The Vinyl Crisis Is Getting Worse
There's massive stress on the resurgent medium, and for Adele's new album, producers ordered half a million LP discs. (Who could have predicted this...
Now We See Just How Hard An Act Alex Trebek Was To Follow
"Jeopardy's longtime host, Alex Trebek, passed away a year ago today. And in the 12 months since, it's become increasingly clear just how challenging...
After A Difficult Few Years, DC’s Mosaic Theater Gets A New Director And A...
One year ago, founding director Ari Roth was forced to resign after angry protests from staffers about his, er, management style. (It was the...
Newark Museum Of Art Is Becoming A Real Estate Developer
Plans are for the $85 million complex, to be called Museum Parc, to include two buildings containing 250 apartments (50 of them "affordable"), 2,400...
Boris Johnson’s Government Is Using Britain’s Cultural Institutions As Culture War Battlefields
Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian's chief arts writer, comments on how the current Tory administration is applying loyalty tests and generally interfering with every single...
Major Museum In DR Congo Partly Destroyed In Fire
The blaze at the National Museum of Gungu, about 400 miles southeast of Kinshasa, began late at night on November 4; an estimated one-third...
Is This Chinese Government Trying To Buy Hong Kong’s Major English-Language Newspaper?
Founded under British rule in 1903, the South China Morning Post has managed to stay more or less independent of Beijing. Now a state-owned...
AMC Rebounds Smartly As People Return To Movie Theatres
AMC Entertainment’s most recent quarterly earnings report, which saw the world’s largest exhibitor post $755.6 million in revenue, a major increase from the $119.5...
A Fresh New Generation Extends UK’s Jazz Revival
These players developed their talents in small venues across the UK capital in the 2010s, from Total Refreshment Centre in Dalston, east London, to...
In COVID, Theatre Moved Outside. We Should Stay There
Being outside makes theatre more precarious, open to a larger universe of weather and chance. Historically the Athenian tragic festivals embraced and marked the seasons. But...
How San Francisco Bay Area Organizations Made It Through COVID
There were 140 funding programs to help... - Vogl Consulting
It’s A Very Big Deal For NYC Cultural Organizations That The US Reopened To...
Tourists from outside the U.S. comprise about 15 percent of Broadway’s audience during a traditional season, said Charlotte St. Martin, the president of the...
How NFTs Are Changing The Art World
To advocates of the NFT, the technology offers a revolutionary new way of selling art, and of circumventing snooty cultural gatekeepers whose resistance to...
Big Bird In The Crosshairs: Ted Cruz Attacks After The Big Guy Gets Vaccinated
“My wing is feeling a little sore, but it’ll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy. Erica Hill...
One Of LA’s Most Beautiful Buildings Lives Again
After the Los Angeles Herald Examiner folded in 1989, the building became an out-of-context medieval ruin along a quiet stretch of South Broadway, as plan after...
Car Parked On Italian Street For 47 Years Becomes Monument
In 1974, Angelo Fregolent, now 94, parked his car at the newsstand he ran with his wife in the town of Conegliano, according to The...
For Windsor Musicians Who Work In Detroit, The U.S. Border Reopening Is A Massive...
Musicians missing their bands and gigs are finally getting the chance to get back in touch. "There's been many tearful reunions," one says. -...
PEN America Says Banning ‘Critical Race Theory’ Is A Threat To Free Speech
The threats are widespread. PEN says, "These bills appear designed to chill academic and educational discussions and impose government dictates on teaching and learning....
It’s Not ‘Diversity’ To Have Black Actors In Westerns
It's just history. - Washington Post
For Some Music Lovers, It’s Still Better To Enjoy Concerts From The Comfort Of...
"Even before the digital age you could access the World of Music through recordings, via the radio or the local music shop or even...
The Surprisingly Successful Art Of Curating Penguin Modern Classics
Penguin's Classics line is 75 years old this year. But - "What makes a book a classic? Who gets to decide? And will today’s...
The Enormous Marketing Power Of BookTok
"BookTok is passionate. It is also profitable—at least for publishers. Bloomsbury, a publishing house based in Britain, recently reported record sales and a 220%...
Our Collective Narcissism Is Terrifying, Harmful – And Creepily Common
Sound familiar? "Collective narcissists tend to respond to the perceived threats of other groups in outsize, often aggressive ways. ... Meanwhile, group narcissists glorify...
An Indigenous Filmmaker From Canada Creates Art From Childhood Trauma
The chair for the Canada Council for the Arts says, "What you’re seeing is maybe an industry that is so ravenous for stories that...
Making A Big Indie Movie And Then a PR Turnaround
How do you go from being mocked for playing the love interest of a vampire to being the first American actress to win a...
