YouTubers Sue Burning Man For Using Nevada Police To Block Filming Of Cleanup
“The owner of a popular YouTube channel has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that organizers of the Burning Man festival prevented filmmakers from recording...
A Crisis In Australia’s Arts Sector. Is There A Way To Revitalize The Arts?
Left as it is, the nation’s not-for-profit performing arts sector will not survive. The whole system is teetering on the edge of artistic and...
This Year’s Booker Prize Finalists
The shortlist includes Indian-born author Kiran Desai, 19 years after she won the prize, as well as past nominees Andrew Miller and David Szalay....
What AI Has Provoked: An Existential Crisis At Universities
If the university exists only to warehouse knowledge and to transmit tradition, then it is doomed. But the university’s inability to claim a near...
Andrew Lloyd Webber Visits The New Immersive Version Of “Phantom”
Masquerade is a $25 million reconfiguring of the long-running Broadway hit, spread out over six floors in midtown Manhattan. This version is told mostly...
Controversies About AI Writing Put Our Language Conventions To Test
Humans do not think or speak in sentences; we think and speak in thoughts, which interrupt and introduce and complicate one another in a...
Comedians Are Square In The Authoritarian Sights
It’s easy to roll your eyes at late-night comedians getting applause for mocking the president. Many people, myself included, found some of those jokes...
What Happens When You Spend Three Hours Staring At A Painting
This exercise in what she calls immersive attention has remained a core element of Jennifer Roberts’s art history teaching for more than a decade, despite the...
Yusuf/Cat Stevens Says His Upcoming US Tour Is In “Serious Jeopardy”
“A post on the singer’s Instagram on Friday said the U.S. leg of the tour ‘is in serious jeopardy due to significant delay in U.S....
Are We At A Turning Point For Museums?
“The general tone is concern and uncertainty. I’m not sure anyone feels like they have a clear road map to sustainability.” - Artnet
Federal Court Slaps Down New NEA Prohibitions Against Funding “Gender Ideology”
The lawsuit was filed in March by several arts organizations, including Rhode Island Latino Arts, which promotes art made by Latinos, and National Queer Theater, a...
Jimmy Kimmel Returns — On His Own Terms
Kimmel’s strident stance last night made clear that he had prevailed in his weeklong power struggle with Disney; he was addressing the controversy on...
Reviving Jerome Robbins’s Original Choreography For “West Side Story”
“Joshua Bergasse spoke … about his role reproducing choreography, how an iconic Broadway musical translates to an opera stage, and the efforts to achieve...
What’s Maurizio Cattelan Up To Now? A Scavenger Hunt!
The prankster artist known for the solid-gold toilet (titled America) and the banana-taped-to-the-wall (Comedian) will have participants search for copies of his new piece...
Yuja Wang Appointed To Newly-Created Faculty Position At Curtis Institute
The superstar Chinese-American pianist, who herself studied at Curtis, won’t be a professor of piano giving weekly lessons. Her title, as of September next...
Scammer Who Tried To Sell Graceland Out From Under The Presleys Sentenced To Prison
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and...
2025 Booker Prize Shortlist Includes Kiran Desai, David Szalai, Katie Kitamura
The finalists include three American authors, two Britons, and one Indian, Desai, who won the prize in 2006. - The Guardian
Claudia Cardinale, Glamorous Movie Star Of The 1960s And ‘70s, Is Dead At 87
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel...
Hearst Newspapers To Acquire Dallas Morning News
A large majority of shareholders voted to reject a bid by notorious newspaper destroyer Alden Global Capital in favor of a somewhat lower (but...
What You Get When A Moral Philosopher Designs A Video Game
“Bennett Foddy … began his career as a moral philosopher at the University of Oxford. But on the side he was making hilarious, preposterous...
Minnesota Art Groups See Some Glimmers Through The Challenges
“In a time of storm, cows run and take cover, which prolongs the experience. But buffalo run to the storm to get through it...
Picasso Took Up Writing Poetry In His 50s. Was His Verse Any Good?
He made the perhaps-foolhardy decision to ask his first patron for her opinion. That patron was Gertrude Stein. She did not hold back. -...
Rethinking The Choreography Of Gerald Arpino
Popular and productive, Arpino, who was 85 when he died in 2008, didn’t get much respect from influential critics. At various times they called...
Is Licensing A Better Solution Than Suing For AI Copyright?
One method some people are starting to explore is licensed use. So what exactly does that mean – and is it really a solution...
The College Admissions Game Is Rigged
We trade admissions tips in Reddit threads, spend our vacations squeezing in yet another campus tour and treat every rejection as proof that the...
