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BBC Strikes Deal To Produce Original Content For YouTube
Under the agreement, the BBC will grow its number of YouTube channels to 50, which includes those operated by commercial arm, BBC Studios. New...
Director And Designers Demand Their Names Be Removed From Met Opera’s “Carmen”
Carrie Cracknell’s staging has Escamillo (here a rodeo star rather than a bullfighter) enter to the “Toreador Song” in a Jaguar convertible followed by...
Oscar Nominations 2026: “Sinners” Sets All-Time Record With 16 Nods
Director Ryan Coogler’s Mississippi Delta vampire epic has surpassed the 14-nomination record jointly held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Paul...
Trump Administration Just Won’t Let Its Court Fight Against Institute Of Museums And Library...
“Although the IMLS restored discretionary grant funding in December and just last week reopened to grant proposals for FY 2026 — in compliance with a November court order...
World’s Oldest Known Cave Art Discovered In Indonesia
“One hand stencil was dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the oldest securely dated cave art found anywhere. This is at...
One Minneapolis Theater Suspends Operations Indefinitely, Partly Because Of ICE
The Jungle Theater has been wrestling with financial problems ever since COVID hit, but the decision to close comes after an ICE raid near...
UK Government Announces £1.5 Billion In Arts Funding
Around half of the package, £760 million, will go to museums, mostly for infrastructure needs. £425 million will go to support some 300 performance...
A Labor Economist Looks At Opera And Says It Isn’t Dying (But Its Business...
Christos Makridis of Arizona State University: “I found the public’s demand for meaningful, live cultural experiences — including opera — remains strong. … (But)...
There’s More Footage Of The Jewelry Robbery At The Louvre — And It Looks...
“The two perpetrators can be seen wearing balaclavas and using disc cutters to slice open display cases. The theft takes place under the watch...
A Look At Opera’s Sexiest Tune, With Its Reigning Singer
Mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina on the Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen. - The New York Times
Maybe Listening To An Audiobook Really Is As Good As Reading A Print Book
“Is listening to a book while doing the dishes, walking the dog or drifting off to sleep really as valuable as sitting down to...
So This Is Donald Trump’s “Golden Age of Culture” …
“Trolling and tackiness, often crossbred with left-coded pop songs and hot memes, have served to wish a new zeitgeist into existence. Consume only the...
Sundance Gears Up For Its Last Edition In Park City, Utah
“The country’s premier showcase for independent film is also in a time of profound transition after decades of relative stability. The festival is … forging forward...
Philip Leider, Founding Editor Of Artforum, Has Died At 96
Leider’s career arc was an unusual one. He helped turn Artforum into a go-to source for serious, no-nonsense art criticism, serving as its editor starting in...
Philadelphia Art Museum’s New Director On Moving Past The Recent Turmoil
Daniel H. Weiss talks about leading the museum (“I believe very strongly in shared governance”) and sorting out the pressing priorities: re-examining the rebrand,...
Williamstown Theatre Festival Cancels This Summer’s Edition, Considers Going Biennial
“The move not to produce this year is meant to allow the organization to continue to rethink its future after a period of radical...
Philadelphia Art Museum Considers Redoing Controversial Rebrand
Paul Dien, the chief marketing officer who oversaw that rebrand, has resigned. New director/CEO Daniel Weiss has set up a task force of staffers...
Metropolitan Opera Announces Layoffs, Pay And Programming Cuts
The company is laying off 22 of its 284 administrative staffers, reducing pay for 35 of its top executives (including general director Peter Gelb...
A Brief History Of The Word “Hello”
The greeting’s first known appearance in print happened 200 years ago this week in a Connecticut newspaper, but its roots go back at least...
The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe
The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History...
This Actress Has Starred In The Same Legendarily Bad Off-Broadway Show For 39 Years
“On TripAdvisor, one user warns: ‘Don’t waste your money!’ Another pleads: ‘Kill me now!’ And yet, since 1987, Perfect Crime has been running eight times a...
You’d Think Russian Censors Would Have Shut This Play Down. But It’s A Huge...
“When an obscure play called The Kholops opened in St. Petersburg in 2024, many Russians raced to see it, fearful that the authorities would...
Despite Trump Administration Attacks, NEH Has Just Given $75 Million In Grants
“The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants — $75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US’s...
Director Tina Packer, Founder Of Theater Troupe Shakespeare & Co., Is Dead At 87
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s...
Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book
“I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and...
