South African Artist Sues Her Government For Blocking Her Venice Biennale Artwork
A South African artist is suing the arts minister after he blocked her from representing the country at the Venice Biennale, having called her work...
Struggling San Antonio Philharmonic Cancels February Concerts
The news comes as the Philharmonic is embroiled in a legal dispute with the Scottish Rite over payments related to renovations of the historic...
Trump Wants To Build A 250-Foot Triumphal Arch In Washington
Trump has grown attached to the idea of a 250-foot-tall structure overlooking the Potomac River, according to two people who spoke on the condition...
I Write For A Living. I Tested My Students. They Preferred The AI Writing...
I gave the students time to read both pieces, and then asked for their comments. To my surprise, the majority told me the AI...
How The Metropolitan Opera Got To Be In Such Dire Straits
How did America’s greatest operatic institution get to the point of needing Saudi money to cover its $330 million annual operating budget? Ticket sales...
The Latest Art Basel Opens — In Qatar
It was the unlikely, but ultimately successful, host of the 2022 soccer World Cup. Its Grand Prix has become a Formula One fixture. And this week it will...
Are Tribeca Galleries Planning To Report Immigrant Street Vendors?
The “report,” encouraged in an email after a meeting among many galleries, would be to New York’s 311 system. Then the mostly immigrant vendors...
Three Men From Oscar-Nominated Documentary Moved To Solitary In Alabama Prison
“Family members of the three men said they fear for their loved ones’ safety and are concerned the moves to solitary confinement are a...
Why Some Theatre Critics Hate Contemporary Musicals
“Since the gargantuan success of Hamilton, … Broadway productions have leaned in to liberal identity politics as their state ideology, favoring ‘message musicals’ (like the...
The 8-Year-Old Who’s The Breakout Star Of Sundance
“Despite the presence of stars Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, it’s Reeves, who de Araújo discovered at a Richmond District farmer’s market on Clement Street, who...
Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Of ‘It Was Just An Accident’ Arrested In Tehran
“Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-screenwriter of Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, was arrested in Tehran yesterday after signing a statement condemning the actions of Iran‘s...
Twenty-Eight Films For The Twenty-Eight Days Of The 100th Black History Month
“Art is here to be a guide to construct new modes of understanding, communicating, and believing. In this moment of collective reckoning, Black cinematic...
In Case You Don’t Already Love Sondheim, Take Five Minutes And Fall
“Sondheim, who died in 2021 at the age of 91, was also just a damn fine tunesmith, turning out songs that, in context or...
Artists Who Embrace Rejection Can Change Their Worlds
“Rejection has often functioned as a crucible, helping to forge some of the most extraordinary artistic movements, from impressionism to punk. A reject has...
Demond Wilson, Who Played The Long-Suffering Son On Sanford And Son, Has Died At...
“When Mr. Wilson landed the role of Lamont, he was only in his mid-20s, a theater veteran but a newcomer to the screen. The...
Netflix Gets Into The Grammies Game With K-Pop Demon Hunters
“The breakout single, ‘Golden,’ which spent eight weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, nominated for song of the year, the...
What Franco Paid For The Goya Painting He Wanted To Give To Hitler
The story of this plan “has gone from urban legend to proven fact in a series of chapters that have been unfolding over almost...
Yo-Yo Ma Wins His 20th Grammy And Stephen Spielberg Gets His EGOT
“Ma has won Grammys across multiple classical categories including Best Chamber Music Performance, Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with orchestra), Best Classical Crossover Album, and...
After Numerous Artist Cancellations, Trump Says He’s Closing The Kennedy Center For Years For...
Trump wrote on Truth Social that “he would shut it down this summer, on July 4, arguing that a dramatic step was necessary to...
I didn’t want to be right: Kennedy Center closing for two years
Is the Kennedy Center really closing because of renovations? Or is it to save face from audience and artist protests?
Trump Says He’ll Close The Kennedy Center For Two Years For Renovations
“I have determined that The Trump Kennedy Center, if temporarily closed for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding, can be, without question, the finest Performing...
Live Updates From The Grammys As They Happen
This livestream has a rich list of links to stories about the nominees as well as live updates from the red carpet and, eventually,...
The Latest ‘Restoration’ Scandal Is An Angel Possibly Painted To Resemble The Italian Prime...
“Italy’s culture minister and the diocese of Rome have launched investigations after claims were made that an angel in a landmark church in Rome...
How The Kennedy Center Forced The National Opera Out With Economics
The “uniquely American” model of funding opera meant that the National Opera had to leave, thanks to “a new mandate set forth by the...
Even In These Terrible Times, A Maine Arts Program For Immigrants Persists
“Before I started my dancing, I wasn’t really close to my culture. I was really into the Western stuff. … Then as I got...
