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
Remnick: Trump Is Taking Aim At Rewriting American History
As is true of autocracies everywhere, this Administration demands a mystical view of an imagined past. In late March, Trump issued an executive order...
London’s National Gallery Offers A Sleepover In The Galleries Prize
For the first time in its history, the National Gallery in London is offering an overnight stay to the lucky person who wins its new prize...
How Trump’s Tariffs Will Make Entertainment More Expensive
Software companies and studios are in a better position than companies that import hardware, provided the tariffs don’t lead to a recession. Publishing video...
An Australian Town Decided To Remake Jurassic Park
“This is Jurassic Park: Castlemaine Redux, a shot-for-shot remake (if you squint) of Jurassic Park.” The film's director, with a $3,000 budget, has classic...
Pasadena Playhouse Makes A Stunning Announcement
But this surprise is of the good, even great sort: The theatre “has paid $9.5 million to buy back the campus it lost in...
Reenacting Weimar Cabaret As Some Attitudes Toward Gender And Sex Go Retrograde
"Weimar cabaret has a kind of punk, dirty, gritty, raw, social commentary energy about it. … It flares up in times when there’s a...
Madison Ballet Is Riding An Artistic High, But That Doesn’t Fill The Seats
“Dance has always been more fragile as an audience draw; we are so keenly aware of that and are always trying to build bridges...
A Grassroots Campaign Tries To Keep Hollywood Close To Home
“We’re competing against are taking our business, our assets, our storytelling and hiring their crews instead of our crews, and that’s not good...
