Is It Time For NPR’s “All Things Considered” To Be Rethought?
"Its format and clock have remained basically the same for a generation. Meanwhile, there's been considerable swirl and change in media consumption and audio...
San Antonio Symphony’s Board Unanimously Votes To Dissolve The Orchestra
After almost nine months of no labor contract and a musicians' strike over wage cuts, the board decided on Thursday to file for Chapter...
There’s Going To Be A Big Immersive Theatre Under Waterloo Station In London
The venue, called Labyrinth, was conceived by the creative directors of the immersive theatre company Les Enfants Terribles and will open in November with...
There’s “A Deal To Be Done” On The Return Of The Parthenon Marbles, Says...
"Speaking to the radio station LBC this week, (George) Osborne seemed to suggest that he alone, if not all of the other British Museum...
Why Singers And Actors Often Don’t Get Treatment For Injured Voices
Voice disorders carry a stigma among performing artists. This has made performers hesitate to seek proper and timely medical help. - The Conversation
Stewart Brand, The Super Salesman
Brand, 83, is a huckster—one of the great hucksters in a time and place full of them. Over the course of his long life,...
Stradivarius Violin Sells For $15 Million
The violin, made in 1714 by master craftsman Antonio Stradivari, belonged to virtuoso Toscha Seidel, who not only used it on the score for...
Did Yoko Ono’s Celebrity Doom Her Art?
Like any artist, Ono wanted recognition, but she was never driven by a desire for wealth and fame. Whether she sought them or not,...
Is Spotify Just Not That Good A Business?
Questions about its profitability outlook often have been seen as keeping a lid on its stock. - The Hollywood Reporter
It’s The Purity Of Ideology That Gets In The Way
The quest for purity informs cancel culture. It pushes partisans to ever-greater extremes, even when those positions are politically self-defeating. It turns historical heroes...
Can An Artist Really Make A Living Online With A Thousand Serious Fans?
That was the proposition of Kevin Kelly, founding executive editor of Wired: if you can amass 1,000 people who'll each spend $100 annually to...
Why Is The Entertainment Industry Obsessed With Pre-existing Content?
Today’s entertainment marketplace is defined by its faith in the limitless potential of preëxisting intellectual property. There are sprawling franchises. There are reboots, dark...
One Of America’s Hottest Young Playwrights Is Putting Down Syndrome Onstage
Corsicana, the latest script by Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning), is "the rare play to feature both a lead character — and...
What Radio Hosts Bring To Classical Music
Throughout the country, radio hosts play a key role in bringing classical music into the everyday lives of listeners and connecting them to the...
Has A Stolen Altarpiece From Italy Been Sitting In The Cleveland Museum Of Art...
"At least, that was the assertion made by a group of nine Italian senators in a July 2020 parliamentary session. (They) urged the Minister...
This String Quartet’s Board Fired Them. Now The Board Has Been Replaced And Musicians...
The resolution was reached with help from two attorneys who read about the plight of the fired quartet members – cellist Myles Jordan, violinists...
Keeping Jazz Alive In Detroit
You cannot tell the history of jazz in America without also telling the history of jazz from Detroit. From the mid-20th century until the...
“Fundamentally, It’s Just Really Beautiful”: Reviving The Music Of The First Published Black Composer
Born in 1520 to (most likely) a Portuguese father and African-descended mother, Vicente Lusitano published three volumes of highly accomplished sacred works and music...
Nashville (!) Has Developed A Thriving Early Music Scene
"(Historical performance has) been ebbing, flowing, and growing in Nashville for nearly 20 years. The city is home to two HP ensembles ... (and)...
Okay, Who At Netflix Thought It Was A Good Idea To Turn “Squid Game”...
Granted, the losers in the reality-show version won't be killed, but still. In his announcement, the suit who greenlit this thanked the original series's...
The Washington Post Now Has A Hollywood Deal
"The Washington Post and Imagine Entertainment have entered into a strategic partnership to create scripted and non-scripted film and television properties culled from The...
Kevin Spacey Arraigned In UK On Four Charges Of Sexual Assault
"The 62-year-old is also facing a fifth charge of causing a man to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. He was not asked...
Director Of Paris Opera Ballet Resigns Following Years Of Criticism
Aurélie Dupont, who is 49 and has been at the company since the age of 10, was appointed hastily following the resignation of Benjamin...
A Zen Priest Wins The 2022 Women’s Prize For Fiction
The novel has the rather Zen title The Book of Form and Emptiness, and its author is American-Canadian novelist and filmmaker Ruth Ozeki (who,...
Why Do Dictators Have Such Bad Taste?
Their palaces and possessions are their trophies and their way of bragging to the world that they have succeeded. And they become the physical...
