Dayton Dance Company Fights To Keep Mexican Dancer In The US
“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the...
Rural Conservatives Used To Back Public Broadcasting. Now, Not So Much
According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March, 43 percent of Americans supported continuing federal funding for NPR and PBS, 24 percent backed ending...
Chicago Symphony Cancels Next Season’s MusicNOW Series
“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement....
Getty Images Suit Over AI Copyright Goes To Trial In London This Week
Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written...
Disney And Universal Sue AI Companies Over Copyright
They are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and...
Perp Walk? Trump’s Wednesday Night Kennedy Center Event
It had the feel of a Hollywood movie premiere. Ahead of showtime, the Kennedy Center was a festival of Trump officials. - Washington Post
Why MAGA, The #Resistance, Trump Himself, And Almost Everybody Else Identifies With “Les Mis”
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy...
LA Arts Institutions Are Impacted By Militarization Of City’s Downtown
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects...
Apple Music Exec: It’s Crazy That Streaming Services Give Music Away For Free
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service....
After Decades Of Trying, Republicans May Finally Get To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting...
The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of...
Günther Uecker, Who Made Art With Hammer And Nails Rather Than Paint, Has Died...
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic,...
For The First Time In 40 Years, A Dance Company In Dallas-Fort Worth Has...
In contrast to the mess at Dallas Black Dance Theatre last year, when dancers voted to join a union and were promptly fired, leading...
Facebook Banned Rebecca Solnit After Her Essay About Los Angeles Riots
The author and activist reported on Bluesky last week that her Facebook account on Facebook was suspended, later adding that she was told the decision...
After Two-Year Restoration, Tintoretto’s Monumental “Crucifixion” Is Back On View
The 17-foot-by-40-foot painting is back in the board room of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, “painstakingly liberated from thick yellowed varnish,...
Wikipedia “Pauses” AI-Generated Summaries Of Entries
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of...
National Endowment For The Humanities Lays off Almost Two-Thirds Of Its Staff
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the...
Brian Wilson, Creative Mastermind Of The Beach Boys, Is Dead At 82
“There was an abiding pathos in his best records — not merely the idealized scenes the songs depicted, but also that they were created...
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions seeks Remote Accounting Manager
RADAR Nonprofit Solutions is seeking an experienced Accounting Manager to perform the accounting activities for various clients in the arts and other nonprofit sectors.
The Most Popular TikTok Star On The Planet Is Detained By ICE And Leaves...
Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer with 162 million followers on the video app, was detained at Las Vegas airport for (as an ICE...
This Crisis Of Criticism Seems Different
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth...
A Shakespeare Producer Talks About “Translating” A Script Into Comprehensible 21st-Century English
Tracy Young: “I’ve seen nothing to counter the notion that Shakespeare was a populist. All about the people, and the audience’s kind of theater...
How Much Energy Does Our Body Expend In Thinking?
New research builds on a growing understanding that the majority of the brain’s function goes to maintenance. While many neuroscientists have historically focused on...
Good Taste Will Be Even More Important In The Age Of AI
Taste is a subtle sensibility, more often a secret weapon than a person’s defining characteristic. But we’re entering a time when its importance has...
For North America’s Beleaguered Indie Publishers, A New Distributor Is Coming
With the sudden closing of Small Press Distribution last year and the impending disappearance of National Book Network, the avenues for small presses in...
At BET Awards, Stars Call Out Trump Administration
Doechii, the Grammy-winning rapper, and entertainment mogul Tyler Perry made overt statements about the current administration and its multi-pronged attacks on communities of color....
