"Suddenly he was in a drab, dehumanizing place, first a stable in California, then the barracks of Topaz, Utah, where he spent most of his time in internment. It was bleak, hot, arid and dus…
The podcasting business is changing at the speed of sound. There's a pivot toward profit. And while that's great in the short run for public podcasting, it also attracts new players and an a…
Everyone includes musicians, visual artists, designers, dancers and other freelancers who are part of Washington's vibrant arts economy. They are musicians with no tour dates. Art handlers w…
SXSW announced Thursday that it's partnering with Amazon Prime Video to stream as much of its movie line-up as possible for a 10-day period in the U.S. It will be free to viewers with or wit…
I spoke to several industry professionals; almost all were reluctant to play Monday morning quarterback without the promise of anonymity"if you're making a book deal in secret, perhaps it's …
Comics are largely sold through the direct market, moving from publisher to distributor to specialty comics retailers, as opposed to digital distribution or the newstands of yesteryear. But …
For most of my career, dancing and academic research were two separate but equally weighted spheres. However, over the years, I have become more and more aware that many people viewed dance …
To bring real value, any A.I. application needs loads of quality data"which is doubly problematic in our small and notoriously opaque industry (dealers l-o-v-e to hoard sales info). Without …
Withers broke out nationally with "Ain't No Sunshine," which he also wrote and reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. Fueled by a melancholic groove and soulful vocal, it won the Gr…
Mr. Woods's previous position ended just as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's season was about to begin last year. After building a reputation for innovation during his run as president of the …
How did this building, initially embraced as promising, if not visionary, come to ignite a scorched-earth debate in its final stages? The story of LACMA's campus reconstruction"and the curre…
The era of peak globalisation is over. An economic system that relied on worldwide production and long supply chains is morphing into one that will be less interconnected. A way of life driv…
It's certainly true that people have been reading Shakespeare's plays for almost as long as they have been watching them. Within two or three years of his first, collaborative efforts on the…
In a 2016 study, the median small business had enough cash to last just 27 days, while a 2018 survey found that 21 percent would fail after a month without cash flow. Bookstores run on even …
Said Chay Yew, "We've always complained about how the American theatre doesn't work. I for one find the blank slate exciting. We either repeat what we did before or we don't. The structure w…
"It's definitely less trouble. You can stroll around the masterpieces at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, while seated at home in front of your laptop. Naturally, it's far less crowded that way t…
"Many see the period of isolation as an opportunity to pursue passions that might have otherwise lain dormant. Music-learning apps and sheet music sites like nKoda have boomed, and, contrary…
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced $60M in advance funding to arts organizations that have approved funding from the 2019/20 season. This amounts to the equivalent to 35% of the a…
Put simply, the state's dance scene has taken a body blow. Indeed, industry leaders fear that some companies won't recover from this crisis at all and others could come back in a weakened or…
"The 20-year-old BPT, which has grown from a local company to an international ticket broker, handles tens of thousands of events around the world each month. But in the past few weeks, a…
Covered in screens these past few weeks, I have noticed some positive changes. I FaceTime my friends so much that I know them better than I did before. I decided to learn what TikTok was, an…
"The internet may be exploding with resources for virtual classes, from top dancers teaching barre to free warm-ups courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Foundation, but in academia, teachers fac…
"At issue is the aspect of copyright law that allows authors to terminate copyright grants to publishers. The putative class action was brought by John Waite and Joe Ely, musicians who alleg…
China's 70,000 theaters shut down in January amid coronavirus concerns during the weekend of the Chinese New Year, which is typically the country's busiest moviegoing time. Piracy data compa…
And shows, where a Dreamworks show took honors. Repeating this year as most-trafficked museum is the Louvre in Paris, which welcomed 9.6 million visitors, easily beating No. 2, the National …