Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s safe for decades. When she had time during the COVID lockdowns, she found the works and later took them to the nearby Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, where they were authenticated. - ARTnews
In the decades since its founding concerts, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the premier exponent and explorer of the musical traditions of Byzantium and other early Christian music, and Lingas one of its leading scholars. - Oregon Arts Watch
National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part of a cultural system that help define who belongs, who succeeds and what counts as “Canadian” in the first place. - The Conversation
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on Radio 3 over the years — comes after Wang made public a message from Lebrecht which she described as “derogatory misogynistic bullying.” - The Guardian
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of criticism. - Columbia Journalism Review
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical or extramusical – that illuminate his meaning.” - The Guardian
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design and the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles. - The Art Newspaper
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”. - The Guardian
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and in movies “moving away from isolation and other masculine stereotypes” and “towards vulnerability and connection.” - The Hollywood Reporter
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its author and community members. The idea is not just to discuss the story’s substance, but to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the reporting process and decision-making. - Nieman Lab
There’s a phrase that’s used around the Magic Kingdom to describe this phenomenon: “the Josh Effect.” D’Amaro — tall, slender and silver-haired — has a politician’s ability to make anyone he encounters feel seen and heard. - Variety
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder that good government is not only a matter of laws or statistics. It is a matter of presence. - Aeon
They allege Judy Baca personally benefited from a $5-million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to expand “The Great Wall,” sold the project’s archives to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at a large profit to herself, and has blurred the line between her nonprofit and for-profit endeavors. - Los Angeles Times
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. … Many are wondering whether it’s really appropriate to encourage preteens to master winged eyeliner before they’ve earned their pen licence.” Other teachers, however, have their reasons for requiring it. - The Guardian
“A few months ago, I stepped off the stage after my final bow with @abtofficial, closing one chapter and unknowingly preparing for the next,” she wrote. “Not too long after that, I had hip replacement surgery.” - The Cut
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting prospect, (Radcliffe) tells me, in large part because the play’s dependence on audience volunteers gives him a way to shed his sense of being a big name.” - Vulture (MSN)
“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey.” - TechCrunch
After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher, she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she launched Penguin Press eight days later, more than two dozen writers went with her. The list of prominent authors she has shepherded is astonishing. - The New York Times
“Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs that put writers and artists in schools. Nova Scotia’s arts and culture sector was hit hard by cuts announced (late) yesterday by the provincial government.” - Halifax Examiner
In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was down 6% from the fourth quarter last year; that figure ought to satisfy Wall Street’s expectations, but an unprofitable company is generally not considered a good thing. - The Hollywood Reporter
In a world increasingly defined by distance, between citizen and state, between policy and experience, between law and justice, Rammohun Roy offers a reminder that good government is not only a matter of laws or statistics. It is a matter of presence. - Aeon
We need to work, because survival demands it, and we need to rest, because work is tiring, but are those two possibilities really exhaustive? - Liberties Journal
It is no longer enough for universities to say that their programmes allow you to explore some of the most fundamental questions of existence. Now the questions are of a decidedly more bottom-line sort: how will philosophy help you buy a house or build your pension pot? - Aeon
The aim is cognitive clarity via fewer inputs, distilled choices, and settings centred around presence and focus. While design minimalism emphasizes appearance and object count, psychological minimalism directs attention and reduces cognitive friction. - Psyche
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
The study surveyed 1,500 tweens, teens and young adults, ages 10-24, finding that these groups want to see boys and men on TV and in movies “moving away from isolation and other masculine stereotypes” and “towards vulnerability and connection.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“Nearly half of all Nova Scotia Museum sites closed. The elimination of a fund supporting local publishers. A 100% cut to funding for programs that put writers and artists in schools. Nova Scotia’s arts and culture sector was hit hard by cuts announced (late) yesterday by the provincial government.” - Halifax Examiner
There’s an important caveat that my colleagues and I have recently begun to explore in our research: Positive views of creative work often shift once people learn that AI was involved. - The Conversation
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other organizations are scouring websites, signage, datasets and documents, treating them with the care of conservators as they resist the Trump administration’s efforts to recast the past. - The Washington Post...
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
In the decades since its founding concerts, the Portland-based professional vocal ensemble has gone on to become the premier exponent and explorer of the musical traditions of Byzantium and other early Christian music, and Lingas one of its leading scholars. - Oregon Arts Watch
National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part of a cultural system that help define who belongs, who succeeds and what counts as “Canadian” in the first place. - The Conversation
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on Radio 3 over the years — comes after Wang made public a message from Lebrecht which she described as “derogatory misogynistic bullying.” - The Guardian
“Playing to him is transformative in every way. His imagination is boundless; he will produce startling, unexpected images – or point out connections, musical or extramusical – that illuminate his meaning.” - The Guardian
The company is repurposing a century-old golf-course clubhouse along the city’s Beltline into the Molly Blank Center for Opera and the Arts. The complex will include an immersive theater, a recital hall, offices, film and costume facilities, classrooms, and a café. Opening is expected in fall 2027. - Atlanta Magazine
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
Charlotte Meyer’s grandfather, who had a sharp eye, picked them up inexpensively back when etchings weren’t highly valued, and they remained in her family’s safe for decades. When she had time during the COVID lockdowns, she found the works and later took them to the nearby Rembrandt House in Amsterdam, where they were authenticated. -...
This shift to the West Coast has long been driven by the region’s many art schools, including the ArtCenter, California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design and the art department at the University of California, Los Angeles. - The Art Newspaper
The home of the city’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works will be led by 57-year-old Annick Lemoine, currently director of the Petit Palais. She succeeds Sylvain Amic, who died suddenly in August 2025.” - Le Monde (in English)
Why the resignation of director Laurence des Cars hit so hard, the background of new director Christophe Leribault, the long list of problems which the world’s busiest museum is facing, and why President Macron is unusually invested in all this. - AP
In the leaked transcripts, Hutzel reportedly told employees that while the school’s administration might survive the reputational fallout, the college itself could become a target of elected officials with the power to allocate—or withhold—state funding. - ARTnews
“(Christophe) Leribault, 62, is an 18th-century-art historian who previously led the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie, both in Paris, before taking over at Versailles in 2024. ... He was deputy director of the Louvre’s department of graphic arts from 2006 to 2012.” - The Guardian
If the review sections of newspapers are closing down, there’s a sense that this moment could make room for a meatier, weirder kind of criticism. - Columbia Journalism Review
At a St. Petersburg bookstore, Lauren Peace, an enterprise equity reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, moderates conversations about a selected story among its author and community members. The idea is not just to discuss the story’s substance, but to give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the reporting process and decision-making. - Nieman Lab
A correspondent tries a method designed by professors of cognition to mirror language-learning in the real world. The tasks basically simulate how we would cope if dropped into a foreign country with an unknown language, simply using our innate skills to start making sense of the mysterious sounds made by everyone around us. -...
“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
There’s a phrase that’s used around the Magic Kingdom to describe this phenomenon: “the Josh Effect.” D’Amaro — tall, slender and silver-haired — has a politician’s ability to make anyone he encounters feel seen and heard. - Variety
“Podcasts have officially overtaken AM/FM talk radio as the more popular medium for spoken-word audio in the United States, according to Edison Research’s Share of Ear survey.” - TechCrunch
In the last quarter of 2025, as Netflix and Paramount Skydance began their attempts to buy it, WBD lost $252 million. Overall revenue was down 6% from the fourth quarter last year; that figure ought to satisfy Wall Street’s expectations, but an unprofitable company is generally not considered a good thing. - The Hollywood...
For the company’s Q4 2025, which ended on December 31, AMC reported total revenue of $1.28 billion. That’s a drop of 1.4% from the $1.3 billion the company reported for the same quarter a year earlier. - Fast Company
“We, the undersigned Attorneys General, write to express our concerns that the proposed merger between Netflix and Warner Brothers will likely result in undue market concentration that stifles competition and therefore creates higher prices, lower reliability, and less innovation for one of America’s major industries." - Deadline
“As Bari Weiss seeks to reimagine CBS News, staffers are preparing for … 60 Minutes, arguably the most influential news program in all of TV, to be ‘revolutionized’ along with it. … Recent months have seen a flurry of events that portend a very different 60 Minutes in the not-too-distant future.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“The question of whether children should be encouraged to break out the grease paint has been pressing on parents and dance teachers alike. … Many are wondering whether it’s really appropriate to encourage preteens to master winged eyeliner before they’ve earned their pen licence.” Other teachers, however, have their reasons for requiring it. -...
On New Year’s Day 1889, a young Paiute man named Wovoka had a vision in which God taught him a ceremony. The Ghost Dance blended traditional teachings, earlier ritual dances, and Christian theology, promising peace and reunion with the dead, and it spread like brushfire through the Great Basin and Plains. - National Geographic
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)
It is this connection with the bard’s work that has inspired Shakespeare’s Globe to launch its first climate playwriting prize for 2026, which it says will harness the skills of storytellers and artists to “inspire societal shifts towards a restorative relationship with nature”. - The Guardian
“The audience interaction is central to Every Brilliant Thing, … about a man processing his mother’s attempted suicide and his own depression. … It’s an exciting prospect, (Radcliffe) tells me, in large part because the play’s dependence on audience volunteers gives him a way to shed his sense of being a big name.” - Vulture (MSN)
Wicked, one of the highest earners on Broadway, saw the biggest drop due to the storm, as the musical fell $408,223 from the prior week. - The Hollywood Reporter
“The theatre did not confirm within which departments redundancies and cuts to job roles took place, though its most recent accounts reference ‘staff changes in the development team and wider organisation’. Revelations regarding staff reduction come a year into artistic director and joint chief executive Nadia Fall’s tenure.” - Arts Professional (UK)
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
They allege Judy Baca personally benefited from a $5-million Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to expand “The Great Wall,” sold the project’s archives to the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art at a large profit to herself, and has blurred the line between her nonprofit and for-profit endeavors. - Los Angeles Times
“A few months ago, I stepped off the stage after my final bow with @abtofficial, closing one chapter and unknowingly preparing for the next,” she wrote. “Not too long after that, I had hip replacement surgery.” - The Cut
After a dozen years as Random House, where she was executive editor and then editor-in-chief/publisher, she was fired in a corporate restructuring. When she launched Penguin Press eight days later, more than two dozen writers went with her. The list of prominent authors she has shepherded is astonishing. - The New York Times
While on a guest residency at NYU, she discovered the ARP 2500 synthesizer, which would be her tool for three decades before she turned to acoustic composition in the 2000s. As one colleague put it, she “taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception.” -...
For more than four decades, Robison was a constant at Tilson Thomas' side - not only as spouse but as manager, adviser and strategic partner. Friends and colleagues often described him as the behind-the-scenes architect who helped turn Tilson Thomas' artistic ambitions into lasting institutions and civic initiatives. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
“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 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.
The broadcaster’s decision to end its long relationship with Lebrecht — the widely-read, controversial critic and blogger who has hosted several interview programs on Radio 3 over the years — comes after Wang made public a message from Lebrecht which she described as “derogatory misogynistic bullying.” - The Guardian
A group called Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian has taken photos of every wall text in the Institution’s museums before they were changed. Other organizations are scouring websites, signage, datasets and documents, treating them with the care of conservators as they resist the Trump administration’s efforts to recast the past. - The Washington Post...
“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
