How CPB Budget Cut Has Impacted Rural Public Broadcasting
Several station managers across Alaska said they worried their station would end up with nothing more than an antenna to rebroadcast content created in...
Why Is The University Of Chicago Taking A Step Back From Humanities?
The move to scale back humanities doctoral programs is either a prudent acknowledgment of the cratered job market for tenure-track professorships... or it is a cynical...
John Williams Doesn’t Think Very Highly Of Film Music (Including His Own)
“Film music, however good it can be – and it usually isn’t, other than maybe an eight-minute stretch here and there … The music...
Social Media Pulls Out Of Mississippi Over Age Verification Law
The company says that compliance with Mississippi’s law—which would require identifying and tracking all users under 18, in addition to asking every user for...
Edinburgh International Festival Says Demand To Give Up Baillie Gifford As Sponsor “Threatens Our...
“The festival said (the) demand for it to end its commercial partnership with the Edinburgh-based fund manager ‘ultimately reduces the very spaces where difficult...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water Addresses Leaks
Particularly problematic are the flat roofs and terraces that make Fallingwater so indelible — and provide the perfect place for water to pool. - Washington...
Is Edinburgh Fringe Being Compromised By Rising Costs
Fringe has long since eclipsed the original festival it was founded alongside. It typically sells upwards of 2.5 million tickets a year. But 80 years on,...
How To Talk (And Creatively Solve Problems) With A Chatbot
ChatGPT, as ever, was upbeat, inexhaustible, and, crucially, unfazed by failure. It made suggestions. It asked its own questions. Some avenues were promising; others...
Memoir Of Jeffrey Epstein’s Most Prominent Accuser Will Be Published Posthumously
Virginia Giuffre spent several years completing Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice with co-author Amy Wallace. On April 1,...
Comedian Reginald Carroll, 52, Shot To Death In Mississippi
Police officers found Carroll wounded in Southaven, Mississippi, immediately south of Memphis, at the offices of the merchandise company for a fellow comedian with...
What’s Up With All Of The New High-Class Crime Movies?
“Streaming platforms have shown that documentaries about crime get views, and terrestrial television has long since allowed drama to be dominated by crime. The...
Kennedy Center Names New Director Of Dance Programming, One Who Complained About “Leftist Ideologies...
Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, was hired just days after the Kennedy Center fired its entire dance programming staff. Nakagawa...
“Emily In Paris” Crew Member Collapses And Dies On Set
Diego Borella, an assistant director on the Netflix series, had a sudden heart attack as he and colleagues were preparing to shoot a scene...
Consequences — If They Cut Funding, You Go Nuclear (or Go Home)
It’s a game of chicken. If your arts organization yields, everyone loses. Wanna ...
Ticket Sales Were Flat For 2025 Edinburgh Fringe
“The figures showed around 2.6 million tickets were sold for 3,893 shows — a similar level to last year and well below the peak...
Teddy Abrams Extends At Louisville Orchestra For Three More Years
“Over the course of his tenure, Abrams has transformed the mission of the Louisville Orchestra, molding it into what he describes as a ‘public...
Why Pittsburgh’s Three Largest Theatres Need To Merge
If the merger proceeds and is successful, it could become a national model for regional theater companies in other cities and states around the...
In Defense Of Peter Gelb
Mr. Gelb undermined his focus on new works with a comically misguided guest essay for The New York Times that managed to antagonize every remaining...
Broadway Theatres Oppose Proposed Casino For Times Square
Owners of 24 Broadway Theaters are taking their opposition to a new Times Square casino right to theaters goers by stuffing a pamphlet into copies of...
Can We Please Reframe What An AI World Will Mean To Us?
Rather than asking AI to hurl itself over the abyss while hoping for the best, we should instead use AI’s extraordinary and improving capabilities...
How AI Is Coming To Own Culture
Algorithmic culture taps into the casual randomness with which we apportion our care; it takes advantage of the fact that what we bump into...
NEA Cancels Creative Writing Fellowships
On Friday afternoon, writers who applied for the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2026 Creative Writing Fellowships received an email from the NEA saying...
How Music Criticism Lost Its Edge
Over the years, “critically acclaimed” came to function as a euphemism for music that was semipopular, or maybe just unpopular. - The New Yorker
Behind What Looks Like AI Creativity
For years, researchers have wondered: If the models are just reassembling, then how does novelty come into the picture? It’s like reassembling your shredded...
Harvard Makes Budget Cuts In Humanities Programs
Harvard’s Arts and Humanities division instructed department heads to collectively reduce their budgets for non-personnel spending by roughly $1.95 million as divisions across the...
