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When Seven Artists Withdrew Their Work From An Exhibition, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum...
The artists demanded control of their works' presentation and that the Contemporary Jewish Museum both boycott Israel and divest from companies doing business there;...
Ben Vautier, Fluxus Co-Founder Who Declared “Everything Is Art,” Commits Suicide At Age 88
The artist, who usually styled himself as simply "Ben," was known primarily for enigmatic slogans, scrawled in white or bright-colored paint, which he sometimes...
The Kind Of Job “Most Artistic Leaders Only Dream Of”
"The support (Barry) Diller has pledged to Little Island’s programming, millions of dollars with no end in sight, is the kind most artistic leaders...
Israel Museum’s Roof Damaged By Fire In Possible Arson
A bushfire that started in Jerusalem's Valley of the Cross spread quickly to the museum — home to, among other archaeological riches, the Dead...
Two More Brit-Lit Festivals Give Up Sponsorship By Baillie Gifford
Following the decisions by the Hay Festival and Edinburgh International Book Festival, both prompted by withdrawals and boycott threats by participating writers, the Borders...
See What Thomas Heatherwick Plans To Do With An Empty Island In Seoul’s Han...
What he plans to do looks a lot like what he did with Little Island in New York City's Hudson River — create a...
Meet The First-Ever Winner Of The $50,000 Knight Choreography Prize
Rosie Herrera, who founded her own company in Miami in 2009, will receive $30,000 in an unrestricted cash reward and $20,000 in programmatic support...
Netflix And Ava DuVernay Settle Defamation Lawsuit Brought By Central Park Five Prosecutor
Linda Fairstein sued DuVernay and Netflix in 2020, alleging that in the 2019 miniseries When They See Us she was falsely portrayed as a...
Why Was The New Deal’s Federal Theater Project So Inspiring? It Never Took Theater’s...
"(Hallie) Flanagan and her colleagues made theater an important expression of the American democratic experiment through force of will, passion, and ingenuity. And although...
San Francisco Symphony Board President And CEO Give Their First Interview Since Esa-Pekka Salonen’s...
“Last season, we were facing what would have been roughly an $11 million deficit on a roughly $80 million budget. … We’ve had a...
Faculty Sue Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts Over Abrupt Shutdown
"The plaintiffs — a group of professors, department heads and administrators — say the school did not give them 60 days' written notice of...
Exit Interview: Antonio Pappano On His 22 Years As Music Director Of London’s Royal...
"I believe that an opera performance should be something unified — so that what’s going on in the orchestra pit and onstage make complete...
Temple University Is Considering Merger To Save Philadelphia’s University Of The Arts
“I’m working with their chair to see if we can put this genie back in the bottle,” said Temple board chair Mitchell L. Morgan....
Now That Ron DeSantis Has Stopped Picking Fights With Them, Disney Plans To Invest...
"During the next decade or two, Disney would be approved to build a fifth major theme park at Disney World and two more minor...
Douglas Chrismas, Once One Of L.A.’s Top Gallerists, Convicted Of Embezzlement
"On Friday, after less than an hour of deliberation, the jury … (found) him guilty of embezzling more than $260,000 from the bankruptcy estate...
The Free Library Of Philadelphia Has A Much-Loved Author Events Program. Its Entire Staff...
"The former staffers said they offered their resignation due to what they described as a 'heartbreaking' work culture plagued by increasingly low morale over...
Even More Trouble For The Philly Pops: A Lawsuit By Its Former Jazz Director
"In the latest in a string of financial and legal battles, the Philly Pops is being sued in a federal racketeering lawsuit by its...
Hugues Gall, Civil Servant Who Reformed The Paris Opera, Is Dead At 84
After 15 years running Geneva's opera house, he returned to Paris to restore the national opera after years of shrinking audiences, administrative turmoil, the...
Audiobook Sales In The U.S. Reached $2 Billion In 2023
"The most avid audiobook listeners consumed an average of 6.8 titles in 2023, the survey found, marking an increase from 6.3 in 2022. Among...
The Louisiana Librarian Who Sued The Wingnuts That Said She Was Giving Kids Porn
"Amanda Jones vividly remembers the time she received her first death threat. … Jones lost 50 pounds, took medical leave from work and watched...
How Broadway’s Latest Revival Of “Cabaret” Became A Red-Hot Ticket Despite (Or Because Of)...
For every rave like Entertainment Weekly's ("jaw-droppingly gorgeous from start to finish"), there's a critique like this from The New York Times ("too often...
Exit Interview: Stoner Winslett On Her 44 Years As Artistic Director Of Virginia’s Richmond...
"In the decades since she founded Richmond Ballet in 1980, she has grown the organization from a local troupe of 12 dancers with an...
Edinburgh’s Arts Community Up In Arms As One Of Its Favorite Venues Is Put...
"Summerhall, … (a) complex of galleries, theatres and a cinema … housed in the city’s former veterinary school, has earned a reputation as one...
Faced With Declining Attendance, Some U.S. Museums Are Trying “Radical Hospitality”
That's the term SFMOMA director Christopher Bedford uses; Hirshhorn Museum director Melissa Chiu calls it "radical accessibility." Ted Loos reports on how those two...
Ruth Reinhardt Named Music Director Of Rhode Island Philharmonic
A former assistant conductor at the Dallas Symphony and Dudamel Fellow at the L.A. Philharmonic, the 36-year-old German takes up her position in the...
