Art and Culture

March 19, 2024 @ 10:21 AM Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of local newspapers, will stop using the Associated Press’ content starting next week, a significant blow to the not-for-profit wire service collective that…
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In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. – The New York Times…
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“Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay a flat rate for access to shows, have leapt in popularity…
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Updated 1:30 p.m. ET on May 10, 2023“Do a Dance”The trend started, as so many do, on TikTok. Amazon customers, watching packages arrive through Ring doorbell devices, asked the people making the deliveries to dance for the camera. The…
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Zhang Weiwei ended her 11-year-old daughter’s piano lessons in January after three years of practice, citing costs and her child’s lack of enthusiasm.The fifth grader had been taking lessons from teachers at the Central Conservatory of…
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Industry lobbyists, and the lawmakers on their side, insist that the subsidies create $6 or $7 of “economic activity” for each $1 of state expenditure or forgone revenue. Independent experts keep finding that state coffers…
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With due reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jeremy Reynolds reports on what The Pittsburgh Symphony, opera, and Ballet Theatre are trying, such as design-your-own packages and flat fee/membership options. – Pittsburgh…
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The 1987 Franco Zeffirelli production is one of the company’s most lavish, and doing the opera without most of it really does diminish the experience. Still, only about 150 people left and requested refunds, leaving nearly 3,000…
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Not only have they released an open letter calling on the orchestra’s Board of Governors to reverse the cuts that motivated Salonen not to renew his contract, the musicians leafleted Saturday’s audience, urging listeners to…
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“Key organizations are striking out on new paths to energize audiences and solidify their cultural relevancy. (Veteran) arts leaders … are now ceding control to fresh faces. And young upstarts are shaking up the scene by…
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