A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth
This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art...
Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended
The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day...
Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala
They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they...
Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company
The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I...
A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain
Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However,...
José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance
Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The...
Cultural Boycotts Are Ripping UK Arts Organizations Apart
This fraught debate has pitted artists who are broadly in agreement against each other. “There’s so much energy being spent ripping ourselves to shreds...
Taylor Swift Sets Another All-Time Record
Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl was released...
Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling
“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” -...
To Be An Artist In Canada Is To Be Prisoner Of Subsidy
Even if an artist can afford to turn up their nose at it, the entire structure that allows them to show, see, and otherwise...
James Wood On László Krasznahorkai
For many ordinary readers, the idea of entering a fictional world constantly teetering on the edge of a revelation that is always imminent but...
At 93, Is Gerhard Richter Our Greatest Living Artist?
That much will certainly be made clear in a massive Richter retrospective opening this month at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Comprising some...
How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées
In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine
Gertrude Stein’s Language Experiments Were Considered Difficult. But Let’s Reconsider
“Devotees of her cult professed to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compared her effusions to the rantings...
American Education Is In A Desperate State. It Is Failing Its Students
We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not...
AI Has Been Trained With What’s Online. Not All Knowledge Is Online
These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising...
Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96
“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a...
Broadway Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians' most recent contract expired August 31, 2025. Since then, the union has been trying to achieve a new contract that includes increased wages,...
Was L’Affaire Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson For The Importance Of Late Night TV?
Amid all the headlines about falling ratings, production cutbacks and monetary losses, it's easy to forget that late-night TV programs have historically occupied a...
The Museum Specially Built For The Benin Bronzes Has Nothing But Clay Replicas. Why...
“About 150 original bronzes have been returned to Nigeria over the last five years. … Their public display inside the $25m state-of-the-art museum in...
Marc Maron Talks About The End Of His Podcast, One Of The Most Influential...
“There’s a part of me that feels a responsibility to these listeners. I get all kinds of emails, stuff that I would never have...
I Survived The Bombing Of Ukraine’s Largest Book Festival
Fiona Benson, an editor of Exeter University’s Ukrainian Wartime Poetry Project, was invited to BookForum in Lviv by Arthur Dron’, a poet and war hero. On...
Easter Islanders Always Said Their Moai Statues Walked To Their Places. New Research Says...
That’s not to say, mind you, that the moai walked by themselves. A new paper published by two archaeologists lays out, through observation and...
Public Radio Cuts Could Have A Disastrous Effect On Classical Music In America
Roughly 96% of the classical music on terrestrial radio in the U.S. is broadcast on public radio stations — and those stations often have...
What Are The Issues Behind The Threatened Broadway Strike?
The Broadway League, which represents Broadway producers and landlords, is currently in tense negotiations with two different unions: Actors’ Equity (performers and stage managers) and...
