City Of Spokane To Revive Its Long-Shuttered Arts Department
"More than a decade after Spokane’s city arts department was dismantled by former Mayor David Condon, Mayor Lisa Brown has announced that she plans...
Julio Bocca To Take Charge At South America’s Leading Ballet Company
A major ballet star in the 1980s and '90s, Bocca is probably Argentina's most famous living dancer. As of February, he becomes artistic director...
Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” Scores Upset Win Over Percival Everett’s “James”
"Harvey’s tale of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station was 'unanimously' chosen as the winner after a 'proper day' considering the six-strong...
In The Theatre, Digital Tickets And Programs Erase The Physical Record Of Attending
"It has become possible to spend an evening on Broadway without handling a physical document. Still, it may seem sensational to say that a...
Reconsidering Antiquities, American Museums And The Ethhics Of It All
The Museum of the Bible is but one more example of “the massive extraction and transfer of cultural heritage objects from the colonized to...
How The Brothers Grimm Helped Create The Idea Of Germany
"As cultural detectives, they cast a wide net, creating a history for a nation that did not yet exist. The idea of one Germany...
How Might You Use AI In Museums?
The private sector’s reluctance to solve issues that are of great importance to public institutions creates an opportunity to instead build sector-specific tools that...
To What Degree Are Russian Artists Complicit In What Russia Has Become?
“Many Russian writers and historians are complicit in facilitating this war. It is their words and thoughts over the past 350 years that sowed...
Sticker Shock: Renovation Of Stuttgart’s Opera House Could Cost €2 Billion
The renovation and expansion of the venue will take four years longer than originally planned, and the cost, originally projected at under €1 billion,...
Remembering Judith Jamison
Jamison was Ailey’s muse, as complicated as that word is, and she was able to bring his feelings, his ideas to life because of...
The Rise Of The (Ubiquitous) Standing O
“Over the years it has become more and more pervasive to the point where, on those rare instances when a performance doesn’t get a...
Philadelphia’s BalletX Is Bigger, Busier, And More Stable Than Ever
Thanks to a major bequest from this past summer, the company — founded 18 years ago as a shoestring summer operation — has moved...
Post-Election, Nancy Pelosi Talks About The Importance Of The Arts
“The arts are unifying to our country, and I think it’s going to be the salvation of our country,” she said Saturday at San...
The New Pause-Subscription Streaming Subscriber
New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become...
At 77, Playwright David Hare Is In A Hurry
"I have written three new plays that are going to be on in different places and I have done that partly because of my...
Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue Will Close After 41 Years
The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March...
Hulu Series About Amanda Knox Films In City Where It All Happened, And Locals...
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted...
Cleveland Voters Pass Cigarette Tax Increase To Fund Arts
Ballot Issue 55, which was approved by Cuyahoga County voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin, more than doubles the existing surcharge on tobacco products....
The Bells Of Notre-Dame In Paris Are Reunited
"The bronze bells of the Notre-Dame Cathedral have not pealed together since 2019, when a furious blaze consumed the centuries-old landmark right before the...
There Will Be No Liberal Equivalent Of Joe Rogan
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more...
Painter Frank Auerbach, 93
The child of Auschwitz victims, he was sent to Britain by the Kindertransport project and studied in London. After years of hardship, he got...
Huge Art Forgery Enterprise Busted By Italian Police
"The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani,...
Rationalizing: The Art Of Procrastination (As Explained By Artists)
I have guitars in my writing room. But I don’t think of it as “procrastinating” but as, you know, “getting ready.” - LitHub
Prominent Italian Dealer Arrested For Trafficking Thousands Of Stolen Artifacts
Prosecutors say Edoardo Almagià kept a list of trafficked antiquities in his NYC apartment, hidden inside a Renaissance-era chest beneath a marble statue of...
It’s Official: AI Has Broken The Way We Will Find Things Online
Months of prophesying about generative AI have now culminated, almost all at once, in what may be the clearest glimpse yet into the internet’s...
