The Orange County Museum Of Art “No Longer Exists” After University Merger
“OCMA as it existed no longer exists. The employees and everything else pertaining to the museum is transferred to the university.” - Los Angeles...
European Museums Report Increased Political Interference
Museum organisations across the continent reported various types of interference. Three key areas were outlined by the questionnaire. - The Art Newspaper
Long Wharf Theatre’s Artistic Director to Step Down
Padrón, who joined the theatre in 2019, led the nonprofit through a period of change that included adopting a new producing model, staging performances...
Chicago Makes Another Try At A Period-Instrument Baroque Orchestra
The city has had notable trouble keeping such a group. The long-established Newberry Consort performs earlier repertoire; Baroque Band folded in 2016; Haymarket sticks...
Steven Holl-Designed Bellevue Arts Museum Building Sold After Bankruptcy
BAM closed last year following financial collapse and filed for receivership, a court process akin to bankruptcy. - Seattle Times
Report: Florida Is The Most-Censored State In The US
PEN America, which has filed a lawsuit challenging removals in the state, reported Florida had more than 2,300 titles pulled from campus shelves last school...
The Creative Fertility Of Empty Space
Like the negative space against which words become visible (voids emphasised in Cage’s original typography), nothing generates speech and the speaker, poetry and the...
Amiri Baraka’s Most Incendiary Play, Staged In An Actual Sauna
Dutchman, written in 1964 (when Baraka was still LeRoi Jones), is set in a sweltering subway car years before air-conditioning. Recently, for the second...
A Short History Of Amateur Internet Culture
For most, participation in the online attention economy feels like a tax, or maybe a trickle of revenue, rather than free fun or a...
Cancel Culture Is Ascendant. But What Is It?
Some say canceling is an act of redress, a powerful display of solidarity. Others blame it on a mob. Still others have considered it...
Los Angeles’ Movie Industry Is In Freefall, Unraveling In Front Of Us
The entertainment industry is in a downward spiral that began when the dual strikes by actors and writers ended in 2023. Work is evaporating, businesses are...
Joseph Walsh On Restaging Liam Scarlett’s Ballet “Frankenstein”
Walsh helped Scarlett create several scenes for the London premiere in 2016, then danced the title role in the 2017 revised version at San...
What Will New York City’s Cultural Life Look Like 25 Years From Now?
As the art world grows ever more corporate and culture continues its slide into an anti-intellectual dumpster fire, we will start to see a cultural...
How Many Is Too Many Books?
I’ve worked in multiple bookstores (and have moved too many books, too many times) so I understand that 100,000 books is, indeed, a lot...
Retelling Stories At The Victoria And Albert Museum
We’re now back almost to where we were in terms of the split between foreign and U.K., too — basically 50-50. We lost a...
“Veep” Creator Wants To Do A Trump Project But Says Nobody Will Finance It
Armando Iannucci described his conversations with U.S. buyers this way: “I got a lot of, ‘Yeah, you wouldn’t get the money for that at...
A Brief History Of The FCC Squaring Off Against The Networks
While the agency has generally avoided actively threatening broadcast licenses because of shows’ content, the FCC has certainly been willing to fuss at the...
Actress Patricia Routledge, British Sitcom Icon, Is Dead At 96
“If one had to seize on a defining quality, it was her ability to see the humanity in a variety of eccentrics and outsiders....
Film Composer Joe Hisaishi Is Philadelphia Orchestra’s New Composer-In-Residence
In the position, which runs for the next two seasons, the beloved composer for Studio Ghibli animated features will get a major commercial recording,...
Head Of Presidential Library Out After Refusing To Deaccession Sword For Trump To Give...
Todd Arrington, a career historian who previously worked at the National Archives, said he was ordered to resign from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. He...
Staffers At Chicago’s Museum Of Science And Industry Authorize Strike
After more than two years of negotiations, 90% of union members voted to approve a potential walkout. Most employees of the museum earn an...
$100K Nasher Prize For Sculpture Goes To Petrit Halilaj
Halilaj — at age 39, the youngest-ever winner of the award — is donating the prize money to a foundation he and his sister...
Glenn Lowry Is Now A Free Man. What’s He Doing Next?
His hugely consequential three decades as director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art ended in September. For now he has consulting gigs in Saudi...
Exit Interview: Misty Copeland
There are so many other things that I could be doing to accomplish my longtime goal of bringing more equity and awareness of ballet’s...
Joshua Beamish On Why He’s Started A(nother) Ballet Company In Vancouver
“While Vancouver offers a wealth of contemporary-dance companies and high-caliber ballet schools, ‘no one is bringing classical ballet here beyond a touring Nutcracker, or producing...
