At It Again: Trump Threatens Tariffs On Foreign Movies
“I’m going to be putting tariffs on movies from outside of the country,” the president told The California Post in an interview shared Monday. “If they’re...
Too Much Free Speech?
The First Amendment ignores the harms that speech inflicts. It is dangerous, in other words, not for the threat it poses to power, but...
What Goes On Inside Shen Yun’s Upstate New York Compound?
When CBS Sunday Morning visited, its crew found young dance students silently meditating. Two former students say, however, that they were allowed limited contact...
How Cultural Outsiders Overcome Their Outsiderness
Cultural outsiders experience being an outsider as synonymous with being deficient. Eager to ‘fit in’, and to avoid feeling inferior, they seek validation from...
Ai Weiwei Returns Home To China For First Time In 10 Years
The dissident artist, who in 2011 had his passport confiscated and spent 81 days in prison, left when his documents were returned in 2015...
Colorado School District Drops Its Appeal Of Order To Reverse Book Bans
“Defendants in Crookshanks v. Elizabeth (Colo.) School District, who had appealed to the 10th Circuit after a federal judge ordered the district to restore 19 censored books,...
Cash-Strapped Vienna Cuts Its Arts Funding
While the reductions aren’t as severe as in Berlin (€130 million) or France (€150 million), the Austrian capital has withdrawn €5 million from several...
Teatro ZinZanni Is Ending Its Chicago And Seattle Shows
The dinner theater/circus arts hybrid's founder says that attendance never really recovered from COVID, but that, this past fall, there began a fatal decline...
With Little Warning, SFMOMA “Pauses” Its Free First Thursday Program
“Free First Thursday, which waives the general admission fee for all Bay Area residents from 4-8 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month,...
Studio Museum In Harlem Closed Through Next Week Due To “Sprinkler Emergency”
Last Saturday, as museum staff were preparing the building for the winter storm, a sprinkler malfunction caused water to pour from a ceiling near...
Despite Withdrawal Of Federal Funding, Public TV And Radio Are Hanging In There
“Six months after the funding cuts, few public TV or radio stations have closed their doors. Many have scraped together a patchwork of funding...
Finally, A New Broadway Musical Is Turning A Profit
“The Outsiders, … which opened in April 2024 and won the Tony Award for best new musical two months later, has recouped its $22 million capitalization...
Study: AI “Creativity” Leads To Cultural Stagnation
The researchers called the outcomes “visual elevator music” – pleasant and polished, yet devoid of any real meaning. - The Conversation
Trump Tries To Shift Blame For “Massive Deficit” At Kennedy Center
He posted on Truth Social, referring to cascading cancellations and plummeting ticket sales, “People don’t realize that The Trump Kennedy Center suffered massive deficits...
It’s An Old Question, But Let’s Consider Art Versus Entertainment
Entertainment is about diversion and pleasure. Fun. It occupies our attention, distracts us from boredom, and amuses. But many things in life can do...
How The First Indigenous Work Commissioned By A Major Dance Company Came To Be
It’s part of an effort by the Royal Winnipeg, Canada’s oldest professional ballet company, to foster meaningful reconciliation with the country’s Indigenous people —...
How Anthropic Scanned And Destroyed Millions Of Books Into Its AI Model
Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off...
National Parks Pull Historical Signs And Displays To Comply With New Trump Directives
Trump officials have ordered national parks to remove dozens of signs and displays related to climate change, environmental protection and settlers’ mistreatment of Native...
How Do We Compete When “Excellence” Is No Longer The Quality That Stands Out?
The question is no longer just "How do we play Beethoven better?" but "How do we survive as a cultural institution in a digitized,...
Understanding The Trade In Culture Between The US And Canada
In 2023, the United States accounts for roughly two-thirds of all cultural exports ($18.1 billion, or 67%) and imports ($22.2 billion, or 62%). Canada...
Too Much TV? Let’s Think About What’s At Stake
I can’t imagine saying to my son that TV kills brain cells, but I do think it — or fear it. Our language might...
How El Sistema Has Survived During Venezuela’s Turmoil
Eduardo Méndez acknowledges that running El Sistema with the political and social backdrop of recent years has been challenging. - NPR
Has Dancing In Clubs, Or In Public At All, Died Of Embarrassment And Fear...
“We spoke to DJs, dance experts, real estate agents who make dancing home-tour videos, aspiring professional dancers and club owners to get their take....
Report: Financial Pressure Have Museums Rethinking Strategies
Over 50% of the AAM survey’s respondents reported fewer visitors than in 2019 and 29% reported “declines tied to weakened travel and tourism and/or...
Philip Glass Cancels World Premiere At Kennedy Center
“(My) Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the...
