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Visual Arts Infrastructure In The UK Has Been Vastly Underfunded For Years
A new, private foundation wants to counter that with some funding. - The Guardian (UK)
Little Did We Suspect That Viral Animal Videos Would Portend The Return To Prominence...
Cows. Tools. Gary Larson. Need we say more? - NPR
What’s Next For The Sacramento Ballet?
There’s a new executive director, a search for an artistic director, and of course, it’s trying to keep a 71-year-old arts institution going. -...
If You Hear Music During A Football Game, It’s Because Of This Berklee Alum
Joshua Sutherland is "the bridge between the music industry and the NFL,” he says - and he’s also in charge of promoting women’s and...
Portland’s Theatrical Future Thrown Into Doubt After New Study
The 3,000-seat Keller Auditorium is seismically challenged. Should the city rebuild it, support the new Portland State University Broadway-show-size theatre, or make a third...
The Woman Who Keeps San Francisco Arts Going
Maria Manetti Shrem’s influence is everywhere - as is her name, alongside that of her late husband. A short list: The new UC Davis...
Val McDermid’s Publisher, Reissuing Some Old Books, Asked Her To Work With A Sensitivity...
McDermid wasn’t a fan of the idea. “The books she wrote in the 1980s and 1990s featured characters in law enforcement who used racial...
How Sundance Has Been Reacting To ICE’s Violence In Minnesota
Edward Norton: “We have extrajudicial assaults on Americans and humans going on on a daily basis now. And it’s not OK. … We cannot...
The Man Who Ate The AI ‘Art’ Tells Us Why
Graham Granger: “I saw the AI piece and it was just—as an artist myself, it was insulting to see something of such little effort...
Yes, The Super Bowl Has An Official Pop Artist
Charles Fazzino "has been the official artist for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game for more than 20 years. He’s served a similar role for...
The Thing Is, Computers Can Only Copy
Software can’t surprise us the way humans can. - Aeon
Will The Grammys Finally Recognize This 85-Year-Old Singer Who Has Been Performing For Seven...
“‘You don’t get to Cowboy Carter without Candi Staton,’ the musician and podcast host Rissi Palmer said, referring to the Beyoncé album. ‘She was seamlessly Southern...
When You’re In A Repressive Society, Art Of Any Kind Can Spark A Rebellion
Even multiple-copied cassette tapes of Queen, for instance. “What moved me wasn’t just the sound, but what it represented.” - The Guardian (UK)
Let’s Keep Talking About What The Abrupt Decline Of Handwriting Is Doing To Us
Writing by hand “allows the cognition of what we're working with to actually move through the visual processes, move through the physical processes of...
We Can’t Really ‘Unwind’ With Screens
“Although many people turn to screen-based activities to wind down, these activities may have the opposite effect biologically.” - The Conversation
Tom Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ Helped This Religion Reporter Uncover Her Own Lost History
"Stoppard wasn’t telling a story of Nazis and gas chambers; he was exploring the psychological danger of hiding one’s Jewish identity. A month after...
What To Read Now
At least according to Ali Smith, whose 2024 book Gliff is such a good, terrifying book about the surveillance state that you’ll think it’s...
Seattle Rep Has Rare Paid Apprenticeships, And Washington State Approves
“Apprentices can study one of five tracks: directing and artistic programs, lighting design, production management, scenic paint or stage management. The apprenticeships are about 10...
Marian Goodman, Renowned New York Art Dealer Who Helped Bring Post-War European Avant-Garde To...
"Famously loyal to her artists, Ms. Goodman aimed to place their work in museum collections rather than in private mansions. Her priorities could amount...
Not Many Actors Have A Predator Movie And An Oscar Nomination In The Same...
Elle Fanning has had quite the year. Her “ability to hop between a thorny Norwegian drama and a high-concept alien movie is exactly the...
Spanish Prosecutors Drop Investigation Into Julio Iglesias For Sexual Assault
"They ruled that Spanish courts had no jurisdiction and were therefore not competent to investigate crimes committed abroad involving complainants who were not Spanish...
A Call For ‘Equal Time’ Could Have A Chilling Effect On US TV And...
"It’s the Trump White House’s latest salvo against the network late night talk show hosts, primarily Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel, who...
Beatriz Gonzalez, Colombian Artist Who Turned Mass Produced Culture Into Painterly Critiques, Has Died...
González, one of the foremost painters of the late 20th century, painted subjects included "the violence that permeated life in Colombia; the European ‘high...
At The Academy Museum, There’s No More Oral History Project Staff
The museum’s union calls the cuts "a sad and reckless choice.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Wait, How Exactly Did Heated Rivalry Become A Hit In Russia?
“The popularity of the show has prompted calls in Russia to purge it from the internet.” - Washington Post (MSN)
