskä, a Finnish conductor who, at age 48, arrived...
As AI Gets Baked In To Artist Creation Tools, Who Will Own The Work?
There are reasons to be troubled by the prospect of tech companies like OpenAI controlling the major means of artistic production in the future. -...
New UK Study Documents How Tough It Is For Musicians To Make A Living
More artists than ever before are releasing music, the report says, but this does not mean more are successful. Analysis published by the Intellectual...
Determining Cultural Quality In The Age Of Massive Data
As Van Dijk has observed, in our digital society, evaluation of cultural products has become synonymous with crowd evaluation. On websites or in newspapers...
The Trap Of Being Over-Informed
The demand to “stay informed” creates and nurtures that feeling of helplessness. By now, it’s common knowledge that social media is exquisitely crafted to...
