Two Years Ago The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Declared Bankruptcy. Now It’s Back
On the road to their return, the musicians took on side jobs, staged free community concerts and fought to bring the symphony back through legal...
The Best International Feature Oscar Is Broken. Any Solution Could Make It Worse.
“The deadline for countries to submit movies for the 2026 Oscars' international feature category arrives Wednesday. And, as usual, the submissions — each country gets to...
Can TikTok Build Interest In Classical Music?
The program will support and elevate a select cohort of 10 U.K.-based creators passionate about classical music who are already making content about the...
Public Media’s Moment To Shine (Or Not)
Public media stations reach 99% of the country’s population with free, noncommercial, local news, music and information. Yet their greatest strength — broadcast dominance built over...
Public Broadcasting Lost Federal Funding. But Public Broadcasting Continues
Although the massive wave of federal funding cuts may sometimes seem insurmountable for private donors to offset, cuts to public broadcasting are not so...
The August Paris Opera Ballet Walks On The Wild Side For Its U.S. Tour
The world’s oldest ballet company is known to most of the world for the precise, pristine classicism. At home, though, it’s been performing cutting-edge...
Living With People Whose Ideas You Don’t Like
We are indeed going to have to live with each other, barring apocalyptic violence—but we already have been for quite some time, and doing...
Father Of The Internet: We Created The Internet And Gave It Away For Free....
Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. Trading...
What The AI Actor Tilly Says About The Bland State Of Movies Today
It is not on screen for long and perhaps vanishes just before you sense something’s off, but as things stand, “Tilly” doesn’t look obviously...
Italian Police Seize 21 Works From Dalí Exhibition As Suspected Forgeries
“The works were part of an exhibition, ‘Salvador Dalí, tra arte e mito’ (Salvador Dalí, between art and myth”) that had been on show...
Artisans Use Medieval Techniques To Restore One Of England’s Grandest Old Cathedrals
“York Minster is one of a very few cathedrals in Britain to have a full-time team of stonemasons working alongside about 50 glaziers, carpenters,...
Public Radio Organizations Form Consortium To Operate Satellite Distribution; NPR Sues To Stop Them
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in one of its last grants, awarded $57.9 million to a new consortium called Public Media Infrastructure to cover...
Naxos, World’s Largest Indie Classical Label, Sold To Chinese Corporation
The landmark deal, announced on September 25, gives Beijing-based Kuke Music Holding about 70% ownership of Hong Kong-based Naxos Music Group through two simultaneous...
North America’s Largest Repertory Theatre Company, Stratford Festival, Names New Artistic Director
“Jonathan Church, known for his work as a director and producer on multiple hit shows in London’s West End, and as the leader of...
Syracuse University Pauses Admissions For 20 Undergrad Majors, Most Of Them Arts And Humanities
The decision was made by the institution’s senate in its first meeting of the 2025-26 academic year without faculty input. Among the majors affected...
University Of Oxford To Open New $250 Million Arts Center
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, opening on October 13 and built for £185 million ($250 million), includes a 500-seat concert hall, a 250-seat theatre,...
Why The Latest “Cabaret” Revival Was A Smash In The West End But Crashed...
The London production of Rebecca Frecknall’s staging, for which the theatre was remodeled into a seedy Kit Kat Club, is going strong after four...
Menand: What, Now, Is This Free Speech Of Which You Speak?
If the Administration’s actions are so blatantly unlawful, why does everyone seem to be caving? Some of it is just cost-benefit analysis. - The...
San Francisco Contemporary Dance Institution ODC Names New Co-Artistic Director
Mia J. Chong, a choreographer and currently a staging director for ODC, will succeed 83-year-old founder Brenda Way. The 54-year-old dance organization encompasses a...
Big Publishing’s Gambling Problem
Because the majority of books don’t earn out, most people in publishing have the disappointing experience of working on a book they love that,...
The Strad As Overpriced Object Of Art
The violins may be rare, excellently made, and, to some, worth the money. But none of that is actually worth a fig if their...
How Our Screens Are Changing How We Interact With The World
If the reading revolution represented the greatest transfer of knowledge to ordinary men and women in history, the screen revolution represents the greatest theft...
Oklahoma Eliminates Arts Requirement For High School Students
“Starting with eighth-graders this year, Oklahoma won’t require fine arts credits to earn a high school diploma. ... The decision to offer fine arts curriculum...
Artists Are Projecting Satiric Trump Images On Buildings Around LA
An anonymous street art collective using the moniker Vjaybombs is behind the satirical artworks (which they call “projection bombs” and “guerrilla projections”), broadcasting them...
The Network TV Model Is Dead. It Won’t Take Much To Topple It
I wonder why Nexstar is even pursuing a multibillion-dollar deal to buy TV stations. Traditionally it's been a great investment. But tradition is all...
