In The Bay Area, Earlier Curtain Times Are Catching On
From ACT in San Francisco to Berkeley Rep to Stanford Live, producers and presenters are moving starting times from 8:00 to 7:30, 7:00 or...
Spain’s Culture Minister Refuses Transfer Of Guernica For Basque Loan
The Basque government is already familiar with the Reina Sofía’s condition report—which deems the painting too fragile to travel—and that it is instead requesting...
HarperCollins’ Canadian Side-Hustle. Be Wary.
There is every reason to be wary when a foreign-owned corporation stakes a claim to defending Canada’s cultural sovereignty, but the case of HarperCollins...
LACMA Reinvented: Inside LA’s New Museum
No L.A. institution has taken as risky a leap in this century as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With the opening of...
Nathan Lane On Being Half-Outed By Oprah On Live TV
“In those days, you might as well say: ‘And by the way, I love cock,’” he said about his 1996 interview to promote The...
Eco-Dystopian Novels From Africa And Asia Push The Form
Speculative and futuristic visions of environmental calamity are being imagined globally through environmental fiction. Eco-dystopian novels can help people process their fears or mourn...
Wrestling For The Soul Of The Machine
This is a war over whether technology will merely optimise calculations or eliminate a quintessentially human element such calculations can’t capture. But beneath these...
As Canadian Universities Scale Back Music Programs, The Impacts Are Felt In Cities
Research on cultural ecosystems suggests that institutional collaboration is crucial to sustain vibrant arts production. This is especially the case as music and the arts face increasing...
The Market For Non-Fiction Reporting In Books Is Contracting
These developments suggest a rough future for a certain kind of writing: nonfiction that’s based on reportage more than on personal experience or celebrity—a.k.a....
Dance Theater Of Harlem Revives Its “Firebird” For The First Time In Over 20...
The company hadn’t produced its beloved staging of the Stravinsky ballet, with sets and costumes by Geoffrey Holder, since it went on hiatus in...
The Scholar Who Traced The Roots Of American Music Back To Africa
A chance encounter fifty years ago "helped fuel a lifelong quest: mapping a musical route that mirrored the trans-Atlantic slave trade and birthed nearly...
Inside The World Of Family Vlogs
The most successful and lucrative family vlogs are indiscreet almost by definition—and yet the wrong kind of indiscretion can derail the whole gravy train. -...
When LiveNation Came To Irvine California
For a jury that has spent weeks listening to experts debate market definitions, vertical integration and other fine points of antitrust law, the testimony...
The Redemption Of Speedy Gonzales
By the end of the 1990s, the “fastest mouse in all Mexico” had been pulled from US television amid concerns about stereotyping and racist...
Does There Even Need To Be A Separate New York Times Magazine Anymore?
In ink-on-dead-trees print, sure. But a large majority of the newspaper’s readers consume the Times online or on an app, where the difference between...
Regional Governments In Madrid And Basque Country Are Fighting Over Picasso’s “Guernica”
The town whose bombing the painting depicts is in the Basque region, and politicians there want to borrow Picasso’s canvas and display it in...
Dean Of Juilliard’s Drama Division Will Move To Lead Yale School Of Drama
“Evan Yionoulis, who has been dean and director of The Juilliard School’s drama division since 2018, will take over the post at Yale starting...
L.A. Phil Creates New Position, Conductor-In-Residence, For Anna Handler
The Colombian-German conductor, who turns 30 next week, is a former Dudamel Fellow at the Phil and currently assistant conductor at the Boston Symphony;...
Salzburg Festival Appoints Interim Artistic Director
Less than two weeks after summarily firing director Markus Hinterhäuser, the festival’s board has named Karin Bergmann, most recently director of the Salzkammergut Festwochen...
Britain’s National Gallery Selects Architect For New $464 Million Modern Art Wing
The annex, being built for Project Domani, the museum’s expansion of its collection into 20th- and 21st-century art (which has traditionally been left to...
From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture
The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn't just how to optimize for that machine, it's what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conversation.
Vice President of Marketing and Communications- Brooklyn Academy of Music via TOC Arts Partners
BAM seeks a forward-thinking, and tenacious Vice President of Marketing and Communications.
Fact-Checker Jasper Lo On His Illegal Firing From The New Yorker
“Why me? I wondered. I had finished my three-year term as the first vice chair of the New Yorker Union the week prior. Condé...
How Two Recent AI Publishing “Scandals” Will Changing The Books Industry
Stories like Shy Girl and The New York Times’ profile of AI romance author Coral Hart, who boasted of using AI to write and self-publish 200...
Original Dancers In Pina Bausch’s “Kontakthof” Revive The Piece After Half A Century
“Nearly 50 years since that first performance in 1978, Meryl Tankard is getting the Kontakthof band back together. Now a choreographer, she has assembled nine of...
