Former Director Of Santa Fe Opera Arrested For Soliciting Minors
Charles MacKay, who was general director of the summer company from 2008-2018, was arrested in March in Powell, Wyoming after having allegedly solicited two...
Entire Staff Of Institute Of Museum And Library Services Placed On Leave
“According to a statement from AFGE Local 3403, which represents IMLS workers, the agency's staff was notified by email about being placed on paid...
Canada’s Juno Awards Celebrates Canadian Music, Takes Digs At US
Michael Bublé handed Canadians a heartfelt dose of patriotism at the Juno Awards on Sunday, setting the tone for a night of not-so-subtle references...
Hollywood Workers Protested AI. Now Hollywood Is Using AI
It was only two years ago that actors and writers shut down Hollywood with strikes demanding protections from AI. Now the technology is controversially creeping...
Where Journalism Is Being Reinvented
What if this so-called “extinction-level event” isn’t the end of journalism but just the end of a certain kind of journalism? It’s a crisis,...
A Musical About The End Of The World
The End has more than one meaning. On the surface, the title refers to the end of civilisation. But “the end” can also mean...
Marina Abramović, Wellness Guru?
Want to learn to live like her? The Marina Abramović Institute offers €2,450 (~$2,600) five-day Cleaning the House workshops in various locations—Brazil, Thailand—taught by...
Let’s Take A Critical Read Of That AI-Written Story Sam Altman Was So Impressed...
Altman wrote that the model “got the vibe of metafiction so right.” But that’s like saying that Trump Tower gets the vibe of Versailles...
Why We’re Drawn To Apocalyptic Stories Right Now
Dystopian dramas are clearly in vogue right now, but films and TV dramas have often reflected the fears and anxieties of their times. - The...
Visitors: Isn’t The Smithsonian Already Telling The Story Of America?
“There’s no way this is anti-American if it’s showing everything we’ve been through and what our nation is founded on. How is it divisive...
Architect David Childs, 83
David M. Childs, an architect who crowned the New York City skyline with the tallest building in the Americas — a shimmering new 1...
GenX Creatives Have Been Screwed
If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a...
What To Say To A Friend After A Rough Theatre Performance
Basically, lie (unless you’re a critic, in which case say nothing until the review). One actor: “It takes incredible amounts of bravery to be...
Beloved Los Angeles Landmarks Face An Uncertain Post-Fire Future
For instance, at the destroyed Zane Grey estate: “How to rebuild the site in a way that preserves Grey's legacy while protecting it from...
Roxane Gay And Debbie Millman Take Over Literary Magazine The Rumpus
Novelist and essayist Gay said, “The Rumpus was one of the first places where my writing found a significant audience, and it helped shape me into...
A Rising Star Conductor Makes Her Met Debut
Joana Mallwitz “did not come from a musical family. Her talent on the piano at home in Hildesheim was quickly apparent, but for three...
Why The Current Administration Is Threatening Libraries
And why it’s so deeply, furiously urgent to save them. - Salon
Linda Williams, Scholar Who Essentially Invented Feminist Film Theory, Has Died At 78
“Her most headline-grabbing work focused on pornographic films, which she saw as worthy of consideration as a discrete genre — and worthy of scholarly...
If The Minnesota State Capitol Were On Fire, Its Historian Would Save This Painting
Why would historic site manager Brian Pease save The Battle of Nashville? The Capitol “was finished in 1905, only 40 years after the Civil...
Writing In The Dance Steps of Pina Bausch
“On that island of quest, … Pina occupied my thoughts. She became an inspiration and a companion during my sleepless nights, often spent poring...
In Berlin, Fine Tattoo Art Is Thriving
“Works on Skin sells artwork in numbered limited editions of 100, initially for €100 each but reaching up to €2,000 for the last remaining...
Canada’s Classical And Jazz Juno Awards Include A Win For Inuk Opera Soprano
"Deantha Edmunds was the 2025 winner of the Classical Composition of the Year Juno Award. Her project Angmalukisaa (the Inuktitut word for ‘round') was part on...
In Texas, A Librarian Standing Up For Her Students’ Rights To Read Is Threatened...
“This is a book ban, and I am not going to participate in a book ban,” Georgetown High School librarian Susan Cooper said. “I...
Tate Britain Will Return A Nazi-Looted Work To The Family Of A Belgian Art...
“Painter Henry Gibbs' 1654 work, Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken by the Nazis as 'an act of racial persecution,' said...
A Band Playing With The National Symphony Says It’s Possible To Protest The Kennedy...
The band Guster, “no fans of the current administration, played uplifting, poppy tunes (backed by the National Symphony Orchestra) at the Kennedy Center Concert...
