Russian Ballet Company Pretending To Be Ukrainian Toured Scandinavia
During 2023 and 2024, a troupe calling itself “Ballet of Ukraine” played dates in several cities in Sweden and Finland — but an investigation...
What It’s Like being A Librarian In The Time Of Trump
“I see all that being as a measure of: ‘If we fly under the radar, we’ll be safe,’” they said. “But it’s sad because...
San Francisco Agency Funding In Disarray, Payments Missed
The latest target is San Francisco’s Dream Keeper Initiative, introduced in 2021 at the height of the “defund the police” movement... But now, a variety...
Are Our Storytelling Tropes Insufficient For The Complexity Of Today?
Unfortunately, the dominance of psychological narratives manifests in the misplaced hopes we cast onto individual leaders – whether in the political, technological, social or...
Rita Moreno, Mandy Patinkin, Harvey Fierstein, Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda And Other Broadway Legends...
“For our annual ‘Yesteryear’ issue, we asked 29 Broadway legends to pose before Mark Seliger’s camera and revisit their most memorable roles. Their careers span an...
These Are the 381 Books Removed From Naval Academy Library Shelves
The list also includes “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s examination of depictions of women in the Holocaust, and “How to Be Anti-Racist” by Ibram...
Amazon Backlash: Independent Bookstores Rise Up
Amazon boycotts are gaining more widespread attention as some people seek ways to protest the growing influence of billionaires in government and public life. - Wisconsin Public...
How Will Trump’s Tariffs Affect The Art Markets?
“Ordinarily, paintings and sculptures are exempt from customs duties,” says Nicholas M. O’Donnell, a partner in the Boston law firm Sullivan & Worcester, but...
Montana Lawmaker Awards His Wife’s Festival More Than Double The Funding It Requested
State Rep. John Fitzpatrick pushed to zero out funding for some other groups in the state, calling them “slackers” and “no-shows,” while awarding St....
Why Are Musicians Turning To OnlyFans? They Need The Money!
It quickly garnered a reputation as a hub for sexual content, given that it gave adult performers and sex workers the ability to create and upload...
Texas Legislator Proposes Bill To Fine Museums For Content
On March 6, representative David Lowe filed House Bill 3958, which outlines a proposed civil penalty against any museum showing “certain obscene or harmful material.”...
How Should Opera Deal With AI?
Royal Opera assistant director Netia Jones: “As artists, we must explore technology in all its guises because we are trained to create rather than...
Three-Year-Old Girl Stumbles On 3,800-Year-Old Scarab Amulet
The find happened at Azekah, a site roughly 18 miles from Jerusalem. - Artnet
Books Are Exempt From Trump’s New Tariffs, But Publishing Will Still Be Affected
The tariff documents include an annex listing exempt items, among which are listed “printed books, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter.” The tariffs could,...
Former Westminster Choir College Campus Acquired By Town of Princeton, NJ
Using eminent domain, the municipality acquired the largely vacant campus from Rider University for a payment of $42 million. A financial crisis led WCC...
Would Trump Defunding Public Broadcasting Kill PBS? Probably Not, But …
“Because most federal funding goes to ensuring underserved areas of the country have a news source, defunding PBS would likely disproportionately impact rural communities....
Audit Reveals Yet More Problems At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio
“A new audit from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting found that Capital Public Radio and its affiliate stations overstated funding, reported ‘questionable costs,’ and...
Once-Lionized Mezzo Sues Met Opera For Firing Her After Pregnancy
“Mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili sued the Metropolitan Opera and her union, alleging the company unlawfully terminated her contracts because of a vocal issue that developed...
Conductor John Nelson, 83
Music director, at various points, of the Indianapolis Symphony, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, he is noted especially...
1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia
By caving to Trump’s demands and failing to protect international students, the letter says, Columbia has participated in an “authoritarian assault on universities” aimed at “destroying their role as...
So What Is Gregorian Chant Outside The Church?
Put another way, this monk is acknowledging the spiritual potential of Gregorian chant while warning against decoupling it from a specifically Catholic liturgy. -...
What Even Is A Broadway Opening These Days?
Opening night is not a Broadway show’s first performance in front of a paying audience, as it used to be many decades ago. That first show...
Tourism Is A Form Of Culture. Other Countries Are Advising Their Citizens To Be...
These advisories are vague. They do not instruct anyone not to visit the United States, as they might Iran or North Korea. But they...
The Dangers For American Arts Under Trump
The Kennedy Center was once the place where politics, the arts and debate met. Historically, it has been a propellant of diversity and inclusion....
The Dying Art Of Steel-Cut Letters
Cutting punches, the first step in traditional typesetting, is the meticulous craft of carving letterforms into small steel billets. - Hyperallergic
