England’s Arts And Culture Sector To Get An Extra $1 Billion In The Next...
"The culture sector in England will receive £850m in extra funding from the Treasury in the Budget to be announced this week by Chancellor...
France Passes Another Law To Protect Bookstores From Amazon
For years it has been illegal in France to sell new books at a discount, which has kept bookstores from being undersold by the...
Ron Mercer Collected 2000 Music Instruments. Why?
"I get bored or start counting the same thing twice, so I'd say probably close to 2,000." Two narrow walkways allow Mercer or his...
Why It’s So Important To Figure Out Who Gets To Own Our Data
Our problem today lies in finding a model of data ownership that recognizes the collective interest we have in how personal data is used,...
Journalism’s Obsession With Metrics Is Killing It. The Lessons Apply To Culture
Such dynamics incentivize journalists to craft their reporting according to clickbait criteria that emphasize controversy, conflict, sensationalism, and anything that prompts people to engage...
Orchestras And The Vaccine Requirement
“People are being forced to do this, not invited. I’ve already had COVID, and I had a terrible reaction to a vaccine in my...
Like Sports, Ideas Have To Be Played To Be Tested
Sport is fundamentally about what you do when the chips are down, not what you say or plan beforehand. What matters is how well...
Remembering Bernard Haitink
You went to a Haitink concert fully aware of what to expect, only for those expectations usually to be surpassed. Haitink was able to...
How Samuel L. Jackson Got Booted From One Of The Most Prestigious Historically Black...
His brief period at Morehouse College included his acting debut, his involvement in the civil rights movement, and an unorthodox bit of speech therapy....
Who Can Speak With Authority On The Pandemic?
Presumably, it would be those of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s rank, or, in other direction, people completely outside of the medical world: artists documenting an...
A Masterpiece By Bernini, Newly Restored, Shines More Brightly Than Ever
"Art and restoration specialists presented the result in the Cornaro Chapel in St. Mary of the Victory Church (in Rome) on Thursday. The chapel's...
Only Three Months After Brain Surgery, Michael Tilson Thomas Resumes Conducting
When he resumes activity, MTT will first lead the New York Philharmonic (Nov. 4–7) and then return to San Francisco (Nov. 12–14), where he is music director laureate,...
Bollywood Is Coming To Broadway (What Took So Long?)
"Come Fall in Love — The DDLJ Musical, based on the Indian filmmaker Aditya Chopra's 1995 hit Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, which has become...
Contemporary Art At The Pyramids – Helps You See Them In A New Way
“For , it’s a site of antiquities, it’s heritage, but contemporary art is not appealing to them. We changed people’s mentality and now they...
Dozens Of Museums In Mexico And Central America Are Broke And Near Closure: Report
A study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that "more than 75 percent of (responding museums) said they are facing financial insecurity;...
Australian Artists’ Earnings Are Falling Behind…
The most recent data places the average gross annual income for an Australian artist at $48,400. When adjusted for inflation, average incomes have fallen...
How Amazon And Its Publishing Arm Are Changing Literature
Parul Sehgal: "The author is dead; long live the service provider. The reader, in turn, has been reborn as a consumer in the contemporary...
The Transformation Of The Gibney Dance Company
When Gina Gibney founded her troupe in 1991, it was your basic single-choreographer ensemble, picking up per-project freelancers. Now The Gibney Company has 12...
A Question In The Wake Of The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting: Who Or What...
"An armorer is tasked with managing all firearms used on set, ensuring they look realistic and are appropriate for the setting. More importantly, they're...
Crew Member Who Handed Alec Baldwin Fatal Prop Gun Had Been Fired For Mishandling...
"The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a...
She Saved Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center And Merged It With The Philadelphia Orchestra. Now She’s...
When Anne Ewers arrived in 2007, the Kimmel still had $30 million in construction debt. She raised money to pay it off, increased revenue...
Louis Langrée, Cincinnati Symphony And Mostly Mozart Music Director, Has Big New Job In...
As of November 1, the 60-year-old native of France's Alsace region will be the director of the Opéra-Comique. Among his plans are revivals of...
Pompidou Center In Paris To Postpone Renovation Until After 2024 Olympics
"The initial restoration plan involved shutting down the Centre Pompidou for three years from the end of 2023 for essential maintenance work." The question...
20 Years Ago: How The iPod Changed Everything
The eureka moment was the click wheel that enabled nimble search and control without a keyboard. Jobs wanted it as small as possible, with...
Unlikely Path: From TickTok To Riverdance Dancer
Morgan Bullock: “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Am I being pranked? Is this real?’” she says. But her new journey with Riverdance is far from a...
