Daniel Day-Lewis: Theatre Is An Elite Art Form For Privileged People
Theatre in itself is an elite cultural form. There are of course exceptions, many wonderful theatre companies that manage to put on affordable performances...
“Democracy” Is Melting On The National Mall
“Showing in real life that democracy is melting away before our very eyes, I think it’s a powerful symbol that helps express the feelings...
Is YouTube About To Eat The Entire TV Industry?
“The only question is what genres it will take over next, and how quickly it will do so. From talk shows to scripted dramas...
Foot Traffic In Downtown Chicago Is Back To Pre-COVID Levels, Thanks To Arts And...
“The new numbers validate efforts to make the Loop a social destination and combat high retail and office vacancy rates that have plagued the...
A 1,900-Year-Old Roman Tombstone Turns Up In A New Orleans Backyard
A Tulane anthropologist was clearing out underbrush when she came upon a stone slab inscribed with Latin text. She called an archaeologist colleague, who...
Los Angeles Times Is Losing Horrifying Amounts Of Money
“The business made a loss from operations of $41.8m in the year ending 29 December 2024 and a total net loss before taxes of...
Gramophone Awards 2025: Simon Rattle Sets A Record, Pichon’s Bach Wins Record Of The...
The British conductor is the first person ever to win Gramophone’s Artist of the Year award twice. The Record of the Year prize went...
Kansas City Symphony Abruptly Fires Its Chorus Director
Members of the orchestra’s volunteer chorus received an email from management notifying them of the “difficult but necessary development” just hours before a performance...
Soprano Roberta Alexander Dead At 76
Active as a concert singer as well as in opera, she was for some years a mainstay at the Met, Covent Garden, Salzburg, Glyndebourne,...
Tim Curry At 79, Looking Forward Even After His Stroke
The actor who brought so much manic energy to Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Rocky Horror), Wadsworth the butler (Clue), and Pennywise the clown (Stephen King’s It)...
Study: Libraries Draw People To Downtown
A recent study published by the Urban Libraries Council explores the idea that libraries can draw people to city centers that have been suffering from the...
Actors’ Equity UK Threatens Mass Action Over AI Companies’ Unauthorized Use Of Actors’ Images
“The warning came as … growing numbers of (union) members made complaints about infringements of their copyright and misuse of their personal data in...
Toledo Museum’s Adam Levine On The Future Of Museums
"I have yet to meet someone who really believes that there will be less digital or AI in the world 10 years from now...
“Hamilton” Grosses Its Biggest-Ever Broadway Box Office
Notably, the tally of $4.042 million comes outside of the holiday season, when shows typically see their highest grosses and slightly bests Hamilton’s previous high...
Oregon Launches A Rethink On Support For Non-Profit Arts
“The goal is to create a unified strategy and list of priorities to present with the Legislature to support the arts, culture, and humanities...
In Extremely Rare Move, Met Opera Schedules More Performances Of “Kavalier & Clay” For...
The Mason Bates/Gene Scheer opera, whose ticket sales improved for each performance of this fall’s run (the last two selling out, despite widely divergent...
Observation: Young Actors Trained During Pandemic Have Trouble Projecting Their Voices
Young actors who trained at drama school during the pandemic are struggling to project their voices and lack range because they were denied the...
Indigenous Artists Use Augmented Reality To Overlay Images At Metropolitan Museum
Using augmented reality (AR), the artists intervened in the gallery’s 19th-century paintings—generic and imagined landscapes, portraits of affluent settlers and grandiose historical scenes—digitally superimposing...
Artists Plan Nationwide Protests
The protests, known collectively as Fall of Freedom, will take place on the weekend of Nov. 21. Organizers, including the visual artist Dread Scott and the playwright...
Colm Tóibín: Why I Set Up A Press To Publish László Krasznahorkai (And The...
“In 2006, when I came home all enthusiastic about his work, he still had no UK publisher. ... The view in London was that...
Universal Music Goes All In On AI
I believe that Agentic AI, which dynamically employs complex reasoning and adaptation, has the potential to revolutionize how fans interact with and discover music....
Culture As An Act Of Resistance
As the current administration repeals the right to culture, we, everyday people, must work to keep it. Exercise it to the fullest extent. Dine...
Hundreds Of Culture Workers Sign On To Jane Fonda’s Revival Of The Committee for...
Fonda announced on October 1 that she would revive the Committee for the First Amendment, an anti-censorship group originally formed in 1947 whose members...
Ireland Will Make Its Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Permanent
Unfortunately, it’s not for all artists. There will be 2,000 stipends available, with applications opening in September of 2026 and qualified applicants (who may...
Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of...
“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any...
