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IKEA Has Turned Its Catalog Into An Audiobook
"When IKEA canceled its beloved print catalog last year, it hinted at plans to venture into new formats to better reach an increasingly internet-dependent...
Streaming Classical Music: Where The Money Really Goes, And Where It Ought To Go
"In the first two articles in the series, we looked at the streaming industry's revenues, how they're shared out between the music we listen...
Beijing Leans On Hong Kong’s Arts Funding Body To Curb ‘Anti-Government’ Work
"The campaign has forced the Arts Development Council into stating it might suspend grants to artists who advocated independence, while additional cultural venues have...
Oh Great, Now They’re Turning Dance Into NFTs, Too
With Non-Fungible Tokens taking the visual art world hostage by storm, it was only a matter of time before other art forms turned to...
Exec Who Saved Capitol Records, Bhaskar Menon, Dead At 86
The record label was reeling in 1970: its cash cow, The Beatles, had disbanded, and it lost $8 million that year. Parent company EMI...
Arts In Chicago Set To Restart After IL Governor Raises Capacity Limits
"The new 'phase 4A' will allow for 25% fixed seating capacity in indoor and outdoor film, theater and performing arts venues of 200 seats...
Many Museums Want To Remove The Sackler Name From Their Campuses. State Attorneys General...
"Following court filing in New York, the attorneys general from 23 states issued a statement calling for amendments to the plan, which they...
Russia Is Investigating Its Own Eurovision Song Contest Entry For ‘Illegal Statements’
Following criminal complaints by a veterans' group and the Russian Union of Orthodox Women that the pop tune's words "aim to seriously insult and...
Bollywood’s Biggest Legend Leads Fight To Preserve India’s Oldest Films
Amitabh Bachchan, who's been a superstar in India for 50 years, has campaigned for years for the preservation of film from Indian cinema's early...
Is it possible to mourn James Levine?
Yes, but with an enormous asterisk.May 4, 2011. If only it had stopped there. - David Patrick Stearns
What Should Be on the Syracuse Symposium’s Agenda: The Urgent Need for Museum Deaccession...
Museum professionals have instinctively recoiled at the thought of government interference in their activities, insisting that they can police themselves. But that hasn’t worked...
Has COVID Changed Standup Comedy For Good?
If so, it's got nothing to do with illness or quarantine as subject matter; it's that the lockdown pushed everyone — audiences, colleagues, and...
Dog Dance Competitions (Yes, They’re A Thing)
The sport is called canine musical freestyle. "At a typical competition, you might see dogs weaving through their handlers' legs, rolling over, spinning on...
TV’s First Sitcom Family Wasn’t Much Like The Cleavers
Far from the WASP families in suburban homes seen in Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver (and The Brady Bunch and The...
Spotify Finally Provides An Explanation Of How It Pays Royalties
"First things first: It will not tell you how much money Drake made from Spotify; in fact there are no artist names on the...
As Pandemic Drags On, A Boom In Online Writers’ Groups
"Some of these informal gatherings have flourished as people who once shied away from writing groups — because of the time commitment, commute or...
BBC Plans Major Transfer Of Production And Jobs Away From London
"The blueprint for the plan, which is called 'The BBC Across the U.K.,' commits at least an extra £700 million ($978 million), cumulatively, across...
Met Opera Musicians Agree To Renegotiate Contract, Will Get Paid For First Time In...
"The musicians, and most of the Met's workers, were furloughed in April, shortly after the pandemic forced the opera house to close. Months later,...
Two Presidents Of Pace Gallery Step Down After Allegations Of Abuse And Ethics Breaches
"Douglas Baxter and Susan Dunne, who have worked at the dealership for decades, are leaving the gallery" in a restructuring of top management. "Their...
France’s Erstwhile ‘Museum Of The Colonies’ Is Now Led By The Son Of A...
"Pap Ndiaye, a historian and academic of Senegalese and French descent, was last month appointed to revitalize the Palais de la Porte Dorée —...
Italy’s Highest Court Saves 800-Year-Old Monastery From Steve Bannon
"The Council of State ruled that the Culture Ministry was correct in cancelling the concession it had given to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute," a...
Should Museums Tell The Public About Missing Art?
"Museums have at times withheld information about thefts, fearing that revealing security weaknesses could make other institutions less likely to loan them art or...
What Made Graham Greene So Peripatetic? Misery
Constant bullying at school (he was the headmaster's son, and he paid for it); repeated adolescent suicide attempts; Benzedrine and Nembutal and lots (and...
As Ballet Companies Move Toward Reopening Without Knowing What The Rules Will Be, How...
"'What would you do if you had no idea when a season would begin, what venue capacity you could perform in and what the...
America Will Get Performing Arts Back This Summer — In Open-Air Spaces
"All around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those...
