La Scala’s New Rule: No Beach Wear
“Operagoers have been warned they will be banned from entering Milan’s prestigious La Scala theatre if they turn up wearing shorts, tank tops or flip-flops. Kimonos,...
3000-Year-Old Babylon Hymn Deciphered By AI
The 250-line hymn was created sometime around 1000 B.C.E. and faithfully copied onto clay tablets by scribes for hundreds of years. - Artnet
Barcelona’s Museum Of Forbidden Art Closes After Protests
The museum featured more than 200 works that had been censored for political, social or religious reasons. Some pieces depicted controversial figures, including dictator Francisco...
When Iconic Buildings No Longer With Us Are Built Again
Across the world and throughout time, structures have been deliberately erased and later resurrected as replicas – often as a nod to new (or...
The Rehabilitation Of Valery Gergiev Begins? (Maybe Not)
For the first time since Putin ordered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the famously pro-Putin conductor is performing in Western Europe, on July...
Abrupt Leadership Change At Minneapolis’ History Museum
Richard Thompson, who joined the playhouse in January 2023, has been a mainstay of Twin Cities theater for decades, including directing shows at the...
Why This French Town Trademarked Cezanne
Aix’s tourist office has taken the liberty of trademarking his full name and the phrase “Cézanne chez lui,” meaning “Cézanne at home.” - Artnet
What We’re Learning About Creativity From AI
hysical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect....
US Print Book Sales Fell Slightly In First Half Of 2025
“More softness in adult nonfiction in the second quarter and slowing sales in adult fiction combined to drop unit sales of print books just...
Trump White House Objects To Display At Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
“The White House has raised concerns about ‘Entertainment Nation,’ a permanent display on view since 2022 that sheds light on the entertainment industry’s impact...
Richard Greenberg, Tony-Winning Playwright of “Take Me Out,” Has Died At 67
“(He) was one of America’s most established dramatists, responsible for about 30 plays staged on or off Broadway since the mid-1980s. His work was...
Disgraced Producer Scott Rudin’s Return To Broadway Is Set
Four years after he “stepped back” from “active participation” in theater following media articles detailing his long history of abusing his staff, Rudin is...
Edinburgh Festivals Struggle To Attract Corporate Sponsors After Baillie Gifford Boycotts
Following last year’s boycott campaign which led to authors withdrawing from the Edinburgh Book Festival due to sponsorship by asset management firm Baillie Gifford,...
Another College In Debt Is Selling Off Its Art Collection
“James Gaddy, the vice president of administration at Albright (College in Reading, PA, said) ‘we needed to stop bleeding.’ He confirmed that over the...
Jim Shooter, Dead At 73, Editor Who Saved Marvel Comics (And Arguably The Entire...
“A hard-driving giant …, (he) took the helm at Marvel at the tender age of 27, then spent nearly a decade revolutionizing the way...
What If Getting Better Is a Con?
Technique aims to bring efficiency to everything in life. Anytime we use machine logic and apply it to humanity, we are in the realm...
Trump Has Outsourced America’s 250th Birthday History To Hillsdale College
On the “America 250” website created by the White House, the account of the nation’s founding is outsourced to Hillsdale College, a far-right institution...
What If Efficiency Doesn’t Make Us Better?
The problem with the technologies of 2025 — household, work or personal — is that we don’t have control over whether we use them,...
Why A Labor Movement For Musicians Is So Difficult
If the industrial, mechanical-reproduction era was a historical anomaly for musicians—as the “recording artist” emerged as a new way of making a living—perhaps so,...
The Radical 1960s Language Experiment That Left Students Unable To Spell
The Initial Teaching Alphabet was a radical, little-known educational experiment trialled in British schools (and in other English-speaking countries) during the 1960s and 70s....
Inside The CIA’s Art Collection
What these paintings represent about the CIA’s relationship to the art world, though, is more complicated. On these walls, the intersection between US art and...
Why Is Hollywood Stuck On Rerun?
Hollywood, it appears, is stuck on repeat, sucked with an ever-more deafening gurgle into a death cycle of creative bankruptcy desperately presented as comfort...
Tate Modern Is 25 Years Old. It’s Just Launched An Ambitious Endowment Campaign. Good...
The gallery’s reserves have dropped sharply – from £22.6m in 2022–23 to £10.9m at the end of 2024. Government support is also in decline:...
Can Ken Burns Tell A Definitive Version Of American History?
Since his 1990 series “The Civil War” drew record viewership to PBS and crossed over into pop culture, Burns has proven time and again...
Can Japan Build A National Fandom Around Home-Grown Ballet?
Fans are actually pretty dialed in, but to international touring companies. "The country has struggled to build world-class companies and hold on to the...
