William Morris Designs Are Literally Everywhere Now
"His legacy, like his life, is one of contradictions: he was a radical socialist and hugely successful businessman, who made wallpaper for Queen Victoria; a...
The Dutch Avant-Garde Theatre Company That Keeps Sending Shows To The West End And...
That company is Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, directed for 20 years by Ivo van Hove and since 2023 by Eline Arbo. Her adaptation of Annie...
Will AI Save Or Kill Journalism?
The more closely you look at the profession of journalism, the stranger it seems. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than fifty thousand people...
The Central African Republic Has A National Ballet, And It’s Doing Important Work
Established in 2021, the company — also called the National Artistic Ensemble — works to collect and preserve the traditional dances of the many...
The Strange Limbo Of TikTok In The New World Order
TikTok already existed in a kind of limbo before last week, but now its strange state of in-betweenness is intensified: it is both alive...
Is This Vermeer’s Last Painting?
Until recently the Kaplan painting had been considered to have been completed between 1670-72. That dating has now been revised, with Wheelock stating it...
Time To Refocus The NEH And NEA?
This is where the N.E.H. and N.E.A. would serve Mr. Trump well: not only correcting “woke” excesses, but also providing an elite counterpart to...
The Prado Has Enlisted AI To Count People In Paintings
The Prado hopes that actually knowing exactly how many people are in these crowded scenes will help us better understand these paintings, and how...
Biopics And Miniseries Of Bible Stories Have Become Big Business
Leading the pack is Amazon’s The Chosen, the multi-season series recounting the life of Jesus that has become an international smash and made lead...
Tranquil Music Of Intensity
Hania Rani, 34, has become a shooting star in a genre of pop-inflected minimalist music often referred to as neoclassical, or alt-classical... “It’s not...
Data On The Relationships Between Arts And Building Community
Communities with greater access to arts organizations have: 33% more volunteers supporting nonprofit organizations, 7% more active voters who are registered and eligible for voting, 3%...
A Musician Wrote To The New Kennedy Center Director. He Responded
“I’m not sure why he chose to react to my email with such hostility, but I think it’s important for people to read this...
I Found Robert Caro’s Unfinished Novel
The great historian had published some fiction while a student at Princeton, but nothing since then. While doing research in Caro’s archives, however, journalist...
A Case For Trump’s Smithsonian Order On Depicting History
Trump's order asks to avoid “ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort” and “rewrite” America’s history and “inappropriately disparage” heroes, and to foster “unity”...
Can This Man Save Iconic Atlantic Records?
The world of the all-controlling label is changing, and Atlantic Records—historically among the top three labels—has struggled to launch hot new global superstars. Atlantic’s...
Has The Met’s Pivot To Contemporary Opera Fizzled?
Signs of financial catastrophe are on the horizon. Gelb has twice dug into the Met’s anemic endowment, withdrawing up to $70 million out of a...
Max Kozloff, Influential Art Critic, Is Dead At 91
“Kozloff in the 1960s and ’70s brought fresh perspectives to such established forms as Futurism and Cubism, arguing that artists were influenced by such...
Florida Men Indicted For Trafficking In Forged Andy Warhols
“According to the indictment, (Leslie) Roberts, the owner of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Coconut Grove, fraudulently represented art as original pieces created by...
Dudamel And L.A. Phil Prepare To Play America’s Biggest Rock Festival
“On Saturday evening, the Phil (is) finally playing ... the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. For Dudamel, 44, who arrived in L.A. 17...
Fired New York Phil Players Accused Of Sexual Assault File Amended Lawsuit
"The players — the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang — … filed amended complaints against the orchestra on Thursday...
Money From Cancelled NEH Grants Will Go To Trump’s “Garden Of American Heroes”
“After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of...
Chicago Arts Leaders Openly Complain Of “Dysfunction” At City’s Cultural Affairs Dept.
“More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address ‘dysfunction’ within the city’s Cultural Affairs department (under...
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Finds Its New Director Right There At Home
“After an international search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has selected its next director and CEO from within its own ranks. Pierre Terjanian, who...
“Monty Python And The Holy Grail” At 50: Michael Palin And Terry Gilliam Look...
Palin: "I say to people, 'Led Zeppelin gave us £50,000 – and look where they are now.'" Gilliam: "Thank God for rock'n'roll is all...
The List Keepers: Recording And Memorializing How AIDS Ravaged New York Theater
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater...
