No Cameras?? Before Jewel Robbery, Audit Found Louvre’s Security Inadequate
“Because of repeated postponements of the scheduled modernisation of security systems, cameras have mainly been installed only when rooms have been refurbished,” said the...
What Ireland’s Basic Income Plan For Artists Accomplished
The basic income for the arts (BIA) initial pilot ran from 2022 to 2025 and helped 2,000 artists. The results of an independent study found that it...
A New AI-First School In San Francisco
Alpha School’s website suggests a futuristic learning model: AI tools make it so that students only need to spend two hours a day on...
Nineteen Percent Drop In International Students At US Universities This Fall
After India (down 45%), the arrivals figures from the US International Trade Administration (ITA), highlighted considerable declines from other major source countries, with China...
End Of An Era: MTV Is Shutting Its Music Channels. Is The Music Video...
The specific shuttering of the brand’s music platforms does call into question the position of the music video in today’s industry, and whether the...
Museums Are Banding Together To Survive Trump Attacks
The cultural community is now reeling and searching for answers. Many institutions have shown resilience, and sprouts of resistance are emerging. But the community...
Tech Groups Sue Texas Over Online Censorship Law
When app stores determine that a user is under 18, “the law prohibits them from downloading virtually all apps and software programs and from...
On The Eve Of America’s 250th Birthday, Museums Ponder How To Tell The Nation’s...
“I am hoping that people will take away from the whole range of exhibitions that we’re doing that democracy was achieved as a result...
Just How Will The Kennedy Center Make Dance Less “Woke?”
Avoiding “wokeness,” as the conservative right defines it, may prove difficult. Ballet has long been shaped by refugees, people of color, and the queer...
Suddenly A Plethora Of Risky Theatre In New York
After a somewhat quiet few years of foreign theatre programming in New York, we are suddenly enjoying a superbloom, largely thanks to several adventurous...
Daring Heist At The Louvre Sunday Closes Museum
Their faces concealed, they rode a monte-meubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it is...
The Desperation Of The British Museum
Or, the UK version of the Met Gala: "Eight hundred invited guests each paid £2,000 to party alongside some of the world’s most sensational...
Obama’s Presidential Library – And Basketball Court – Rises On Chicago’s South Side
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a...
How Chicago’s Timeline Theatre Is Building A New Space Despite, Well, Everything
“‘To build a building like this, it required public investment, it required private investment, and it required a lot of belief through those dark...
The Unlikely Juggernaut Of Netflix’s Oscar Desires
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d...
In Los Angeles, Updating A Famous Mural To Reflect One Of The Subject’s Trans...
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo...
The Blurred, Problematic Truths Of The Sora App
“The app’s popularity—it surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week—is ripe for this moment of decaying truths, where fact and reason have an...
Instagram Moves To Add A PG-13 Label To Teens’ Accounts
“After at least half a decade of acute concern about the way that platforms such as Instagram may affect young people, ... Meta has arrived at a...
The New York Times Says The Met Is Full Of Creepy Halloween Art
There’s even a checklist you (if you were in New York) could take to the massive museum with you. - The New York...
What’s Going To Happen To The English National Opera In Manchester?
Tensions still exist between London and Manchester, and not everyone is pleased. The ENO's artistic director says, "“The way this happened was not something...
AI Slop Videos Are Terrible, Except Maybe These Translated From Chinese Weird ‘Videos’ Of...
The creator says Mayor Adams "works so well because he has so many existing real videos where he says unusual and funny things. …...
Hollywood’s Latest Drama Is All Of The Fake Props Flooding The Market
"From Dorothy’s ruby slippers in The Wizard of Oz to Harry Potter wands, props from iconic films are earning big dollars at both auction...
When Administrators Tried To Squelch The Indiana University Student Paper, A Rival University Stepped...
There’s no First Amendment right if you don’t own your own printing press, as student journalists at Indiana University learned last week when administrators...
The New York-Based Artist Who Has Been Jailed In China For More Than 400...
Gao Zhen’s “detention is linked to three very specific sculptures about the legendary founder of the People’s Republic, Mao Zedong. One entitled Execution of Christ represents a...
The Woman Trying Her Hardest To Keep Classical Music On Track
That is, focused on the music - and out of the hands of predators. Not that she’s rewarded for it, aside from helping other...
