The Rubens “Samson And Delilah” At Britain’s National Gallery Is Not By Rubens, Says...
Art historian Euphrosyne Doxiadis argues that “the flowing, twisting brushstrokes that are so characteristic of Rubens are nowhere to be seen” in Samson and...
L.A. Times Has Lost One-Fourth Of Its Print Subscribers In The Past Year Alone
And that figure was measured before LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong squashed the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. The daily with the largest print...
Even More Layoffs At New York Public Radio
Following a 12% staff reduction last September, the umbrella for NPR news/talk WNYC, classical WQXR, and New Jersey Public Radio is now laying off...
Gene Hackman, 95
“An actor who powerfully embodied ordinary men under stress in dozens of films and twice won Oscars for bringing humanizing depth to corrupt lawmen,...
Actress Michelle Trachtenberg Has Died At 39
“(The) former child star who appeared in the 1996 Harriet the Spy hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV...
What’s More Staggering Than “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius”? Its Afterlife
“AHWOSG, as everyone called it, launched Dave Eggers’s career, one that’s seen him publish dozens of books, write screenplays, oversee a literary magazine and...
Inside The Strong Culture of Hobbyists
Ardent hobbyists are often viewed as eccentric. I think they might be the only normal people left. As a rule, they are active and...
History Helps Us Understand The Present. But It Can Also Distract And Misdirect
We cannot truly understand our own time and place without a serious understanding of other times and places. Strangely enough, the priming effect, as...
FCC Probes Radio Giant For Possible Payola Scheme
The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether iHeartMedia is compelling artists perform at its upcoming country music festival for free or reduced pay in exchange for more...
Bezos Turns Washington Post Opinion Pages Full-Trump. Editor Resigns
Bezos wrote in his note, “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free...
“Clueless” At 30: How A Jane Austen-Based Satire Revolutionized The High-School Comedy
“The popularity of Clueless triggered a rash of insouciantly smart high-school-meets-classic literature movies (including 10 Things I Hate About You, Cruel Intentions, and Easy A, to...
Transformative Year For Publishing Giant Hachette
Earlier this month, Lagardère reported that 2024 HBG sales were up 7% over 2023—the biggest jump posted by any of the groups in Lagardère’s...
Show Canceled By Museum Because It Was Labeled DEI
On February 10 museum leadership informed her that the Trump administration had labeled the exhibition as a “DEI program and event” and withdrawn funding...
NYC Public Radio Stations Get Together In Initiative To Focus On Common Issues
“The idea of collaboration among the New York area’s music stations has been informally discussed for more than a decade. - InsideRadio
Unpaid Internships In Britain’s Arts Sector Are Likely Illegal, Say Experts
Many organizations are taking advantage of exceptions in British wage laws for student internships as part of a curriculum, and the practice blocks crucial...
Has Trump Become Our Minister Of Culture?
To the extent that Trump’s cultural designs offer a coherent vision, it shares his larger ambition to restore the country to a “golden age”...
UK Government Considering Changing Course On AI Rules To Protect Creative Industries
Faced with a concerted backlash from some of the country’s most famous celebrities, officials are looking for ways to offer them extra protections. One...
How Your Biggest Assets Turn Into Liabilities
Partners who are at first judged to be powerful or strong become controlling or overbearing after a breakup. People who are nice become pushovers....
Poland’s Previous Government Pushed Museums To The Right. This New Museum Is Pushing Only...
Under the Law and Justice Party, officials fired many museum directors, replacing them with conservatives whose exhibitions promoted traditional social and artistic values. The...
A Renaissance For Print News In London?
Mind you, we didn’t say newspapers. “Two upmarket London news start-ups are finding a growing (albeit small so far) market for paid online news...
The Drama School Preparing Working-Class Actors For Film And TV
“Television Workshop, one of the country’s most successful acting programmes, can be found in a small, unassuming room down a street of former industrial...
The Debut Of The Microphone, 100 Years Ago This Week
“On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as 'the Whispering Pianist' for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test...
Maybe This Is Canada’s Real National Ballet Company
“In Toronto, they tend to go unnoticed, but talk to audiences in Glace Bay, Rimouski, Regina or Kitimat and, from their perspectives, Ballet Jörgen...
Fake Basquiats Case: Orlando Museum Of Art And Family Of Fired Director Drop Lawsuits
Aaron De Groft was axed by the museum’s board after the major Basquiat show he championed was found to be full of forgeries. The...
Perp Pleads Guilty In Scheme To Sell Graceland Out From Under Presleys
Lisa Jeanine Findley pled guilty to mail fraud, in exchange for having an identity theft charge dropped, for a scam which cooked up a...
