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TikTok’s Rate Of Subscriber Growth Has Plummeted
"In the fourth quarter of 2023, the video service lagged Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. Yes, you read that right: The ancient big blue...
U.S. States Spend Billions In Tax Credits To Woo Film & TV Production. Is...
Industry lobbyists, and the lawmakers on their side, insist that the subsidies create $6 or $7 of "economic activity" for each $1 of state...
Salonen’s Departure From San Francisco Symphony Is A Warning To Its Board — And...
"The board now presents the San Francisco Symphony as a survivor forgoing experimental treatment and in need of a cautious caretaker. … What has...
As Traditional Subscription Models Sink, Arts Organizations Are Experimenting With More Flexible Options
With due reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jeremy Reynolds reports on what The Pittsburgh Symphony, Opera, and Ballet Theatre are trying,...
M. Emmet Walsh, One Of Hollywood’s Busiest And Most Distinctive Character Actors, Is Dead...
"With his distinctive lumbering form and droll delivery, Walsh was an ideal supporting player. A master of off-kilter comic delivery and dogged edginess, he...
Met Opera Forced To Do Semi-Staged “Turandot” After Backstage Lift Is Jammed
The 1987 Franco Zeffirelli production is one of the company's most lavish, and doing the opera without most of it really does diminish the...
Three Rubens Works, Allegedly Looted By Nazis, Must Remain At London Museum
"A trio of paintings by Peter Paul Rubens will remain with their current owner, the Courtauld Gallery in London, the UK Parliament’s spoliation advisory...
What Do We Do With All Those Mountains Of Worn-Out Ballet Pointe Shoes?
Pacific Northwest Ballet goes through 2,000 pairs per year; during Nutcracker season, New York City Ballet uses up 500 pairs a month. And they're...
The 18th-Century Engineers Who Saved Michelangelo’s Dome At St. Peter’s From Collapsing
"When Pope Benedict XIV sent a team of three mathematicians to inspect the dome in 1742, they found, as Benedict suspected they might, a...
Polyglots In fMRI Machines Help Researchers Study How The Brain Processes Language(s)
"With one intriguing exception, activity increased in the areas of the cerebral cortex involved in the brain's language-processing network when these polyglots — who...
Artist Sets Up Ladies-Only Lounge In Museum. Man Sues For Gender Discrimination. Artist Is...
The installation at Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is by Kirsha Kaechele, wife of museum founder David Walsh, a math prodigy...
La Mama Theatre To Cease All Performances Next Year (No, Not The One In...
This La Mama is in Melbourne, and (not unlike its American namesake) it has played a crucial role in the development of contemporary theatre...
One Of The World’s Oldest Working Film Studios Is Destroyed By Fire
"It took hours for firefighters to get the blaze under control and several buildings near (Al-Ahram Studio) in Cairo's Giza district had to be...
American Bible Society Is Closing Its $60 Million Museum Less Than Three Years After...
"(The Society) had projected that the museum, centrally located on Independence Mall in Philadelphia, would draw 250,000 visitors a year. The revenue from ticket...
In Toronto, Classical Music Really Is Pulling In New Listeners
"Key organizations are striking out on new paths to energize audiences and solidify their cultural relevancy. (Veteran) arts leaders ... are now ceding control...
Reconstruction Of Notre-Dame In Paris Is Headed Toward Conclusion
"The iconic medieval monument immortalized in history, film and literature has been gradually rebuilt over the past five years, through challenges that have included...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Publicly Urge Board To Keep Salonen As Music Director
Not only have they released an open letter calling on the orchestra's Board of Governors to reverse the cuts that motivated Salonen not to...
Aribert Reimann, One Of Europe’s Leading Contemporary Opera Composers, Has Died At 88
"A prolific composer with widely performed works, particularly his operas and songs, (he) was revered for his ability to fuse complex and often challenging...
Choreographer Arlene Phillips Is Still Working Full-Time At Age 80
"(Her) 60-year career … has included choreographing stage musicals, including Starlight Express and We Will Rock You, and films such as the 1982 version...
Peak TV Is Not Yet Over In Europe
"While the U.S. TV business has seen a sharp downturn, with a drop in the number of shows commissioned and broadcast and headline-making layoffs...
The Latest Challenge For European Publishers And Translators: Younger People Are Reading In English
"A panel yesterday at the London Book Fair addressed the threat of English-language editions cannibalizing or otherwise supplanting sales of translated books, as the...
Is TikTok Really An Agent Of The Chinese Government? In Today’s China, It’s Not...
"Simply put, there’s no clear line between the state and society in China in the same way that there is in democracies. The Chinese...
Actors From The Bombed-Out Theatre In Occupied Mariupol Return To The Stage
"A small group of actors and staff from the theatre have resurrected the troupe in Uzhhorod, in the far west of Ukraine. Performances take...
Putin Has Sent His FSB To Go After Russian Artists
"The (secret police) have reportedly searched at least 30 artists’ homes and studios across at least eight cities. … Among those targeted were members...
For The First Time, A Full Wagner “Ring” Cycle With Historical Instruments And Singing...
"In 2026, it will be 150 years since Wagner premiered the full Ring at his festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Each year until then, (Kent)...