Contemporary Art At The Pyramids – Helps You See Them In A New Way
“For , it’s a site of antiquities, it’s heritage, but contemporary art is not appealing to them. We changed people’s mentality and now they...
Dozens Of Museums In Mexico And Central America Are Broke And Near Closure: Report
A study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico found that "more than 75 percent of (responding museums) said they are facing financial insecurity;...
Australian Artists’ Earnings Are Falling Behind…
The most recent data places the average gross annual income for an Australian artist at $48,400. When adjusted for inflation, average incomes have fallen...
How Amazon And Its Publishing Arm Are Changing Literature
Parul Sehgal: "The author is dead; long live the service provider. The reader, in turn, has been reborn as a consumer in the contemporary...
The Transformation Of The Gibney Dance Company
When Gina Gibney founded her troupe in 1991, it was your basic single-choreographer ensemble, picking up per-project freelancers. Now The Gibney Company has 12...
A Question In The Wake Of The Alec Baldwin “Rust” Shooting: Who Or What...
"An armorer is tasked with managing all firearms used on set, ensuring they look realistic and are appropriate for the setting. More importantly, they're...
Crew Member Who Handed Alec Baldwin Fatal Prop Gun Had Been Fired For Mishandling...
"The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a...
She Saved Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center And Merged It With The Philadelphia Orchestra. Now She’s...
When Anne Ewers arrived in 2007, the Kimmel still had $30 million in construction debt. She raised money to pay it off, increased revenue...
Louis Langrée, Cincinnati Symphony And Mostly Mozart Music Director, Has Big New Job In...
As of November 1, the 60-year-old native of France's Alsace region will be the director of the Opéra-Comique. Among his plans are revivals of...
Pompidou Center In Paris To Postpone Renovation Until After 2024 Olympics
"The initial restoration plan involved shutting down the Centre Pompidou for three years from the end of 2023 for essential maintenance work." The question...
20 Years Ago: How The iPod Changed Everything
The eureka moment was the click wheel that enabled nimble search and control without a keyboard. Jobs wanted it as small as possible, with...
Unlikely Path: From TickTok To Riverdance Dancer
Morgan Bullock: “Sometimes I’m like, ‘Am I being pranked? Is this real?’” she says. But her new journey with Riverdance is far from a...
Where Ya Going To Sell Picassos For $110 Million? Vegas, Of Course
Eleven Pablo Picasso artworks that have been on display at a Las Vegas hotel for more than two decades have sold at auction for...
How Joshua Vides Went From Graffiti Artist To Designing For Global Brands
His creations have turned the former scofflaw graffitist into an illustrator and visual artist sought after by a growing list of global brands, including...
Astonishing Growth In University Endowments Last Year — What To Do With It?
Washington University in St. Louis saw a 65 percent return. Duke, 56 percent. MIT, 55.5 percent (after completing a $6 billion capital campaign). Brown, 51.5 percent. Dartmouth, 46.5 percent. Yale,...
How To Fix Social Media (Lessons From History)
The arrival of broadcast media at the start of the last century set off an information revolution just as tumultuous as the one we...
Are You Ready For Our Real-Life Dystopia?
When you zoom out, it’s easy to see that American society is approaching a modern-day dystopia as the once sci-fi-worthy stories of environmental destruction,...
Facebook Employees Had Plenty Of Ideas How To Fix Facebook. But…
It’s almost cliché at this point to accuse Facebook of ignoring the impact its products have on users and society. The observation hits a...
Why Did Believer Magazine Shut Down?
It’s a popular idea, these days, that all it takes is a kindly benefactor to set things right. Unfortunately, it is and will always...
How The Internet Changed Photography For The Masses (And A Nostalgia For The Past)
Curiously keen to recapture the not-knowing-what-the-hell-is-on-there waiting period that analog film required, young digital types have taken up the popular Dispo camera app, which...
Glasgow School Of The Art, Ravaged By Fire, Decides To Rebuild Original Building
The school said it had looked closely at a wide range of alternatives, including a ‘do minimum’ approach, a new build on the site...
How Facebook Has Failed Us All
The social media giant "has algorithmically surfaced false information about conspiracy theories and vaccines, and was instrumental in the ability of an extremist mob...
Comments Sections Are A Toxic Stew Of Sexism, And That’s By Design
"It’s not enough to simply call on women to speak up. We do need to change public conversations, but it is fundamentally a design...
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait Says There’s No Such Thing As Cancel Culture
"People love to say, ‘George Carlin couldn’t do his act today! What would he say about all this?’ ... I know exactly what he’d...
The Vancouver Opera May Be Returning To A New Kind Of Normal
A costume sale for Halloween heralded the semi-return to normal for an opera house whose costume shop pivoted last year to mask-making. Cleaning out...
