Founder Of Ace Gallery Gets Two Years In Prison For Embezzlement
"(Douglas) Chrismas, 80, helped build the Los Angeles art scene of the 1970s and ’80s through ambitious exhibitions at his gallery, Ace. But he...
The 2025 Grammys Will Proceed As Scheduled Despite LA Fires
The music industry was questioning whether the show would continue with its scheduled date, despite the fact that the Los Angeles wildfires have devastated...
What Will Canada Look Like Without The CBC?
In a time of streaming, the broadcaster’s prime-time share of 4.4 percent speaks to the end times of broadcast TV or the remarkable lack...
Ballet Memphis CEO To Step Down
Gretchen Wollert McLennon, a former student at the company's school who succeeded company founder Dororthy Gunther Pugh in 2020, will depart at the end...
What Shakespeare Has To Say About LA’s Devastation
Shakespeare helps me envisage the unimaginable, and a speech from “The Tempest” has been running through my mind since images of charred sections of Pacific Palisades...
A Dance Company For Neurodivergent Participants
Azara addresses a gap in the dance world: the need for spaces where people who have autism, A.D.H.D. or other conditions that fall under...
Warhol Museum Picks A New Leader
Mario Rossero is currently the executive director of the National Art Education Association (NAEA), a professional membership organization for visual arts, design and media...
“This American Life” Is Considering Layoffs
While the public radio favorite, which turns 30 this year, remains one of the most popular weekly audio shows in both radio and podcast...
Is London’s West End Dying? Not So Fast, Says Lyn Gardner
Writing theatre’s obituary based on misinformation or dismissing the entire art form as a turn-off on the basis of a single theatre visit (nobody...
Why Haven’t Claes Oldenburg’s Sculptures Found Permanent Home In New York City?
Incredibly, for an artist who made New York his home for nearly 70 years, none of the fanciful public sculptures like these — the...
US Book Sales Ticked Up In 2024
In 2024, sales gradually improved over the course of the year and saw a 1.6% increase in the fourth quarter. For the full year,...
Mohammad Rasoulof Explains How He Filmed “The Seed Of The Sacred Fig” In Secret
For example, the director himself was already persona non grata and anyone involved with him would be in danger, so the film was cast...
Prolific Young Producer Takes Over Off-Broadway Theater Left By Second Stage
Greg Nobile's Seaview Productions, which was behind such notable shows as Slave Play, Romeo + Juliet, Sea Wall/A Life (starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom...
Looters Use Electric Saw To Cut Historic Cave Paintings
"Archaeologist Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez investigated (the site at La Cueva Pinta in Mexico's Coahuila state) and found one painting had been stolen...
Author Neil Gaiman Accused Of Multiple Sexual Assaults
The week's issue of New York magazine features a cover story by Lila Shapiro detailing allegations of repeated assaults by the author on women,...
Arnold Schoenberg’s Publisher And Its Archives Completely Wiped Out In L.A. Wildfires
The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the headquarters of Belmont Music Publishers, the sole publisher of Schoenberg's works. Lost were the complete inventory of sales...
San Francisco Girls Chorus Fires Executive Director For “Lewd Conduct”
Last week, 13 staff members received an email containing screenshots of WhatsApp messages, including images "pornographic in nature," between an unnamed individual and Executive...
Climate-Protesting Grave Vandals Deface Charles Darwin’s Resting Place
Two activists from the group Just Stop Oil used orange chalk to scrawl "1.5 is dead" (referring, in degrees Celsius, to the rise in...
“Post-Woke”? Is The Art World Set To Move Away From “Radlib” Identity Politics?
Ben Davis: "The main issue that will dominate, I believe, is cultural institutions trying, and probably failing, to process the confused splintering of the...
Can Dogs Really Talk To Humans By Pressing Buttons?
Heaven knows there's a ton of social media videos purporting to show that the answer is yes. What do animal-cognition scientists think? - The...
Versailles Was, Believe It Or Not, A Center of Scientific Advancement
"In 1666, Louis XIV established the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, which, unlike peer institutions in Italy or Britain, paid members a salary...
Why Do So Many Critically Acclaimed Shows Come From London Only To Be Panned...
Jesse Green, who admits to being one of those New York critics doing the panning, has some ideas. - The New York Times
The Most Intimate Theatre Experience You Could Have Might Be A Deal With The...
That deal is not metaphorical in Yannick Trapman-O'Brien's Undersigned, a show which he describes as a "psychological thriller for one." - Los Angeles Times...
TikTok “Is Harming Children At An Industrial Scale” — And Knows It
Jonathan Haidt and Zach Rausch: "Our evidence comes mostly from research done by 14 (state) Attorneys General. … The briefs include hundreds of quotations...
Can Chicago Keep Its Grant Program For Individual Artists Going?
The question seems crucial as the dawn of the second Trump Administration approaches. - WBEZ (Chicago)
