Sacramento’s Public Radio Station Sues Its Ex-GM For Theft
"The lawsuit, filed in December, claims that (Jun) Reina used the misappropriated funds for lavish overseas trips, home renovations, his children’s college tuition, and...
Cape Cod Public Radio Station’s Home Is Saved, Though The Station Itself Still Has...
GBH, the Boston public radio/TV franchise that owns Cape Cod station CAI, agreed to sell the historic house where CAI has studios to the...
Wanamaker Organ’s Landlord Promises To Keep It In Place
"Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected...
Actor Joan Plowright, 95
Until late in life, her fame as the wife/widow of Laurence Olivier obscured from the wider public (though not from colleagues) her own extraordinary...
David Lynch, 78
"(His films) bridged the mainstream and avant-garde, exploring the sinister recesses of the human psyche — and the mysteries behind America’s white picket fences...
Google “Cubism” These Days And You’ll Get A Bunch Of AI-Generated Garbage
Same with Bing and DuckDuckGo; the bogus AI images are crowding out Picasso and Braque in the results. The stuff comes from CubismArtwork.com, which...
Bay Area Arts Organizations In Funding Crisis
Similarly in San Francisco, hundreds of music and theater organizations (the latter in major decline recently) are struggling to survive despite the well-established fact...
Rehab For Actors Recovering From Playing Hamlet
It doesn't necessarily seem all that improbable, but no, this isn't really a thing. It is, however, the concept of the play Hamlet Camp,...
Critics Have Always Hated/Loved/Worried-About Newspapers. Let’s Understand The History
The abolition of most forms of censorship, declining paper costs, railway expansion and universal primary education triggered a newspaper boom that saw total daily...
Barnes & Noble’s Great Resurgence
The bookseller expects to open over 60 new bookstores in 2025, including five this month. - Geekwire
The California Roots Of Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Revolution
The metro Pittsburgh-born Graham spent her teenage years in Santa Barbara and saw her first dance performance — featuring her future teacher Ruth St....
Criticism Is So Much More Than Being Critical
Criticism can oppose; it can also cajole, provoke, consider, inform, and suggest. More than being punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity...
Artists Tried Influencing The Election With Billboards. Did They Sway Anyone?
How do you evaluate something as subjective and mercurial as billboard art? - The New York Times
Drake Sues His Record Label For Promoting “Defamatory” Recording
Drake’s lawsuit claims that Universal Music Group ‘chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists’ by allegedly promoting Kendrick Lamar’s song...
Criticisms Of Spotify? The Don’t Hold Up
What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one...
In Defense Of El Sistema, The Simón Bolívar Orchestra, And, Yes, Dudamel
European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who's seen a lot of El Sistema's educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the...
Christie’s Picks A New Leader
Bonnie Brennan, a 51-year-old Michigan native, succeeds Guillaume Cerutti, a 58-year-old Frenchman who is stepping down after an eight-year run. Cerutti plans to continue as...
The Cultural Loss Of 100,000 Arnold Schoenberg Scores
The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and...
The Lost Music In The LA Fires
In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The...
Photographer Oliviero Toscani, Who Shot Those Provocative Benetton Ads, Has Died At 82
"(He) was the creative force behind the United Colors of Benetton campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as a Pope...
Italian Museums Try Offering Free Dog-Sitting Services For Visitors
"Normally, a paid version of the service operates at 290 museums across Italy. One of the company Bauadvisor's dog-sitters meets the owner outside the...
Most Expensive Piece Of Entertainment In History? This Video Game Could End Up Costing...
Most game makers keep their expenditures secret; Call of Duty was recently reported to have cost over $700 million so far. But multiplayer space...
Conductor Hannu Lintu Named Singapore Symphony’s Next Music Director
The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his...
Alt-Weekly Chicago Reader Is At “Imminent Risk Of Closure”
The paper, which was owned by the Sun-Times for six years before being sold to a not-for-profit in 2018, has continued to be plagued...
Bristol, UK City Council Poised To Eliminate Arts Grants And Cut Culture Budget By...
The city government is facing possible bankruptcy due to a £52 million budget gap over the next five years. Among the drastic measures being...
