All San Francisco Is Arguing About The 45-Foot Nude Woman, And That’s Wonderful
Supporters agree that “R-Evolution” by sculptor Marco Cochrane represents “feminine strength and liberation.” Critics complain that it’s just more of the male gaze and...
How Theatre Should Help Save Democracy
Culture is the sphere in which people debate and determine who they are, what they value and the kinds of lives they wish to...
How Curiosity Fires Up Great Leadership
Curiosity fosters openness and collaboration while reducing decision-making errors. Yet only 24% of organizations actively encourage it, leaving a wealth of untapped potential on...
How Trump’s Threats To Canada Shifted Its Election To All About Culture
Almost all unanimously say Conservative threats to tear up cultural institutions just as Trump aggressively seeks to recalibrate America’s relationship with Canada, whether through...
New York Public Radio’s “New Sounds” Saved From Cancellation For Second Time In Six...
The 43-year-old show, which has had a profound hold on New York’s new-music scene, was first slated for cancellation, evidently for non-budgetary reasons, in...
Saltz: The New Frick — What’s Not To Love?
There is a sexy underground auditorium, a 60-seat café, and the entire second floor of the mansion is now filled with art. There’s almost...
300 Customers Form Human Chain To Move Beloved Book Store
After announcing she was moving her independent bookstore about a block away to a new location, her regular customers all had the same question:...
The US’s Biggest Export Is Education. Is Trump Wrecking It?
In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and...
George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Sets New Record As Highest-Ever-Grossing Broadway Play
“The new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov and directed by David Cromer has broken its own all-time record for highest grossing play...
“Phantom” Is Coming Back To New York, Says Andrew Lloyd Webber, But Not To...
“In a new Instagram video – watch it below – Lloyd Webber, pretending to speak for the Phantom character, says that the musical is...
Cleveland Has More Money For Arts Funding Than It Anticipated
“Despite a drop in cigarette sales in Cuyahoga County in the first quarter of this year, tax revenue is up, creating more funding for...
Chicago Loses A Key Dance Venue, Links Hall
“Since its founding in 1978 …, Links has been a cornerstone of the city’s dance scene, often giving a home to experimental new works...
Nasher Sculpture Center In Dallas Appoints New Director
“(Carlos) Basualdo, 60, comes to Dallas from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he rose through the ranks over 20 years to deputy director...
Jazz Critic Francis Davis, 78
Known for his work at The Village Voice and The Atlantic as well as for an influential annual critics poll, he, “more than many...
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux, Former Star Who Transformed Charlotte Ballet, Dead At 82
“A scintillating principal dancer for the Paris Opera and New York City ballet companies, (he) took an unexpected leap by taking on yet another...
How Marshmallow Peeps Are Born
A visit to the headquarters of Just Born Quality Confections in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where some two billion Peeps are made each year (along with...
Lessons From The Taliban’s Extreme War On Music
Since their return in 2021, the Taliban have waged a war on music, claiming that it causes “moral corruption”. According to figures from...
Hungary’s Lucrative Production Incentives Put Hollywood Values On The Line
None of the studios, production companies or streamers approached by Deadline who have films and TV series filming in Hungary are commenting, with current...
Watching Auditions For A WNBA Dance Squad
“More than 100 dancers auditioned for just 21 spots on the New York Liberty’s cheerleading team, the Timeless Torches. Founded in 2005, less than...
Many Thought TV Would Kill Movies. It Didn’t. Lessons For The Coming Of AI?
Today, lessons from the introduction of TV demonstrate how the creative industries have navigated the introduction of new technology. And could offer some comfort...
Hungary’s New Repressive LGBTQ+ Laws Don’t Seem To Have Discouraged Hollywood Tax Incentives
Both Europe’s most right-wing nation and its second hottest destination for international shoots, Hungary has shocked the world with its recent ban on LGBTQ+...
The Shutting Down Of American Intellectual Leadership
There’s a cost to this beyond the tourist dollars and economic impacts others will analyse. It’s the great silencing of a cultural conversation once...
You Know Who Else Really Hates Trump’s Tariffs? Hollywood
The rough economic times caused by the 2008 financial crisis and 2020 COVID shutdown were hard on the industry, but back then, at least,...
Claim: No One Wants To Watch Overweight Dancers. Really?
As an absolute entry level precondition for excellence in ballet, a dancer cannot be overweight. - The Times (UK)
Eric Schmidt: AI Will Rival The Smartest Artists In a Few Years
“This is happening faster than… our society, our democracy, our laws will address, and there’s lots of implications. That’s why it’s underhyped – people...
