This Country’s Public Radio Broadcaster Has Shut Down After Voters Refused To Fund It
Radio Liechtenstein, which began broadcasting in 1995, went off the air at 6:00 pm Thursday, following a referendum last October in which 55.4% of...
How Fandom Can Make A Phenomenon Out Of A Word
Fandom has long facilitated deep dives into media in which fans analyse, discuss and track their favourite storylines and character arcs. This has been...
The Palace Of Versailles Restored An Opulent Fountain Using 17th-Century Techniques
“The gold leaf had washed off the 350-year-old statues, leaving a behind dull, ruddy scene. Algae had spread across the 13 statues, leaving marks...
Concerned About Climate Risks, Getty Will Sell $500 Million In Bonds To Enhance Protection
The Getty maintains earthquake and fire insurance but, as expressed in the filing, there are concerns “such insurance could become unavailable at rates considered...
The Artistic Touch: Work Feels More Real When It’s A Bit Fake
I like genre fiction for the same reason I like black-and-white film, stylized dialogue, animation, the paintings of Marc Chagall or ballet: things feel...
Ralph Fiennes To Direct His First Opera — And He’s Starting At The Top
The three-time Oscar nominee will direct Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera. (He played the title role in a 1999 film adaptation of...
Dance Companies Respond To Anti-DEI Trump Efforts: We’re Not For Sale
"The response of these dance leaders reinforces my belief that the Trump administration’s move to suffocate diversity in the arts is ultimately doomed to...
Bots Sucking Up Data Are Straining Wikipedia’s Servers
Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia...
Director Of The National Museum of African American History and Culture In DC Put...
Kevin Young’s leave came two weeks before Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of what he described as “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”...
Leadership At Ballet Companies Worldwide Is Overwhelmingly Male: Analysis
Out of 213 classically-based companies examined, only 30% of artistic directors are women and 70% are men. Women comprise 32.3% of artistic directors at...
London’s West End Ticket Sales Plateaued In 2024
SOLT’s update on attendances for 2024 shows that 17.1 million attended performances – the same as in 2023. When compared with 2019 – the...
Barcelona Is Transforming A Giant Eyesore Coal Plant Into A Creative Hub
Like Battersea, Barcelona’s plant is set to undergo a radical transformation into the new Catalunya Media City—a cutting-edge hub for digital arts, technology, and...
AI Expert: Why AI Won’t Take Over Creative Writing
As a professor of computer science who has authored hundreds of works on artificial intelligence, including AI textbooks that cover social impact of large language models,...
John Oliver Sued For Defamation By Health Insurance Executive
“Filed last week in New York federal court, the complaint from Dr. Brian Morley, the ex-medical director of health insurance corporation AmeriHealth Caritas, …...
Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fine Museums Which Display “Obscene Material”
Following the attempted prosecution of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for child pornography over an exhibition of Sally Mann’s photography, a state...
Shaw Festival Gets $35 Million From Ontario To Rebuild Crumbling Theatre
The festival, located where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario on the US-Canada border, had planned to close the century-old Royal George Theatre permanently....
Opera Philadelphia Will Do Another $11-Ticket Season (And That’s Not The Only Way It’s...
For 2025-26, the company will again offer all seats at $11 each (or higher if the buyer chooses). There are twice as many performances...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is In A Very Difficult Position
“(He) has served as a museum director, educator and historian — positions in which he has demonstrated a skill for diplomacy. But perhaps no...
Now It’s Official: The Grand Avenue Cultural District In Downtown L.A.
“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create (the district) to boost the visibility of the arts scene in a corridor...
Despite Court Ruling, Radio Free Europe Has No Money And Is Furloughing Staff
Pursuant to a judge’s order, the US Agency for Global Media said last week it has rescinded its decision to terminate funding for Radio...
April Fool’s Day Ads Used To Be Fun, And Folks Loved Them. Not Anymore....
“When we were less assaulted by news on a daily basis — and, crucially, when we had no access to social media — April...
Is Museums’ Social Media Use Dying?
While most of the 100 museums in the list grew their social media followings over the past year, this is despite almost all of...
Detroit Opera’s “Cosi” As AI
“He’s actually a replica of what we see in the tech industry,” Yuval Sharon said. “There’s a messianic belief that we must transcend our...
America’s First Professional Dance Therapist
For three decades, starting in 1942, “Marian Chace helped shell-shocked soldiers, sexual abuse victims, and the mentally ill use movement to communicate their feelings....
Museums As Medical Therapy Prescriptions
Years after the pandemic sharpened issues around mental health, the practice has boomed, with doctors prescribing visits to museums from Montpellier to Massachusetts as a complement to more...
