"As recently as a few years ago, the movie-review aggregator was seen as something of an industry bogeyman. But is there a correlation between box office receipts and a high (or low) score o…
The first time that Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's lawsuit against Malcolm and The New Yorker went to court, she writes, the personal manner she and her colleagues at the magazine had cultivate…
Michael Andor Brodeur looks at the NFL's decision to add "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" to "The Star-Spangled Banner" before games, and ponders other anthems (because that's what they are) rang…
"Paraguayan Guaranà" a language descended from several indigenous tongues " remains one of the main languages of 70% of the country's population. And unlike other widely spoken native to…
"His 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years was an anti-capitalist analysis that struck a chord with many readers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Graeber's rigorous, readable radica…
"Team names and locations were not attached to the submissions when a panel of six professionals … judged them, so it was with surprise and delight that the jury discovered it had selected…
" Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World, which will get matinee and evening performances (socially distanced, of course) on Sunday, October 11 at the London Palladium, the theatre where…
"As it evolved, jazz remained a resistance music precisely because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression. But at the end of the 1960s,  
In the old-yet-new-again debate over the licence fee (charges to every UK household that owns a TV) that funds the national broadcaster " and appointed by a Conservative government that does…
"Virtual rehearsals had been running for five weeks when [company members] got the news: Colorado Ballet's PPP loan had run out, and [all] of Colorado Ballet's dancers were being furloughed.…
"The recipients will be selected by Department [of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications] officials. Their proposals must be 'efficient, effective, economical an…
It's funding, of course. Over the long term, it's probably increasing income from exported BBC programming. But in the near term, it's what to do about the TV licence fee that funds the whol…
Two years ago ArtsEngaged created the Facebook group Become Indispensable as a mechanism for people interested in community engagement in the arts to learn and share. That group's advisory b…
It's with dejected déjàvu that I report the imminent departure of some 90 Metropolitan Museum staffers from more than half a dozen departments. " Lee Rosenbaum
"An art form and industry built on 'Yes, and …' face a world of 'no,' 'maybe,' and 'who knows.' … Whether it's reshaping content to fit a new medium, staring down the possibility of perm…
Wilfred McClay: "I hear you, gentle reader, saying that surely I must be kidding. We need more profanity? Aren't we already being inundated with it? … And that's exactly the problem. Our c…
Earlier this week, The Daily Telegraph reported that the incoming BBC director general planned to cancel left-leaning comedy shows because the broadcaster's comic programming was unfairly bi…
"Whether the Juba or stepping, social dance has always been a big component of Ms. Brown's choreography. … When the pandemic hit, … like many other dancers and choreographers, she turned…
"[Multiple announcements of closures] paint a picture of a dance landscape in crisis. Without dance studios, professionals lose their places to train or work out new art before it appears to…
Thanks, COVID: following similar decisions for Art Basel Hong Kong and the flagship fair in Switzerland, 2020 becomes the first year in decades without a single live Art Basel event. " ARTne…
In a ransomware attack in May on the computer security company Blackbaud, hackers copied names, contact info and donation summaries from the databases of the Smithsonian, Britain's National …
Or, to put it more pessimistically/realistically, ticket sales have plummeted across the board in the US and UK, but the biggest drop has been in older audience members, according to the new…
W. Russell Barry worked as president of 20th Century Fox Television, overseeing production and syndication, and spent two years at Playboy, where he launched the Playboy Channel, before head…
The 2nd Bangkok Art Biennale won't be exactly what it was at its debut in 2018: there will be nine venues instead of 20, and organizers are having to look more to local audiences than to ove…
"Classical music has long been criticised for being overwhelmingly white, but the Southbank Centre said its first post-lockdown season in the Royal Festival Hall would feature works by 16 co…