YouTube Will Spend $100 Million On Creators In New “Shorts” Program
YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, announced the YouTube Shorts Fund, a $100 million pool of money it’s promising to distribute to creators of...
Dutch Museum Directors Protest Testing Museum-Goers
In an open letter published yesterday in the Dutch newspaper NRC, 100 notable cultural figures, including Stedelijk director Rein Wolfs, artist Renzo Martens, Rijksmuseum director...
The Sweet Old Professor Who Saved Iceland’s Ancient Literary Heritage From Danish Fire
Árni Magnússon, who undertook Iceland's first-ever census and land survey, was a near-obsessive manuscript collector; he gathered many thousands of medieval documents, sagas, and...
Helmut Jahn Just Died In A Bike Accident — Might His Iconic Chicago Building...
The Thompson Center is Chicago's premier example of Jahn's work, and the project that made him famous. Intended to take government from distant to...
What Happened When A Video Game Mixed ‘Dungeons & Dragons’, Artificial Intelligence And Choose-Your-Own-Adventure?...
Last summer, the game AI Dungeon (less than a year old at the time) got an upgraded version of AI text-generation software that lets...
Immersive Van Gogh Is A Hit. But Which One?
If you’re in a major metropolitan area and have ever remotely shown interest in an art event, you may be bombarded by ads on...
Norman Lloyd, Whose Career Spanned Most Of Hollywood’s History, Dead At 106
He started his working life onstage with Eva Le Gallienne and Orson Welles; acted in films by Welles, Chaplin, Renoir, and Hitchcock (he was...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Unveils New Gehry Addition
Nearly 20 years ago, Anne d’Harnoncourt, the museum's then-director and CEO, proposed to Frank Gehry that he replicate the galvanizing effect of his Guggenheim...
With New Hosts, NPR’s ‘Invisibilia’ Podcast Is Reorienting Itself
"'Something we've thought about for a long time is how the show has historically had a strong emphasis on the individual and the internal...
Most Plays Are Just Better Without Intermissions
Charles McNulty: "I prefer to experience plays the way I experience films at the movie theater — uninterrupted. At night when I awake momentarily...
Race Is On To Save Boston Mansion Designed, Inside And Out, By Louis Comfort...
"The mansion was recently listed for sale — along with an adjoining building — with an asking price of $22.5 million. That has caused...
Dance With Prosthetic Limbs Is Getting More And More Creative
"Consider Belgian hip-hop artist Angelina Bruno. A star of the European dance circuit whose right arm was amputated at the forearm as a teenager,...
I Have A Prosthetic Leg. Dancing Has Transformed My Relationship With It.
Mickaella Dantas: "It took me a while to consider working with my prosthesis, since it has a limited range of flexibility. I struggled with...
One Down, Two To Go: Met Opera Reaches Labor Agreement With Chorus
"The union, the American Guild of Musical Artists — which also represents soloists, dancers, actors and stage managers — is the first of the...
Turner Prize Finalist Group Calls Out Turner Prize: ‘Extractive And Exploitative’
From the statement released by Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), one of five art-and-social-justice collectives nominated for this year's prize: "The urgency with which...
West End Theatre Folk Look Eagerly, Nervously Toward Reopening
"What's it actually like for the theatermakers who are starting work again after 15 months? Has the pandemic shaped the way they think about...
Status Report: When And How Various Countries Are Restarting Their Arts Scenes
Here's where plans currently stand in Australia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Spain, as well as the U.S. -...
Balanchine’s Biggest Fan – Nancy Lassalle, 93
“She was the ultimate board member,” said Albert Bellas, chairman emeritus of the S.A.B. “She was financially supportive, knowledgeable and committed.” She was also...
Fear My Book? Ban My Book?
"Those who seek to ban my book and others like it are trying to exploit fear — fear about the realities that books like...
Powell’s Books Union Protests Store’s Rehiring Practices
Under dispute is whether or not Powell's is obliged to honor employees' prior seniority, salaries, and benefits. The union says that the store, in...
Scotland Says Theatres Can Reopen. Theatres Say “No”
In a survey conducted by the Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST), 96% of members responded that it is not economically viable for them to...
New Research: Angkor Wat Population Was Greater Than Modern Boston
Researchers have determined the city’s population at its zenith in the 13th century, and the number is impressive: some 700,000 to 900,000 people likely...
World Dance? Seriously?
Typically, it's an intermediary—a manager, a producer, a critic—who labels something as "world dance." The term denotes exoticness, authenticity—and it sells. It's also problematic...
Maybe Hollywood Could Just Give Up On The Golden Globes Entirely
Kyle Buchanan: "That's the thing about awards: These trophies are only as important as the recipients believe them to be, and now that the...
The WPA is history
New York City has announced a new program, City Artist Corps, inspired by FDR's Works Progress Administration. There are two major problems with launching...
