Art and Culture

The global art market clawed its way back to modest growth in 2025, reaching an estimated $59.6 billion in sales, according to the latest Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report, by economist Clare McAndrew of Arts Economics. The total…
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Two big entertainment deals closed last week — Paramount sold, Live Nation tightened its grip on ticketing — and I argue in Diacritical why these commercial infrastructure moves should alarm anyone running a nonprofit arts…
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Image: Pixabay Two huge culture industry deals in the past week, both in entertainment, and maybe they don’t seem connected. Certainly not connected to non-profit arts. But these are exactly the kinds of culture infrastructure deals…
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Saved from the dump, a Nelson pipe organ from County Durham is now in a new home in East London More than 400 of the UK's church pipe organs are being junked or falling silent due to neglect every year.The organ preservation charity Pipe…
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Just before Valentine’s Day, Brad Reese bought a bag of Reese’s Unwrapped Peanut Butter Creme Mini Hearts from his local convenience store in West Palm Beach, Florida. It was a brand-new product, released especially for the holiday,…
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Last fall Carrie Olivia Adams sketched an overview of the current state of book publicity to share with colleagues at the University of Chicago Press and, a little later, members of the wider university-press community. I’ve thought…
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To the untrained eye, there is very little difference between the three known versions of “The Lute Player.” Almost identical in composition, the paintings all depict a young, doe-eyed subject in white…
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Hamida Aman, founder of Radio Begum, launched the women-run station in Kabul on International Women’s Day in 2021, just months before the Taliban retook power. Broadcasting programs on…
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra ending its contract with Andris Nelsons, its music director since 2014, has come as a shock to players and conductor alike. “The BSO and Andris Nelsons were not aligned on future vision,” read a terse…
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Teatro Regional del Bío-Bío, 2018, Concepción, Chile…
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