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City Of Chicago Will Replace Some Grant Money Cancelled By NEA
The city’s Arts Relief Fund will offer grants between $10,000 and $25,000 to Chicago arts organizations who had their announced NEA grants withdrawn by...
Even More Layoffs At A PBS/NPR Station, This Time At Pittsburgh’s WQED
Due to the recission of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds by the Trump administration and Congress, WQED is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall...
Shakeup At L.A. MOCA As Outgoing Director Leaves Early
When director Joanna Burton revealed last week that she’s going to ICA in Philadelphia, she said she’d stay at MOCA through late October. On...
Anna Netrebko’s Lawsuit Against Metropolitan Opera Will Proceed
“A federal judge says Russian soprano Anna Netrebko can move forward with her case claiming national origin discrimination by the Metropolitan Opera, which dropped...
U.S. Supreme Court’s Chief Justice Intervened To Stop Trump’s Firing of National Portrait Gallery...
Chief Justice John Roberts is, ex officio, the Smithsonian Institution’s chancellor (the equivalent of board chairman). When Trump up and decided to fire National...
The Choreographer Who Thrills Audiences With A Trampoline And A Staircase
“What (Yoann) Bourgeois plays with are the invisible physical forces that surround us – gravity, tension, suspension – and the interaction between those forces,...
A Professor Tries Using Chat-GPT To Do His Job
“I decided to put the central, existential question to (my students) directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice...
There’s Been A Surge Of Movies About Metrics And Math Lately. Why is That?
Because, writes Bilge Ebiri, “everywhere we look, numbers reign supreme. Metrics determine our life and work in ways that were inconceivable ten or 15...
It’s Fine, Go Ahead And Let Your Kids Watch TV, Argues TV Critic
New York magazine’s Kathryn VanArendonk knows it’s not tenable to prevent her kids from doing what she does all day. “But my (policy is)...
Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” Was Not, In Fact, Inspired By African Art, Says Researcher
The art world’s consensus has been that the painting was inspired by the African masks Picasso saw on a visit to Paris’s first ethnographic...
This Man Was One Of New York’s Biggest Young Arts Philanthropists. The Money He...
Remember Alberto Vilar? What Matthew Christopher Pietras did might have been worse. Or it might not, since the victims of the theft may not...
This Fall The Wanamaker Organ Will Be Heard Again, Thanks To Opera Philadelphia
The future of the world’s largest fully-functional musical instrument was in doubt when Macy’s vacated the Wanamaker space earlier this year. Now the building’s...
This Dalí Painting Was Bought For $200. It’s About To Sell For $40,000.
The 1966 watercolor-and-felt-tip painting was meant to be part of a series of illustrations for The Arabian Nights; Dalí never finished the project. When...
Can They Really Rename The Kennedy Center After The Trumps?
That depends on who’s doing the renaming. - The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
Dallas Morning News Fends Off Private Equity Firm That Eviscerates Newspapers
A favorite tactic of Alden Global Capital is, when someone else is about to buy a newspaper, to jump in with a higher bid...
The Crazy Costs Of Performing At The Edinburgh Fringe
“It has the potential to make careers, but it’s so expensive it’s not just the working-class comedians who are getting shut out – so...
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Percussive Poet, Is Dead At 61
“A poet, photographer and bandleader, (he) explored race, music, politics, academia and family in dazzling, erudite and often funkified verse — ‘percussive prosody,’ he...
Europe’s Current Hotbed Of New Classical Music? Iceland
“In the 21st century, no other country has reinvented the language of the orchestra on such distinctive and appealing terms. … Call it the...
A Custody Battle Over “The Sistine Chapel Of Romanesque Art”
The 12th-century Sijena Murals were moved from the monastery where they were created following heavy damage during the Spanish Civil War. Ever since, they’ve...
Orbán’s Controversial “Restoration” Of Budapest’s Most Historic District
Hungary’s autocratic prime minister has ordered the renovation of the district around Buda Castle to what the government claims is its 19th-century glory. Many...
Vancouver City Council Measure To Boost Arts Funding Goes Wrong
The measure as submitted by one council member was hardly extravagant, but it was seen by the Vancouver arts community as a good start....
Public Radio And TV Broadcasters Across The US Try To Game Out A Future...
“Member stations that are outside major metropolitan areas and depend most on federal dollars face the toughest, most immediate choices. But the new law poses...
String Players Worry As Their Favorite Wood For Bows Gets Protected Status
The pernambuco tree grows only in small areas along Brazil’s Atlantic coast north of Rio de Janeiro state; the tree is endangered, and attempts...
How The Artistic Director Of Hamburg Ballet Got Himself Fired After Only Seven Months
When Demis Volpi was sacked following public complaints by the company’s dancers and a steady stream of resignations, some local observers complained that Volpi...
Kari Lake Tries To Sideline Key People As She Continues Her Efforts To Shut...
Lake, the Arizona Republican known for her losing campaigns for Arizona governor and US Senator, was hired by Trump to dismantle Voice of America...
