NPR Trying To Calibrate New Budget Normal After Federal Funding Cuts
The network understands that contributions from major donors – such as the Hewlett Foundation, which gave NPR a two-year, $1.2 million grant in 2024...
A Major New Homegrown Festival For Sydney
“In short, the vision is to create a thriving and inclusive creative ecosystem in western Sydney that celebrates its diverse communities, drives cultural innovation...
People Are Creating AI Avatars Of Those Who Have Died
People are now using AI to create “grief bots,” which are simulations of deceased loved ones that the living can converse with. There has even...
A Professor Tries Using Chat-GPT To Do His Job
“I decided to put the central, existential question to (my students) directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice...
Why Conservatives Should Be Rooting For NPR
Some Republicans would no doubt be happy if PBS and NPR went away entirely, as they are upset by the networks’ left-wing bias. They should be...
Matthew Barney On The Point Of Art
"I’m not interested in participating in consensus culture. The way I understand art to function and the function that it carries out in culture...
Artists Protest Homeland Security Use Of Traditional Art Images
The images, bookended by posts cheering the administration’s deportation campaign, have been widely shared by conservatives and sparked alarm among the artists, their families...
There’s Been A Surge Of Movies About Metrics And Math Lately. Why is That?
Because, writes Bilge Ebiri, “everywhere we look, numbers reign supreme. Metrics determine our life and work in ways that were inconceivable ten or 15...
Why Tom Lehrer’s Satire Endures
One simple reason his songs endure is that, for all that they are written for their words, it’s hard to stop humming their tunes....
Schenkerian Theory Journal Editor Wins $725,000 Award Against University
The trouble started when Jackson, who was the founding editor of the journal, invited music theorists with expertise in Schenkerian theory to write rebuttals...
That Challenge Of Political Theatre
A play is political if its subject is taboo and its story mirrors, exposes, and critiques the suppression and repression that interferes with the...
It’s Fine, Go Ahead And Let Your Kids Watch TV, Argues TV Critic
New York magazine’s Kathryn VanArendonk knows it’s not tenable to prevent her kids from doing what she does all day. “But my (policy is)...
Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” Was Not, In Fact, Inspired By African Art, Says Researcher
The art world’s consensus has been that the painting was inspired by the African masks Picasso saw on a visit to Paris’s first ethnographic...
This Man Was One Of New York’s Biggest Young Arts Philanthropists. The Money He...
Remember Alberto Vilar? What Matthew Christopher Pietras did might have been worse. Or it might not, since the victims of the theft may not...
This Fall The Wanamaker Organ Will Be Heard Again, Thanks To Opera Philadelphia
The future of the world’s largest fully-functional musical instrument was in doubt when Macy’s vacated the Wanamaker space earlier this year. Now the building’s...
This Dalí Painting Was Bought For $200. It’s About To Sell For $40,000.
The 1966 watercolor-and-felt-tip painting was meant to be part of a series of illustrations for The Arabian Nights; Dalí never finished the project. When...
Can They Really Rename The Kennedy Center After The Trumps?
That depends on who’s doing the renaming. - The Washington Post (Yahoo!)
Dallas Morning News Fends Off Private Equity Firm That Eviscerates Newspapers
A favorite tactic of Alden Global Capital is, when someone else is about to buy a newspaper, to jump in with a higher bid...
The Crazy Costs Of Performing At The Edinburgh Fringe
“It has the potential to make careers, but it’s so expensive it’s not just the working-class comedians who are getting shut out – so...
When Libraries Were Quieter
Books are removed, and replaced with coffee bars and spaces for socializing. In case people don’t get the message, librarians now put up signs discouraging quiet...
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Percussive Poet, Is Dead At 61
“A poet, photographer and bandleader, (he) explored race, music, politics, academia and family in dazzling, erudite and often funkified verse — ‘percussive prosody,’ he...
Book Sales Slump
Sales of adult books dropped 9.6% in the month, with fiction sales off 8.3% and nonfiction falling 11.3%. For the first five months of...
The Unnerving Takeover Of Video Games By AI
Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have...
Site Santa Fe, The Indispensable Art Outpost
Site Santa Fe opened in 1995 in a former warehouse turned nonprofit gallery in the city’s art-filled Railyard District, but it stretches to museums...
Europe’s Current Hotbed Of New Classical Music? Iceland
“In the 21st century, no other country has reinvented the language of the orchestra on such distinctive and appealing terms. … Call it the...
