Speaking by videolink from New York to the Lviv BookForum, the author revealed that the book will be a trilogy of novellas about "the three worlds in my life: India and England and America. And they all in some way consider the idea of an ending." - The Guardian
"Astral Artists, the small but important Philadelphia arts group that has boosted careers and fostered artistic development of classical musicians nationally, is shutting down. ... The group will produce two more concerts this fall, set the musicians from its current roster on a path, and then close its doors." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
"Lebanese Culture Minister Mohammad Mortada has called for international action after an Israeli airstrike hit perilously close to Baalbek, a triad of Imperial Roman temples and UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern Lebanon. Local media reported that the strike landed only 500 meters away from the ruins." - ARTnews
"Its first show there will bring the museum full circle by focusing on the work of Tom Lloyd, the artist, educator and activist who was featured in the 1968 opening exhibition of the institution — which was then just a second-floor rented loft on upper Fifth Avenue." - The New York Times
"After scrapping its 50th anniversary tour of China in 2023, the Philadelphia Orchestra is picking up where it left off. The full ensemble will travel to China later this month — its 13th visit, the most of any American orchestra." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The Alley put out a press statement that included a long list of financial achievements during the years Dean Gladden has been managing director. When he came to the Alley the Houston theater was facing an $800,000 deficit. "The Alley now boasts financial reserves exceeding $5 million." - Houston Press
Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam say three paintings in private collections previously believed to be by the artist are fakes, including one that was authenticated by the museum and sold for nearly $1 million at Christie’s in 2011. - Hyperallergic
In an age of cold digital screens and AI-enhanced visual manipulation, we have been told that canvas, oil and pigment are becoming irrelevant, or somehow reactionary. But the public has never really noticed this. - New Statesman
"The last decade has seen substantial growth in many Texas cities, and with that has come growth in city funding of the arts. However, over the last few months we’ve seen arts organizations in Houston, Lubbock, and Fort Worth affected by city government decisions. ... Who loses when arts funding is cut?" - Glasstire
The institution has launched a global competition as part of a larger rebranding for the museum, unfolding in 2025. The renovation, it hopes, will attract wider audiences, while establishing it as a more inclusive, community-focused destination. - Artnet
"If you go into a community to make a work and you try to follow the demands of the local people, which are never homogeneous anyway, you end up serving their interests more than your own. And usually their interests are transitory . . . So you have to hold fast to your work." - New Left Review
“We can’t dumb down the audience. We have to continue as composers of opera in the 21st century to move people, and you don’t do that by forcing in things that don’t naturally fit into the story. Once you get didactic, that’s it. You’ve lost them.” - Salon
"A US magistrate (ruled) that a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting used by Philbrick in his illegal scheme belongs to a collector he misled — and not the high-profile art lender he also duped. The collector, Alexander Pesko, has been locking horns with the art lender. Athena Art Finance, for over five years. - ARTnews
"I think our houses are generally too big; they are, in design terms, a bit lazy in this sense. We’d benefit enormously by cutting maybe 20% out of most new builds, and I’d rather see smaller, more intensely designed homes that are personal and quirky than large spaces." - The Guardian
