16-Hour Waits To See Shakespeare? Ah, It All Makes Sense…
Blame it on the excitement over the $85 million renovation of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, or the yearlong hiatus that it prompted....
Downsizing? Powell’s Books Lays Off 18 Staff
The Portland company laid off 18 employees in July, August and September, according to a Powell’s spokesperson. - The Oregonian
Sculptor Robert Grosvenor, Who Helped Pioneer Minimalism And Then Moved Beyond It, Has Died...
“Grosvenor gained acclaim in New York during the 1960s when he showed his work alongside famed Minimalists. … But the sculptures made by Grosvenor...
An Arizona School Board Tried To Prohibit Arts Educators From Renewing Professional Memberships. Kids...
Arts educators and advocates successfully killed a proposed move in Arizona's Peoria Unified school district to bar arts educators from renewing memberships in their...
Smithsonian Museum Director Attacked By Trump Gets a New Job Running Milwaukee Museum Of...
“When I left the Smithsonian, a number of organizations reached out, and they were all different types,” Sajet told The Washington Post, adding that...
Kennedy Center Dance Ticket Sales Crater. Only Four Percent Of The House Sold??
Ticket sales are so poor, the Stuttgart Ballet will be performing for an Opera House between 4 and 19 percent full when the German...
Startup Will Use AI To Reconstruct Orson Welles’s “The Magnificent Ambersons”
“Amazon-backed (firm) Showrunnner announced a new AI model designed to generate long, complex narratives — ultimately building toward feature-film-length, live-action films — for its...
PBS Has Cut 15% Of Its Staff Positions
The job losses, totaling nearly 100, include the layoff of 34 current staffers and the elimination of more than 60 vacant positions. The move...
Barnes & Noble To Acquire Bay Area Mini-Chain Books Inc.
“Books Inc. is seeking bankruptcy court approval to be acquired by Barnes & Noble for $3.25 million. The privately held company, which filed for voluntary...
Trump Wants Federal Takeover Of 9/11 Museum And Memorial
“(Two White House) officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions have been preliminary and exploratory, and it was unclear exactly...
San Francisco Symphony Musicians Authorize Strike
“(The move) escalat(es) a bitter contract dispute just weeks before the orchestra is set to open its new season. The vote, announced Thursday, Sept. 4, allows...
St. Louis Symphony Musicians Ratify New Four-Year Contract
“The contract, ratified a year before the current one expires, includes a $10,000 salary increase in the first year and at least 3% raises...
How AI Is Ripping Apart My School Experience
"AI has softened the consequences of procrastination and led many students to avoid doing any work at all. As a result, these programs have...
How John Williams’s Score Made “Home Alone” What It Is
Director Chris Columbus: “(It) not only propels the story forward but from a narrative standpoint, he’s taking the audience’s hand and inviting them inside...
Why AI Won’t Be Able To Tell Human Stories
The corporate urge to replace art-making humans with machines is profoundly anti-human. It’s an old story: we have always tried to mechanize creativity and...
Lear deBessonet, Lincoln Center Theater’s New Director, On Reaching Out To All Of New...
“We’re doing an outdoor public campaign that involves subways and taxi tops and things like that in the outer boroughs, which are very purposefully...
Data: National Arts Trends In 2025
Contributed revenue fell by 30%, with every source declining from 2023 to 2024. Foundation revenue dropped 25% after modest growth in 2023, and earned revenue declined 18%. The decrease in contributed revenue reflects the...
How a Small Experiment Turned Into A Dance Competition Juggernaut
From the get-go, Common People Dance Eisteddfod has predominantly attracted middle-aged women. (One year, a team did an interpretive dance on the theme of...
How Nielsen Is Revamping Its Ratings System To Account For Streaming Video
“Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel … The new measurement tool combines Nielsen’s existing panel with data from cable, satellite set-top boxes and smart TVs...
When Minimalism Took On The Mainstream Classical Music Orthodoxy
There is a yawning gap between Columbia’s marketing—“Let magician Terry Riley float you on his tangerine carousel into a sunshine universe you might have...
How The New Yorker’s Fact Checking Process Works
I’ve never encountered a complete description of what the magazine wants its checkers to check. A managing editor took a stab in 1936: “Points...
Smithsonian Secretary Says Institution Will Do Its Own Review
In the staff memo, Lonnie Bunch shared details of his formal response to the White House, indicating that the Smithsonian intends to undertake its...
Sweden Has Completed And Released Its Cultural Canon. (Abba Isn’t In It!)
“What are the 100 things that unequivocally define Swedish culture? Flat-packed furniture from IKEA? Of course. Pippi Longstocking? Indeed. The touchstone films of Ingmar...
In Summer, The Center Of The Classical Music World…
It is a mammoth undertaking that involves about 3,500 artists; 1,000 staff members; 16 stages; and a budget of 75 million euros (about $88...
Why We Struggle To Define Excellence
Excellence is not a neutral concept. Its not a fixed standard hovering above culture, waiting to be discovered. It's a construct. When we pretend...
