Chicago’s Commissioner Of Cultural Affairs Resigns After 18 Turbulent Months
“From the beginning, Clinée Hedspeth’s tenure was marked by turmoil. Eighteen percent of the department turned over in her first six months. … Before...
In Gift Worth $60 Million, LACMA Gets Its First Klimt, Schiele, And Kokoschka Works
“More than 100 works of Austrian Expressionism worth ‘well over’ $60 million are being gifted to Los Angeles County Museum of Art by the...
What To Be Aware Of As Broadway Faces Possible Strike
Actors’ Equity members have already voted to authorize a strike; American Federation of Musicians members are close to authorizing one. Box office revenue has...
Offstage Drama At Opera Carolina As Ousted Director Makes Attention-Getting Video
“James Meena, former principal conductor and artistic director for (the Charlotte-based company), said he took to Facebook to refute ‘unsubstantiated rumors’ by (board members and staffers) at the...
A Playwright, Two Filmmakers, A Cartographer, A Basket Weaver: Meet The 2025 MacArthur Fellows
Among the arts folks who won this year’s $800,000 no-strings grants are playwright Heather Christian, photographers Tonika Lewis Johnson and Matt Black, artist/filmmakers Garrett...
László Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Prize For Literature
“Often described as postmodern, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, winding sentences, dystopian and melancholic themes, and the kind of relentless intensity that has...
Hildur Guðnadóttir On Her Scores For “Joker”, “Tár”, And “Hedda” — And What Women Composers...
“I’ve been asked, straight up, if I could ‘handle’ composing for a big film because I’m a woman. I was asked that after I won the...
Akram Khan Talks About His Last Work For His Dance Company Before It Dissolves
After 25 years, the Bangladeshi-British choreographer is closing down his touring troupe to pursue new creative directions. In a Q&A, he discusses the Akram...
Sotheby’s Sells Its Longtime Manhattan Headquarters
The move marks the latest step in a real estate overhaul that includes its 2023 acquisition of the Breuer Building, the Whitney Museum’s former home on Madison...
Major UK Galleries Report Precipitous Drop In Sales
Both galleries reported a nearly 90% decline in pre-tax profits, coinciding with a rumored multiyear art market downturn marked by a global decline in public...
Europe’s Great Rare Books Theft Spree
The Warsaw book heist was not an isolated incident but one of the final stops on an unprecedented grand tour of bibliophilic crime, which...
Louis CK Defends His Decision To Appear At Saudi Arabia’s First Stand-Up Comedy Festival
“There’s a woman who’s a lesbian and Jewish, who did a show (at the Riyadh Comedy Festival), and she got a standing ovation. …...
America’s Largest Supplier Of Books To Libraries To Shut Down
Baker & Taylor let go about 520 employees yesterday and plans to wind down the business by January. Employees who were laid off had...
As We’re On The Verge Of AI, It’s Useful To Reconsider The Luddites
“Ultimately they said: ‘We only want to prevent the implementation of technology as it is harmful, as it is injurious to the working man.’...
The Jimmy Kimmel Affair Exposed Growing Rift Between Networks And Affiliates
As affiliates, they’re not happy. And as they lobby the FCC to abolish the cap on how many stations one company can own (currently...
Future Of Chicago’s Only Arts-Focused Public High School Is Suddenly In Doubt
Citing “unsustainable” deficits, the board that oversees the Chicago High School for the Arts has decided not to renew its contract with Chicago Public...
Longtime ARTnews Owner Milton Esterow, 97
Esterow purchased ARTnews in 1972 from Newsweek, which at the time was a division of the Washington Post Company, and owned it until 2014, when ARTnews was sold in...
Australian Arts Industry Hampered By Rise In Touring Costs
‘We have no shortage of invitations to show our work overseas, but our level of secure, ongoing funding is not enough to underpin these...
How Does Our Brain Perceive The World?
Most of the time, our intuition tells us that what we are seeing (or hearing or feeling) is an accurate representation of what is...
How TikTok Gets Its Users Addicted, Scrolling Ever Longer For Content
“(We) collected TikTok watch histories from 1,100 users. We created a database of roughly 15 million videos served up to them in a six-month period last...
The Chairs Frank Lloyd Wright Designed For The Guggenheim’s Café Have Finally Been Fabricated
“Now, nearly seven decades later, the Museum of Wisconsin Art has commissioned a pair as part of a new exhibition that reframes Wright’s furniture...
Seamus Heaney’s Unpublished Poems Will Now See Print
“The Poems of Seamus Heaney will feature his 12 collections interspersed with poems published in magazines, journals and newspapers, plus 25 poems selected from...
France’s Major Museums Worry That Trump Will End Tax Deduction Crucial To Their American...
The concern is a possible change to the ‘equivalency determination,’ through which a foreign organization can be deemed equivalent to a public charity in...
Major Chain Of U.S. Regional Daily Newspapers Ends Monday Print Editions
As of November 3, Lee Enterprises is ceasing seven-day-a-week print editions at all of its papers that hadn’t already done so. Those titles include...
BBC Execs, Facing Steep Cuts, Want Defense Budget To Help Pay For World Service
“BBC executives are hoping to ease the burden on the stretched Foreign Office budget (which usually funds the World Service) by classifying some of...
