Soprano Roberta Alexander Dead At 76
Active as a concert singer as well as in opera, she was for some years a mainstay at the Met, Covent Garden, Salzburg, Glyndebourne,...
Tim Curry At 79, Looking Forward Even After His Stroke
The actor who brought so much manic energy to Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror), Wadsworth the butler (Clue), and Pennywise the clown (Stephen King’s It)...
Esteeming Esterow: My Paean to the Late Editor of ARTnews magazine
Milton Esterow at a 2019 Metropolitan Museum press preview, with Leonardo’s “St. Jerome” in backgroundPhoto by Lee Rosenbaum He could
Study: Libraries Draw People To Downtown
A recent study published by the Urban Libraries Council explores the idea that libraries can draw people to city centers that have been suffering from the...
Actors’ Equity UK Threatens Mass Action Over AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Actors’ Images
“The warning came as … growing numbers of (union) members made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in...
Toledo Museum’s Adam Levine On The Future Of Museums
"I have yet to meet someone who really believes that there will be less digital or AI in the world 10 years from now...
“Hamilton” Grosses Its Biggest-Ever Broadway Box Office
Notably, the tally of $4.042 million comes outside of the holiday season, when shows typically see their highest grosses and slightly bests Hamilton’s previous high...
Oregon Launches A Rethink On Support For Non-Profit Arts
“The goal is to create a unified strategy and list of priorities to present with the Legislature to support the arts, culture, and humanities...
In Extremely Rare Move, Met Opera Schedules More Performances Of “Kavalier & Clay” For...
The Mason Bates/Gene Scheer opera, whose ticket sales improved for each performance of this fall’s run (the last two selling out, despite widely divergent...
Observation: Young Actors Trained During Pandemic Have Trouble Projecting Their Voices
Young actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are struggling to project their voices and lack range because they were denied the...
Indigenous Artists Use Augmented Reality To Overlay Images At Metropolitan Museum
Using augmented reality (AR), the artists intervened in the gallery’s 19th-century paintings—generic and imagined landscapes, portraits of affluent settlers and grandiose historical scenes—digitally superimposing...
Artists Plan Nationwide Protests
The protests, known collectively as Fall of Freedom, will take place on the weekend of Nov. 21. Organizers, including the visual artist Dread Scott and the playwright...
Colm Tóibín: Why I Set Up A Press To Publish László Krasznahorkai (And The...
“In 2006, when I came home all enthusiastic about his work, he still had no UK publisher. ... The view in London was that...
Universal Music Goes All In On AI
I believe that Agentic AI, which dynamically employs complex reasoning and adaptation, has the potential to revolutionize how fans interact with and discover music....
Culture As An Act Of Resistance
As the current administration repeals the right to culture, we, everyday people, must work to keep it. Exercise it to the fullest extent. Dine...
Hundreds Of Culture Workers Sign On To Jane Fonda’s Revival Of The Committee for...
Fonda announced on October 1 that she would revive the Committee for the First Amendment, an anti-censorship group originally formed in 1947 whose members...
Ireland Will Make Its Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Permanent
Unfortunately, it’s not for all artists. There will be 2,000 stipends available, with applications opening in September of 2026 and qualified applicants (who may...
Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of...
“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any...
A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth
This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art...
Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended
The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day...
Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala
They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they...
Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company
The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I...
A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain
Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However,...
José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance
Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The...
Cultural Boycotts Are Ripping UK Arts Organizations Apart
This fraught debate has pitted artists who are broadly in agreement against each other. “There’s so much energy being spent ripping ourselves to shreds...
