As Support For Culture Diminishes In Australia, Artists Look For Alternatives (Like Leaving)
“A lot of our organisations, especially established ones, are talking about cultural maintenance. I’m like, ‘What are we maintaining?’” - The Age
Violations Of Free Speech: Groups Challenge NEA’s Ban On Funding Projects On Gender
The ACLU and plaintiff organisations are challenging the NEA’s implementation of Trump’s order directing that “federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology”. -...
Poland Considers Plan To Give Pensions To Dancers At Age 40
The Polish parliament is set to vote on a reform that allowing dancers to draw their state pension 20 years earlier than most workers...
The Lost Frescoes Of Maxine Albro Are Uncovered In Los Angeles
The Four Sibyls were completed in 1933 at a fancy women’s club in Los Angeles — but too many of those fancy women found...
Should Rich Universities Use Their Enormous Endowments To Fight Trump Funding Cuts?
"The wealthiest universities, in particular, must pledge to use all available endowment funds as a backstop for any federal funding cuts to research, educational programs or student financial...
It’s Baaack. Napster Sold For $207M, To Be Reinvented As A “Social Music Platform”
Infinite announced today a definitive agreement to buy Napster for $207 million. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company plans to turn Napster into a “social music...
Long-Term Play: Zoomer Ponders Buying “Affordable” Art With Her Retirement Savings
Imagining what it would be like to be a first-time art collector at the twice-annual Metropolitan Pavilion event, I told myself I’d mentally purchase...
Scott Nickrenz, Violist And Chamber Music Director, Has Died At 87
As a musician, he was a founding member of the Lenox and Vermeer String Quartets and the Orpheus Trio. Over the years he directed...
AI Is (Going To Be) So Good That We Won’t Be Able To Tell...
These tools are constantly improving. The telltale signs we could once use to detect AI-generated images are no longer reliable. - The Conversation
Kennedy Center Fires Its Social Impact Team
Our work in Social Impact was to widen our cultural radius and to imagine that inspiration itself was a constitutional right afforded to ALL...
Tiny Library On US/Canada Border Raises Money To Build Separate Entrance For Canadians
Built in 1904, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House needs to renovate an emergency exit to become an accessible main entrance for Canadians after the...
Lawsuit And Walkouts Over Book Banning Policy In Minnesota School District
“As high schoolers staged a walkout Monday, parents filed suit against St. Francis Area Schools alleging the district unlawfully banned dozens of books based...
What’s The Data On Gender Equity At International Dance Festivals?
Dance Data Project finds and crunches the numbers for female representation in programmed works and among artistic directors at 69 dance festivals beyond the...
Dance Teacher Certification Courses Are All Over The Place. Are They Worthwhile?
“The vast majority of dance teaching positions (outside of public schools) don’t require a certification. And most dancers don’t have lots of disposable income to spend...
Federal Judge Puts Hold On Trump’s Shutdown Of Radio Free Europe
“RFE/RL has, for decades, operated as one of the organizations that Congress has statutorily designated to carry out this policy. The leadership of USAGM...
Execs At PBS And NPR Prepare For A Difficult Congressional Hearing
PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses ... as...
George Clooney “Good Night, And Good Luck” Breaks Broadway Box Office Record
“Two weeks after the Denzel Washington- and Jake Gyllenhaal-led Othello broke the record for top gross in one week by a Broadway play, the George Clooney-led Good Night, and...
Lapham’s Quarterly Is Resurrected
“Lapham’s Quarterly, the magazine of history and ideas founded by the legendary editor Lewis Lapham, who died in July of 2024, announced today that it...
Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos Has His First-Ever Art Gallery Show
The director of Oscar winners The Favourite and Poor Things has a longstanding sideline in photography. “I like the fact that you can just...
Who Owns Common Sense?
Common sense has long had two contrasting emphases: an inquiry position that questions prevailing norms and a conservative position that doubles down on prevailing...
Producers Block U.S. Release of Russian Blockbuster “Master And Margarita”
Director Michael Lockshin and Luminosity Pictures are suing two producers who argue that their purchase of the rights to make an English-language film adaptation...
We’re Meant To Forget: Identity, Memory And Survival
There is a convincing scientific rationale for why the human self-image is so inaccurate. Evolution has no interest in truth or objectivity. Natural selection...
The Improbable Competitive Race To Decipher Cuneiform Language That Fascinated Britain In The 1850s
For mid-19th-century Britons, proving that this elusive script could be understood meant pulling back the curtain on a distant, vanished, yet hauntingly familiar world,...
Why Shakespeare Resonates Across Cultures
The sense that Shakespeare spoke the language of the oppressors, yet also a language that helped think beyond that oppression, was not unique to...
Host Of BBC’s HARDtalk Has Hard Words About The Show’s Cancellation
Stephen Sackur — whose interviewing style gave the long-running show its reputation for forthright, even confrontational questions holding public figures from Britain and abroad...
