Japanese Museum To Sell Treasures To Pay Off $50M Legal Debt
Sotheby’s said the items to be sold are estimated to draw bids in excess of $50 million. Any extra proceeds not needed to retire...
Surrealism Wasn’t Just About Art And Literature; It Was About Radical Politics, Too
“Overcoming the contradiction between dream and reality, (Breton and his fellow Surrealists) believed, would complement the class struggle between the global proletariat and its...
Opportunity Knocks: German Company Whose Ladder Was Used In Louvre Heist Wants To Sell...
“When you’re in a hurry, the Böcker Agilo carries your heavy treasures,” the ad boasted under a photo of the lift parked outside the...
Kennicott: Why Images Of The White House Being Torn Apart Are So Shocking
There are subtle differences between the images of authoritarians and elected leaders, in body language and other details. Is the leader acting as a...
Why Horror Movies Keep Evolving To Scare Us
By playing with metaphor, imagery and narrative, horror has always addressed hard truths about death, decay and the human condition that mainstream productions tend...
Is Netflix Going To Use AI To Make Movies Or Not? It’s Trying To...
Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told Wall Street analysts the company is excited “to leverage new technical capabilities as they come online” in advertising and product...
A New Opera House For Hanoi, Designed By Renzo Piano
“Isola Della Musica will be situated on a newly-built square island between Hanoi's West Lake and Đam Tri Lake. … Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW...
San Diego’s Old Globe Theater At 90
“Today, the Globe is thriving as San Diego’s oldest and largest theater organization, offering performances … for more than 250,000 people a year. …...
Francis Ford Coppola Is Reduced To Selling Off His Watch Collection
“The filmmaker announced he will auction off seven watches, ranging in value from $3,000 to $1 million, ... in an effort to rebuild his...
Mark Morris Sued By Ex-Company Member For Allegedly Discriminating Against Black Dancers
“The plaintiff, Taína Lyons, an Afro-Latina dancer, … alleges that (Morris) told her that her hair was ‘too big’ and a ‘distraction.’ ... Ms....
San Antonio Philharmonic Calls Off November Concerts
“The San Antonio Philharmonic has postponed its Classics III concerts, scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 7-8, marking the second time one of the...
A New Booker Prize For Children’s Books
“The Children’s Booker Prize, offering £50,000 (roughly $67,000) for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12, … will launch in 2026,...
Suspect Charged In Another Case Of Treasure Stolen From A Paris Museum
In the case of $1.7 worth of gold nuggets stolen from the mineralogy gallery at Paris’s Natural History Museum on Sept. 16, a 24-year-old Chinese...
Why We Travel
There’s something about motion that triggers creative thoughts. This has been true for a long time. Charles Darwin’s budding theory of evolution jelled while...
Sculptor Jackie Ferrara, A “Lumberyard Poet,” Is Dead At 95
“In an era when sculptors were turning out factory-fabricated objects with shiny metal surfaces, … (she) stacked lengths of wood into objects that resembled...
What The $55B Electronic Arts Sale Means For The Creative Economy
The acquisition reinforces consolidation trends across the creative sector, mirroring similar deals in music, film and television. Creative and cultural industries have a “tendency for bigness,” and...
Inside The Fashion Magazines (When They Mattered)
Palmer divides editors at her unnamed magazine into two categories: “the privileged (Workhorses) and the super-privileged (Show Horses).” Not since the 1980 publication of...
Why We Need A Commons
The structure of our societies is such that when you’re wealthy, availability of The Commons is of negligible benefit. However, when your private command...
Explaining The “Venue Tax” On The Ballot In San Antonio Next Month
Revenue from the tax, collected on hotel rooms and rental cars in Bexar County, may be used for sports arenas and parks, but also...
Dancers In Estonia’s National Ballet Have Been Working Second Jobs As Taxi Drivers To...
The opera house issued a public appeal to the Riigikogu Cultural Affairs Committee on Thursday, stating that if the current lack of funding continues...
The Jewel Thief Underground Where The Louvre Jewels May Land
“Everybody in the business is talking about this right now,” said Robert Wittman, a former art-crime investigator with the Federal Bureau of Investigation who...
The FTC Is Suing Ticketmaster. Now Ticketmaster Is Scrambling To Reform Scalping
Under the new policy, Ticketmaster says it will limit all individuals and entities, including professional resellers, to a single verified account tied to a...
Amazon MGM Did Not Actually Pay $1 Billion For Control Of James Bond Franchise
Approximately one billion-with-a-b was the figure reported when longtime Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson decided to sell and basically retire from...
A Bay Area Project To Find Artists Affordable Housing
By adapting the community land trust model — a strategy long used to preserve affordable housing for teachers, city workers, and other essential labor...
Those Who Are Resisting Using AI
As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back. - Washington Post
