Warning: Australia’s Arts Education System In Crisis
NAAE Chair Dr John Nicholas Saunders said the sector was in crisis after years of cuts to arts education pathways and growing barriers to...
What’s Left Of Palmyra After Syria’s 13-Year Civil War
“The scale and beauty of the site still impress, although some of the showcase monuments are so badly damaged that it is hard to...
Scientists Believe They’ve Found The Part Of The Brain That Perceives Consciousness
Conscious perception is the ability of human beings to become aware of the stimuli received by their senses. It is a different state from...
Queensland Ballet: An Unexpected Unraveling
The company that former artistic director Li Cunxin turned into a powerhouse with an international reputation is now “beleaguered”, as one headline put it....
What Does It Mean To Be Telling The Truth About America?
What does it mean for something to be improper if the administration’s understanding of what is acceptable excludes anything that might make white Americans...
Bucking The Trends, Houston Grand Opera Is Growing
“With many opera companies in a doom loop of shrinkage caused by rising costs and stagnant (or worse) earnings, Houston has proved an exception....
Immersive Wall Street Play By “Sleep No More” Creators Shuts Down Without Warning
“Life and Trust, an immersive follow up to Sleep No More from the producing team Emursive, closed abruptly on April 19 after beginning performances in the summer of...
A New Opera About A Historic Supreme Court Case, Directed By Denyce Graves
“This month, Virginia Opera and Richmond Symphony will present the world premiere of composer Damien Geter and librettist Jessica Murphy Moo’s Loving v. Virginia,...
Chuck Connelly, Neo-Expressionist Artist, Dead At 70
“(He was) known for his thick applications of paint and his furious brushstrokes … (and) an uncompromising personality; (his) paintings depicted scenes like Noah’s...
Meet The Attorney Whom Trump Tasked With Weeding Out “Improper Ideology” From The Smithsonian
“Lindsey Halligan, 35, is a Trump attorney who seems to have tasked herself as a sort of commissioner — or expurgator, according to critics...
U.S. House Members Urge Vice President Vance To Halt Overhaul Of Smithsonian
Four Democratic members of the House committee overseeing the institution wrote, “we now stand at the brink of seeing the Smithsonian at its worst:...
Two More Ex-Dancers Sue Shen Yun
“Two former dancers … filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the group of amassing a financial fortune and worldwide renown by subjecting an ‘army...
Netflix’s Big Time Bet On Streaming Live Sports
The stakes are high. WrestleMania, which began in 1985, is being treated as a litmus test - not just for WWE's global expansion, but...
What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive
Hobby inflation, understood in this light, is about much more than price hikes: It’s about the shrinking and possible disappearance of opportunities for people...
Coming To Terms With Richard Serra
Over the past half century the art history industry has produced reams of interpretation, incorporating no shortage of words by Serra himself. The author...
How “Blockbusters” Degraded Hollywood’s Soul
I think Hollywood used to propose itself as a place where artists and creative people could sustain themselves, perhaps even strike it rich, and...
A Mathematical Model To Better Understand Language?
By thinking of language as a mathematical category, Tai-Danae Bradley's been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights. Linguists...
Study Literature? What It Means
As the English degree craters, and the idea of the university itself is under assault in the United States and elsewhere, those of us...
So What Comes After DEI?
Conservatives have painted D.E.I. as a uniform set of programs, ideas, and ideologies. In reality, the term encompasses a wide-ranging set of practices. Still,...
Books Have “No Economic Value” Claims Meta
Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books' individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM's performance "by less than 0.06...
Will Ryan Coogler’s Movie ‘Sinners’ End The Studio System?
“Directors owning their own movies is the opposite of business as usual — and to studios, cause for freaking out. According to senior executives...
Are Blockbusters A ‘Fascist’ Turn For Hollywood?
This author thinks so: “When you stop making middle-class movies — movies with a moderate budget, as opposed to ones made on a shoestring...
The Book That Transformed How We See Ballet
Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet gets an 80th anniversary reprint. He "intended to foreground shape, blur, contrast, gesture and motion — the atmosphere of dance —...
British Authors Protest Zuckerberg’s Taking Of Their Books For Generative AI
"Earlier this month, a group of protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They were demonstrating over...
Van Gogh’s Final Painting Is Causing Trouble In This Idyllic French Village
“The continued fight over Van Gogh’s tree roots has cast a pall over what is usually a celebratory season in Auvers, population 7,000, where...
