San Francisco Art Institute Is Saved: It Will Merge With A University
The 150-year-old art school, which has had longstanding financial problems and nearly shut down in 2020, will integrate with, and ultimately be acquired by,...
Confirmed: The First Native American To Head The NEH
Shelly C. Lowe, a Navajo who grew up in rural northern Arizona, was nominated by President Biden as chair of the National Endowment for...
England’s Arts Funder Says All New Funding In Its Next Budget Will Be Spent...
Arts organizations in the rest of England have been complaining for years that, with respect to national funding, they are shortchanged in favor of...
Local Government Funding For Culture In England Down By 50% Over The Last Decade
Research by the Public Campaign for the Arts "found that local authority expenditure on all cultural services – including public libraries, entertainment venues, museums,...
Artists On Strike, A History
As artists become more politically active today, it is worth remembering that John Reed Clubs and New York’s Artists Union organized strikes to negotiate federal arts programs during...
A World Without Spotify? Really?
As welcome as the protests are, they do not address the fundamental injustice of the streaming economy. - The New Yorker
Dutch Publisher Stops Printing Of Book Claiming Identity Of Man Who Turned In Anne...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Canadian author Rosemary Sullivan, released on Jan. 18, caused a sensation when it said investigators had named Arnold van den Bergh as the main...
A Crossroads For LA’s Largest Theatre
This Los Angeles cultural institution is at a crossroads as it goes through its first leadership change in 17 years, and confronts questions about...
Yale To Reevaluate Donor Influence
Concerns about inappropriate donor influence at Yale rose after The New York Times reported in September that Beverly Gage, a professor of history, had quietly resigned...
Revealed: Millions Of Dollars Of Art Laundered Through Shell Companies
More than 1,600 works of art by some 400 artists were quietly shuffled through shell companies in tax havens according to records from the...
Cleaning Week At (Perhaps) Europe’s Most Beautiful Church
Every January, Dresden's Frauenkirche closes for seven days, "and dozens of carpenters, painters, and other craftspeople and cleaners get to work. The crew repairs...
The Woman Who Can See 100 Million Colors
Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat, which means she has a fourth colour receptor in her retina compared with the standard three which most people...
Boycotting Joe Rogan Is Probably Futile
"If the protest succeeds in getting him booted, he can go back to making his podcast available on other platforms or launch his own....
Literature’s Greatest Year: 1922
The response of artists and writers was to remake their work: a way of seeking either to control the strange and uncontrollable, or simply...
Where Method Acting Was Born
In an excerpt from his new history of Method acting, Isaac Butler looks at the American Laboratory Theatre, where, in the 1920s, two of...
How Your Culture Determines How You Hear Music
While commonalities certainly exist the differences were astounding. How could it be that Rossini’s humorous comic operas, which have been bringing laughter and joy...
The Black Fiddlers Of Monticello, Led By The Sons Of Sally Hemings
Beverly, Madison, and Eston Hemings seem to have inherited musical talent from both their mother and their enslaver/father, Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong violinist. The...
Teachers Are Quitting And In High Demand In Other Industries
Teachers’ ability to absorb and transmit information quickly, manage stress and multitask are high-demand skills, recruiters and careers coaches say. - The Wall Street Journal
Viktor Orbán Is Building A New Museum District In Budapest. Of Course It’s Controversial
The right-wing prime minister's plan is to build five museums in the capital's long-neglected City Park; the first of them, the House of Music,...
Making A Ballet Out Of “The Graduate” (?!)
That's the challenge choreographer Cathy Marston took on for San Francisco Ballet, where her new work, Mrs. Robinson, is now premiering. In a Q&A,...
David Gordon, Patriarch Of Postmodern Dance, Dead At 85
"A leading postmodern choreographer who crossed over into playwriting territory, he was massively prolific for about 60 years. He combined movement and words in...
The New York Times Crossword Is A Culture War Minefield
Says one puzzle constructor, "It becomes an endless series of judgment calls. Is this slang term offensive? Is that world leader merely unpleasant, or...
2,200-Year-Old Buddhist Temple Found In Pakistan
"An ancient Buddhist temple dating from the 2nd or 3rd century BCE has been uncovered during an Italian-led archaeological excavation in the city of...
Monica Vitti, Icon Of Italian Cinema, Dead At 90
"Once a symbol of Italian mystique, ever-present on-screen and on fashion magazine covers, … (she) secured an enduring place in art house drama as...
Now Even Theresa May Is Pleading Against Massive Arts Funding Cuts
The former prime minister, under whose austerity regime many local governments were forced to slash their arts budgets, now sees the authorities in the...
