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How’s Ireland’s Basic-Income-For-Artists Scheme Working So Far?

Six months into a pilot program that pays 2,000 working artists €325 per week/€16,000 ($18,200) per year, the results look good: as one recipient...

Oklahoma Moves To Revoke License From Teacher Who Directed Students To Brooklyn Public Library’s...

State Superintendent Ryan Walters has filed paperwork to cancel Summer Boismier's teaching certificate — despite the fact that she's now moved to New York...

Florida School Principal Forced To Resign After Sixth-Graders Were Shown Michelangelo’s “David”

Hope Carasquilla was ousted from Tallahassee Classical School after several parents complained about the lesson in a Renaissance art class. (One parent called the...

The BBC Singers Are Saved: Decision To Dissolve Choir Is Reversed After Outcry

The decision to close the BBC Singers, announced in March, was expected to result in the loss of 20 posts, but was met with...

The Extraordinary Puppets Of Broadway’s “The Life Of Pi”

"Finn Caldwell, the production's puppetry director, and two of those Olivier-winning puppeteers, Fred Davis and Scarlet Wilderink, sat down at the Schoenfeld one morning...

Oscar Wilde’s Irishness (Which So Many People, Including Oscar, Seem To Forget)

Everything about the man said London, but he spent 20 of his 46 years in Ireland, including seven years at a grim Ulster boarding...

The Future For American Movies For Grownups Seems To Be In Microbudget Indies. But...

The equipment for making professional-looking films has never been more inexpensive or accessible. There are people writing creative scripts; there's always an abundance of...

Is Melbourne’s Arts Centre On The Brink Of Financial Disaster? Depends On Whom You...

An alleged internal document was reported by the city's biggest tabloid to reveal that the complex is short $223 million (Aus), due to the...

She’s A Swing, An Understudy, And the Dance Captain For “+ Juliet,” One Of...

"(Brittany Nicholas is) responsible for knowing the 12 ensemble tracks and all of the dancing for eight principals. She also acts as an extension...

Here’s What The New, Animal-Free Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus Will Look Like

"The 75 performers from 18 countries will include performers on a triangular high wire 25 feet off the ground, crisscrossing flying trapeze artists, a...

Is Hollywood Worried About ChatGPT-Style AI? Of Course It Is.

"(Many in the industry are ambivalent), acknowledging the power of AI to help a screenwriter overcome writer's block or an editor to skip mundane...

Raid On Suspected Art Smugglers Turns Up An Unknown Jackson Pollock Painting

Bulgarian officers working under Europol staged a raid in Sofia to break up a Greek-Bulgarian art-trafficking ring. They found what curators at Bulgaria's National...

More Evidence That Monet And J.M.W. Turner Were Inspired By Air Pollution

A new study has been published by climate scientists who examined paintings from throughout the two artists' careers and found that the works provide...

Book-Banning Attempts In The US Soared To A New Record Last Year

"More than 1,200 challenges were compiled by the association in 2022, nearly double the then-record total from 2021 and by far the most since...

When Violence Damages Jerusalem’s Medieval Al-Aqsa Mosque, These Skilled Craftsmen Repair The Damage

"The artisans there — including a gold-leaf specialist, coppersmiths and wood carvers — fear that their meticulous work will be destroyed, as has happened...

The Vermont Symphony Names A Music Director After A Three-Year Search

"After a three-year search, seven finalists' concerts; and extensive surveys of musicians, audiences and board members, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra finally has a new...

Ontario’s Conservative Government Eliminates One-Time Arts Grants

"The Ford government says it will maintain its $60-million in base funding for the Ontario Arts Council in next week’s budget but will not...

How Do Choreographers Come Up With Names For Their Works?

"It's a precarious task that needs to carefully shape the audience's experience but not smother it. A title should be just enough of a...

Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Legos

The exiled Chinese artist's Water Lilies #1 is 50 feet long and incorporates 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colors. The first public display of...

Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Struggles On Through Invasion And War

"The number of titles published in Ukraine was cut almost in half last year, dropping from 17,000 in 2021 to just under 9,000. …...

How Aaron Sorkin Is Remaking The Script Of “Camelot” Into Something Today’s Audiences Can...

The songs "How to Handle a Woman" and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" haven't aged well, and the book of the Lerner &...

NPR And WHYY Will Make 40 Years Of “Fresh Air” Archives Available To Paid...

"Subscribers to Fresh Air+ will also get more recent exclusives, such as unaired excerpts from recent interviews and behind-the-scenes content that pulls back the...

Perhaps For The First Times, A Prominent Podcast Company Is Sold To Its Employees

Jesse Thorn, host/producer of the public radio show Bullseye and founder/owner of Maximum Fun, which produces several other podcasts, worried about the fate of...

Yet Another Director Of A Major Moscow Museum Is Ousted

Just a month after the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was forced to resign after being pressured to make the exhibits "in line with...