COO Of Atlanta’s High Museum Of Art Resigns After $600K Goes Missing
“According to the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees both the High and two other Atlanta art institutions, High Museum COO Brady Lum resigned after...
Louvre’s Director Resigns After A No-Good-Very-Bad Year
After months plagued by strikes over chronic understaffing, damage caused by a deteriorating and expensive-to-maintain building, discovery of a years-long ticket-fraud scheme, complaints of...
What We Lose As The Paperback Goes Away
“They had that democratic aspect to them where you can just find them anywhere and it always felt like it was the pick ’n’...
Some Plays Thought To Be By Shakespeare Or Marlowe Now Reattributed To Thomas Kyd
The first critical edition of the Elizabethan playwright’s work in 125 years has expanded his canon from three plays — The Spanish Tragedy, Soliman...
The Unlikely Success Of A Strange Little Book Store In Alabama
“Our books don’t cost more,” Reiss likes to say, “but they are worth more.” - The New Yorker
Are We Living In A Culture Of Epstein?
A different dark vision of society has emerged. Suddenly, we seem to be living in the age of Epstein. We tell ourselves that by...
Of Priorities, Interests, And Funding The Humanities
There’s soft coercion, where they are providing an incentive structure where they will not fund projects unless they have a social-justice angle. - Chronicle of...
For The First Time, A Company Has Won Venice Biennale Danza’s Golden Lion For...
Until now, each Golden Lion has been won by a pathbreaking individual, from Merce Cunningham to Pina Bausch to William Forsythe to Sylvie Guillem...
Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens...
Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what...
The Acute Differences Between Practice And Performance
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are...
Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20...
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says...
How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). -...
Is Australia’s Funding For The Arts Being Dismantled?
‘Unfortunately the funding precarity is having very real impacts on employment of artists and arts workers. The stress and uncertainty are impacting the health...
Ai WeiWei: The Threat Of Censorship In An AI-Dominated World
As we enter the AI era, human collective thought patterns, ideological structures, and the very essence of individual existence and dignity are undeniably under...
Are We Moving Back To An Oral-Based Culture From One That Was Text-Based?
The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract...
One Of The World’s Major Collections Of Banned Russian Literature Is In Manhattan
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from...
Confirmed: This Country House Is Definitely A Gaudí
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s)...
Actor Robert Carradine Dead Of Suicide At 71
Known to older viewers for his roles in The Long Riders and Revenge of the Nerds and to younger ones as the father in...
Berlin Film Festival Winners: “Yellow Letters”, Sandra Hüller, “Salvation”, “Queen At Sea”
Oscar-nominated İlker Çatak’s film about a Turkish theater couple persecuted by the government, Yellow Letters, took the Golden Bear for best feature. The number-two...
Why The Uproar About The Tourette’s/N-Word Incident At The BAFTAs Isn’t Dying Down
“If you wanted to write a scabrous, over-the-top satire on liberal attitudes, you could hardly do better than use this weekend’s BAFTA ceremony. …...
Gustavo Dudamel On His Transition From Los Angeles To New York
“I connect with both, these 17 years in Los Angeles has been amazing, I love it, the people, the community. But this is a...
No Truly Great Movie Can Stop One Battle After Another, According To The BAFTAs
The heavy-handed adaptation of Vineland won six awards, including Best Film and Best Director — and best adapted screenplay. Hamnet won best British film...
Report: Three Quarters Of Chicago’s Live Music Venues Are Not Profitable
“The State of Live,” newly released by the Chicago Independent Venue League, finds that nearly three out of four independent live entertainment venues in...
Has The UK’s Era Of Free Museum Entry Come To An End?
As funding pressures deepen across the sector, and running costs increase, a policy once treated as untouchable is now under renewed scrutiny. - The...
