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The BBC Has Dominated Audio Content In The UK. Now Podcasters Are Taking Root
While Britain hasn’t seen the cash influx — about $2 billion — that streaming and traditional media companies have spent snapping up the American...
How The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Has Been Dismantled Over The Past Year
The Metropolitan Opera House has been dark for a year, and its musicians have gone unpaid for almost as long. The players in one...
How Independent Bookstores In The US Survived Over The Past Year (Or Didn’t)
The Washington Post talked to the owners of six indies about how they weathered the year. What follows is an oral history of these...
The Lessons Of Generation X Seem Even More True Today
When Generation X was published, Douglas Coupland observed: “information overload meant 50 TV stations instead of ten.” In the current era where internet connections...
How Robert Fulford’s Arguments With Glenn Gould Shaped Him As A Critic
As students, Fulford and Gould would argue about music. Fulford was acquiring a taste for jazz and other forms of popular music, which Gould...
The Problem When Everyone Is Right
We are aware, of course, that we might be wrong, because we know that on certain issues we have changed our minds, and therefore...
A Losing Proposition For Independent Bookstores
Despite the pandemic, book sales were up over all last year, but mostly for places like Amazon; bookstore sales fell by more than twenty-eight...
Mad Magazine Artist Al Jaffe Turns 100
He started drawing for the magazine 65 years ago. “Hitting the century mark in age, it’s a nice number” for the brain to consider,...
A Year Into COVID, Canada’s Performing Arts Have Been Devastated
The performing arts, heritage sector and spectator sports – areas of the economy that depend on ticket sales– have lost more than 60 per...
Two Reports Detail Lack Of Support For Arts Workers
One reason we tolerate an even more frayed social safety net for artists than we do for everyone else: “The allure of artistic work...
How The Uffizi Is Modernizing
It is an investment in the future. We have been stepping up our education programs for kids and youth quite a lot. We continued...
What Musicians Really Make — A Database
The Real Music Wages Database is an anonymous, crowd-sourced list of real wage transactions reported by musicians. We track how much someone has been...
What Is “NFT Art” And Why Has It Become So Valuable?
Why would anyone buy a piece of art just to burn it? Understanding the answer requires us to delve into the tricky world of...
The Problem With The UK’s Approach To Controversial Statues
At first glance, the notion that controversial statues should be explained and contextualised seems like a step in the right direction. However, for many...
The Shocking Case Against Private Prep Schools
Parents at elite private schools sometimes grumble about taking nothing from public schools yet having to support them via their tax dollars. But the...
The Paris Opera “Aida” That Got Caught Up In The Culture Wars
Verdi’s 1871 tragedy, a love story set in a time of war between ancient Egypt and Ethiopia, is often given the treatment of a...
The Identity Politics Of Translating Amanda Gorman’s Poetry
There has long been a debate about the ethics of translation, about how to translate not just the words but the spirit of the...
The Hidden Message In Plain View On Munch’s “The Scream”
The inscription has always been visible to the naked eye, but the infrared images helped to more clearly distinguish the writing from its background....
The Music School Flourishing On Remote Easter Island
With donated land, instruments and crowd-sourced funding, Mahani Teave, along with her partner Enrique Icka, a construction engineer, broke ground on their Toki School...
Embracing Ambivalence
Even though ambivalence is a common experience, as a concept it’s frequently misunderstood. It doesn’t mean that you don’t care about something or that...
UK Theatre’s Darkest Year
Ridiculous as it might seem now, eight to 10 weeks was initially discussed as a likely closure period. The more pessimistic were talking about...
Boston Lyric Opera Chief To Depart
Esther Nelson added a fourth live performance to the BLO’s season, using the extra production to highlight contemporary works by both up-and-coming as well...
A Beeple JPG File Sells for $69 Million At Auction
The price was a new high for an artwork that exists only digitally, beating auction records for physical paintings by museum-valorized greats like J.M.W....
Eight Consequential Inventions Of Literature
"Project Narrative is the world’s leading academic think tank for the study of stories, and in our research labs, with the help of neuroscientists...
Across US, Artists Are Losing Their Health Insurance
"Across the nation thousands of actors, musicians, dancers and other entertainment industry workers are losing their health insurance or being saddled with higher costs...