Major UK Museums Make Plea For Negativity Towards Corporate Sponsors
The British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Gallery have backed a letter calling for an end to the “relentless negativity”...
’78 Recordings Are Essential Music History
While 33-rpm vinyl reigns supreme in popular culture and the central role of LPs in hop-hop sampling and scratching, 78s were by far the...
“Bone Records” — How Forbidden Jazz And Rock Were Smuggled Into The Soviet Union...
It turns out that X-ray film was just soft enough to be etched on by an electromechanical lathe. So one could take exposed X-ray film...
Indiana Legislature Passes Bill That Could Slash Hundreds Of University Degree Programs
More than half of the bachelor's degrees offered at Indiana's public colleges and universities could be eliminated under an eleventh-hour provision slipped into the...
Edinburgh Fringe Loses Major Sponsor, Seeks City Help
No new sponsor has been found for the Fringe to replace Johnnie Walker, Fringe chiefs have admitted, as they draw up plans to demand...
Survey Of Tech At Non-Profits: Haves and Have-Nots
The findings reveal a sector at a crossroads, where organizations that can afford to modernize are pulling ahead, while those that can’t fear being...
How The Broadway Cast Of “Purpose” Coped With Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Constant Rewrites
Glenn Davis: “The hardest day I’ve ever had as an actor: Branden rewrote our two scenes in the second act. ... We rehearsed the...
Trump Asks Congress To Cancel Funding For Public Broadcasting
The proposal, sent to lawmakers by White House budget director and key policy architect Russell Vought, asks Congress to “rescind,” or repeal, $8.3 billion...
Seattle International Film Festival Lays Off Twenty Percent Of Its Staff
“SIFF leadership has been addressing the need to cut expenses in an intensive way since the summer of 2024: reducing administrative costs and significantly...
The Lakota Project: Two Musical Traditions Come Together on the Plains of South Dakota
Classical institutions like to talk a big game about making social justice a part of their mission, but the South Dakota Symphony and the...
Peru Reduces Protected Area Around Nazca Lines By Half, And Archaeologists Are Alarmed
“The Nazca Archaeological Reserve has been reduced from approximately 2,162 square miles to 1,235 square miles. … The area now excluded from the environmental...
They’re Making An Animatronic Walt Disney For Disneyland. Walt’s Granddaughter Says He Would Hate...
Joanna Miller expresses great admiration for the skills of the Disney Company’s animatronics team. But she argues that "two minutes with the robot will...
Smithsonian Leadership Is Conspicuously Silent About Trump’s Firing Of National Portrait Gallery Director
Since the firing last Friday, leaders at the Institution have been considering whether, in a lawsuit or even in public statements, to challenge a...
GBH, Boston’s Public TV Powerhouse, Has Third Round Of Layoffs
“GBH on Monday announced it laid off 45 employees, roughly 6% of its workforce. … Home to national programs like Frontline and Antiques Roadshow, GBH is...
Novelist Edmund White, 85
The novelist, five-time memoirist, and co-author of the pioneering 1977 book The Joy of Gay Sex “was a major influence on modern gay literature,...
Kennedy Center Ticket Subscriptions Are Down By Over One-Third
“Sales of subscriptions for the coming season … are down by about $1.6 million, or roughly 36%, compared with last year.” A current staff...
Former Met Opera Chorus Director Heads To Chicago Symphony
Donald Palumbo, 76, is credited with revitalizing the Met chorus during his 17-year term (2007-2024) and, before that, the chorus of Lyric Opera of...
Salman Rushdie Explains Why AI Isn’t A Threat To Fiction Writers (Yet)
“The problem AI (has is) that it (can’t) make up its own jokes, the writer said. ‘It has no sense of humour – you...
How a Giant 13-Ton Piece Of Public Art Was Rescued In Minneapolis
Inspired by the mid-20th-century discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, an ancient collection of biblical and historical writings, “Scroll” stood 27 feet high and...
Philly Gets A Brand-New Festival Of Nouveau Circus
“The new 10-day event, the Philadelphia Contemporary Circus Festival, features more than 24 exhibitions, workshops, and artist showcases throughout Old City and Camden, … (offering)...
McNulty: Here’s What Play Ought To Win The Tony This Year
There was a time not so long ago when the future of the Broadway play was in serious doubt. The threat hasn’t gone away,...
Meet The New Director Of Juilliard’s Dance Division
She was a member of the innovative Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and was among the last group of dancers to be trained by the...
Six Pianists Advance To Van Cliburn Finals
The Cliburn’s jury has selected the six players advancing to the final round of its competition in downtown Fort Worth June 3-7. - Fort...
David Cope, A Pioneer In AI Music Composition, Is Dead At 83
“Before the proliferation of A.I. music generators, before the emergence of Spotify and the iPod, before Brian Eno had coined the term ‘generative music,’...
Study: Your Brain Is Rewired When You Listen To Music
When you listen to a steady rhythm, your brain doesn’t just process it—it reconfigures itself in real time. A new study introduces FREQ-NESS, an...
