Peter Phillips, 86, Britain’s Pioneer Of Pop Art
“He became one of the originators of the British Pop art movement in the 1950s and ’60s. … Phillips layered mundane images of consumer culture and...
What Worries “60 Minutes” Staffers About The Paramount-Trump Settlement
“(Many) believe weeks of leaks about Paramount’s legal machinations and of the 60 Minutes staff’s aversion to any kind of settlement have already undermined...
Milwaukee Ballet Drops Live Orchestra For Two Of Next Season’s Productions, Including “Nutcracker”
Citing “operating costs (which) continue to rise while revenue earnings have not kept pace,” company management announced that it would use recorded music for...
Will America’s Polarized Politics Derail Next Year’s 250th Anniversary Celebrations?
Will the occasion underline the country’s divisions, as with Trump's military parade and the No Kings protests? Or can Americans come together over the...
Paris’s Asian Art Museum Sued For “Tibet Erasure”
“Four pro-Tibetan groups in France have filed a legal complaint against Paris’s state-run Musée Guimet, accusing it of attempting to erase Tibet’s cultural identity...
Average Ticket Price In London’s West End Up By Nearly One-Quarter
What’s more, the difference between the shows with the highest and lowest average ticket prices is narrower than one year ago. - The Stage
The Last Of The Vatican’s Raphael Rooms Has Now Been Restored
“A decadelong project to clean and restore the largest of the four … spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace … uncovered a...
How Sondheim’s Collection Came To The Library Of Congress
The Library announced this week that it has acquired more than 5,000 items from Sondheim's collection, which will be available to the public on...
In Wartime Ukraine, Shakespeare Is Booming
“A King Lear and two Othellos are in repertoire in major Kyiv theatres; there is also A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the capital, a...
Cultural Vandalism: Alberta’s Book-Banning Project
“This isn’t about banning books,” Premier Danielle Smith posted on X. “It’s about protecting kids from graphic, sexually explicit content that has no place...
Canada Debates What Qualifies As Canadian Culture
The outcome will shape who gets to tell Canadian stories and what those stories are, and also which ones count as Canadian under the...
New Project Reveals 700 Years Of Irish History
The Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, a global academic collaboration led by Trinity College Dublin, deployed historians, computer scientists and other specialists to digitally recreate...
Why Alicia Graf Mack Left Juilliard To Run The Ailey Company
“I’ve always been aligned with the mission and values of Ailey. So when I heard they were searching for a new artistic director, given...
Hollywood Takes On AI Copyright Rules In Washington
America’s creators are mounting a campaign to push back on any use of their work without permission or compensation, seeking to head off potential abuses of...
Director of São Paulo’s Museu Afro Brasil Out After Less Than Two Years
Hélio Menezes is no longer the director of the Museu Afro Brasil, a key São Paulo institution founded by sculptor Emanoel Araújo that is known for...
Warner Music Announces Layoffs, Cuts
In the memo, reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter, Kyncl wrote that WMG is looking to reduce costs by about $300 million to “future-proof” the company...
“Performative Reading” And The Cynical Young’uns Making Fun Of It
“It’s called performative reading not just because someone might be pretending to read, but rather that they want everyone to know they read. The presumption is...
Florida Governor Cuts Funding For Public Radio, TV
Gov. Ron DeSantis cut nearly $6 million in recurring funding to the state’s public radio and TV stations, one day before the state’s 2025...
Study: What Makes A Person “Cool”?
A new study suggests that there are six specific traits that these people tend to have in common: Cool people are largely perceived to be extroverted,...
A New Ballet Company For Venice, A City With A Glittering Dance History
A successful Irish barrister with a long dedication to the arts, she and co-founder and artistic director Alessio Carbone are on an ambitious mission...
Revisiting The Birth of Ms. Magazine
In the early 1970s, when many American women still couldn’t open bank accounts in their own names and the terms (and concepts) “domestic violence”...
Milwaukee Symphony Musicians Accept New Three-Year Contract With Annual Pay Increases
“The (agreement), which continues through the 2027-28 season, extends a long history of harmonious labor relations at the symphony. For more than 30 years,...
Dutch Catholic Group Protests 200-Year-Old Condom On Display At Rijksmuseum
The prophylactic in question, on view as part of an exhibition titled “Safe Sex?”, is printed with a pornographic illustration of three priests and...
Frederick M. Nicholas, L.A.’s “Mr. Downtown Culture,” Has Died At 105
“A war hero, attorney and real estate developer, … (he) led the design and development of major L.A. landmarks, including the Museum of Contemporary...
San Francisco Opera Orchestra Signs Two-Year Contract Which Expires Next Summer
That is to say, the new agreement is retroactive to August 1, 2024, which is when the previous contract expired; the orchestra had been...
