The Artist Who Got Catfished By A Fake Lady Gaga
“Needless to say, this was not a situation Webster expected to encounter as an up and coming artist.” - The New York Times
How A Music Librarian Convinced Sondheim To Leave His Smoke-Singed Papers To The Nation
A personalized tour of the Library of Congress “included original manuscripts from composers Béla Bartók, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky and Johannes Brahms. … But...
Authors Ask Big Five Publishers To Promise Never To Use AI
The letter “asks them to refrain from publishing books written using AI tools built on copyrighted content without authors' consent or compensation, to refrain...
Does Our Continual Phone Use Prevent Us From Fully Living?
With each recording, “we’re atrophying our memory a little and trusting that it will work autonomously. But it’s like an engine: if we give...
States Spend Millions To Attract Hollywood
For instance, take New York: “Amid growing competition from nearby states like New Jersey, New York has spent more than $5.5 billion since 2017 to woo...
There’s No One In Charge At The US Copyright Office
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, of course - and no one knows when that might improve. - Wired
The Tiny Chef Got Cancelled, And Then The Creators Responded On YouTube
One person who watched the heartbroken response video: “This is why animation is so important too. AI slop won’t make you feel emotions like...
Spielberg Says He’ll Never Retire
What’s up with movie directors? Well: “Making a film is a battle. ... The process is such a slog that, when a film-maker dies,...
New Yorkers Explain Why They Went To See The New York Phil In Queens
A Dudamel test, and also, well, New York has awesome music in the parks in the summer, basically. - The New York Times
Portland, In A Budget Crunch, Manages To Find Some Money For Hard-Hit Arts Groups
“Arts and cultural organizations in Portland face a double whammy: in addition to cuts in the city’s budget, the proposed elimination of the NEA,...
Diana Oh, Passionate Advocate For Queer Theatre, Has Died At 38
Oh was "a glitter-dusted experimental artist-activist whose theater works intertwined political provocation with profound compassion in rituals of communion with audiences,” beloved by theatre...
Can This Small Museum In England Raise Enough Money To Buy Turner’s First Known...
Maybe! “Although the £100,000 target has been reached, the has said extra money will strengthen its bid when the piece is sold at Sotheby’s.” - BBC
The San Francisco Bookstores Removing JK Rowling From Their Shelves
One of the bookstores writes, “Author JK Rowling publicly committed to using her private wealth from the Harry Potter series to develop the ‘JK Rowling Women's...
Filling The New LACMA With Music
“The celebration, which drew arts and civic leaders for the first of three preview nights, was far grander than the concert on March 26,1965,...
One Of The World’s First Gay Anthems Was Born 100 Years Ago In Chicago
The police bust of an all-women party she hosted in 1925 was the subject of Ma Rainey’s 1928 record “Prove It on Me Blues.”...
Warning: Welsh Traditional Folk Music Could Die Out Within A Generation
The review into the traditional music scene in Wales found traditional music sectors in England, Scotland and Ireland benefited from a "wide range of...
Deaths Of A Thousand Cuts: Florida Gives Larger Grants To Far Fewer Arts Organizations
“Legislators have approved spending roughly $39 million for performances, exhibitions, operations and some building and expansion projects through multiple budget categories, but the money...
Financially-Troubled Vancouver Art Gallery Will Cut A Third Of Its Staff
There are currently 129 full-time staff, and 29 of the 90 unionized staff will be affected. The cuts come after the VAG’s annual general...
The Perils Of Thinking That Better Design Will Fix Things
Design works best when it knows what it can achieve and what it can’t; the history of design is full of utopian projects that...
Cutting Public Media Funding Means Rural Stations Closing. Here’s What That Means In Louisiana
"There are a couple of parishes in Louisiana that have nothing, not even any kind of newspapers. They're empty completely. And it's just like...
Australia’s Largest State Is Laying Off One-Quarter Of Its Arts Agency’s Staff
“The cutbacks to Create NSW were announced to staff on Monday, … (signaling) the end to a decade-long government-led building boom of new museums,...
So Just Why Did Prehistoric Humans Decide To “Start” Civilization?
Why did humans spend 50,000 years (or more) in seemingly uneventful prehistory — with hunter-gatherers living the exact same way across thousands of generations...
A Former Museum Director’s Cautionary Tale About Intimidation And Coercion
“There is a kind of performative sheen or a performative element that is not about just the fact of quashing opposition wherever it might...
Even The Most Resourceful Musicians Are Failing To Make A Living
The ongoing health of this ecosystem depends on working artists’ ability to create art. When musicians can afford to pay rent, put food on...
In Kenyan Refugee Camp, Kids Turn To African Dance As Funding Cuts Drain Everything...
“In Kakuma in northern Kenya, where more than 300,000 refugees’ livelihoods have been affected by funding cuts that have halved monthly food rations, the...
