Canadian Entertainment Industry Census: A Diversity Problem
A voluntary self-identification census carried out among Directors Guild Canada members found 82.8 percent of the guild’s membership identified as white. Another 18.3 percent...
Shocked And Confused: Why Is Montreal’s McGill Conservatory Of Music Suddenly Shutting Down?
Administrators said the Conservatory had gone from 550 students in pre-pandemic years to 300 last year, to a projection of less than 100 students...
Where Do Our Minds Go When We’re Under Anesthesia?
So far, scientists have learned that, generally speaking, anesthetic drugs render people unconscious by altering how parts of the brain communicate. But they still...
“Disneyfication”: What Has Xi Jinping’s Government Done To The Ancient Silk Road City Of...
BuzzFeed's reporters have compared video and photos from 2017 (not long after the current repression campaign against Uyghurs began) and earlier to more recent...
Some Of The World’s Best Authors Have Written Books Which Won’t Be Published For...
Every year since 2014 a prominent writer to submit a manuscript, and the commissioning will continue until 2113. Then, a century after the project...
How Did The Romans Keep Wine From Going Bad In Their Amphorae? Like This.
"By looking at the chemical deposits found within the amphorae, plant tissue residue, and pollen, researchers were able to determine which grape derivatives were...
Major Collector Comes Under Scrutiny For Family’s Nazi Past
As arts funders have come under scrutiny in recent years observers in Germany have raised questions about Julia Stoschek. Some have argued that there...
Why Pittsburgh Festival Opera Is Not Putting On Any Operas This Year
Faced with the challenges of simply surviving as a small independent company post-pandemic, PFO — noting that there's more grant money available for educational...
Behind The Ailey Company’s Contract Dispute With Its Dancers
Most audience members – and most aspiring and local dancers – would be shocked to realize how little some of the best and most...
TikTok Is Now An Integral Part Of The Book Market
"Early last year, the publishing industry noticed that books readers gushed about on TikTok were showing up on bestseller lists. ... A year later,...
How Vijay Iyer’s Musical Taste Was Built
When you’re writing orchestral music, you’re often asked: “What kind of forces will you need?” It’s both militaristic and kind of Jedi. I think...
An Ancient Roman Home, Complete With Frescoes, Has Been Excavated From Under The Baths...
"The frescoes pre-date the baths themselves, and adorned a house that was part of a neighborhood destroyed to accommodate the baths, which were inaugurated...
Meet Some Of The Workers Making Theatre Accessible To Disabled People
Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the...
SXSW Expands Beyond Austin For The First Time —And It’s Going A Very Long...
The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in...
“Copying Is Not Satire, It Is Theft. And Lying To Consumers Is Not Conceptual...
That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged "trademark...
Anti-Oil Protestors Are Gluing Themselves To Paintings In British Museums
Asking "What's more important? This painting? Or a future?" (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their...
San Diego’s Theaters Are Back. Half Of Their Audience Is Not.
"For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say...
Amazon Is Spending Big Money To Become A Player In Live Sports Media
The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK's Premiere League soccer. Now Amazon has...
TV Takes TikTok To Create A Dance Show
… a TikTok-style dance challenge. The kind that creators on the app are known for filming in their bedrooms, pajamas optional. - The New...
Jacob’s Pillow Rebuilds And Recreates
The Ted Shawn Theater is now open again for business, half of its exterior wood weathered and historical-looking, the other half clean and new....
The Next Generation Of Gig-Share Is Worker Co-ops
“Platform co-ops offer a more democratic and equitable alternative to traditional companies, and they have the potential to create good jobs, boost local economies,...
Love Wordle? Here’s The Art World Version
One of the latest “Wordle” copycats challenges players not with letters, but with images plucked from the National Gallery of Art. - Washington Post
We Live In The Golden Age Of Scams
If COVID-19 has been an X-ray of society’s fracture points, scammers have not only looked at the film but pressed on the wounds. Since...
Giant Immersive Art Comes To The Vegas Strip
The 17,000-square-foot space features “The Gallery: Mona Lisa’s Perception,” featuring six digital versions of the “Mona Lisa,” hanging in one room. At first, they...
YouTube Has Spawned A Crop Of Media Critics
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena...
