Cleveland State University Just Closed A Decades-Old College Radio Station For No Apparent Reason
“A student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the...
Czech Writers, Including Ivan Klima, Created An Anti-Authoritarian Manifesto In 1977
In the U.S. (and other countries dealing with regimes antithetical to art), cultural workers could sure learn something from Charter 77. - LitHub
Why Is San Francisco About To Destroy This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Defining Work?
“Destroying the Vaillancourt Fountain, its supporters say, would be erasing history and modern architecture, and counter to the city’s reputation for being weird.” ...
Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo Close Amid Federal Shutdown
The Smithsonian museums “had been able to keep their doors open for the first 11 days of the shutdown by relying on prior-year funds, but...
Hollywood Vs. OpenAI Heats Up Hard With Release Of New Software
“At the core of the dispute is who controls the copyrighted images and likenesses of actors and licensed characters — and how much they...
Zora Neale Hurston’s Play, Forgotten For Decades, Sees The Light Of Day At Yale
“Building these moments for the stage entailed leaps of imagination and acts of faith among the collaborators. ‘I’d say to the team, ‘Trust Zora.’...
Pepperdine Suddenly Closes Art Show After Censorship Of Some Work Leads Other Artists To...
One artist wrote that the private university's censorship of other artists’ work, mostly about immigrants, “is a loss for the students and for the...
New Studies Suggests That People With ADHD May Be More Creative
Researchers found “that those with ADHD may experience more frequent episodes of mind-wandering, and that that, in turn, could lead to greater creative thinking...
Indiana’s Annual Three Day Blowout Honoring James Dean
“Dean was symbolic of the burgeoning country’s place in the world: rough-hewn and handsome, young and hungry, pure potential. That his potential was never...
Take MTV, Subtract The M, And Then Most Of The TV As Well
In Britain, after December 31st, MTV will be no more - for the most part. “The flagship channel, MTV HD, will remain on air,...
What It’s Like Opening A Feminist Play On Broadway Amid, Er, Gestures Around
Playwright Bess Wohl: “I wanted to make a play that I wished existed: a good, interesting, complicated play. How many plays are there really...
Rick Caruso’s Malls Are An Oddly Cold Version Of Urban Life
As the developer mulls a gubernatorial run, Carolina Miranda has some thoughts. “These places are rigidly controlled simulacra. … Collectively, these cloyingly tantalizing spaces...
Diane Keaton Has Died At 79
Keaton was the star of Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, and many other Woody Allen movies; she was also an Oscar...
Bernini’s Designs For The Louvre Were Too Much Even For Louis XIV
Yes, the favorite sculptor and architect of 17th-century Rome was the first designer whom the Sun King commissioned to make over the traditional Paris...
Are We Having The Wrong Debates About The AI Actress?
The question isn’t whether the future will be synthetic; it already is. Our challenge now is to ensure that it is also meaningfully human....
Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79
“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or...
Meet America’s New Poet Laureate
“You can’t speed-read a poem,” he explains. “You have to read it, hear the sounds, the rhythms, reread it, not be in a hurry....
Jean Nouvel’s New Museum In Paris Upends The Traditional Gallery
Nouvel’s latest movie: a new home for the Fondation Cartier, a private art foundation established in 1984 that’s dedicated to the accumulation, display and...
Why, With Broadway’s Stresses, Revive A Long-ago Flop?
Put simply, “Chess,” first produced in the U.S. in 1988, didn’t work on Broadway. So remounting the show, even though it’s become a cult...
After A Very Rough 2024-25, Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Is Finding Its Way Back...
“As the Metro Arts Commission works its way back from several years of instability, it’s hoping the more than $3.2 million in grants it’s...
Backlash Grows Against Comedians Who Participated In Riyadh Festival
Of course, some will argue that performing in authoritarian or oppressive countries is a means of reaching the masses; opening up art to those...
The Controversial History Of The Union Jack (And Why It’s Prominent Right Now)
Its meaning and symbolism are under the spotlight in debates often producing more heat than light. Is the increasingly widespread public display of the...
Judge Rules Music Publishers Can Sue Anthropic Over Copyright
US District Judge Eumi Lee on Monday ruled that Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO can press forward with claims that Anthropic bears legal responsibility when users of its Claude chatbot generate copyrighted...
Librarian Fired For Refusing To Remove Books, Wins $700,000 In Court
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes from...
At Last Minute, New York City Ballet Dancers Boycott Fall Gala Dinner
They did the evening’s performance — fulfilling their contract obligations, as they pointedly mentioned — but skipped the red-carpet photo ops and left vacant...
