Just since the beginning of this year, Spotify has bought podcast producer-distributor Gimlet Media for $230 million and a $100 million startup called Luminary is developing a paid-subscript…
Adam Sternbergh: "When you first heard about podcasts, do you remember how excited you weren't? Do you recall the first person who said, 'Did you know you can now download audio files of peo…
The daughter of a Harvard Sanskrit professor, Ingalls settled in England as a young adult "and began to publish short stories; her editor at Faber's, Charles Monteith, said she was 'a genius…
Francis Spufford, who won a Costa Book Award and an Ondaatje Prize for his 2016 book Golden Hill, has spent 3½ years working on a Narnia prequel he's titled The Stone Table. "After finish…
As negotiations over a new contract drag on and concerts get cancelled, members of Chicago's acting community have joined musicians on the picket line, both candidates for mayor in the city'…
The "Statue of Unity," which is actually of independence leader Vallabhbhai Patel and is currently the world's tallest statue, was completed last fall, and more are on the way: a statue of t…
"While the government's priorities shifted a bit in the immediate aftermath of [Hurricane Maria], as the island works to rebuild, tourism, particularly arts-fueled tourism, is playing a sign…
"In a career stretching back to the 1950s and continuing into his 90s, Dr. Nketia wrote hundreds of articles and books in English and Twi, a Ghanaian language, on topics ranging from music t…
"So-called 'virtues of the mind', such as open-mindedness, thoroughness, and intellectual humility, have been extensively discussed by philosophers. Arrogance, imperviousness to evidence and…
I recently had the opportunity to engage with Lyz Crane of ArtPlace America in a discussion about creative placemaking and community engagement. In the course of that discussion she shared s…
Having heard Luigi Brugnaro, Mayor of Venice, expound on Tintoretto's "values" during yesterday's livestream of the National Gallery of Art's press preview for the Venetian artist's first fu…
"How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? … Perhaps we should take the idea of 'the human' as a rights-bearer and …
Last fall, Swiss researchers exposed nine wheels of Emmentaler in an aging cellar to various types of music: classical (Mozart's Magic Flute), rock (Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"), tec…
Catherine Brown: "At the risk of taking too-seriously an award of which the keynote is not seriousness, there are several problems involved in this that are worth considering. One is the imp…
"Nataki Garrett, currently serving as acting artistic director for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, will take the reins in August … The announcement ends a nearly yearlong search…
Sandra Newman looks at the 126 Shakespeare sonnets (out of a total of 154) addressed to the Fair Youth, at other sonnets and love poetry of the time and place, and at what Shakespeare's cont…
"In the space of a few short years, the Boston-born, Southern California transplant (born Richard Anthony Monsour) had merged the laid-back, sun-blasted lifestyle of the surf scene with a bl…
"Across the country, scores of artistic directors, most of them white men who have served as community tastemakers for years, are leaving their jobs via retirements, ousters, and an industry…
At a holiday party in 2017 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, an inebriated Michael Rohana allegedly broke off and pocketed the thumb of one of the 2,000-year-old Chinese terracotta …
As part of the City's agreement to let the Met charge non-New Yorkers a mandatory admission fee, the museum is to give the City a portion of the new revenues for grants to other organization…
"Arcadian Broad, who has a national following as Orlando Ballet's best-known dancer, will depart the company next month. The ballet company declined to renew his contract, as well as that of…
"For the third time in as many years, the White House has proposed a federal budget that would shutter the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Cor…
"Audiences at the opera are increasingly booing the 'baddies', not for a perceived poor performance but because of their characters, in a change that has been attributed to the enthusiasm of…
"The mirthful character actor who stood out on the big screen in The Men, Cry Danger and Stalag 17 and then on the sitcom Community … excelled at playing soldiers, sailors, wisecracking si…
"London's National Portrait Gallery has decided against accepting a £1m grant from the Sackler Trust, following growing controversy over the damaging medical impact of OxyContin, a drug p…