Protesters Disrupt Opening Of Nigeria’s New Museum Of West African Art
“Videos circulating online show more than a dozen young people on Sunday evening rushing the grounds of the multi-million-dollar Museum of West African Art...
What NYT Staff Learned When They Asked People To Spend Ten Minutes Look At...
For the team that works on the series, the project has been an enlightening experience. Mr. Buchanan said he had begun noticing subtle things...
Sarah Jessica Parker’s Year Of Reading 153 Books As A Booker Prize Judge
My husband and children knew what this meant. No one tried to compete with the Booker. Anytime after dinner, when there was a discussion...
Claim: End Of Public Funding Will Make Public Media More Polarizing
Losing the rest of the public funding is likely to make the problem worse. In the face of cuts, many stations are issuing renewed appeals to...
Lucinda Childs’s Niece Comes Into Her Own As A Choreographer
“As (Ruth) Childs carved her own path as a freelance dancer (in Europe), the specter of her aunt’s work loomed. It continued to deter...
Boston’s WGBH Has Fourth Round Of Layoffs This Year
“Fifteen employees were told that their positions were being eliminated, according to a statement from President and CEO Susan Goldberg. She cited the loss...
Meet The Minnesota Orchestra’s Full-Time Social Media Content Creator
“The day before a fall show, Minnesota Orchestra musicians rushed through the stage door for rehearsal. At the bottom of the stairs was the...
Philadelphia Art Museum Fired Director Sasha Suda After Outside Investigation
“The Philadelphia Art Museum dismissed director and CEO Sasha Suda for cause after commissioning an independent investigation … by an outside law firm, which...
Louvre Hurriedly Institutes New $92 Million Master Security Plan
“The Louvre has unveiled a €80 million ($92 million) overhaul of its security systems in response to the brazen $102 million jewel theft that stunned Paris...
Firestorm At BBC News: Top Two Execs Resign And Trump Threatens To Sue For...
BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness resigned after the leak of a memo about the editing, for the show...
2025 Booker Prize Goes To David Szalay’s “Flesh”
“Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges ‘had never read anything quite...
How Journalism Media Lost The American Public
"I actually think that the decline of trust has to do with newspapers’ becoming more responsible, more accurate. Nobody I know would trade today’s...
Instant Translation Is Like Magic. But Might We Be Losing Something?
As people embrace these transformative tools, they risk eroding capacities and experiences that embody values other than seamlessness and efficiency. - The Atlantic
The Crushing Debt Of Arts Schools
Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. However, the fine print tells a different story: crushing debt, unreliable outcomes, and a mismatch between...
Expert Critics Look At This Year’s Booker Finalists
Academic critics read closely this year's Booker Prize finalists: Each novel has emotional temperature and structural ambition: domestic quietudes stretched into myth, migration...
Enough With Those Claims Culture Has Become Less Creative. Look Around!
The Internet didn’t destroy monoculture. It exposed the fact that monoculture was always a bottleneck, popped the cork, and let the contents fizz out. ...
Fired Philadelphia Art Museum Director Sues Over Her Dismissal
In her lawsuit, which was filed in Pennsylvania state court, the former director, Sasha Suda, contends that she was fired “without a valid basis”...
How To Build An Imagination: The Books Of Childhood
We learn from stories. Our ancestors were raised on myths about their ancestors, tales about their saviours, emperors and lawgivers, and, eventually, novels about...
Fighting The Algorithms: Tips For Discovering New Music
"For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to uncover new music. Not new releases, not...
Why Music Education Should Resist Conformity
We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise,...
@100: Remembering Charles Mackerras’ Impact On English Musical Life
Mackerras had a major impact on British musical life, whether as Music Director of English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, working with major...
Washington National Opera Considers Leaving The Kennedy Center
Leaving the Kennedy Center is a possible scenario after a collapse in box office revenue and “shattered” donor confidence in the wake of Trump’s...
The Trump Administration Keeps Using Norman Rockwell’s Imagery, And His Family Is Fed Up
“It’s important to us that younger generations know what the work stood for and don’t get some false impression from these decontextualized samplings —...
It’s Actually Not So Hard To Make Your Movie Sets Accessible
And it benefits literally everyone, advocates say, including the audience. “If everyone feels like this is a safe set and they can do their...
After Fifty Years In San Francisco, This Gallery Is Moving Out
The plan: Rena Bransten Gallery will turn into a pop-up. "I have uncertainty about whether the model that we all grew up in, going...
