“They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’ mix candy-type store where there is something here for everyone, whether it’s the Harlequin romance novel or something very pulpy like a sci-fi or horror novel that you could quickly get.” - The Guardian
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia — to eight, including Arden of Faversham (previously thought to be partly by Shakespeare) and portions of history plays Henry VI Part 1 and Edward III. - The...
A different dark vision of society has emerged. Suddenly, we seem to be living in the age of Epstein. We tell ourselves that by understanding his rise to power we might understand the world. - The New Yorker
There’s soft coercion, where they are providing an incentive structure where they will not fund projects unless they have a social-justice angle. - Chronicle of Higher Education
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem to Lucinda Childs to Twyla Tharp. The 2026 Golden Lion has gone to Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s pioneering indigenous dance company. - Limelight (Australia)
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” - AP
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” - ARTnews
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. - The Strad
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. - WBEZ
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). - New York Magazine
‘Unfortunately the funding precarity is having very real impacts on employment of artists and arts workers. The stress and uncertainty are impacting the health and wellbeing of people in the sector.' - Artshub
As we enter the AI era, human collective thought patterns, ideological structures, and the very essence of individual existence and dignity are undeniably under threat. - ARTnews
The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract systems of thought—calculus, physics, advanced biology, quantum mechanics—that form the basis of all modern technology. - The Atlantic
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from a Russian word meaning ‘published abroad,’ which, along with samizdat (‘to self-publish’), was one of the two main methods of evading Soviet book censorship.” - The New York Times
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s) design.” - Artnet
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in the series Lizzie McGuire, Carridine had been struggling with bipolar disorder for nearly two decades. - Deadline
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two award, the Grand Jury Prize, went to Emin Alper’s Salvation; the third-place Jury Prize went to Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea. Sandra Hüller won Best Leading Performance honors for Rose. - Variety
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. … Of course, it is complicated. A case of competing sensitivities and the now livewire issue of omissions, snubs and complicity-through-silence.” - The Guardian
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a completely different vibe. The vibe of this city is very, very alive. It’s very prestissimo: You know, it’s a very fast tempo.” - The New York Times
A different dark vision of society has emerged. Suddenly, we seem to be living in the age of Epstein. We tell ourselves that by understanding his rise to power we might understand the world. - The New Yorker
The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract systems of thought—calculus, physics, advanced biology, quantum mechanics—that form the basis of all modern technology. - The Atlantic
I don’t believe in this inevitability. As a reader of many distinctive publications, I want to be led by them. What makes them special is where they choose to take me, and how much I trust them to do that. - The Atlantic
Mexistentialism “teaches us that our crises, even if they are framed by the catastrophic, are that only in appearance. … Our crises will not destroy us because these crises are inscribed in history, and it is history that frames who we are.” - Aeon
In Ireland, despite how often the government uses Irish arts to market the country to tourists, "more than 56 per cent of artists and arts workers experience enforced deprivation (that’s three times the rate in the general population).” - Irish Times (Archive Today)
It’s a design flaw, and it can be fixed. “We have been here before. Not just once, but repeatedly, in a pattern so consistent it reveals something essential about how cultural elites respond to changes in how knowledge moves through society.” - Aeon
There’s soft coercion, where they are providing an incentive structure where they will not fund projects unless they have a social-justice angle. - Chronicle of Higher Education
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” - ARTnews
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. - WBEZ
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). - New York Magazine
‘Unfortunately the funding precarity is having very real impacts on employment of artists and arts workers. The stress and uncertainty are impacting the health and wellbeing of people in the sector.' - Artshub
As we enter the AI era, human collective thought patterns, ideological structures, and the very essence of individual existence and dignity are undeniably under threat. - ARTnews
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. - The Strad
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a completely different vibe. The vibe of this city is very, very alive. It’s very prestissimo: You know, it’s a very fast tempo.” - The New York Times
“The State of Live,” newly released by the Chicago Independent Venue League, finds that nearly three out of four independent live entertainment venues in the city are currently not profitable, as they reel from rising artist fees, higher taxes and soaring labor and production costs. - Chicago Sun-Times
“I headed to the back of the shop and to a cluster of three freezers. This was it. The sound they were making was an unbelievable symphonic hum. I stood entranced; it was like listening to an orchestra playing underwater.” - The Guardian (UK)
For Spencer Richardson, who finds, repairs, and sells tape players, “his customers include older baby boomers and Gen X‑ers nostalgic for the players of their childhood, but most have been millennials like himself, drawn to something tactile and analog.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
The case, known as the Fish Market dispute, asks whether a looping beat widely associated with reggaeton can be protected by copyright. More than 150 artists and producers have been named as defendants, and around 3,600 songs are implicated. - The Conversation
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s) design.” - Artnet
As funding pressures deepen across the sector, and running costs increase, a policy once treated as untouchable is now under renewed scrutiny. - The Guardian
A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies. - The Guardian
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.” - The New York Times
The museum “covers the entire history of city parks within a 6-by-10-foot room. … Because the museum capacity is five people and the pent-up demand goes back 130 years, the opening was intentionally kept soft.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
“They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’ mix candy-type store where there is something here for everyone, whether it’s the Harlequin romance novel or something very pulpy like a sci-fi or horror novel that you could quickly get.” -...
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from a Russian word meaning ‘published abroad,’ which, along with samizdat (‘to self-publish’), was one of the two main methods of evading Soviet book censorship.” - The New York Times
As reading is increasingly tracked and performed online, there is a growing sense that a solitary pleasure is being reshaped by the logic of metrics and visibility. - The Guardian
The advent of the chatbot raised an unsettling question: What if writing didn’t have to be hard? What if that noble ordeal was no more necessary than going to a well to fetch your water when you could just turn on a tap? - The Atlantic
“The strictly disenchanted world, where nothing exists but physical processes describable without metaphor, and even consciousness is just a material problem waiting to be solved, can be a desiccated place. It keeps heart and mind on inadequate rations.” - The Guardian (UK)
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two award, the Grand Jury Prize, went to Emin Alper’s Salvation; the third-place Jury Prize went to Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea. Sandra Hüller won Best Leading Performance honors for Rose. -...
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. … Of course, it is complicated. A case of competing sensitivities and the now livewire issue of omissions, snubs and complicity-through-silence.” - The Guardian
The heavy-handed adaptation of Vineland won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director — and best adapted screenplay. Hamnet won best British film (& Jesse Buckley best actress), which, sure. Wunmi Motaku took home the sole acting award from Sinners, and Ryan Coogler won for best original screenplay. - BBC
Suggestions of pro-America content the department made include running public service announcements, short segments, or full specials specifically promoting civic education, inspiring local stories, and American history or starting each broadcast day with “The Star Spangled Banner” or Pledge of Allegiance. - The Hill
The gains validate a bold bet by Charter Chief Executive Chris Winfrey: that cable could survive, if no longer thrive, by embracing the apps that had begun to supplant the traditional TV bundle. - The Wall Street Journal
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem to Lucinda Childs to Twyla Tharp. The 2026 Golden Lion has gone to Bangarra Dance Theatre, Australia’s pioneering indigenous dance company. - Limelight (Australia)
“When the mood and choreography strike, Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney invites a few folks to perform on stage as supernumeraries. That’s a fancy term for extras—usually peasants—who mill around and have deeply animated conversations with their supernumerary neighbors.” - KC Studio
“It seems we’re in a particularly fruitful era of artistic innovation in skating. What’s driving the current wave — and how might it shape the future of the sport? - Dance Magazine
How a cross between rock climbing, rappelling, circus aerobatics and contemporary dance turned into a performing art of its own. - The Mercury News (San Jose)
“Grand Rapids Ballet has dismissed executive director Mary Jennings after less than two years in the role, replacing her with an interim CEO as the ballet rethinks its leadership strategy.” - Crain’s Grand Rapids Business
“I’m not, um, young,” she says. “And I do have help. I don’t go in without somebody there who can help to translate and who understands my movement. But my favorite thing is to make things.” - The New York Times
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman and Perseda, and Cornelia — to eight, including Arden of Faversham (previously thought to be partly by Shakespeare) and portions of history plays Henry VI Part 1 and Edward III....
That is, the kind of “theatre” that one might see on C-SPAN — indeed, that some people did, in 1993 (though the 1993 version didn’t have a yellow chicken suit). - The Atlantic
“These mythological creatures tap into our anxiety over what would happen if we became otherly human. … As the horror author Grady Hendrix put it: ‘Vampires are the only monster that looks like us.’” - The New York Times
Comedian Anthony Novak was nabbed by Parma police, tossed into the county jail and charged “with a felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison,” all for the alleged crime of making fun of said police force. - Deadline
Nike Imoru said that for last year’s staging of The Odyssey, she was told to get cornrows but was not provided with a competent stylist as Equity’s contract requires — and that the backstage worker who did the work instead left her with permanent damage, including the loss of most of her hair. -...
George R.R. Martin, author of the series of novels at the heart of the franchise, says that the RSC was the ‘obvious choice’ to produce the play — Game of Thrones: The Mad King — because Shakespeare had been a constant source of inspiration to him. - The Guardian
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” - AP
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in the series Lizzie McGuire, Carridine had been struggling with bipolar disorder for nearly two decades. - Deadline
Skoog came on board at a rough time, just as 9/11 obliterated any arts attention. “The softly spoken, self-effacing and courteous Skoog set about refreshing the repertoire and encouraging British choreographers, including Christopher Hampson and Michael Corder.” - The Times (UK)
“I had a stalker. We had an injunction on her and I thought that everything was safe and then I was on stage doing a press night in the West End and someone stood up out of the front row and put flowers at my feet and I realised it was my stalker.” -...
Colón’s “driving musical energy and mischievous bad-boy image — he was long promoted as ‘El Malo’ — helped made him a luminary of New York salsa music, and 1978 collaboration with Rubén Blades, Siembra, became one of the top-selling salsa albums of all time.” - The New York Times
The Columbia Museum of Art (CMA), in Columbia, South Carolina, an AAM-accredited institution, seeks an Executive Director to build upon its 75-year legacy.
Quantum Theatre seeks a visionary Artistic Director to build on an experimental legacy, shape ambitious programming, and lead Quantum into its next era of impact.
The Executive Director manages all aspects of the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) including programming, development, and engagement with the campus and community.
Seattle Theatre Group (STG) is seeking an experienced, innovative Chief Marketing and Communications Officer (CMCO). The CMCO is a vital member of STG's senior leadership.
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a completely different vibe. The vibe of this city is very, very alive. It’s very prestissimo: You know, it’s a very fast tempo.” - The New York Times
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.” - The New York Times
In Ireland, despite how often the government uses Irish arts to market the country to tourists, "more than 56 per cent of artists and arts workers experience enforced deprivation (that’s three times the rate in the general population).” - Irish Times (Archive Today)
“These mythological creatures tap into our anxiety over what would happen if we became otherly human. … As the horror author Grady Hendrix put it: ‘Vampires are the only monster that looks like us.’” - The New York Times
“The move comes after the country’s right-wing culture minister Gayton McKenzie scrapped a pavilion proposal by artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo.” They said, “The space will remain empty: a space of erasure, cancellation, censure.” - Hyperallergic
It’s a design flaw, and it can be fixed. “We have been here before. Not just once, but repeatedly, in a pattern so consistent it reveals something essential about how cultural elites respond to changes in how knowledge moves through society.” - Aeon
“For more than four decades, he was a central figure in European opera, admired not for flamboyance but for integrity, stylistic intelligence, and a distinctive vocal timbre that combined gravity with warmth.” - Moto Perpetuo
“Concerns were recently raised by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLIF), a voluntary group of solicitors, about references to ‘Palestine’ in displays covering the ancient Levant and Egypt, which risked ‘obscuring the history of Israel and the Jewish people.’” - The Guardian (UK)
The murals are all part of Elon Musk’s effort to blame Democrats for crime - and they’re appearing on buildings across the United States. - Chicago Sun-Times
“Keep a diary, get a camera, learn to print your own photos. Don’t put it all in your phone, because everything in your phone belongs to someone else. And if you want to write a secret to someone, send a letter.” - The Guardian (UK)
“Victor Quiñonez, the artist behind the exhibition, said he learned about the university’s decision when students messaged him on social media to say the windows of the gallery in Denton, northwest of Dallas, had been covered and the door locked.” - The New York Times
