Francis Ford Coppola Is Reduced To Selling Off His Watch Collection
“The filmmaker announced he will auction off seven watches, ranging in value from $3,000 to $1 million, ... in an effort to rebuild his...
Mark Morris Sued By Ex-Company Member For Allegedly Discriminating Against Black Dancers
“The plaintiff, Taína Lyons, an Afro-Latina dancer, … alleges that (Morris) told her that her hair was ‘too big’ and a ‘distraction.’ ... Ms....
San Antonio Philharmonic Calls Off November Concerts
“The San Antonio Philharmonic has postponed its Classics III concerts, scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 7-8, marking the second time one of the...
A New Booker Prize For Children’s Books
“The Children’s Booker Prize, offering £50,000 (roughly $67,000) for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12, … will launch in 2026,...
Suspect Charged In Another Case Of Treasure Stolen From A Paris Museum
In the case of $1.7 worth of gold nuggets stolen from the mineralogy gallery at Paris’s Natural History Museum on Sept. 16, a 24-year-old Chinese...
Why We Travel
There’s something about motion that triggers creative thoughts. This has been true for a long time. Charles Darwin’s budding theory of evolution jelled while...
Sculptor Jackie Ferrara, A “Lumberyard Poet,” Is Dead At 95
“In an era when sculptors were turning out factory-fabricated objects with shiny metal surfaces, … (she) stacked lengths of wood into objects that resembled...
What The $55B Electronic Arts Sale Means For The Creative Economy
The acquisition reinforces consolidation trends across the creative sector, mirroring similar deals in music, film and television. Creative and cultural industries have a “tendency for bigness,” and...
Inside The Fashion Magazines (When They Mattered)
Palmer divides editors at her unnamed magazine into two categories: “the privileged (Workhorses) and the super-privileged (Show Horses).” Not since the 1980 publication of...
Why We Need A Commons
The structure of our societies is such that when you’re wealthy, availability of The Commons is of negligible benefit. However, when your private command...
Explaining The “Venue Tax” On The Ballot In San Antonio Next Month
Revenue from the tax, collected on hotel rooms and rental cars in Bexar County, may be used for sports arenas and parks, but also...
Dancers In Estonia’s National Ballet Have Been Working Second Jobs As Taxi Drivers To...
The opera house issued a public appeal to the Riigikogu Cultural Affairs Committee on Thursday, stating that if the current lack of funding continues...
The Jewel Thief Underground Where The Louvre Jewels May Land
“Everybody in the business is talking about this right now,” said Robert Wittman, a former art-crime investigator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who...
The FTC Is Suing Ticketmaster. Now Ticketmaster Is Scrambling To Reform Scalping
Under the new policy, Ticketmaster says it will limit all individuals and entities, including professional resellers, to a single verified account tied to a...
Amazon MGM Did Not Actually Pay $1 Billion For Control Of James Bond Franchise
Approximately one billion-with-a-b was the figure reported when longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson decided to sell and basically retire from...
A Bay Area Project To Find Artists Affordable Housing
By adapting the community land trust model — a strategy long used to preserve affordable housing for teachers, city workers, and other essential labor...
Those Who Are Resisting Using AI
As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back. - Washington Post
American Wins The International Chopin Competition
Eric Lu, a 27-year-old pianist from Massachusetts, won the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, becoming the first American since 1970 to receive the top...
Iris Murdoch’s Unpublished Poems About Bisexuality Are Coming Out From Penguin Random House
“Poems from an Attic: Selected Poems, 1936–1995, to be published on 6 November, brings together decades of work that Murdoch largely kept private, stored...
Indie Filmmakers And Producers Say L.A. Has Become A “Hostile” Place To Shoot
As one producer said about the mandatory location inspection by a fire marshal, "As a resident, I understand the need for fire protection and...
The Crown Jewels At The Louvre Were Not Insured. Why Not?
There are actually some good, and even practical, reasons not to insure the Louvre or its contents. By law, in fact, such items are...
The Louvre Burglars’ Fluorescent Vests Were An Excellent Disguise
“(One expert) said that high-visibility safety jackets had become such a ubiquitous symbol of authority — like a clipboard or a reporter’s microphone —...
Aspen Music Festival CEO To Step Down After 20 Years
Alan Fletcher took the helm at the festival and school in 2006, oversaw the construction of the $80 million Bucksbaum Campus, and established several...
Misty Copeland Dances Her Final Performance With ABT
“Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, showered with golden glitter and bouquets as she retired from American Ballet Theatre after a...
No Broadway Strike: Musicians’ Union And Producers Reach Contract Deal
AFM Local 802 announced that a deal with the Broadway League at 4:30 Thursday morning, saying in a statement that “this three-year agreement provides...
