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...
Audiences For Public Readings Are Soaring
Across the country, the number of untethered readings disconnected from a specific publisher or magazine has skyrocketed over the past couple of years. These...
Public Statue Of Tina Turner Is The Latest To Be Scorned By Internet
“The way Tina’s fans are reacting really tells you something,” the mayor said. “All this passion, whether they love the sculpture or have some...
A Frank Lloyd Wright Movie?
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation has recently struck a licensing deal with Hollywood production company Galisteo Media to bring Wright’s story to the big screen as a movie....
AI Joins The Argument About Whether This Caravaggio Is Authentic
There are three surviving versions of The Lute Player: one in the Wildenstein collection, one at the Hermitage, both authentic, and one in Britain,...
Elon Musk Says He’s Building A Wikipedia Competitor
In June, Musk raised eyebrows by promising to “rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors,” using his Grok...
Can’t Stop The Music: Russian Musicians Defy Putin
Musicians have become influential activists and symbols of political resistance, just as they were in the final years of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin...
SAG-AFTRA Union Responds To Use Of AI “Actor”
“The real issue at play is how our work is exhibited and what kinds of permissions and compensations we get for its use.” -...
Mass MoCA (Yes, The Museum) Is Starting Its Own Record Label
The huge contemporary art museum, in the old factory town of North Adams in Massachusetts’s northeast corner, is launching Mass MoCA Records, which will...
UK Book Shops Will Now Sell E-Books To Compete With Amazon
The online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative...
Stephen King Is The Most-Banned Author In The US
PEN America’s “Banned in the USA,” released Wednesday, tracks more than 6,800 instances of books being temporarily or permanently pulled for the 2024-2025 school year....
Why It’s So Expensive To Run A Show On Broadway
Ultimately what causes shows to take longer to recoup their initial capitalization is the high costs associated with operating a show. It’s well documented...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Starts Revitalizing Its Academic Program In Deal With Temple...
Almost two years after it abruptly eliminated its degree-granting programs, PAFA is entering a ten-year partnership with Temple’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture...
Federal Judge In Florida Rules That First Amendment Doesn’t Forbid Libraries From Removing Certain...
The suit in question concerned the Escambia County (Pensacola) School Board’s decision to block its libraries from stocking And Tango Makes Three, the well-known...
Broadway Actors Are Preparing To Strike Just As Peak Season Is Starting
Actors' Equity negotiations with the Broadway League are continuing for now, even though the last three-year contract ended on September 28. The number-one issue...
Trump White House Dismisses Over Three-Quarters Of National Council On The Humanities
Only four of the 26 members of the advisory body remain; the rest were terminated via a notably terse email from the White House...
FCC Considers Relaxing Limits On How Many Media Outlets Corporations May Own
“The agency voted to take public comment … on a rule that limits a company from owning more than two stations in a market,...
Despite Federal Government Shutdown, Smithsonian, Kennedy Center And D.C. Monuments Are Open — For...
The Smithsonian museums and National Gallery will remain open for as long as leftover cash-on-hand lasts, which will be at least through Monday. Kennedy...
Paris’s Picasso Museum Is Adding A Sculpture Garden
“Named ‘Picasso 2030,’ the project will create a space devoted to the artist’s sculptures by connecting a garden area behind the museum to an...
Wild At Heart: Daphne Du Maurier, One Of English Lit’s Most Misunderstood Authors
“From the pages of After Midnight emerges a sense of du Maurier that’s far from the meek, naive narrator of Rebecca. These stories are the work of a...
This Women Artist Was More Famous Than Rembrandt In Their Day. Why Did We...
Today, The Night Watch is one of the most famous paintings of all time, its creator lionized as one of the greatest artists to ever live. Meanwhile, the Koerten “thread...
