Inside The Kennedy Center, Employees Are Scared And Events Are Disappearing From The Schedule
"Several Kennedy Center staffers … described a week of chaos, fear and confusion under the new leadership. Trump’s comments 'collapsed all the nuance of...
Thomson Reuters Wins “Fair Use” Copyright Case Against AI Competitor
On Tuesday, (a) US District Court … issued a partial summary judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Ross...
Herzog And De Meuron Will Be Lead Architects For San Antonio Museum of Art...
"A SAMA spokeswoman said it was too early in the master planning process to confirm the overall project cost or describe any plans to...
Miami City Ballet Director Lourdes Lopez Will Step Down This Summer
"Lopez, 66, who joined the company in 2012, was originally scheduled to leave at the end of the 2026-27 season. (Her) departure ... came...
How Poker Helped Start (And Then Nearly Snuffed Out) The New Yorker Magazine 100...
The magazine's primary financial backer at its launch was one of founding editor Harold Ross's poker buddies, who was a yeast magnate. A few...
Florida Lawmakers Debate Restoring Arts Funding DeSantis Cut
Gov. Ron DeSantis’ $32 million line-item vetoes stripped away funding for local theater groups, arts festivals, museums and more, sparking outrage in Florida last year. Now, a...
Want To Accomplish Big Things? Here’s How Scientists Made The Moon A Destination
It can be easy to take our maps, images and story of the Moon for granted. But over the past six decades, our cultural...
Female Surrealists Are Finally Getting The Attention They Deserve
"Last year was the 100th anniversary of the Surrealist Manifesto, … so it’s unsurprising that we saw such interest in the movement. But it...
The Book Blurb Announcements, Explained
One big author and one major publisher announced within weeks of each other that they were through with the practice of blurbs, and the...
Spotify’s Illusion Of Music Discovery And Choice
You may not agree with Mood Machine that Spotify’s mixes are an existential threat to the way people discover music, but you may marvel at how...
How Trump’s Tariffs Will Disrupt The Art Market
“If you’re spending 10 million on a work of art and you’re paying $1 million or $2 million, or even $2.5 million in tariffs because it was imported,...
Ibsen’s “An Enemy Of The People” Is Just The Play For These Times
"That’s not just because President Donald Trump has repeatedly weaponized the phrase of the title against his own critics. ... It’s also because the...
Chappell Roan’s Grammy Speech For Helping Artists Was… Naive
Roan gets respect and true appreciation for her artistry and gumption but is far too green and too uninformed to be the agent of...
The Real Problem With Trump’s Edict About Building Classical Buildings
Like its 2020 predecessor, the new order has little to do with classical architecture in any meaningful way—which itself has been decontextualized from its...
Romance Fiction Is Hot. Here’s How It Works
According to Leah Koch, just two things make a romance novel: a central love story and a happy ending. “A criticism I hear a...
Why Hollywood Now Releases Almost All Romcoms Directly To Streaming
"'The bloom is off the rose of rom-coms,' says Paul Dergarabedian, Comscore’s senior media analyst. 'There was a period in which they couldn’t miss....
Arts Organizations Have Heavily Invested In DEI Initiatives. Will New NEA Rules Lock Them...
The new N.E.A. rules require applicants to agree not to operate diversity programs “that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws” and call on grant applicants...
Study: Reliance On AI May Erode Critical Thinking Skills
“The data shows a shift in cognitive effort as knowledge workers increasingly move from task execution to oversight when using GenAI,” the researchers wrote....
Reuters Wins First Copyright Lawsuit Over AI
In the complaint, Thomson Reuters claimed the AI firm reproduced materials from its legal research firm Westlaw. Today, a judge ruled in Thomson Reuters’...
“Nutcracker” Choreography In The US Is Still Almost Entirely By Men
"The findings reveal an overwhelming dominance of male choreographers, particularly in the Largest 50 ballet companies, despite some growth in opportunities for female choreographers...
Charlotte, NC Adopts New Model For Arts Funding
"The City Council voted 8-2 on Monday to become part of a new governance system for distributing millions in arts grants that will also...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Has Voice of America And Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty In Its...
"Musk commented on a social media post by U.S. Special Envoy Richard Grenell, ... who said the radio networks are 'state-owned media' and 'are...
California’s Two Flagship Classical Radio Stations Will Merge
KUSC in Los Angeles and KDFC in California, both owned (as of 2011) by the University of Southern California, are merging their organizations into...
Court Throws Out Insurance Lawsuit Over Burned Monets Worth $45 Million
"A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit over insurance payments for five artworks destroyed in a 2022 house fire in west Michigan, among them...
Filmmaker Lars Von Trier Moves Into Care Center For Parkinson’s Disease
The controversial Danish director announced in 2022 that he'd been diagnosed with the neurological disorder but that he intended to maintain his career. This...
