There has been a proliferation of luxury celebrity writer "camps" that promise insight on how to be a successful writer. Is this an indulgence for the well-off or something practically usefu…
A recent survey of independent bookstores across Canada by BookNet received responses from a total of 69 stores, with 80 locations. One consequence of this dearth is that online book purchas…
According to the study, 34% of all 16-to-24-year-old music listeners surveyed admitted to using "stream ripping" apps or services to illegally copy music. When all respondents (ages 16 to 64…
Various production choices " no host (unless you count Homer Simpson), crummy disco music, a puerile announcer " are partly to blame. But the main problem is the award itself. The Emmys don'…
The producers of Jeremy O. Harris's daring drama set aside all 804 seats on Sept. 18 for Black theatregoers, and they marketed the event almost entirely through direct outreach. Harris was t…
As part of the grand opening of its big new store in central London, Samsung put up a three-story, 30-foot stage and presented a rock concert on it. Why? "Research … found 94% of smartphon…
A survey of more than 600 arts professionals (half of whom are directly involved in pricing decisions) reveals some interesting points about how those decisions are made " not least that a l…
"[He] championed the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, wrote a provocative study of suicide and explored his own risky pastimes in [bestselling] books about rock climbing and professional…
"This morning I got a request for a song called "Medicine for Melancholy," by Rivers Cuomo," Kantor said, sitting at the organ as a recent game got underway. "During batting practice, I got …
Researchers in Copenhagen have scanned and examined an unusually well-preserved half-length tomb sculpture, discovered in 1928 and dubbed The Beauty of Palmyra, and analyzed the surviving fr…
A nonagenarian in the French town of Compiègne had had the painting hanging on the wall above her hot plate for decades, thinking it was a common Greek icon. The 8-by-10-inch image turns ou…
"On Tuesday, Vox Media agreed to acquire New York Media, the company behind the biweekly print magazine and five popular online offshoots, in an all-stock transaction. … While consolidatio…
The move comes as the company investigates an allegation "that the 42-year-old tenor allegedly groped a female chorus singer during a curtain call " in front of fellow performers and the aud…
Count Basie's band, introduced by Steve Allen, performs at New York's Birdland. This performance is an excerpt from a rare kinescope of The Steve Allen Show, originally telecast by NBC on…
"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. What is necessary and what is wanted comes mysteriously at the beck and call of the artist." Maurice Barin…
The class of 2020 at the Toronto-based academy is comprised of 16 boys and 11 girls. " Newsweek
"We are used to seeing a museum as a building, a precinct, an institution and a collection. Museums are indeed spaces of particular kinds, but these kinds of international visits, exhibition…
Eliasson is known for his environmentally-themed work, which includes the installation Ice Watch, displayed during the UN Climate Summit in 2015. He is the subject of a retrospective show cu…
This is a textbook example of how a narrow viewpoint and blind devotion to procedure can lead you to bad ends. It's the permanent-collection equivalent of following a navigation app's direct…
Michael Chabon: "Maybe the world in its violent turning is too strong for art. Maybe art is a kind of winning streak, a hot hand at the table, articulating a vision of truth and possibility …
The metaphor of a "marketplace of ideas," where some sort of rational choice theory means the eventual selection of the best quality information, looks naive in an environment where junk new…
One day before he was due to take the stage in the title role of Verdi's Macbeth, both the tenor-turned-baritone and the opera house announced his withdrawal from the production. (Domingo sa…
"Merit is a sham," the preacher saith. "Merit itself is not a genuine excellence but rather"like the false virtues that aristocrats trumpeted in the ancien régime"a pretense, constructed to…
Jérôme Bel has decided to do his part to reduce greenhouse gases by ending his travel by air. Catherine Gallant is dancing his new solo work, Isadora, in New York. Reporter Roslyn Sulcas…
"Making art takes lots of time, and when time in a city becomes nothing but making that rent, you will not make art or the kind of art that requires (for its greatness) not just productivity…