Layoffs And Programming Cuts At Wisconsin Public Radio
“Faced with ongoing budget shortages and the possibility of federal funding cuts, Wisconsin Public Radio is laying off at least 15 staff members and...
English National Opera’s Next Music Director Will Also Take Helm At New Zealand Symphony
André de Ridder, currently music director of the opera house and orchestra in Freiburg, Germany, will start work at both ENO and NZSO in...
Iran Moves Cultural Treasures To Safety
Iran’s Cultural Heritage Organization has transferred museum artifacts across the country to secure storage locations and closed museums and heritage sites until further notice,...
Teachers: How AI Deepens Our Students’ Ability To Write
In our classrooms, we challenge the misconception that AI tools serve merely as shortcuts, bypassing critical thinking and creativity. We don’t seek to pit...
MIT Student Creates New Way To Restore Art Work
Unlike traditional restoration, which permanently alters the painting, these masks can reportedly be removed whenever needed. So it's a reversible process that does not...
Finland’s Public Libraries Are Flourishing (There’s A Reason)
In the age of TikTok, Netflix and Candy Crush, it is not just Finland’s public libraries that are booming, but also demand for their physical...
How Korean Culture Became A Worldwide Phenom
Experts say the nation’s cultural wave, known as “Hallyu” in Korean, began in the late 1990s, when South Korean soaps started gaining popularity in...
Lessons About The Market At This Year’s ArtBasel
For now, Art Basel’s reputation for quality and importance in the art market continues to draw in more seasoned collectors, but that may change...
Our Technologies Keep Trying To Give Us “Experiences.” They’re Fake.
More and more, our “mediating technologies” are in the business not of enhancing our own senses to encounter the world better, but in replacing...
Climate Change Activists Fling Pink Paint On A Star Picasso Painting In Montreal
The Picasso painting, an early Blue Period portrait from the permanent collection of the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, is a star attraction in the...
New AI Arts Residencies Intend To Promote Artists Working In AI
These residencies, usually hosted by tech labs, museums, or academic centers, offer artists access to tools, compute, and collaborators to support creative experimentation with...
An Ambitious Seattle Artist Housing Initiative Falters
Artspace secured millions in public funding for affordable housing to support the arts. But instead of stemming Seattle’s creative brain drain, problems at the...
If They Can Make It Here, These Top High School Actors Know, They Might...
That is to say, more than 100 high school theatre stars have been working for a week to put on a Broadway show tonight....
London’s Fabled Ealing Studios Get A Revamp And, Owners Hope, A New Life
“What we dreamed of doing was to make a studio that had all this history, the old stages built in the 1930s and the...
What Jaws Did To, And Also For, Sharks
“Before Jaws premiered in 1975, most shark research was conducted by the U.S. Navy. Much of it involved experimenting and testing repellents to prevent...
Lessons From The Apocalypse
How humanity, or at least some humans, can survive. (Hint: Study archaeology.) - Fast Company
More Fallout From The Broadway Shows That Didn’t Win At The Tonys
Dead Outlaw “was nominated for seven prizes, including best musical, but won none. It is the third new musical to post a closing notice...
The Days When Charles Dickens Was Known As Boz
The writer was so popular that “a ‘Boz Ball,’ attended by 3,000 people, was held in New York in 1842 to welcome Dickens to...
Author Kaveh Akbar Reflects On Making Art During War
“Every Iranian that you know has people in Tehran, people around Iran who are doing poorly,” the author of Martyr! says. For instance, his...
Actor Jay Ellis Found Inspiration In Colson Whitehead’s Books
The star of movies, and now Off-Broadway, says, "I feel like I did not understand or see myself in fiction until I read him....
There Are Just So Many Bros On Broadway Right Now
One (male) audience member: “We want to see a good, solid male psyche. We want to see the full extent of the male experience....
Pixar, Once The Golden Child, Is Having A Very Rough Time With Its Original...
What in the heck is going on? Since the pandemic, “while audiences often say they want to see new stories, box office ticket sales...
Instead Of Replacing Journalists, Can Targeted AI Use Help Indie News Sites Get Better?
Minnesota’s nonprofit Sahan Journal "has been working on ways to support internal workflows with AI. Now, it’s even testing a custom ChatGPT bot to help...
A New Proposal For The US At The Venice Biennale Is, Uh, Not Great
“With its fascist posturing, suggestion of militarized violence, laser light shows, and relentless ego-buffing in the form of giant statuary, it’s like World War Z but...
Marlee Matlin Won An Oscar, But Had To Wait Years For More Good Work...
And - despite CODA co-star Troy Kotsur’s Oscar win in 2022 - that hasn’t changed. “'It’s hard to find work,’ she said, but still...
