Composer Thomas Adès Gets His First Official Conducting Job
The 55-year-old London native has long been active as a guest conductor, and not only of his own music. He has now been appointed...
Museum Wall Text Has Become Another Culture-War Battleground
“Traditionally, museum wall text has been no more controversial than signs pointing visitors to the restrooms, and the Smithsonian still has descriptions placed near...
Paris Judge Rejects Attempt To Block New Windows Commissioned For Notre-Dame
“A Paris judge has rejected a request to halt the removal of six 19th-century stained-glass windows by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc from Notre-Dame Cathedral, which are to be...
Short Story Which Won Prize Last Week Is Now Thought To Be Written By...
“’The Serpent in the Grove’ was named as the winning entry for the Commonwealth Prize from the Caribbean on Saturday and published in Granta...
Pirated Audiobooks Voiced By AI Bots Are All Over YouTube
“While piracy has long been an issue for the book business, the rapid rise of unauthorized audiobooks” — typically with vocally flat narration and...
James Murdoch Buys “New York” Magazine And Vox
Rupert Murdoch’s younger, more liberal-leaning son has purchased, for a reported-but-unconfirmed $300 million, roughly half of the current Vox Media: New York magazine and...
A New Arts-And-Culture Magazine Focused On “The Creative Process”
“Former Pitchfork and Spin editor-in-chief Puja Patel is launching Totei, a publication dedicated to ‘craft and craftsmanship.’ The online magazine will publish content weekly, including...
Sham AI Local News Sites Are Proliferating
A digital mirage masquerading as local news, the South Florida Standard underscores just how easy it has become to corrupt one of the country’s...
Author Of A Book About AI And Truth Admits Some Of His Book Was...
The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or...
French Actor/Singer Patrick Bruel Faces Rape Allegations In Two Countries
Bruel, 67, who has had a string of top-selling albums and appeared in more than 40 films, is under investigation by the Paris prosecutor’s office...
The Tony Effect: Broadway Shows That Are Thriving After The Noms
Death of a Salesman, which received nine Tony nominations, hit $1.7 million, its highest gross yet, last week playing to 100 percent capacity at the...
Much-Anticipated “Beaches” To Close On Broadway After Tony Shutout
The show began previews at the Majestic Theatre March 27, ahead of an April 22 opening date, but has failed to catch on with...
This Philadelphia Orchestra Is Growing Like Crazy
To co-music director and conductor Gary Clark, GPGSO’s rapid growth makes sense in a city known for niche, DIY music scenes. It hasn’t exactly...
New Artistic Director For Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
“After 18 years as artistic director and two years in dual roles as chief executive and artistic director, Debbie Blunden-Diggs, daughter of DCDC founder...
Why Peter Gelb Needed Saudi Money For The Met Opera
His supporters blame the Met’s issues on opera’s declining cultural currency and an operating structure that puts it at a unique disadvantage among arts...
Israeli Organization Threatens Suit Against Canadian Museum for Human Rights Exhibit
A prominent Israeli legal organization is threatening legal action against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba,...
Always On: Pretty Much Everything We Do Now Is Being Recorded
The next time you conduct a delicate bit of office diplomacy or share a romantic or financial secret with a friend over drinks, a...
Dubai Says It’s Building A Big New Museum For Digital Art
“The planned Museum of Digital Art (MODA) … is part of Dubai’s monumental $27 billion transformation of its financial center into a tech hub, announced earlier...
Boston’s Investment In The Arts Is Deflating
The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture more than doubled its operating budget and staff, and the city earmarked $26.2 million from the American...
Can Any Real Reform Come Out Of The Ticketmaster/Live Nation Case?
With Ticketmaster signaling its intent to contest the outcome aggressively and drag out the litigation, any meaningful accountability may arrive only in the distant...
Democrats Slam Live Nation/Ticketmaster “Sweetheart Deal”
Many of the lawmakers advocated on Monday for a Ticketmaster breakup. Raskin, for example, stated that Live Nation’s monopoly is so strong that artists...
Pittsburgh’s Theater Scene Faces Loss Of Its Resident Talent
With the merger of the city’s two largest stage companies and the programming of inexpensive-to-produce small-cast shows, Pittsburgh's gig market for theater artists is...
“Death Becomes Her” Sets Broadway Closing Date, North American Tour
The musical, which garnered good reviews and 10 Tony nominations but only one actual Tony, will close June 28 after a 20-month run which...
World Premiere Of Wynton Marsalis’s Symphony No. 5 Postponed
Subtitled “Liberty,” the work was due to premiere the last weekend of May, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra...
The Antonio Stradivari of Brooklyn?
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center actually programmed a gala in honor of luthier Sam Zygmuntowicz — because so many of its members,...
