Trump Forces Out Chair Of NEH
“Shelly C. Lowe, the first Native American to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities, has left her role at the direction of President...
A Fully-Funded BBC World Service Is The Only Way To Counter Disinformation, Argue BBC...
“Amid concerns about the scale of state-backed content after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, senior BBC figures believe it is ‘undeniable’ that the government should shoulder the...
16th-Century Painting Stolen From Italy Is Discovered In England. Its Current Owner Intends To...
“Madonna and Child by Antonio Solario was taken in 1973 from the civic museum in Belluno in northern Italy. Sometime later it was bought...
Trump To Slash Agency That Cares For 26,000 Artworks In The Federal Government
Workers expressed fear that the cuts will threaten a collection of precious art housed in federal buildings across the country, including Alexander Calder’s 1974...
Meow Wolf To Open Giant Immersive Space In New York
New York would be the company’s largest investment in a single location, requiring tens of millions of dollars and collaboration between nearly 500 artists...
Meet The 21st-Century Voice Of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, And Porky Pig
Nope, no studio is using AI to re-create Blanc’s rendition of the wascally wabbit, dastardly duck, put-upon pig and their Looney Tunes confrères. Why...
Why Canada’s CBC Is More Important Than Ever
According to survey results, Canadians already see “local news” outlets as a first resort in wildfires or a public health crisis. 79 per cent also...
NYC Fund To Distribute $60M To More Than A “Thousand” Arts Institutions
Unveiled in February, this year’s CFD will distribute a new record of $59.3 million—north of $1 million more than the previous record—in grants to...
Philanthropist Invests $5 Million Each In Milwaukee’s Major Arts Organizations
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Repertory Theater each received a gift of $5 million from philanthropists Ellen and Joe Checota,...
TV Actors’ Secrets For Convincingly Pretending To Be Drunk And/Or Drugged
Yes, there have certainly been cases of what one might describe as method acting, but being intoxicated on set is never good for actors...
Greek Politician Detained After Allegedly Vandalizing Paintings In Museum
Four works at The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens were vandalised earlier this week, allegedly by a Greek member of parliament...
People Wrote A Lot Of Poetry During The COVID Pandemic. What Does It Mean?
For most poets, pandemics could provide a context for poems, but rarely became a focus. A tome of significant poems about pandemics would only...
How To Protect Artists In The AI World?
The need for responsible AI approaches is becoming increasingly urgent as artists deal with serious concerns regarding copyright infringement and job security. In the...
Considering The Trump Administration’s War On Drag: Philip Kennicott
“The essence of drag is its exaggeration of gender stereotypes in a theatrical style that gives the performer permission to say outrageous, often offensive...
First Amendment Confrontation: Police In Texas Seize Five Sally Mann Photographs From Museum Exhibition
Armed with a warrant, Fort Worth police reportedly seized five photos from the exhibit and put them under lock and key—all because a few Republican officials...
OpenAI Says It Now Has An AI That Is “Really Good” At Creative Writing
That it’s experimenting with writing could suggest OpenAI feels its latest generation of models vastly improve on the wordsmithing front. Historically, AI hasn’t proven to...
50 Years Of Bob Fosse’s Extraordinarily Influential Choreography For “Chicago”
“Over the decades, Chicago’s lasting footprint on Broadway has helped make Fosse’s style of dance instantly recognizable. With its sly head tilts, specific hand gestures,...
Larry Appelbaum, Perhaps America’s Greatest Jazz Librarian, Has Died At 67
“At the Library of Congress, his employer for 44 years, he ... created a jazz film series, solicited and catalogued collections of recordings and...
Why The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Principal Trumpet Stayed Only Six Months
Esteban Batallán was lured away from the Chicago Symphony’s famous brass section, and he decided to go back. He describes the reason for his...
Hilma Af Klint’s Heir Wants To Sequester Her Work Away In A Temple
Erik af Klint, the artist’s great-grandnephew and the current chairman of her foundation, wants to see her work removed from museum exhibitions and installed...
Where U.S. Audiences Have, And Haven’t, Rebounded To Pre-COVID Numbers
Five years after the lethal coronavirus arrived, “the recovery has been uneven, but there are signs that audiences are finally coming back. Here’s a...
Guthrie Theater Will Reopen Its Third Stage For First Time Since Pandemic
“For the first time in five years, Minnesota’s largest theater will produce a work in its Dowling Studio, activating its ninth-floor third stage that...
Member Of Greece’s Parliament Vandalizes Artworks In National Gallery
“Police detained Nikolaos Papadopoulos — of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party — for several hours before releasing him. … Papadopoulos and one other...
The Fight To Rescue Ukraine’s Artworks, Three Years Into The War
Some of the nation’s art heroes have been moving pieces from the embattled east of Ukraine to the western half or even abroad; others...
What If We Just Got Rid Of Art?
If the world was wretched, shouldn’t we be transforming it, not distracting ourselves from it?... What would happen if we didn’t soothe ourselves...
