"If 'Tenet' doesn't come out or doesn't succeed, every other company goes home," said a marketing executive from a rival studio who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not …
According to the nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults, surveyed from 29 April to 1 May, the nation has also increased the amount of time it spends reading books from around 3.5 h…
Art lovers will drive into the 4,000 square foot downtown industrial space and will stay inside their vehicles. It's quite a change from the original concept, which permitted 700 peopl…
Beyond simply creating art for art's sake, or for school credits, many of the young people I encountered are building social movements and creative projects around a different vision for our…
"Seeing ourselves as pitiable requires rethinking fundamental ideas about America's history, purpose and destiny. It obliges us to do something that is intolerable, to accept our weakness, e…
Now " when yearly upfront presentations would normally take place " networks are instead deciding whether to move forward with or completely scrap prospective shows, despite having barely an…
Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada will pay musicians $150 per online performance for its members. The project is backed by $200,000 in funding every three months f…
Global downloads for Plague Inc, a 2012 video game that encourages players to spread a disease around the world before a cure is found, increased by an annual 123% from January to March this…
Laura Collins-Hughes: "As we flock online in these isolated, uncertain days, looking to sate our theater cravings, a lot of us are watching plays we have already seen onstage " familiar comf…
Categories of books that sold best last month were fiction, cookbooks, and children's books, but compared with April 2019, sales were largely down at the indies contacted. Most saw declines …
Asking a Medieval person to imagine the world and their place on it would demand a radically different sort of cognitive map than one a modern person might rely on. This affects pragmatic ma…
"The weird feel of us meeting in a virtual fishtank, with real people able to peek in, makes me think of a possible future where performers work in VR, while directors or creators observe in…
"If things are not yet 100 percent (in Chicago in September), it's possible we could have a group of the orchestra divided into two parts: a group of 45, 50 people (and) another group of 45,…
We isolate them together, seal them off, protect them from the larger world. It's not like this in other cultures. So why is that? " Aeon
A sense of precariousness is not unfamiliar to museum workers who were already living through austerity, Brexit, and the deregulation of the workforce. But long before this current health cr…
"Some tough decisions are going to have to be made. And it's not going to be small changes, it's going to be big changes for a time. And that feels incredibly painful if I'm honest." " BBC
Spotify, which controls 36 per cent of the world streaming market, reported third-quarter operating proceeds of $60 million (all figures U.S.) in October 2019. YouTube, meanwhile, revealed i…
In non-pandemic times, even the most modest change at a college or university can take months, if not years. Think of the committees, reports, reviews, and approvals needed to introduce even…
Five prominent pianists have released books recently. Some are collaborations, some a simple musings. All show an engagement with the world beyond the keyboard. " Van
Colorado's funders have been stepping up to prop up the arts with emergency money. But it's clear that the need far outstrips the resources. What happens next? " Westword
"We will need to be prepared for an entirely new and multi-phased approach to audience and community engagement"both at the organizational and industry-wide levels. When there is no preceden…
"There are many reasons why musicians continue to make music, both live and in the studio, right up until the end. In some cases it is out of financial necessity, and in other instances it i…
"Many people were likely stunned to read recently the announcement by Microsoft that AI was proving to be better at reading X-rays than trained radiologists. Most newspaper readers don't rea…
Meritocracy begins with the idea that people have to be measured on a scale of human value. So when we have decided that meritocracy is the way into higher education " or in particular into …
As some states allow a handful of businesses to reopen and other regions charge ahead full throttle, it is an experiment for bookstore owners and other retailers attempting to strike a balan…