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I Was A Recipient In Ireland’s Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Scheme
Caelainn Hogan: “I am a freelance writer who, like most artists, has always had to work outside my creative focus to afford to live....
Oldest Surviving Photos Of Enslaved People Go To International African-American Museum
“The 1850 daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs, are of an enslaved man named Renty, his daughter Delia and five others known as Jack,...
Boston Philharmonic To Shutter As Director Benjamin Zander Retires
Next season, 2026-27, will be the last for both the Boston Philharmonic and its associated youth orchestra. The identity of the organization is thoroughly...
WBUR Boston Rejects Suggested Merger With GBH, City’s Other Public Radio Station
In response to a statement to The Boston Globe by GBH’s CEO proposing a merger, WBUR CEO Susan Low said that she and the...
One Of Boston’s Two NPR Outlets Says It’s Open To Merging With The Other
The CEO of GBH, which operates one of the U.S.’s leading PBS television stations as well as a public radio outlet, says that merging...
Big Candy Makers Are Cutting Way Back On Cocoa In Their “Chocolates”
The climate crisis has caused devastated cacao farming in West Africa, causing huge price spikes and volatility in the cocoa commodity market — leading...
Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling
Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe...
Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France
“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des...
National Choreographers Initiative In Los Angeles Will End After This Summer
For two decades, NCI has offered four young choreographers the chance to spend three weeks creating works on professional dancers. In a Q&A, artistic...
Pritzker Prize For Architecture 2026 Goes To Smiljan Radić Clarke Of Chile
Though The New York Times has described him as “a rock star among architects,” he’s not as famous as previous “starchitect” winners such as...
Change To Middle Passage Exhibit At Smithsonian’s African-American Museum
Since the National Museum of African-American History and Culture opened in 2016, its exhibit on the transport of millions of enslaved Africans to the...
Barack And Michelle Obama Are Now Broadway Producers
Higher Ground, their production company, is one of the main backers of this spring’s 16-week run of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof,...
Bill Cosby May Be Out Of Jail, But He’s Not Out Of The Courtroom
The now-disgraced entertainer is facing a number of lawsuits (one of which began trial this week) in California by women who allege that Cosby...
Can Voice Of America Rebuild After Kari Lake Nearly Dismantled It?
“(A) source familiar with the matter suggested a ramp-up could occur within a matter of months, but that would mean a more nimble operation...
All About America, Good And Bad, At This Year’s Edinburgh International Festival
“It is the largest presentation of American artists in the history of the festival,” says director Nicola Benedetti. The program includes a residence by...
Historic Palaces In Iran Damaged By U.S. Bombing
“The most serious confirmed damage to date has been to Tehran’s Golestan Palace, dating back to the 14th century, and the 17th-century Chehel Sotoon...
The Once-Banned Street Music Of Afro-Uruguayans Has Leapt Back To Life
Candombe — not to be confused with candomblé, the syncretic religion created by Afro-Brazilians — was once confined to poor black neighborhoods in Montevideo....
Shaker Dancing And Christian Spirituality
“Though Christianity’s relationship with dance remains tangled, the full-bodied nature of Shaker devotion, revolutionary in the 18th century, is now an ideal for some...
Italy Pays €30 Million For Rare Portrait By Caravaggio
"The portrait, painted around 1598 and attributed to Caravaggio in 1963, depicts Maffeo Barberini, a nobleman who later became Pope Urban VIII. The painting...
Last Of Great Authors Of Latin America’s Literary Boom, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Has Died...
“(He) achieved international renown with the 1970 publication of A World for Julius, ... portraying the life of Lima's elite through the eyes of...
Hollywood’s Casting Process Has Changed Massively
“As their profession is thrust into the spotlight with a new Oscar for their work being awarded on Sunday, the casting directors I spoke with acknowledged...
European Union Threatens To Withdraw Funding For Venice Biennale If Russia Is Allowed To...
“This decision by the Fondazione Biennale is not compatible with the EU’s collective response to Russia’s brutal aggression,” said the EU commissioners for technology...
Portland Has Millions Of Dollars In Unspent Arts Funding, And Arts Organizations Are Pleading...
The government of Oregon’s largest city has $8.5 million in money from its (unpopular) Art Tax that has never been spent; this was reported...
Over Objections Of Musicians And Staff, Beatrice Venezi Confirmed As Music Director Of La...
“Venezi, the daughter of a far-right militant and known for tossing her blonde mane in a popular shampoo ad, is seen as part of...
Phoenix Symphony Selects L.A. Phil Alum As Its Next Music Director
Chilean conductor Paolo Bortolameolli, who was associate conductor under Gustavo Dudamel at the Los Angeles Philharmonic through 2023, begins his term in Phoenix with...
