Higher Ticket Sales, Younger Audiences, Artistic Stability, Successful Fundraising — Things Are Looking Up...
The situation wasn’t good for the orchestra in the ‘00s and ‘10s: the messy opening of the Kimmel Center, difficulties with its conductors, musician...
How Architects Are Using AI To Transform The Creative Process
“Instead of having to go build a prototype physically or a model room, you can take people on this journey and then make the...
On America’s 250th Birthday: Where’s The Pittsburgh Symphony’s American Music?
Of the symphony’s 20 classical subscription concerts, only two of them feature American works in those all-important, major-work slots. Both of those concerts will...
Iceland Tries To Make Peace With The Tourism Boom It Sought Out In The...
In 2010, to boost an economy still reeling from a 2008 banking crisis, Iceland’s government took advantage of the global attention brought by a...
Merriam-Webster Adds More Than 5,000 Words To Its Collegiate Dictionary
The 12th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary comes 22 years after the book’s last hard-copy update. To make room for the new words (including “hard...
Chinese Distributor Altered Australian Film To Make Gay Male Couple Straight
Early this month, moviegoers who saw preview screenings of the horror movie Together, starring Dave Franco and Alison Brie, posted on Chinese social media...
A Donald Trump-And-Jeffrey Epstein Statue Appears On, And Disappears From, DC’s National Mall
“The bronze-painted installation, titled Best Friends Forever, depicts the two men smiling at each other, each with an arm and leg raised as if in...
Houston Symphony Extends Music Director Juraj Valčuha‘s Contract
The 49-year-old Slovak conductor, previously chief conductor of Italy’s RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, took up the position...
NJ PBS To Close Down Next Summer
The contract between the New Jersey Public Broadcasting Authority and New York City PBS station WNET — which has operated NJ PBS since 2011,...
Ballet Dancer Sues London Police For Stomping On His Foot And Ending His Career
“Alexander Loxton, who played the ‘older Billy’ in the West End musical Billy Elliot as well as dancing with the Royal Ballet …, says he suffered a career-wrecking...
Drunk Bats, Lizards Eating Pizza, And Cows Painted With Zebra Stripes: The 2025 Ig...
In addition to prizes presented in ten categories, the 35th first annual award ceremony — the theme: digestion — featured appearances by actual Nobel...
UK Music Venues Are Dying. Might A BYOB Business Model Save Them?
“Some clubs are charging £5 for a ticket, you get to the bar and it’s £12 for a double,” meaning cash-strapped students will stay...
YouTubers Sue Burning Man For Using Nevada Police To Block Filming Of Cleanup
“The owner of a popular YouTube channel has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that organizers of the Burning Man festival prevented filmmakers from recording...
A Crisis In Australia’s Arts Sector. Is There A Way To Revitalize The Arts?
Left as it is, the nation’s not-for-profit performing arts sector will not survive. The whole system is teetering on the edge of artistic and...
This Year’s Booker Prize Finalists
The shortlist includes Indian-born author Kiran Desai, 19 years after she won the prize, as well as past nominees Andrew Miller and David Szalay....
What AI Has Provoked: An Existential Crisis At Universities
If the university exists only to warehouse knowledge and to transmit tradition, then it is doomed. But the university’s inability to claim a near...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Visits The New Immersive Version Of “Phantom”
Masquerade is a $25 million reconfiguring of the long-running Broadway hit, spread out over six floors in midtown Manhattan. This version is told mostly...
Controversies About AI Writing Put Our Language Conventions To Test
Humans do not think or speak in sentences; we think and speak in thoughts, which interrupt and introduce and complicate one another in a...
Comedians Are Square In The Authoritarian Sights
It’s easy to roll your eyes at late-night comedians getting applause for mocking the president. Many people, myself included, found some of those jokes...
What Happens When You Spend Three Hours Staring At A Painting
This exercise in what she calls immersive attention has remained a core element of Jennifer Roberts’s art history teaching for more than a decade, despite the...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Says His Upcoming US Tour Is In “Serious Jeopardy”
“A post on the singer’s Instagram on Friday said the U.S. leg of the tour ‘is in serious jeopardy due to significant delay in U.S....
Are We At A Turning Point For Museums?
“The general tone is concern and uncertainty. I’m not sure anyone feels like they have a clear road map to sustainability.” - Artnet
Federal Court Slaps Down New NEA Prohibitions Against Funding “Gender Ideology”
The lawsuit was filed in March by several arts organizations, including Rhode Island Latino Arts, which promotes art made by Latinos, and National Queer Theater, a...
Jimmy Kimmel Returns — On His Own Terms
Kimmel’s strident stance last night made clear that he had prevailed in his weeklong power struggle with Disney; he was addressing the controversy on...
Reviving Jerome Robbins’s Original Choreography For “West Side Story”
“Joshua Bergasse spoke … about his role reproducing choreography, how an iconic Broadway musical translates to an opera stage, and the efforts to achieve...
