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...
The Ethics Of Building Better Humans
Our rage for hormone therapies, supplements, beauty procedures, and longevity interventions suggest we’re all competing in the Enhanced Games now. - Daniel Kunitz
The New Owners Of “The Onion” Brought Back Its Print Version. That Gamble Is...
“The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at...
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky Was Apolitical. The Invasion Of Ukraine “Changed Everything”
When he directed the Bolshoi Ballet (2004-08) and after, he had a grand plan to stage the entire canon of great Russian ballets and...
Exec Who Led Disney To Become A Broadway Powerhouse Is Stepping Down
“Thomas Schumacher, who led Disney Theatrical Group for decades and helped it produce enduring musical theater hits like The Lion King and Aladdin, changing Times Square and Broadway...
Rosalyn Drexler, Pop Artist With Amazingly Varied Career, Is Dead At 98
Her 1960s paintings about Hollywood actors, movie violence, and gender are now thought to be key to the Pop art movement, though she was...
Nazi-Looted Old-Master Painting Recovered In Argentina After Being Spotted In Real Estate Listing
The painting, Portrait of a Lady by 18th-century artist Giuseppe Ghislandi, was spotted in a photo from a house in Mar del Plata owned...
Canadian Province Suspends Its Book-Banning In Schools
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction...
Ousted National Portrait Gallery Director To Lead Milwaukee Museum Of Art
“Kim Sajet, who left her role as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery after a high-profile clash with President Donald Trump in June, has landed...
At 93, Dan Rather Is Still Covering The News
Seven days a week, he has a video call with two fellow editors for his online outlet, called Steady — and then he gets...
Salonen’s New Creative Role At The LA Philharmonic
The creative director post is the first major initiative by Kim Noltemy, who became L.A. Phil president and chief executive last summer, and with it...
How High Plains Public Radio Is Expanding Rural News Coverage Despite Funding Cuts
Over three years, the broadcaster will build the High Plains Civic Media Network, a system of part-time contributors (some of them volunteers), coordinated by...
Mapping European History By Turning AI Loose On 600 Years Of Paintings
By training artificial intelligence to detect emotional signals in more than 600,000 European paintings spanning 600 years, the researchers found that collective shifts in...
We Need A Better Way To Develop AI
The current strategy of merely making A.I. bigger is deeply flawed — scientifically, economically and politically. Many things from regulation to research strategy must...
“Wizard Of Oz” At The Vegas Sphere: Is This The Future Of Movies?
I’ve rarely run across something that refuses to let me see it just one way, but one such resistor is “The Wizard of Oz” at...
Actors’ Equity UK Loses Years-Long Lawsuit Against Casting Directory Spotlight
“(The judge) ruled against Equity’s claim that Spotlight is an employment agency … (and) concluded that Spotlight, a website widely used by U.K. talent...
What Esa-Pekka Salonen’s New Jobs Say About Orchestras (And The San Francisco Symphony)
It turns out there are arts administrators — some of them right here in California — who understand the importance of innovative creative leadership. They understand that the...
Met Opera Makes Deal To Perform Seasons In Saudi Arabia
The company has reached a lucrative agreement with the kingdom that calls for it to perform there for three weeks each winter. - The New...
Movie-Making Is Broken. We Have To Rebuild From The Ground Up
“We need to rebuild it from the ground up. I believe AI can help us do that, because as it lowers the cost threshold...
Kabuki Is, Amazingly, The Subject Of Japan’s Latest Megahit Movie
“Kokuho, which means ‘national treasure,’ has already grossed more than 10 billion yen ($68 million), making it the second-highest grossing Japanese live-action film of...
An Enormous Number Of Impressive New Museums Are Opening. But Aren’t Museums In Distress?
Is it the idea that the art museum as we’ve understood it is under genuine existential threat, a relic of a battered Enlightenment worldview?...
An Awful Summer At The Movie Box Office
Is it time for Hollywood to concede that a lot of moviegoers in North America are never coming back? That movie theaters have permanently...
Classical Music Is Expensive To Make. How To Finance It?
In the end it comes down to a simple question. Western classical music as a living art form – do we want it or...
