How To Solve The Problem Of The Kimmel Center’s Plaza?
The glass-domed plaza between the Philadelphia arts center's venues was intended to be a welcoming public space. Yet it tends to be desolate during...
Expand Copyright To AI? Not A Great Idea. Here’s A Better One
AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the...
Brooklyn Academy Of Music Chief Steps Down After Only Three Years
Gina Duncan was the first person of color to lead the academy, which operates several stages and a cinema, and has an annual operating...
Point Park University In Pittsburgh Hives Off A Separate School Of Dance
“The new school, which became official at the start of 2025, now hosts a commercial dance department as well as a concert dance department,...
MoMA Signs Partnership Agreement With M+ Museum In Hong Kong
“After a year of discussions, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and M+, a contemporary art museum in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon...
Panels Of El Greco Altarpiece Are Reunited For First Time In Two Centuries
An exhibition at the Prado in Madrid has gathered together panels of the altarpiece Doménikos Theotokópoulos painted for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el...
Iowa Lawmakers Present New Bills To Punish Public Libraries For “Obscenity”
“House File 274 would repeal a section of the Iowa Code that addresses obscenity exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions, while Senate File...
Salman Rushdie Stabbing Trial: Defense Rests Without Presenting Evidence
“(Hadi Matar,) the New Jersey man on trial (for) the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie, declined to testify in his defense Thursday as his lawyers...
How Has Manhattan’s Congestion Pricing For Cars Affected Broadway?
“Broadway has seen more foot traffic and bigger audiences in the first month since the curtain went up on the congestion pricing era — though it’s...
Amazon Has Been Given Creative Control Over Entire James Bond Franchise
“The Broccoli family’s feud with Amazon MGM Studios over the (property) appears to have reached a resolution. Barbara Broccoli and her stepbrother Michael Wilson,...
After 30 Years, Richmond Ballet Returns To The Museum
The company danced at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the 1990s but hasn't been back since. But starting next month, following a...
Does Opera On A Screen Really Work?
Seeing the seams is part of live performance’s charm—it asks the audience to actively participate in the suspension of reality, as opposed to having...
How Screenwriters Work Authentic-Sounding Dialects And Foreign-Language Dialogue Into Their Scripts
The movie industry has gotten much more careful in the past few decades about authenticity (Emilia Pérez notwithstanding). Yet screenwriters won't write out foreign-language...
The Dirty Secret Behind College Tuitions
“We can’t stand the fact that the sticker price is so high despite the fact that nobody pays it.” This pricing strategy took hold in the...
Indian Police Confiscate Hundreds Of Titles From Bookstores In Kashmir
"Police in Kashmir have raided dozens of bookstores and seized more than 650 books as part of crackdowns on dissent in the Indian-administered region....
Study: How Australians Read
This report represents the first time the Australian book industry has been granted a detailed level of insight into recreational readers and also offers...
Edmonton Symphony Names Jean-Marie Zeitouni As Music Director
“He made his ESO debut in 2006 and has conducted more than 35 performances with the orchestra and Edmonton Opera since then.” - CTV
You Thought Movie Theatres Were In Trouble? Cinemark Chain Posts Record Fourth Quarter Revenue
Exhibition giant Cinemark reported record fourth-quarter revenue of $814 million, up 27 percent year-over-year and 3 percent above the pre-COVID pandemic fourth quarter of 2019. -...
How Should Artists Respond In The Trump Era
With each day bringing new troubles and concerns, how should we proceed? Ideally, with boldness, though that quality seems to be in short supply,...
Souleymane Cissé, Pioneering African Filmmaker, Has Died At 84
Over a 50-year career, the Malian writer-director did much to establish sub-Saharan African film as an internationally recognized industry in terms of art as...
UK Government To Inject New Money Into The Arts
The Culture Secretary is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in...
The Kennedy Center Debacle As A Mamet Drama
It plays like a David Mamet drama, complete with an inciting incident, characters bringing years of baggage to every scene and a surprising climax....
Cooperation Versus Competition – A Biological, Philosophical Perspective
The evolution of cooperation has been of interest to biologists, philosophers and anthropologists for centuries. If natural selection favours self-interest, why would we cooperate...
For These Successful Playwrights, It Was A Hard Journey Just To Reach Midcareer Status
"They constitute an unusual cohort, bucking the bad news of the American theater by having made it past emerging to emerged. Granted, pretty much...
Italian Police Shut Down Major Art-Forgery Workshop In Rome
Police seized 71 paintings, including fake Rembrandts, Picassos, Warhols, and Banksys, some completed and others half-finished, along with a plethora of painting materials, forged...
