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The arts and cultural sector is facing a multitude of challenges. With COVID and cost of living crisis following hot on the heels of a decade of funding cuts, many organisations have had to strip back their programmes. Some have closed altogether. In the face of this stark reality, the Conservative party’s 2024 manifesto feels

The Weekend Essay How “The Real World” Created Modern Reality TV Illustration by Nicholas Konrad; Source photographs from Alamy / Everett / Getty Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story One spring day in 1992, Eric Nies, a twenty-year-old model from New Jersey, walked into a swanky SoHo loft that he shared

W e tend to position work against a series of opposites. Some of these are lauded, or at least tolerated: leisure, play, meditation, contemplation, rest. But one of the antonyms of work is, in most accounts, something of more dubious value: idleness. Apathy and a lack of care; laziness and slothfulness and inaction; indolence and

Seven or eight years ago much of the news industry lost its head over a supposed “pivot to video” after Facebook pushed live and other formats with the promise of monetization to come. That didn’t work out so well for publishers, many of whom had hired expensive video teams and found they had to row

Everyone wants to get things done, but it can be hard to predict how long they’ll take. Mathematicians needed three centuries to prove Fermat’s Last Theorem—first proposed around 1637, the solution only came in 1994. Was that remarkably fast, or pathetically slow? What about rebuilding bridges and highways? Construction timelines often seem like testaments of

THE PRODUCER Select filmography: Baby Geniuses, Air Force One Down, Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby, Ghost in the Shell *** A veteran film producer, Paul is behind the Baby Geniuses franchise, as well as other films like Ghost Rider and Ghost in the Shell. He is also Jon Voight’s manager. But Paul also has

Our reach has extended dramatically, and our users are our target age group, 20-29. Are we still a newspaper?’– Katharina Schmidt A government-owned national daily founded in 1703 in Vienna, Austria, Wiener Zeitung had faced the possibility of closure for most of this century. In October 2022, the threat was realised when a new law

View image in fullscreen Homage to fromage: France’s first cheese museum opens in Paris Centre dedicated to ancestral dairy expertise will provide demonstrations, tastings and explain how to ‘read’ milk More than mere camembert: why France leads the world in cheesemaking Say “cheese” and Pierre Brisson is a happy man. The founder of France’s first

You could tell Göksu Kunak’s performance was beginning because blue light started flickering against the faces of a shadowy mass of guests pulling out their phones. Soon after, the Turkish performance artist was flitting back and forth under pouring strobes of white light on the steps of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, performing their work Venus. We

This report is the third annual study examining the gender distribution of leadership at ballet companies and classically based companies around the globe. This report examines the gender distribution of critical leadership positions including artistic directors, executive directors, assistant artistic directors, heads of schools, and artistic directors of second companies. DDP has also expanded to

Now that the Tony Awards have been doled out for the 2023-24 Broadway season, what can we conclude about a theatrical year that alternated between drought and flood? One obvious point is that if you’re looking to develop a winner, an off-Broadway or regional theater is the way to go. For all their economic travails,

View image in fullscreen Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules Coogan, production company Baby Cow and Pathe, the distributors of the 2022 film, will now face a full trial The portrayal of a former university official in Steve Coogan’s film about the discovery of the remains of

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View image in fullscreen Tracey Emin and Imelda Staunton get damehoods in king’s birthday honours Others honoured from cultural world include the writer Monica Ali, choreographer Wayne McGregor and children’s laureate Joseph Coelho Tracey Emin, the confessional visual artist, and the stage and screen actor Imelda Staunton are among leading figures from the world of

Glad I got to the Met for a glimpse before it becomes hotter 'n hell in NYC as elsewhere.  Although the museum was jammed, the show itself was comfortable. It was also much larger than I expected. I hadn't realized how many accomplished painters there were among the Harlem group. For example, I had never

Today’s on-line “The American Scholar” includes something of mine on a magnificent new recording of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances” – and why it matters. You can read the whole thing here.. An extract follows:  Rachmaninoff left two versions of the Symphonic Dances: one for orchestra, the other for two pianos. He premiered the latter, privately, with Vladimir

By migrating TikTok over to DSNP, Project Liberty says it could scale quickly, making it more competitive against similar protocols. Project Liberty has migrated more than 875,000 out of 20 million MeWe accounts over to DSNP since McCourt’s 2022 $150 million investment in the platform. Owning TikTok would provide the project with more than 150

“IF” isn’t exactly a box office bright spot. But Paramount’s kid-friendly fantasy about imaginary friends has ambled along in the time since its soft $33 million debut. Its current tally — $93 million domestically and $160 million worldwide — is decent for an original live-action PG film. Actor Patrick Schwarzenegger (who has no discernible connection

Infinite Scroll Is Google S.E.O. Gaslighting the Internet? Leaked documents provide a glimpse into the inner workings of Google Search—and contradict the company’s public claims. By Kyle Chayka June 12, 2024 Illustration by Ariel Davis Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story In March, Gisele Navarro watched Google Search traffic to her

Shari Redstone may have yet another offer on the table to buy National Amusements Inc., the controlling shareholder of Paramount Global — the latest twist in the months-long M&A drama swirling around the troubled media conglomerate. Erstwhile media mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr. is teaming with investment firm Bain Capital to put together an offer of