Yearly Archives: 2023
How Children’s Museums Are Evolving
Once venues for younger children that provided rainy-day entertainment through exhibits and a scattering of hands-on activities, they’re expanding their scope by offering a...
Jerry Springer, Host Of America’s Most Notorious TV Talk Show, Is Dead At 79
The former Cincinnati mayor, who once said that he didn't mind being called the "grandfather of trash TV," hosted a "tabloid talk show known...
What Blair Tindall Got Right About The Classical Music World
In the pre-#MeToo era, when we had yet to shift from feminism’s third wave into its fourth, it was easy—even forgivable—to miss what Tindall...
Consider The Poetry Slam
"Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a 'language game'. ... t is a place to play with words, and...
More Theaters Experiment With Collective Leadership And Term Limits
Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be...
Nigerian Government Transfers Ownership Of The Benin Bronzes, Complicating Repatriation Negotiations
A decree has declared the traditional king of the region where the artworks were made, the Oba of Benin, their official owner. Now...
This Theatre Will Have The UK’s First-Ever In-House Department Dedicated To New Musicals
The Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio "will be led by a Head of New Musical Theatre, who will commission, develop and produce new musicals in...
Ellsworth Kelly’s Widower is On A Giving Spree With Both Artworks And Money
To honor Kelly's 100th birthday, Jack Shear is dividing 146 works among 19 museums, with MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art,...
A New Bill In The US Senate Targets Ticketmaster’s Market Stranglehold
"Titled the 'Unlock Ticketing Markets Act,' the legislation aims to 'help restore competition to live event ticketing markets by empowering the Federal Trade Commission...
NPR’s “Fresh Air” Gets A New Full-Time Co-Host
Terry Gross isn't going anywhere; she remains as host and executive producer. Starting May 1, her on-air partner will be Tonya Mosley, a contributing...
The Rising Alarm Over Library Book Bans
It appears that public libraries are another battleground for the United State's ever-present culture wars. - NPR
Pappano: The Challenges Of Conducting Music For The Royal Coronation
"You can imagine the challenges of getting the choir, the organ, the fanfare and the orchestra together. So yes, it's going to be...
Edinburgh Festival Fireworks To End After 40 Years
The 45-minute show from Edinburgh Castle, which began in 1982, usually attracts more than 250,000 spectators. Organisers said the world famous event would not...
Disney Sues Ron DeSantis
“The governor got very angry over the position Disney took and he’s decided to retaliate against us, including the naming of a new board...
How The Internet Has Changed Art
There’s this huge sense of people claiming spaces and positions without truly investigating them. I’m trying to speak to this idea that art isn’t...
So How Are Those Art Investment Funds Doing?
A wealth adviser based in Florida whose firm has researched and invested in fintech companies told ARTnews that “cheap money” fueled a surge of interest in...
The Africa Center In Harlem Is Becoming far More Than A Museum Of African...
It was called the Museum for African Art when it opened in 1984 and for decades afterward. After a long, troubled move into a...
Shakespeare’s First Folio Was Published 400 Years Ago. Here’s What Would Have Been Lost...
Without the weight – cultural as well as literal – of the collected edition, it’s possible few would care about these surviving plays. Something...
Dissident Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Is Able To Leave Iran For The First Time In...
"Panahi, 62, is best known for films including The White Balloon, The Circle and Taxi Tehran – and for spending his career under close...
Meaning And Machines And Making Sense Of How Art Works
There’s something irrevocably empirical about the fact that poems and novels and paintings and music and films stir cognitive-affective goings-on that have the bearings...
Why BuzzFeed News Didn’t Survive While Its Sister, HuffPost, Did
"BuzzFeed News was 'a social media ecosystem company, and the ecosystem went away,' said a former BuzzFeed exec. 'HuffPost was a pre-social media company....
The Usefulness Of Feeling Irritated
Something about this ordinary, negligible feeling seems to make it inaccessible to critical reflection. Perhaps because, when irritable, we tend to be at our...
Alexei Ratmansky Cut All Ties With Russia, But The Bolshoi And Mariinsky Are Still...
He's found clips of the works in recent social media posts by the two companies — with his name removed. And, no surprise, they...
The Art Of Classical Music Fashion
While not every musical artist takes risks — in their repertory or their apparel choices, be they prét-à-porter or the hautest of haute —...
DC’s Arena Stage Appoints Its New Artistic Director
"Hana S. Sharif, artistic director of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and a former staffer with organizations in Hartford, Boston and Baltimore, takes...
