The Enduring Allure Of Puzzles
The problem with a competitive approach to puzzles is that you take what is intended as a soothing and distracting pastime and quietly hitch...
The Prolific Writer Phenomenon
Prolific writers are simultaneously envied and dismissed, admired and snarked about. There is the sense that a writer can write too much, that whatever...
Idea: Replace NEA, NEH With A National $5 Campaign?
Through small contributions from Americans who care about their museums, arts organizations, and libraries, a national fund could be built that provides steady, apolitical...
No, Public Broadcasting In The U.S. Is Not Like Government-Run News Media In Dictatorships....
“In state-run media systems, a government agency hires editors, dictates coverage, and provides full funding from the treasury. Public officials determine — or make...
NPR Will Reduce Its Budget By $8 Million To Help At-Risk Local Stations
National Public Radio will cut its budget by about $8 million in order to provide that money to member stations most impacted by last...
Republicans Propose Renaming Kennedy Center’s Opera House After Melania Trump
The proposal was introduced by Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee as part of a spending bill for the Department of the Interior,...
Harvard Publisher Abruptly Cancels Journal Issue Devoted To Palestine
On 9 June, the Harvard Education Publishing Group, the journal’s publisher, abruptly canceled the release. In an email to the issue’s contributors, the publisher...
Can Trump Really Eliminate The National Endowment For The Arts? Here’s What Experts Say
Opinions differ over whether Trump or any president could make the NEA (or NEH) cease to exist without an act of Congress, but if...
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Is Shutting Down Its Folklórico Program
The company will continue operating its Mexican traditional dance programming and instruction until the end of this year. - Aspen Public Radio
Andres Serrano Wants The Next U.S. Pavilion At The Venice Biennale To Be A...
Yes, the photographer still best known for the 1987 image of a crucifix in a jar of urine that made him one of the...
There’s A Billionaire Funding A New Opera House In Hamburg. The Problem Is Where...
The donor: 88-year-old Klaus-Michael Kühne. His family’s company, Kühne + Nagel, is one of the world’s largest logistics firms, and collaborated with the Nazi...
“South Park” Guys End Their Battle With Paramount With A $1.5 Billion Streaming Deal
“Paramount agreed to buy the global streaming rights (to) South Park (for) the company's digital service, Paramount+, for the first time in the U.S....
France’s Culture Minister To Stand Trial For Alleged Corruption In Previous Post
Prosecutors allege that Rachida Dati, who was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2019, accepted €900,000 in lawyer’s fees between 2010 and...
Trump Will Pull US Out Of UNESCO For Second Time
“’Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,’ State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement. (She)...
Artistic Director – Dallas Theater Center
Dallas Theater Center (DTC) encourages qualified candidates to apply for the Enloe/Rose Artistic Director
People Keep Eating Maurizio Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana
The notorious banana-duct-taped-to-a-wall, titled Comedian, debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, where a visitor walked into the gallery and ate the fruit....
Report: Arts Programming Is Difficult To Find On Media Platforms
The report notes that "programmes about the arts, international issues, religion and belief were not readily available, prominent or discoverable, particularly on the platforms...
The Difficult Birth Of The Fokine/Ravel “Daphnis et Chloé” At Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
Mikhail Fokine’s idea for a ballet on the Greek myth was summarily rejected at Russia's Imperial Ballet. Sergei Diaghilev, however, was happy to take...
So Far, While The US Government Is Cutting Arts Funding, States Are Maintaining Theirs
“We’re in an uncertain fiscal environment for state governments overall, but it is encouraging to see that 29 states increased their funding for their...
Senate Hears Authors Protesting Wholesale Ingestion Of Their Work By AI Companies
“Today’s hearing is about the largest intellectual property theft in American history,” Sen. Josh Hawley said. - Washington Post
Universal Music Files For A $500M Public Share Offering
UMG and Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square have an agreement that Pershing Square can request UMG to list in the U.S. if it sells at...
Britain’s Oldest Working Theatre To Get $41 Million Renovation
St. George’s Guildhall, located in the Norfolk town of King’s Lynn and dating from 1445, and the surrounding buildings and courtyards are to undergo...
As Broadcast Audiences Decline, Should Broadcast Shows Be Easier To Find On YouTube?
The UK government should intervene to make public broadcaster (PSB) content easier to find on YouTube, the regulator has urged, as it gravely posits...
What To Make Of Dave Hurwitz’s Classical Music Schtick?
Who knew that it was possible to talk in this educated but roughhouse way about Mozart, star sopranos, Herbert von Karajan? Or that the...
Easy To Assume What Happened At CBS With Colbert
“I believe this kind of complicated financial settlement with a sitting government official has a technical name in legal circles—it’s big fat bribe,” he...
