Dallas Museum Of Art Appoints New Director: Brian Ferriso of Portland Art Museum
“Ferriso, 59, will succeed Agustín Arteaga, who stepped down in December after eight years at the helm. Ferriso’s first day will be Dec. 1. … He...
Keeping Traditional Somali Dance Alive In Minnesota
Mohamoud Osman Mohamed, director of the Somali Museum of Minnesota, and his father founded the Somali Museum Dance Troupe a decade ago. At first...
Quantum Physics In Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
“Researchers say that its swirling sky is uncannily similar to some of the ‘exotic vortex patterns’ produced by a classic scientific phenomenon known as...
Tough Time For Theatre At This Year’s Edinburgh Fringe
“The audience appetite for theatre just isn’t here this year,” said one producer, who has been bringing work for a number of years, adding...
Should The Rocky Statue Stay At The Philadelphia Art Museum?
I’m not arguing for the original statue to go anywhere, but do we need Stallone’s exact replica of it a few hundred feet away...
Film Schools Are All In On AI
While Hollywood writers and directors wage public battles over AI's threat to human creativity -- with more than 400 industry figures recently petitioning the White House...
We Talk About Community All The Time. What Does It Mean?
It’s important to recognise from the outset the uncontroversial point that, like dolphins or chimpanzees, human beings are by nature social animals. The claim...
This Is Certainly Bucking The Trend: Queensland Increases Arts Funding
Arts Queensland, the government funding body for the northeastern Australian state, has announced recipients for the 2026-29 funding round, with the total amount of...
Choreography’s Secret Weapon: Hands
The hand not only guides the eye but is the body’s finishing touch. When the hands are unintentional and artificial, they become soulless, dragging...
Trump Widens His Attack On Museums
"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote. The post emphasized his ongoing...
A Festival Of AI Films Leaves Me Cold
As something of a generative-AI skeptic, watching the program raised all kinds of questions. - Wired
For These Stage Actors, Getting Older Is A Career Peak
“As a culture we tend to talk about ageing as a series of losses, a whittling-away of vigour and ability, but talking to actors...
Oh No: People Are Starting To Talk Like ChatGPT
The unnerving thing is that now, with hundreds of millions of people regularly engaging with chatbots, English-speaking humans are starting to talk like the inhuman communicator...
How AI Is Already Transforming Hollywood
Almost every person I spoke with for this story said that AI is already a core part of the “previz” process, where scenes are...
When Museums Are Made To Be Ideological: Remember Germany
Museums were repurposed to emphasize heroic and nationalist themes. Military museums glorified past victories while erasing defeats. Archives were cleansed of inconvenient truths: Jewish...
What Hit American TV Series Look Like After Russian Censors Get Through With Them
“There is no intimacy between men, no talk of abortion, no logos of banned companies or jokes about Putin. By August, censors had cut...
Reading Tiny Buddhist Scrolls Without Damaging Them By Unrolling
The scrolls come from a small Mongolian shrine found by an expedition in 1927. Researchers are virtually unrolling and deciphering them using X-ray tomography,...
A Challenge: Getting Chinese-Language Literature In Front Of English-Speaking Readers
“(There’s) a new effort from Riverhead Books, led by editor Han Zhang, to publish more translated Chinese language literature. … The books that Zhang...
Repairs Underway At Building Which Caught Fire Just Months After Curtis Institute Bought It
It’s known as the Art Alliance building, it’s near Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square, Curtis bought it in January in the UArts liquidation sale, and fire...
Who Are The Generals In The Trump White House’s Culture War?
Since he returned to the White House, Trump has appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center, revived the Garden of Heroes statuary project, and...
Another Casualty Of Public Radio And TV Defunding: Upgraded Public Safety Warnings
FEMA had been using the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to evaluate proposals and award grants for the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program, which...
Audra McDonald Followed Home From Theater By Autograph-Seeker
She says that on Saturday, following her next-to-last performance in Gypsy on Broadway, an audience member “snuck around and found me the way I...
A24’s New Release Is Already The Fifth-Highest-Grossing Film Of All Time, And You’ve Probably...
“Ne Zha 2, an animated fantasy adventure movie written and directed by the Chinese filmmaker Jiaozi, broke multiple records after it premiered in China earlier...
What If We’re Chasing Happiness The Wrong Way?
What if we only think of happiness as a goal because we have lost sight of other alternatives? What if the heart of the...
They’re Moving An Entire 113-Year-Old Church Three Miles Across Town — In One Piece
The Kiruna Kyrka, weighing 672 tons and made mostly of red-stained timber, has been elevated onto rolling platforms and is lumbering its way across...
