Maybe You Can Get Famous Playing The Edinburgh Fringe, But You Sure Won’t Get...
“The sprawling festival, open to any act that can find a venue and pay a registration fee, will this year showcase over 3,000 acts.”...
Washington National Opera Director Francesca Zambello On Relations With Kennedy Center’s New Regime
“The new management has not entered into our artistic planning. They support it and the same way they support the National Symphony …, and...
Allan Ahlberg, Author Of “The Jolly Postman” And Other Children’s Classics, Has Died At...
“Ahlberg’s (more than 150) books introduced generations of young children to reading through simple rhymes, sharp observation and gentle humor. Many were co-created with...
Public TV And Radio Across New York State Lose $57 Million In Trump/Congress Cuts
“Nearly $50 million of that will come from the budgets of public radio and TV stations, while roughly $7.6 million will come from the...
Smithsonian Removes Trump’s Name From Exhibit On Impeached Presidents
“The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in July removed references to President Donald Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit display. … After this...
Man Leaps To His Death From Roof Of Whitney Museum
“An unidentified 34-year-old man died after jumping from the Whitney Museum on Wednesday evening, shortly before the museum closed, according to a source with...
Gems Revered As Relics Of Buddha Returned From Sotheby’s To India
The gems were originally, circa 240 BC, buried in a stupa in Piprahwa, India, where they were mixed with some cremated remains of the Buddha. The...
Maverick Director Robert Wilson, 83
“To see someone try to act natural onstage seems so artificial,” he told The Times in 2021. “If you accept it as being something...
Surprising Facts About Caligula, Everybody’s Favorite Horrible Roman Emperor
“Despite his character, and questionable sanity, Caligula was also man of great intellect and learning with a particularly keen knowledge of pharmacology. … Caligula was...
The (Very) Muddled State Of Criticism Today
Now, as often as criticism has been declared to be in a golden age, and perhaps as a corollary, it has been held to...
Are Spoof Movies Making A Comeback?
Their heyday was the 1980s and ‘90s, from Airplane! through the National Lampoon and Austin Powers franchises, Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, and Scary Movie, but...
US Government Auctioning Off Picasso, Basquiat
Art advisors and experts told ARTnews the works are high caliber and have “crazy” starting bids relative to their actual value based on previous auction records...
New Startup Wants To Shake Up How E-Books Are Sold
Briet invites publishers to sell their e-books to libraries outright, providing universal, perpetual access. Several independent publishers including PM Press, Punctum, Sideshow, and Silver...
Chief Justice Roberts Is Chancellor Of The Smithsonian. Right Now That’s Awkward
For Chief Justice Roberts, though, the role recently has placed him in an unenviable position — helping to lead an institution in the crosshairs...
Another Leader Of Theater In DC Is Stepping Down
“The early announcement of David Muse’s 2027 departure as artistic director of Studio Theatre … allows the institution ample time to search for a...
Alan Valentine To Retire After 28 Years At Nashville Symphony
Under Valentine’s direction, the Symphony has earned 14 Grammys and 27 nominations, produced more than 40 recordings, commissioned and premiered dozens of innovative works....
IMAX Theatres Have Been Making Big Gains At The Box Office
The second quarter of the current fiscal year marked Imax’s best quarter in terms of domestic movies ticket sales as it stays on course...
Judge Wants To Know Why Trump Hasn’t Restored Voice Of America Operations
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth of the District of Columbia gave the administration until Aug. 13 to explain how it will get VOA working...
US Nonfiction Book Sales Are Down — Except For Titles About Tyranny
“While sales of such seemingly prescient novels as 1984 by George Orwell (1949) and Parable of the Sower by Olivia Butler (1993) (have) surged …, backlist nonfiction titles...
How To Wean Yourself Off The Constant Dopamine Hits And Direct Your Attention To...
Once you understand how your reward system works, you can consciously redirect it toward the things that actually matter to you. Let’s explore the...
People Are Using AI To Project Their Future Success
“The computer has been trained to reflect back at you what you tell it, so if it shows you as a billionaire, it doesn’t...
At Versailles Palace, Visitors Converse With The Statuary (Via Chatbot)
Farah Nayeri: “Powered by the tech giant OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, an audio tool lets visitors (on or off site) converse with 20...
In Los Angeles, Dance Groups Large And Small Face Money Struggles
“With the stress of federal and local funding cuts, as well as the January fires, many L.A. dance organizations are scaling back their programming...
Regional Newspapers Are Bundling New York Times Content Into Their Own Subscription Packages
For instance, The Philadelphia Inquirer includes access to the NYT Cooking app with its premium subscription, while The Minnesota Star Tribune does something similar...
City Of Chicago Will Replace Some Grant Money Cancelled By NEA
The city’s Arts Relief Fund will offer grants between $10,000 and $25,000 to Chicago arts organizations who had their announced NEA grants withdrawn by...
