What Impact Does Free Admission Make On Museums?
“What we have seen, across the country, is that institutions that have eliminated admissions have generally not seen an increase in visitation in any...
Gandhi And His Notion Of Micro- And Macro-Morality
Gandhi demonstrated that micro-morality is essential, but not good enough. We have to be morally good people used to looking inside and judging what we...
James Will Be Leading A Different Kind Of Murdoch Media Empire
“One New York staffer said that, in contrast to other billionaires who have purchased media properties in recent years, James Murdoch has ‘actually been...
Maybe We’re Thinking About Ecosystems The Wrong Way
Why do we keep thinking ecosystems have functions they could fail to perform? - Aeon
AI Music, Anthems And Video Is Fueling Alberta’s Separatist Movement
The 20 inauthentic channels analyzed have had nearly 40 million views. Videos use AI-generated deepfakes, often of Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark...
Booktok Sells Tons Of Books. Its Reviews, Though…
While TikTok’s stunted critical language sells legions more books—even good ones—than the literary critics who dismiss the platform, as a doubtfully salable fiction writer...
Wilma Theater In Philadelphia Ends Its Three-Artistic-Director Experiment
“The new and sole artistic director is Lindsay Smiling, who has been one of the company’s three co-artistic directors for the past three years;...
L.A. Phil’s Next Music Director: Daniel Harding
The 50-year-old British conductor and part-time Air France pilot is currently chief conductor at Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and has held similar...
How Much Has Anthony Roth Costanzo Turned Opera Philadelphia Around? This Much.
When he became general director in 2024, he had to raise $4 million in 12 weeks just to keep the company from closing; that...
Jazz Saxophone Great Sonny Rollins Has Died At 95
“From his days as a teen phenom to his more measured solo work and experimentation with free jazz, Rollins was revered for his improvisational...
Gallerist Brett Sikkema’s Husband Convicted Of Ordering His Murder
“In a grisly case that shocked the art world, a Cuban-American man was found guilty of his role in a murder-for-hire plot that resulted in the...
Russia Bombs Many Of Kyiv’s Major Cultural And Historical Sites
The National Art Museum, National Philharmonic of Ukraine, Kyiv Opera Theater, National Chornobyl Museum, Valeriy Lobanovskyi Dynamo Stadium and Hinaus Gallery were among sites...
Brian Large, 87, Masterful TV And Film Producer Of Opera And Classical Music
He directed well over 100 films and telecasts of operas and concerts for the BBC, the Royal Opera House in London, the Met, and...
Reckoning with Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Policy
On the weekend John Ganz had an interesting discussion of our rich tech-elites and aesthetic taste, of which they have little, and who would hope to...
Theatre Should Be Celebrating Celebrities, Not Bemoaning Them
With our economy stagnant, this situation is not going to improve any time soon, and we need glamour and celebrity to boost sales, particularly...
Behind Book Bans In The Digital Age
I think the library feels like a place where you can do something concrete. You can go to an actual library; you can pull...
Political Drama Wins Cannes Palm d’Or
Cristian Mungiu's Norway-set drama about political polarization, Fjord, has won the Palme d'Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival's top honour for the second time to...
Miles Davis At 100: Still Influencing Music
Davis repeatedly dismantled the sound he had helped invent – embracing the electric age in 1968, much as Bob Dylan had in folk. -...
The Silencing Of Washington’s Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra
The cascading cancellations were devastating for the orchestra and its 61 professional musicians. Their annual salary is paid by performance and the lack of...
Dance As Competitive Sport Gets A League Of Its Own
What is the International Dance League? The N.B.A. of dance. The W.W.E. of dance. Formula 1 racing meets the TV show “America’s Best Dance...
The Enrollment Cliff Is Here For American Colleges
Last year, at least sixteen nonprofit colleges and universities announced that they would close and seven more announced that they would merge with or...
Ansel Adams Trust Slams Gallery Over AI Image
The artwork, which still appears on Danziger’s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color...
46 Museum Shows And Biennales To See This Summer
Spectacle in all its many forms is the big theme of the summer season, when big, glitzy projects will take over museums across the...
Weird Writing Advice (It’s The Best)
Writers have a bevy of mantras—“show don’t tell,” “kill your darlings”—that mainly help by giving the writer a sense that there are rules. But...
A Theatre Chain Encourages Its Patrons To Use Their Phones During The Movie. They...
The response from Alamo patrons has been largely negative, with many expressing outrage at a perceived about-face. They have taken to social media in...
