V&A Museum In London Opens Its Storehouse To The Public
“Striking juxtapositions, and the often contentious stories behind them, lie at the heart of the (Victoria & Albert Museum’s) new £65m facility, which provides...
Federal Appeals Court Removes Injunction Against Texas Book Bans
“United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano...
Robert Campbell, Former Pulitzer-Winning Architecture Critic For The Boston Globe, Is Dead At 88
For more than 40 years (he) wrote with clarity, wit and love about a city in transition from the era of “urban renewal” slum...
Getty Villa, Which Narrowly Escaped L.A. Fires, Sets Reopening Date
The museum of ancient Greco-Roman art and its collections survived the January fires, but 1,300 damaged trees have been removed from the grounds. The...
Untangling The Meaning Of Khipu, The Mysterious Knotted Strings Of The Incas
There’s no other system of encoding information quite like khipu, the knotted strings and cords used to keep records in the Inca Empire. For...
Brian Eno: What Art Does
The art schools were easy to get into and their teachers were well regarded. The schools’ core view was that the postwar world would...
The Librarians Who Helped Win World War II
“The big leap that the OSS made was book knowledge: the accumulation of a vast amount of seemingly trivial information, if analyzed intelligently, …...
Director Michael Arden Steps Into The Broadway Light
This season, Arden has given Broadway its most surprising and heartwarming new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending.” The show, which originated in South Korea, is...
Why Homer Still Resonates 3000 Years Later
Small wonder that the “Odyssey," a staple of the Western canon and the progenitor of so much, from sci-fi to rom-com, has been enjoying...
Wisconsin Arts Organizations Struggle For Funding
In an era when Wisconsin has consistently ranked near the bottom in per capita arts spending nationwide — and with ticket sales declining since...
Storm King, The Sculpture Park In New York’s Hudson Valley, Reopens After A $53...
“Storm King now boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has...
Politics And The NEA
“The current mood is one of dreadful anticipation of further hostility toward arts and culture, in general, and toward any institution or organization —...
Cometh Technology And The Bard Reinventeth
We can be confident technological forces beyond our control shall soon enough ensure the emergence of an altogether more “relatable” Bard for those so...
In Praise Of The Lecture
When done well, lectures can be utterly illuminating, when you are listening to a brilliant speaker discuss a topic about which they have more...
Sweden Tries To Decide What Should Be In Its Cultural Canon (Or If It...
“In 2023, the government began an initiative called the Culture Canon, with two streams: an ‘experts’’ canon and a ‘people’s canon,’ (each with) 100...
Why Have Museums Become Contentious Spaces?
Museums and cultural centers are not just the setting, the battleground, as it were, for these cultural-cum-political fights; they are seen as part of...
Public Radio Stations Sue Trump Administration Over Funding
“Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government,” Corp. for Public Broadcasting chief Patricia...
The End Of Reading And Writing?
Whether the still relatively young values of liberalism will survive, whether reading and writing will continue to be the underpinnings of culture, whether the...
Documenting And Archiving: How Should Choreographers Preserve Their Work?
“Even if you don’t think of yourself as a prominent entity, you never know what’s going to happen,” points out Hallie Chametzky, director of...
What It’s Like To Play The World’s Most Expensive Musical Instrument (Which Is Probably...
You probably expect that this $30 million instrument is either a huge pipe organ or a Stradivarius violin or (perhaps) cello. It is indeed...
Kennedy Center Counts On Touring Broadway Shows To Make Ends Meet. Will Those Tours...
“As the center continues under Trump’s leadership, more productions may choose to steer clear, either out of principle or to avoid uproar from artists...
A New Frida Kahlo Museum In Mexico City, Right Next To The Casa Azul
The museum will be set in the Casa Roja, a private residence purchased by Kahlo’s parents and passed down through the family. While the...
Marcel Ophuls, Who Made The Documentary “The Sorrow And The Pity,” Has Died At...
“The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), his documentary on the behaviour of the citizens of the French city of Clermont-Ferrand during the Second World War,...
Photographer Sebastião Salgado, 81
“For decades, Mr. Salgado was on hand for many of the world’s major crises. ... He described his mission as seeking to convey a...
Golden Palm At Cannes Goes To Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just An Accident”
Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value won the Grand Prize; The Secret Agent took honors for best director (Kleber Mendonça Filho) and best actor (Wagner Moura);...
