The Calculations Of Artists Who Haven’t Canceled Their Kennedy Center Gigs
Many of the artists who went through with their appearance agonized over whether to perform. They faced a version of the dilemma that many...
What Will Be Lost When Library Services Agency Goes Away
The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens...
Maybe Paul Gauguin Was Not The Syphilitic Colonialist Child-Molester People Had Thought He Was
Biographer Sue Prideaux has found materials indicating that the artist did not have syphilis at all, his lover was well over the age of...
Trump Appoints New Head Of Library Services (While Promising To Shut It Down)
"I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation," Keith Sonderling wrote in a press release....
US Limits Access To Heritage-Listed Library That Straddles US-Canada Border
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built in 1904, has been declared a heritage site on both sides of the border and has long...
Mariah Carey Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over “All I Want For Christmas”
Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from...
Fred Eversley, Sculptor In “Light And Space” Movement, Dead At 83
“Whereas (most Light and Space) artists focused in their work on perception and transcendence, Eversley” — a former aerospace engineer — “was more interested...
U.S. Museums Might Be Better Off Financially If They Made General Admission Free: Report
The new study from the think tank Remuseum, based at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, is titled “Access, Scale, and Market Share” and presents...
Alexei Navalny, Anne Carson, Hisham Matar Among National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for...
San Francisco Symphony’s Music Director Is Not On Next Season’s Schedule
Esa-Pekka Salonen didn’t resign as the orchestra’s music director; he simply said that he wouldn’t renew his contract, which runs through the 2025 season....
Last Week Trump Ordered This Agency Dissolved. This Week He Appointed Its New Director.
“Last Friday, (he) signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services,...
Britain’s National Trust Freezes Hiring Due To Sudden Leap In Costs
“The National Trust has frozen all but essential recruitment and is pausing some projects as it faces a £10 million jump in labour costs...
Louisville Orchestra CEO Resigns After Less Than Three Years
Graham Parker told the board of his decision “to spend more time with his family” in January and stepped down at the end of...
What These Newly Deciphered 4,000-Year-Old Tablets Tell Us About The Akkadian Empire
These particular artifacts mostly demonstrate that the people running the empire day-to-day were (pick one or both) thorough, detail-oriented administrators or obsessive bureaucrats. -...
How Government Layoffs Are Affecting DC Bookstores
"There’s also been a noticeable uptick in conversations among shoppers about the general plight of federal workers and the precarity of government employment these...
Behind the Scenes: How The Great Golden Toilet Robbery Went Down
Maurizio Cattelan’s satirical piece America, a fully functioning 18-karat gold toilet, was ripped from the plumbing and stolen from an exhibition in England in...
The Bias Of Being Wrong
In domains where I have strong opinions, I spend a lot of time confidently arguing for those opinions and criticising views I think are...
Reconciling Stereotypes In Classic Operas
It’s become an issue in the opera world, leading to directors and designers wrestling intensely with the question of how to both preserve the...
Appeals Court Affirms AI-Created Work Can’t Be Copyrighted
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed, opens new tab with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen...
Barbara Hannigan, Herbie Hancock, And Queen Win 2025 Polar Music Prize
“Founded in 1989 by ABBA's Stig Anderson, the Polar Music Prize is an annual award, usually given to one contemporary and one classical musician....
Here Are Some Of Today’s Most Innovative Music Companies
As music and tech become more and more intrinsically linked, a crop of companies are focused on the role of AI in the industry....
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Director Jumps To Lincoln Center
Maria Manuela Goyanes is heading to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater, where she will be artistic director of LCT3, a black-box space devoted to...
100M Americans Now Pay For Streaming Music (But Growth In Subscriptions Has Slowed)
The RIAA reported that U.S. recorded revenue grew to $17.7 billion, an all-time high, while vinyl sales stayed strong, growing to $1.4 billion in...
How One Big U.S. City’s Arts Organizations Are Dealing With The Tumult At The...
As the rules and criteria for grants have abruptly changed, many organizations in Philadelphia are taking a watch-and-wait stance, some, like the Black-founded-and-run Philadanco,...
Does Sleeping On An Idea Help Creativity?
Scientists are finding experimental evidence that supports what Edison and Dalí knew all along — that the transition between wakefulness and sleep is a...
