Seattle International Film Festival Bought An Iconic Theatre. It Didn’t Work So Well. Now...
Earlier this year, The Times spoke to a dozen current and former SIFF staff and board members, many of whom expressed profound concerns about both...
Why Is The New York Public Library Giving Away Books?
Usually you have to return books you get from a library. Today the New York Public Library will give books away — 1,000 books...
How New Motion-Capture Technology Might Affect Dancers And Choreographers
An exec at the firm Move AI insists that the combination of motion-capture and AI software isn’t to replace dance artists but to streamline...
New $234M Record Sale For Modern Art
The 71-by-51-inch painting, named after its subject, was sold at a Sotheby’s auction in New York on Tuesday evening for $236.4 million, including fees. It belonged...
Three University Leaders Discuss Challenges Facing Education
Many universities, not all, but many, were for a period of time deeply focused on identity diversity, and really not so focused on viewpoint...
Concern As Warner Brothers Sale Looms
Warners Brothers has had multiple owners over the decades. Three years ago, Warner Media, as it was called, merged with Discovery. And in June,...
This University Restructured, Eliminating Traditional Departments (And Humanities?)
The departments of English, classics, philosophy, world languages and Spanish and Latino studies, for example, will be grouped into the tentatively titled School of...
Ex-Employees Accuse Smoky Robinson Of Sexual Assault
“Two more former employees of the soul music star Smokey Robinson, both male and female, have alleged he sexually assaulted them, which he denies. Robinson...
One Company Is Flooding The Zone With Tens Of Thousands Of AI-Generated Podcasts —...
“Point AI, a startup with eight employees, (cranks) out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports to a detailed account of...
What’s Behind The Board Exodus At The Palm Springs Art Museum? Evidently, A Financial...
It’s not as simple as the museum not having enough money. An audit report indicates that there have been some very questionable accounting practices...
Titles About Middle East Dominate 2025 National Book Awards
Winners include Rabih Alameddine's Beirut-set The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Fiction), Omar El Akkad’s examination of the war...
Some Arts Organizations Are Turning Down NEA Grants Rather Than Follow Anti-DEI Rules
“After the (NEA) canceled a large percentage of its awards in May, organizations across the country have decided they would rather find money elsewhere than be...
Who Paid $12 Million For Maurizio Cattelan’s Gold Toilet? Believe It Or Not …
Yes, the themed-museum-and-entertainment franchise Ripley’s Believe It or Not! was the purchaser of Cattelan’s America at Sotheby’s in New York this week. In its...
San Diego Symphony Extends Contract With Music Director Rafael Payare
“The Venezuelan-born conductor — who became a naturalized US. citizen last year on the stage of the symphony’s Jacobs Music Center — began his...
Here’s One Israeli Orchestra That Isn’t Met With Protests When It Tours
The Galilee Chamber Orchestra, currently touring the US, is based in Nazareth (considered the cultural capital for Israel’s native Palestinians, about 20% of the...
So What Is Progress, Really? Some Limits Are Good
“Modernity is a machine for destroying limits." This attack on limits is legible in a host of current phenomena, including mass immigration, free-market orthodoxy,...
Fort Worth Opera Tries A Pay-What-You-Can Program
For each of this weekend’s three performances of Philip Glass’s La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast, set to Jean Cocteau’s 1946...
For A Long Time Artists Have Been On The Leading Edge Of Culture. Maybe...
What about all the painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance that people still love to make and see? They’re not going away, but it’s...
French Art Establishment Opposes New Tax On Art
Under the legislation, France would become the only major market art center to impose a wealth tax on the mere possession of artworks, says the statement....
Nico Muhly On The Physical Translation Of Music Into Dancers’ Bodies
Watching a dance rehearsal as a score-addicted musician is surreal. You can have 30 people in the room, and only two of them will...
Howard University Is On A Mission To Preserve The History Of Black American Newspapers
The project is digitizing U.S. newspapers that are are now in the public domain (after 95 years). The center also has permission to place...
Disney Hits A Wall With Its AI Ambitions
Even as other industries — from technology to publishing — proceed to incorporate AI to cut costs and replace jobs, media companies have bumped...
This Playwright Enlisted Anorexic Actors: The Ethics Of Who Portrays What
Theater makers have long depicted health struggles onstage, including the realities of living with H.I.V. and cancer, but the debate around this production, titled “Jeanne Dark” and running through...
Norwegian National Ballet Did A Piece About Sami History By A Sami Choreographer. Oslo...
That question worried the choreographer, administrators, and the dancers, none of whom are Sami themselves. What’s more, the piece was about a particularly sensitive...
The GLP-1 Era Is Changing How We Think About Self Control
Although scientists are just beginning to study food noise as a concept, individuals who have taken a GLP-1 drug often report that it significantly reduces this distracting, ruminative thinking about...
