Man Wins $1.2M Picasso In Christie’s Raffle
"How do I know this isn't a prank?" the 58-year-old asked when he was told he was the new owner of the 1941 work...
Why Movie Theatre Owners Are Fighting The Paramount/Warner Deal
“Further concentrating marketplace power in the hands of a smaller group of distributors that dictate the terms, windows, scheduling, screen-placement of movies, and access...
I Survived A Year Inside Stephen King’s Archives
This book is Caroline Bicks’s account of what happened when King gave her permission to spend a year in his archive, poring over the...
At This Point, Alec Baldwin Just Wants To Retire
The accidental shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, the two (unsuccessful) prosecutions in New Mexico, finishing the film in another state...
What 100 Years Of Data Shows Us About Who Gets Guggenheim Grants
If 100 years of data are any indication, then an outsized share of the new recipients work at the most renowned universities in the...
Millions Of People Are Pretending To Be Chatbots, And Making… Art
The site forces its human users to approximate the speed at which a machine would return a response; there's a 75-second time limit. So...
Action Star Jackie Chan To Direct… Puccini?
Chan, known for films like Rush Hour and Rumble in the Bronx, will introduce martial arts into the storytelling as a means of emotional expression. Each character...
Move Over, Nollywood, Nigeria Has A Second Thriving Movie Industry
Nigeria’s film ecosystem is known mostly for Nollywood, the industry headquartered in Lagos. In the largely Muslim north of the country, however, there’s Kannywood,...
Two Major Atlanta Museums Ponder Their Place In The City
The two museums now share a similar challenge: to reach across racial, economic, educational and even geographic lines to feel vital and necessary to...
The Decades-Old Little Box That Has Fans Raving About The Guitar Again
The quest to achieve the “Mk.gee tone” spawned a series of “How Does He Make His Guitar Sound Like That?” YouTube videos; musicians compared...
Victoria & Albert Museum Deleted Images From Catalogues That Violated Chinese Censorship Laws
The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese printing company to delete maps and images from at least two recent...
Philadelphia Ballet Gives Its Long-Awaited New Home A Test Run
“Dancers danced at the company’s new North Broad Street building for the first time. Even as construction workers continued their own choreography of spackling and power-driving...
Ex-COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Pleads Not Guilty To Theft Charges
“On Tuesday, during (Brady) Lum’s arraignment in federal court in Atlanta, the US Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia accused Lum of...
This 95-Second Scene Change At The Met Opera Is An Astounding Feat Of Coordination
In the company’s staging of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Innocence, seven stage managers, four prop masters, and a big flock of stagehands transform the set...
Kennedy Center Boss: See? We Really Do Need To Renovate!
“Matt Floca, the new executive director and COO, is leading tours this month that show water damage and intrusion to expansion joints, marble slabs...
Hampshire College Will Shut Down At End Of Year
“Founded in 1965, and opening its doors to students five years later as a campus determined to ‘radically reimagine liberal arts education,’ the small...
Performing Arts Touring In England Is “In Crisis” And Needs “Radical Rethink”: Report
“A report commissioned by Arts Council England finds that touring is ‘in crisis’, though ‘not entirely broken’, given some parts of the sector, such...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Is Saved, Three Weeks Before It Was To Close
“The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofit parent organization of The Baltimore Banner, reached an agreement with Block Communications to acquire the I, which was slated...
Other Legacy U.S. Newspapers Which Have Gone Nonprofit
So far, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is the fourth large one (not including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which remains for-profit itself though it is owned by...
Jury Rules Ticketmaster and LiveNation Are Illegal Monopolies
The ruling is essentially a rebuke to the Department of Justice’s settlement with Live Nation last month — reportedly ordered directly by President Donald Trump —...
The Trump-As-Jesus Image Conveyed More Than He Realized: Philip Kennicott
“Among those messages: a palpable sense of desperation. In the rapid and angry response to the meme, one sensed a coalition beginning to crack,...
New Contemporary Art Museum In Indianapolis Aims To Reinvent The Form
The $13 million campus, which spans five acres, includes a Vegas-style, chicken-themed wedding chapel, a radio station, a contemporary art gallery with a coffee...
Performing “A Streetcar Named Desire” In “Found Spaces” All Across The U.S.
“Featuring four actors, a sparse set, and no props, … this production has been performed since 2023 on all manner of improvised stages. An...
Trump Fires Entire Presidio Board
A year after threatening to "dramatically" downsize the operations of San Francisco's Presidio, President Donald Trump has terminated the park's board of trustees. - San...
Finnish Violinist Says He Won’t Perform In The US Due To The Political Situation
’I would like to, with utmost sensitivity and respect, suggest to the administrations of the major American orchestras to consider using your voices... I’m quite...
