EU Tells Venice Biennale To Justify Russia’s Inclusion Or Lose Funding
The letter, invoking the charge that the Biennale had violated EU sanctions against Russia, asks the exhibition to “respond to these allegations” and “inform...
LGBTQ Bookstores Had Been Slowly Disappearing For Years, Now There’s A New Generation Of...
“The number of LGBTQ+-focused bookstores in the U.S. has slowly but steadily increased over the past five years. While this new generation of booksellers...
How AI Will Kill Content Platforms
Not only will AI agents compete away the revenue streams of the giant digital platforms, but they will also render irrelevant the data on...
Paramount Responds To Industry Protests To Its Warner Deal
“This transaction uniquely brings together complementary strengths to create a company that can greenlight more projects, back bold ideas, support talent across multiple stages...
When You Take Up A Musical Instrument Late In Life
If this attempt to reclaim the instrument of my youth had been a mistake, I wasn’t alone in making it. Asking around, I became...
Australia’s Most Controversial Exhibition Of Indigenous Art Opens After Three-Year Delay
The major exhibition “Ngura Puḻka – Epic Country,” was supposed to open at the National Gallery in Canberra in 2023. It was almost entirely...
A Professor Gets Besotted With His Chatbot
An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away...
Why Has Culture Gone Flat?
Capitalism—and then late capitalism, and then late, late capitalism—has been identified as the culprit for culture’s flattening for at least a century. David Marx...
Is The Internet’s Most Complete Archiver On Its Death Bed?
According to analysis by the artificial-intelligence-detection startup Originality AI, 23 major news sites are currently blocking ia_archiverbot, the web crawler commonly used by the...
Sid Krofft, Co-Producer Of “H.R. Pufnstuf” And A Slew Of Other Children’s TV Shows,...
A puppeteer since childhood, Sid, with his younger brother Marty (who died 2½ years ago), produced H.R. Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost, The Bugaloos,...
Dean, Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts
Rider University seeks a dynamic and visionary leader to serve as the Inaugural Dean of the Westminster College of Media & Performing Arts.
To This We’ve Come: The Trocks Say Some US Presenters Are Now Afraid To...
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, to use the full name, has been popular all over the country and overseas for decades. Now some...
What Paramount Is Planning For Its New Publishing House
“The new imprint will develop new publishing content based on properties from Paramount’s various divisions, such as SpongeBob SquarePants, ... Star Trek, and Yellowstone,...
Sony Pictures Entertainment Is Laying Off Hundreds Of Employees
“(The corporation) is restructuring its operations with plans for hundreds of layoffs across its film, TV and corporate divisions. Sources tell Variety the layoffs … are...
Should Music Directors Spend More Time In Their Orchestras’ Hometowns And Stop Juggling Multiple...
One the one hand, you have the Buffalo Philharmonic’s JoAnn Falletta and the South Dakota Symphony’s Delta David Gier, both thoroughly embedded in their...
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Against Wall Street Journal Over Epstein Report
“U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was...
Arts Council England Distributes Extra $176 Million For Venues’ Infrastructure Projects
“More than 100 cultural venues, museums, and libraries will share £130 million extra funding as part of the largest cash injection into the arts...
What Next for the Boston Symphony? — Lessons from the Past
The current Boston “Arts Fuse” carries my thoughts about the pertinence today of Henry Higginson, who invented, owned, and operated the Boston Symphony until 1919. You can access the full article here. Excerpts follow: About a dozen years ago I was invited, impromptu, to address a gifted youth orchestra at
1000 Hollywood Heavyweights Write Letter Opposing Paramount/Warner Deal
The letter warns that merging two of Hollywood’s major studios will result in “fewer opportunities for creators, fewer jobs across the production ecosystem, higher...
Someone Will Win This Picasso For €100
A raffle in France is offering the chance to win a portrait by Pablo Picasso for the price of a €100 (£87) ticket, with proceeds going...
Asha Bhosle, 92, The Voice Of Bollywood
Bhosle, who recorded more than 12,000 songs, became her country’s pre-eminent exponent of playback singing – recording tracks that were then lip-synced on film...
New Focus On Dancer Wellness At School Of American Ballet
The Artistic Health and Wellness Student Center, which opened in September, is a $4.7 million expansion of the school, the training ground for New...
US Colleges Face An Enrollment Death Spiral
According to a recent study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, about 60 are closing on average each year; that number could double in any...
Why Greece’s Crackdown On Art Crime Might Not Amount To Much
It is highly unlikely that the Greek police will proactively search for fakes and forgeries. The expertise to identify fraud is held in the...
The Culture Of Comics Is Transforming
Our current age of comics is one in which comics can be consumed through global digital platforms like Marvel Unlimited, Webtoons, Shonen Jump and so on, all without...
