Ralph Fiennes To Direct His First Opera — And He’s Starting At The Top
The three-time Oscar nominee will direct Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin at the Paris Opera. (He played the title role in a 1999 film adaptation of...
Dance Companies Respond To Anti-DEI Trump Efforts: We’re Not For Sale
"The response of these dance leaders reinforces my belief that the Trump administration’s move to suffocate diversity in the arts is ultimately doomed to...
Bots Sucking Up Data Are Straining Wikipedia’s Servers
Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia...
Director Of The National Museum of African American History and Culture In DC Put...
Kevin Young’s leave came two weeks before Trump issued an executive order calling for the elimination of what he described as “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology”...
Leadership At Ballet Companies Worldwide Is Overwhelmingly Male: Analysis
Out of 213 classically-based companies examined, only 30% of artistic directors are women and 70% are men. Women comprise 32.3% of artistic directors at...
London’s West End Ticket Sales Plateaued In 2024
SOLT’s update on attendances for 2024 shows that 17.1 million attended performances – the same as in 2023. When compared with 2019 – the...
Barcelona Is Transforming A Giant Eyesore Coal Plant Into A Creative Hub
Like Battersea, Barcelona’s plant is set to undergo a radical transformation into the new Catalunya Media City—a cutting-edge hub for digital arts, technology, and...
AI Expert: Why AI Won’t Take Over Creative Writing
As a professor of computer science who has authored hundreds of works on artificial intelligence, including AI textbooks that cover social impact of large language models,...
John Oliver Sued For Defamation By Health Insurance Executive
“Filed last week in New York federal court, the complaint from Dr. Brian Morley, the ex-medical director of health insurance corporation AmeriHealth Caritas, …...
Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Fine Museums Which Display “Obscene Material”
Following the attempted prosecution of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for child pornography over an exhibition of Sally Mann’s photography, a state...
Shaw Festival Gets $35 Million From Ontario To Rebuild Crumbling Theatre
The festival, located where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario on the US-Canada border, had planned to close the century-old Royal George Theatre permanently....
Opera Philadelphia Will Do Another $11-Ticket Season (And That’s Not The Only Way It’s...
For 2025-26, the company will again offer all seats at $11 each (or higher if the buyer chooses). There are twice as many performances...
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is In A Very Difficult Position
“(He) has served as a museum director, educator and historian — positions in which he has demonstrated a skill for diplomacy. But perhaps no...
Now It’s Official: The Grand Avenue Cultural District In Downtown L.A.
“The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create (the district) to boost the visibility of the arts scene in a corridor...
Despite Court Ruling, Radio Free Europe Has No Money And Is Furloughing Staff
Pursuant to a judge’s order, the US Agency for Global Media said last week it has rescinded its decision to terminate funding for Radio...
April Fool’s Day Ads Used To Be Fun, And Folks Loved Them. Not Anymore....
“When we were less assaulted by news on a daily basis — and, crucially, when we had no access to social media — April...
Is Museums’ Social Media Use Dying?
While most of the 100 museums in the list grew their social media followings over the past year, this is despite almost all of...
Detroit Opera’s “Cosi” As AI
“He’s actually a replica of what we see in the tech industry,” Yuval Sharon said. “There’s a messianic belief that we must transcend our...
America’s First Professional Dance Therapist
For three decades, starting in 1942, “Marian Chace helped shell-shocked soldiers, sexual abuse victims, and the mentally ill use movement to communicate their feelings....
Museums As Medical Therapy Prescriptions
Years after the pandemic sharpened issues around mental health, the practice has boomed, with doctors prescribing visits to museums from Montpellier to Massachusetts as a complement to more...
What We Could Learn About Accommodating Climate Change From Frank Lloyd Wright
“The man-made building heighten the beauty of the desert and the desert more beautiful because of the building,” Wright wrote in To Arizona. “A dream,...
Why Did Hollywood Stop Making Conspiracy Thrillers?
Works like Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974) and Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor (1975) were rife with anxiety about the country’s future, unsure if change...
Do Studios’ First Amendment Rights Cover Hiring And Firing Actors?
The question is central to two wrongful dismissal lawsuits now before courts: those of Gina Carano, fired by Disney from The Mandalorian for social...
Republican Bill Targets Public Broadcasting Business Models
The “No NPR and PBS Act” would simply prohibit funding of either network. It mirrors a bill Ronny Jackson introduced in March 2023 that says federal funding...
Yuval Noah Harari: Truth Is Expensive, Information Isn’t Truth
When information is in a complete free market, the vast majority of information becomes fiction, illusion, or lies. This is because there are three...
