After Two Years In Germany, Kyiv Symphony Musicians Wonder If Their Exile Will Ever...
"More than 1,000 days after she and her fellow musicians were first displaced, (violinist Tetiana) Martyniuk-Bahrii said she had grown accustomed to the uncertainty....
San Francisco Opera Announces Another Abbreviated Season
Before COVID, the company typically offered eight productions per season, but, as with the current season, there will be only six productions plus a...
Ron DeSantis Wants To Restore Florida’s Arts Funding — With Strings Attached
"A year after (he) controversially vetoed $32 million in arts grant funding, he wants most of it back. But he … wants language in...
Bass Paul Plishka, Whose Met Opera Career Spanned 50 Years, Has Died At 83
Though he also sang with the great companies of London, Paris, Milan, Munich, San Francisco, and other cities, he's best known for his long...
Art Collector Who Bought $6.2 Million Banana Sues David Geffen Over Giacometti
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency mogul who earned international notoriety when he purchased Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian (the banana duct-taped to a wall) and ate it,...
Researchers Discover Portrait Hidden Beneath Titian’s “Ecce Homo”
"The newly discovered work shows an unidentified man with a thin moustache, quill in hand, standing next to a stack of papers or books...
Giller Prize Ends Relationship With Its Lead Sponsor Following Months Of Protests
"The Giller Prize has parted ways with its lead sponsor Scotiabank more than a year after members of the literary community began protesting the...
Wales’ National Museum Closes Indefinitely For Repairs
The closure comes nine months after Wales' Culture Secretary assured the historic building would remain open, despite concerns from the museum's director over its deteriorating...
A Cantonese Opera About Donald Trump
A Hong Kong troupe specializing in the traditional form (a sort of cousin to the better-known Beijing opera) has produced a modern-dress piece based...
Streaming Companies Will Outspend Commercial Broadcasters This Year For The First Time
Of that figure, Ampere claims that streaming services will spending $95 billion on content this year, a 39% share, while commercial broadcasters will comprise...
Hollywood’s Latest War For Music Talent
Alex Shustorovich, who built his fortune buying Russian science journals after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is using his newfound control of IMG...
Why Alexei Ratmansky Is Not Recreating Petipa’s “Paquita” This Time Around
Back in 2014 in Munich, he and historian Doug Fullington did a full reconstruction of Petipa's 1881 version of the piece for the Imperial...
Arts Organizations Fret About Threats To Arts Funding Under Trump Administration
The fate of those grants now appears to be in limbo. A spokesperson for the NEA said the agency is “currently reviewing the recent...
David Pountney Is 77, And He Plans To Be Directing Operas For A Long...
Not only is he directing, he writes librettos and does translations; in fact, he still hates supertitles and thinks opera should be in the...
How Blurbing Books Wrecked My Life
Early in my career I decided it was my duty to write at least twice as many blurbs as I received. I’ve now written...
Trump’s Threatened Tariffs Throw Gallery Owners Into Uncertainty
For both galleries in Mexico and those traveling to Mexico City to participate in the city’s three fairs—Zona Maco, Material, and Salón Acme—there appears...
Meet British Theatre’s New Crop Of Artistic Directors
The leaders of four London theatres, including the National Theatre and the Young Vic, along with theatres in Sheffield, Liverpool, and Wales, talk about...
The “Socratic Method” Rather Misses The Point
Such attempts to mimic him miss the point, which is that true thinking should be dangerous to your intellectual equilibrium. It should strive for...
Barnes & Noble To Open 60 New Stores In 2025
“In 2024, Barnes & Noble opened more new bookstores in a single year than it had in the whole decade from 2009 to 2019...
How To Read Like A Translator
Translators deal with the “especially strong constraint” of the tight relationship between the original text and the new one, but the latter is still,...
Malaysia Promotes Abroad Films It Censors Or Bans Domestically
"Even as the Malaysian government lauds local films that win praise and prizes abroad, some of the most-celebrated ones are either not shown in...
Sales Of Two Fiction Subgenres Are Soaring Thanks to BookTok
"Sales of science fiction and fantasy books rocketed last year, with their value increasing by 41.3% between 2023 and 2024. The booming popularity of...
Chrysler Building Has Been Repossessed by Cooper Union
The art/architecture/engineering school, which owns the land under the midtown Manhattan landmark 35 blocks uptown, had been leasing the building to real estate developer...
Temple University Buys Main Academic Building Of Now-Shuttered University of The Arts
"Terra Hall at Broad and Walnut Streets, just a few blocks from (Philadelphia's) City Hall, is the second UArts building to complete the sales...
Van Gogh Museum Summarily Rejects That $50 Garage-Sale Painting; Experts Suggest Different Attribution
The LMI Group spent years using high-teach chemical and data analysis to produce a 431-page report arguing that the portrait of a fisherman is...
