San Francisco Symphony Chorus Gets New Contract, Thanks To $4 Million Gift
"The deal … promises to maintain the current compensation and performance levels for the 32 paid choristers during the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. …...
London’s Barbican Centre Gets $243 Million In City Funding For Major Overhaul
"A £191 million funding package to support critical repairs and upgrades at (the arts complex) were approved on Thursday … (by) the City of...
Raygun, The Australian Olympic Breakdancer, Had Lawyers Shut Down A Musical About Her. Is...
Attorneys for Rachael Gunn, who gained global notoriety with her last-place performance at the Paris Olympics, put the kibosh on Raygun: The Musical, arguing...
WWII Teenager’s Diary Records How Victims Used Culture To Fight Back
The diary that Yitskhok Rudashevski kept from June 1941 to April 1943, written entirely in Yiddish, contains references not only to folklore from the Vilna Ghetto,...
Women-Only-No-Men-Allowed Art Installation In Australia Returns For Final Victory Lap
The "Ladies' Lounge" at the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania reopens through January 13 after an appeals court voided a ruling...
Author James Patterson Gives Christmas “Bonuses” To Bookstore Workers
“Booksellers save lives. Period,” Patterson said in a statement released Tuesday through his publisher, Little, Brown and Company. “I’m happy to be able to...
The Amazing Kreskin, 89
Just what was Kreskin’s talent? “I am not a psychic, an occultist or fortune teller. I am not a mind reader, medium or hypnotist....
Danai Gurira Returns Home To Offer Training To Zimbabwean Playwrights
"Gurira set up Almasi (Collaborative Arts) with film and theatre producer Patience Tawengwa to give Zimbabwean creatives access to the sort of training and...
An Ode To Harlem’s Apollo Theatre
The theater symbolizes the many eccentrics and geniuses that abound in this country. It’s an enabler of dreamers and risk-takers. It’s a place where...
The Fierce Aesthetics (And Historical Trolling) Of The London Contemporary Music Festival
Art is a con. That’s why it’s great. I’ve always said art should lower gross domestic product; it shouldn’t be there to bolster efficiency, or do...
Sometimes Insularity And Isolation Is Better For A Thriving Culture
The cultural ideas (what was originally meant by ‘memes’) that are most suited to global dominance crowd out cultural ideas that developed locally and...
Huge New Music Soundstage And Production Center Planned For Former Chicago Stockyards
The nonprofit Third Coast Music has won the city's request for proposals to develop the site. Its plan is for an $80 million facility...
Influencer Lawsuit Asks: Can You Copyright A “Vibe?”
What might appear to be a superficial spat over sweaters and hairstyles could actually be a legal fight that gets at the heart of...
Scholarly Publishers Are Selling Papers To AI Companies
Several scholarly publishers have forged agreements with technology companies looking to use content to train the large language models (LLMs) that underlie their AI tools. A...
Transformative: New Seattle Sales Tax For The Arts Generates Tens Of Millions Of Dollars
For context, 4Culture usually sends out about $10 million to $15 million per year. With Doors Open, the agency’s 2025 grants are increasing to...
Nashville’s Arts Funding Agency Finally Settles On A Grants Plan For This Fiscal Year
"The city agency (Metro Arts) is behind schedule because it’s still recovering from last year’s chaotic funding cycle. … This year, (there's) a much...
Analyzing The Design Of The Met Museum’s Planned Contemporary Art Wing
Justin Davidson: "A new museum wing here can’t just be an exercise in logistics. It’s also a presence in Central Park and a half-billion-dollar...
Congressional Support Grows For Requiring All New Cars To Have AM Radios
"In the lame-duck session …, support continues to build for a bill that would require AM receivers to be included in vehicle dashboards. Three...
Why Did Alice Munro Reject Her Daughter’s Account Of Sexual Abuse? Apparently, For The...
"In the months since the revelations, I revisited Munro’s stories, spoke with members of her family and tracked down a number of her unpublished...
Chicago Symphony Receives Largest-Ever Donation: $50 Million
The gift from the family foundation of real estate magnate and former Chicago Tribune owner Sam Zell provides "vital" capital to reduce debt, fund...
Strike At New York’s Strand Bookstore Ends With Tentative Agreement On New Contract
"The Strand Book Store has reached a tentative contract agreement with its staff union, which is represented by United Auto Workers Local 2179, putting...
Judge Blocks The Onion’s Purchase Of Alex Jones’s Infowars
"A federal judge in Texas rejected the auction sale of Alex Jones’ Infowars to The Onion satirical news outlet, criticizing the bidding for the...
The Franklin Institute Has An Original Wright Brothers Airplane — And Now It Has...
The 1911 Wright Model B was flown, recklessly and repeatedly, around the skies over Philadelphia by brewery heir Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. In 1935, after...
How 20th-Century Writers Marched The Novel To Oblivion
Novelists increasingly defined their craft by opposing tradition, and so placed themselves at loggerheads with most of their possible audience. There is something essentially...
TeamLab Is Expanding Its Spectacular High-Tech Immersive Art Shows Far Beyond Japan
The Tokyo-based collective of artists and engineers operates nearly 60 temporary or traveling exhibitions around the world, with permanent installations in Japan, China, Saudi...
