The Virtuosic Female Musicians Who Attracted Rapt Listeners From All Over Europe
The women of 18th-century Venice’s ospedali (homes for the destitute, the sick, and orphans) are remembered largely because Vivaldi composed music for them. History...
London’s Gallery Commune Proves Sharing Is Caring
Ten years in, Condo's cooperative model has emerging dealers singing Kumbaya while actually making money. Who knew that playing nice could be the art...
South Africa Pulls Venice Biennale Show, Proving Art Diplomacy Dead
When your culture minister cancels a Palestinian grief exhibition for Venice, you've officially entered the realm where politics trumps artistic integrity. Two scholars aren't...
Museums Having Identity Crisis, Film at Eleven
Another year, another promise to "redefine" art institutions. But this conversation with curator eunice bélidor and administrator Dejha Carrington might actually cut through the...
How The Cleveland Orchestra Prepares For A Concert
It says a lot that this orchestra is confident enough to let a critic see it rehearse from start to finish, on the record....
This Actress Has Starred In The Same Legendarily Bad Off-Broadway Show For 39 Years
“On TripAdvisor, one user warns: ‘Don’t waste your money!’ Another pleads: ‘Kill me now!’ And yet, since 1987, Perfect Crime has been running eight times a...
Here Are The Grants The New National Endowment For The Humanities Has Given
The National Endowment for the Humanities on Thursday announced $71 million in new grants, including nearly $40 million to classical humanities institutes and civic leadership programs...
How We Lost The Art Of Paying Attention
Most of us are by now familiar with the broad mechanisms of the “attention economy” – the hijacking and monetising of consumer attention through...
More Trump-Taunting Art Placed On The National Mall
A massive replica of a birthday note and crude drawing signed with the typed name Donald J. Trump and a “Donald” signature that was...
You’d Think Russian Censors Would Have Shut This Play Down. But It’s A Huge...
“When an obscure play called The Kholops opened in St. Petersburg in 2024, many Russians raced to see it, fearful that the authorities would...
The Death Of The 20th Century Mono-Culture (And What It Means)
The implications for the battered-and-bruised entertainment industry are obvious. The impacts on our culture are just starting to fully materialize, but will be more...
Christmas Day Broke All Records For Streaming
Nielsen says streamers logged 55.1 billion minutes on streaming services on Christmas, breaking the previous high — set on Christmas in 2024 — by 3.9 billion minutes....
Matt Damon: Movies Now Repeat Plots “Three Or Four Times” In Dialogue Because People...
Because viewers give a “very different level of attention” to a movie at home versus in a theater, Netflix wants to push the action...
Despite Trump Administration Attacks, NEH Has Just Given $75 Million In Grants
“The National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new round of grants — $75.1m to 84 projects, many of them celebrating the US’s...
Director Tina Packer, Founder Of Theater Troupe Shakespeare & Co., Is Dead At 87
“In 1978, Ms. Packer founded Shakespeare & Company with Kristin Linklater, a voice teacher; Dennis Krausnick, an actor, director and writer who later became Ms. Packer’s...
Author Julian Barnes Says He Has Written His Last Book
“I won’t stop writing, because I’ve been a journalist all my life, before I became a novelist. So I shall do journalism, reviews and...
Zubin Mehta Cancels All Of His Performances In Israel This Year
The conductor, who was music director of the Israel Philharmonic for 39 years, retiring in 2020, said his decision to withdraw from concerts there...
Starchitect Firm Snøhetta Accused Of Firing Employees For Unionizing
“In a complaint issued on Friday, a regional director of the National Labor Relations Board accused Snøhetta of illegally dismissing eight employees because they...
Netflix Changes Its Warner Bros. Bid To All-Cash
“Netflix’s all-cash offer of $27.75 per share replaces its previous offer of $23.25 in cash and $4.50 in Netflix common stock per share. The...
Martha Graham Dance Company Is Latest To Cancel Kennedy Center Performances
The oldest dance company in the US had been scheduled to perform at the DC venue as part of its centennial tour. The brief...
The Trump-Kennedy Center Regime’s Odd Notion Of An Arts Business Model
The notion that unstated corporate aesthetic preferences should determine what the public encounters as art — indeed, what counts as art at the nation’s...
We Think Time Always Moves Forward. This Is A Relatively New Concept
This picture of time is not natural. Its roots stretch only to the 18th century, yet this notion has now entrenched itself so deeply in Western thought that...
The Playboy Publisher Who Published The Greats And Shaped American Literature
Toward the end of his life, the versatile Bennett Cerf — believing that growth was essential — acquired rival publishing house Knopf. A few...
What If AI Changes The Very Nature Of Our Attention?
What if the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t designed to feed that addiction — but to fundamentally change it? What if the...
Research Paper: How AI Is Destroying Institutions
If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better...
