Kosman: The Disappearing Music Critic
The time when every musical event, every world premiere, every opera opening, was the spark for a lively public discussion is gone. In its...
Big Loss: One Of LA’s Best Dance Companies, Bodytraffic, Will Close
The company’s end wasn’t planned, but it became necessary when its artistic director and co-founder, Tina Finkelman Berkett, decided to step back from her...
Tony- And Olivier-Winning Actress Jane Lapotaire Dead At 81
She won an Olivier in 1979 and a Tony in 1981 for the title role in Piaf; alongside film and television roles — including...
Conductor Juanjo Mena, 60, Will Retire Due To Alzheimer’s
Early last year, the Basque maestro — former chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic and the Cincinnati May Festival and a very busy guest...
Banksy’s Identity Uncovered, Says Reuters Report
“The British street artist’s identity has been debated, and closely guarded, for decades. A quest to solve the riddle took Reuters from a bombed-out...
I Was A Recipient In Ireland’s Guaranteed Basic Income For Artists Scheme
Caelainn Hogan: “I am a freelance writer who, like most artists, has always had to work outside my creative focus to afford to live....
Oldest Surviving Photos Of Enslaved People Go To International African-American Museum
“The 1850 daguerreotypes, a precursor to modern-day photographs, are of an enslaved man named Renty, his daughter Delia and five others known as Jack,...
Boston Philharmonic To Shutter As Director Benjamin Zander Retires
Next season, 2026-27, will be the last for both the Boston Philharmonic and its associated youth orchestra. The identity of the organization is thoroughly...
WBUR Boston Rejects Suggested Merger With GBH, City’s Other Public Radio Station
In response to a statement to The Boston Globe by GBH’s CEO proposing a merger, WBUR CEO Susan Low said that she and the...
One Of Boston’s Two NPR Outlets Says It’s Open To Merging With The Other
The CEO of GBH, which operates one of the U.S.’s leading PBS television stations as well as a public radio outlet, says that merging...
Big Candy Makers Are Cutting Way Back On Cocoa In Their “Chocolates”
The climate crisis has caused devastated cacao farming in West Africa, causing huge price spikes and volatility in the cocoa commodity market — leading...
There Are Fewer Than 10 Full Time Book Critics Left
By some measures, there are as many as 1 million books published annually in the US, and it’s a number that doesn’t show any...
Organ Harvesting: Nonprofit Is Rescuing Church Instruments From Decrepitude And Dismantling
Every year, over 400 church organs in the UK alone are sent to the junkyard or become unplayable due to neglect. The organization Pipe...
What Happens When Art Experts And AI Disagree On Authentication?
Combining machine learning, deep neural networks and computer vision algorithms, Art Recognition’s approach can, in theory, be adapted to any painter with a big...
The Art Market Grew In 2025. But…
The recovery, however, came with an asterisk. While auctions bounced back strongly, galleries barely budged, and much of the market’s growth came from a...
What Percentage Of Americans Went To A Movie Theatre Last Year? (You Might Be...
According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in the summer of 2025, 53% of U.S. adults said they had seen a movie in theaters in...
Missing Page From Major Archimedes Manuscript Rediscovered In France
“A lost page from the Archimedes Palimpsest, among the oldest sources for the Greek mathematician in existence, has been discovered … at the Musée des...
Women-Owned Radio Stations And The Communities They’re Building
Whatever their mission and wherever their location, what the stations have in common is the amplification — literally and metaphorically — of women’s voices...
Player Pianos, Automation And AI
Nearly every major pianist of the early 20th century made music for these machines. Echoing AI commentary today, some musicians viewed the player piano...
Damage To Iran’s Historic Sites Mounts
The strikes on Isfahan on Monday came a week after another cultural icon, the Golestan Palace, was badly damaged during an attack on a police...
National Choreographers Initiative In Los Angeles Will End After This Summer
For two decades, NCI has offered four young choreographers the chance to spend three weeks creating works on professional dancers. In a Q&A, artistic...
What We Can Learn From Radical Access To The Arts
Access Fringe program at the Melbourne Fringe Festival is a 10-year partnership with Arts Access Victoria supporting d/Deaf and disabled artists through commissions, mentorships and...
Why Did The Boston Symphony Decide To Part Ways With Its Music Director?
Right now though, it’s anyone’s guess where the “future vision” of the BSO will take them – and if the relationship between the players...
Lessons From Sundance: New Focus On Artist Care
For all of the egregious consent violations in the film industry that the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements shone a light on, I was...
Pritzker Prize For Architecture 2026 Goes To Smiljan Radić Clarke Of Chile
Though The New York Times has described him as “a rock star among architects,” he’s not as famous as previous “starchitect” winners such as...
