Texas Public Schools Have Big, Busy Arts Programs. It’s Time They Be Funded Properly.
Last year those programs nearly did get a budget boost, and a key legislator keeps trying, arguments and studies ready. - Texas Monthly
Classical Concert Top Tens For 2024: Busiest Orchestras And Performers, Most-Played Composers, Etc.
There won't be too many surprises at the top of the lists — Daniil Trifonov and Yuja Wang as busiest pianists, Mozart and Beethoven...
Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Co., Now Reopened, Has Ambitious Plans
Its most famous alumnus, David Schwimmer, has joined the board, plans to return to its stage, and is doing fundraising around the city. He...
British Museum Was Partly Closed This Weekend Following Cyber-Vandalism By Ex-Employee
The alleged perpetrator was an IT contractor fired earlier this month. He returned on Thursday to breach and shut down the museum’s security and...
WH Smith To Sell Its Non-Airport Bookstores
The company's bookstore division, which has 500 retail outlets in cities and towns throughout the UK, has seen declining revenue for years, leading to...
Washington’s National Gallery Ends DEI Programs
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, is ending its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs as a result of an executive order (EO)...
When A Theatre Critic Stands At Performances (He Sees More)
I could see just fine. (A colleague quipped that sitting any closer wasn’t going to make a show better or worse.) And I understood...
New York’s New Superstar Cultural Philanthropist Couple
The Tangs’ increasing prominence seems due to several key capital projects simultaneously coming to fruition and the couple’s effort to counter the anti-Asian discrimination and violence...
Deborah Rutter To Step Down As Head of The Kennedy Center
Ms. Rutter, 68, the center’s president since 2014, guided the organization through the coronavirus pandemic, oversaw an expansion of its campus, added hip-hop and...
How Do We Determine Bad Art From Good?
Do we believe, with T.S Eliot and others, in our duty to work towards what he calls the correction of taste? - Salmagundi
Department of Education Will No Longer Investigate Book Bans
The Education Department said on Friday that it would no longer investigate schools that remove books from their libraries, emphasizing its new stance by...
In A Time Of Relentless Change, What, Artistically Should Stay Consistent?
The idea of there being something fundamentally stable about an artist, independent of outside forces, makes sense. It’s what allows them to experiment with...
Could AI Be A Way To A Better You?
Instead of functioning as a means of top-down compliance and control, A.I. can help us understand ourselves, act on our preferences and realize our...
The Architecturally Important Houses Lost In The LA Fires
Included in the losses are more than 30 notable buildings whose pedigrees span the 20th century and a who’s who of domestic architecture—from Arts...
What Makes Lion Dancing So Rigorous, And Rewarding
Lion dances for Lunar New Year are part of “an art that dates back to the Han Dynasty and is said to bring good...
Hollywood Is Finally Giving Older Women Second Chances
“One of the prevailing narratives of this year’s awards season leading up to the Oscars has been that of the return to the limelight...
People Who Know Little About AI Are Much Friendlier Toward Using It
Bascially? People who understand AI isn’t “magical” are less enamored of it. - Wired
Spotify And Universal Music Group Reach A Deal That May Help Musicians After Bundling...
The deal, which supposedly ameliorates some of the damage from last year’s audiobook-music bundling plan by the streaming giant, “also marks the first direct...
How Can Los Angeles’ Most Beloved Industry Survive?
“At stake is the future of a defining industry that helps make Los Angeles a vibrant creative capital, employing tens of thousands of workers...
Why Reading Lolita In Tehran Still Holds Up
Or maybe holds up even better, more than two decades later: Azar Nafisi’s memoir “isn’t just about reading and teaching literature under a repressive...
Every Artist In Britain Including Paul McCartney Wants The Government To Stand Up To...
What the actual artist-hating hell, UK? “The government is considering an overhaul of law that would allow AI developers to use creators' content...
Felicity Jones Does Not Want To See Herself In Her Movies
That is, she’ll watch them - but, she says, "When I see a blink or a laugh I recognise as my own, I think:...
As We Get Farther From The Year She Died, What We’re Missing About Anne...
“Anne’s iconicity requires her story to achieve a difficult balancing act. It warns powerfully against all persecution, but must remain true to its character...
Which Author Better Predicted, Or Can Help Us Deal With, The Fires In Los...
What did Octavia Butler, who died nearly two decades ago, know “about the future that the Fonz now finds himself in after many, many...
Sundance Documentary About The Vietnam War’s Most Famous Photograph Arrives Under A Cloud Of...
Did Nick Ut take the famous photo Napalm Girl? "Ten days before the premiere of the documentary The Stringer at the Sundance Film Festival...
