New LACMA Building To Get New Works Of Outdoor Art
“Three artists have been commissioned to create the first wave of installations for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, scheduled...
South Carolina Public Radio To Sever Ties With NPR
“Leaders for S.C. Public Radio and S.C. Educational Television said they are beginning the process of unwinding their membership from NPR to focus more...
Jury Rules That Disney Did Not Steal Story For “Moana”
“The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2½ hours before deciding that the creators of Moana never had access to writer and...
NEA Backs Down — A Bit — Over “No Gender Ideology” Pledge Demand
In response to a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU, the National Endowment for the Arts dropped its requirement that applicants pledge on...
Lincoln Center Gets $50 Million For Contemporary Dance
“The donation, from the philanthropists Lynne and Richard Pasculano, is the largest Lincoln Center has ever received for programming initiatives. Lincoln Center hopes the...
US Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Over Nazi-Looted Pissarro
The justices ordered a Federal appeals court to reexamine its ruling in favor of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, currently in possession of Camille...
Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Co. Reaches Agreement With Striking Stage Workers
“(The) much-honored Atlantic Theater Company and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees have reached a tentative agreement that could see the Atlantic become the first-ever...
The Underrated Role Of Intuition In Accomplishment
One day I was perfectly fine, and now, after just a few weeks away, confidence and sureness were gone. Simply put, I had lost...
The Tiresome Literalism Plaguing Today’s Movies
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or...
David Sellars, 86, Father Of The Design-Build Movement
In 1965, Mr. Sellers and William Reineke, graduates of the Yale School of Architecture, had the radical idea that structures turned out better if...
Orange County’s South Coast Rep Theatre On Meeting Challenges
“People are much more selective now. In general, they see fewer productions each year and are more picky about what they’re seeing. And that’s...
The Aesthetics Of Art In A Fascist Mindset
In her landmark 1975 essay in The New York Review of Books, Susan Sontag explains how fascism isn’t just an ideology, but an aestheticized politics that emphasizes...
Two Projects Aim To Check Academic Papers With AI for Mistakes
“I thought, why don’t we go through, like, all of the papers?” The AI tool has analysed more than 37,000 papers in two months....
Signs Of Renewed Interest In Historial American Art?
Once a key collecting category, with robust auction departments, hungry collectors, and record sales, historical American art was hit hard by the 2008 financial...
Small Non-Profit Arts Organizations Fear The Worst In The New Political Climate
“That has been the biggest surprise, just how fast corporate and foundation America has closed its doors and is reducing the size and scope...
San Francisco Is Slashing Budgets For The City’s Museums, Maybe Endangering Collections
The proposal also calls for the elimination of positions in security management, human resources and museum operations. - San Francisco Chronicle
Music Labels Are Trying To Sue The Internet Archive Out Of Existence. They May...
"They're going to regret it," Seubert predicted. "Not financially or anything, but just from a historical perspective, the Internet Archive is valuable for all...
Los Angeles Firefighters Were An Oscars Highlight
Awards season, a few weeks after the devastating fires, was a good break for them too. But then it was right back to work....
Xiaolu Guo Rewrites Melville
“I don’t have this need to consume ‘story': I need to have a debate, a dialogue with truth; to think more, write less, and...
Is This The First Oscar-Winning Movie That Appeals To Our Domestic Companions?
That is to say, cats and dogs alike seem to be obsessed with Flow. “The trend is a particularly cute coda to what was...
Vienna Has An Intense, Formal Ball Season
In Austria, teenagers go on YouTube to learn dance moves - but they also “attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive a...
Nobody Puts Writer Geoff Dyer In The Corner
Well - nobody but himself. "The feeling is most intense after dark, when the chair is bathed in the glow of a lamp, after...
You Might Not Even Know About The Best Comedy On TV Right Now
That’s right, it’s The Righteous Gemstones, which is about to conclude its four-season run, “one of those rare works that channels all the pathos...
Playing A Sumo Wrestler On Stage Takes Months Of Exacting Choreography
“As Peña and Dring committed to having the actors wrestle, and doing so smoothly and within budget, they hired two fighting directors — one...
Remembering Jeanne-Claude And Christo’s Gift To New York, Two Decades On
The artists “illuminated Olmsted and Vaux’s paths in municipal orange, rendering the park’s plan visible to a visitor, thus reinscribing it as a public...
