Curtis Institute Raises Nearly $200 Million To Keep Tuition Free
“’What will it take to keep Curtis tuition-free?’ asked Curtis president Roberto Díaz in 2016, when the Institute was still in the early days...
West End “Evita” Has “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” Sung To A Crowd Outdoors...
“The audience inside — who have paid up to a whopping £250 ($336) a ticket — are left with a livestream of the number. Those on...
Tom Bodett’s Commercials For Motel 6 Are Legends. Now He’s Suing To Get Paid...
The hotel chain discovered Bodett through his spots on All Things Considered, and their relationship worked very well for almost 40 years. Then the...
AI Is Rewiring The Internet And… Of Course There Are Downsides
A growing body of research correlates persistent use of AI with a drop in critical thinking; humans become reliant on AI and unwilling, perhaps unable, to verify its work....
This 13th-Century Yemeni Citadel May Not Survive Its Own Restoration
“From its perch 5,000 feet above sea level, the ancient al-Qahira Castle has watched over Yemen’s third-largest city, Taiz, for more than 800 years....
Posting The Receipts: Writers Are Documenting Themselves Writing On TikTok To Prove They’re Not...
Prolific authors are not only calling out people who use AI to write, they’re also posting livestreams and time-lapses of their writing processes to...
Inside Pensacola, America’s Book-Banning Capital
Many Pensacola parents were appalled by this surge of censorship; some wondered if it was unconstitutional. By early 2024, a U.S. district court judge...
Is Art Basel Losing Its Mojo?
Art Basel’s flagship event in Switzerland now faces formidable challenges. The 289 gallerists from 42 countries participating in this year’s edition of the fair,...
This Family Has Kept The Whirling Dance of Sufism Alive In Syria
“The al-Kharrats say they are the only family in Syria who have continuously performed the Sema, as the dance is known, ... through years...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Its Recently-Hired Executive Director
Before leading the festival, Gabriella Calicchio had more than 25 years of experience in the arts, including as managing director of Minneapolis’ nonprofit Children’s...
Fish Out Of Water: A Working Class Writer At The Iowa Writers’ Workshop
"Before their arrival, my classmates had been editorial assistants and reporters and interns for major publications. I had been working nights as a package...
Why Culture Desperately Needs Better Digital Infrastructure
When AI systems learn about Canadian culture, history, and events, they should be learning from trusted, structured, Canadian sources - not filtered scraps from...
Martial-Arts Classics Starring Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, And Jet Li Will Get AI-Powered Remakes
“At the Shanghai International Film Festival on Thursday, a collection of Chinese studios revealed that they are turning to AI to re-imagine around 100 classics of...
How Detroit Reinvented Through The Arts
Fuelled by an enterprising spirit born from recent adversity, many have found new ways to inject life into their communities and cultural arenas. In...
So Why Does Everyone Seem To Be Identifying With Imposter Syndrome?
The phrase “impostor syndrome” often elicits a fierce sense of identification, especially from millennial and Gen X women. When I put out a call...
Netflix To Start Streaming Broadcast Channels
If it proves successful, Netflix and TF1’s partnership could unlock the door for more linear channels to air on streaming services, including in other...
Man Drives Mercedes Down Rome’s Spanish Steps, Gets Stuck
Firefighters who helped the 80-year-old driver from his vehicle say that he was uninjured and disoriented but not intoxicated. A crane removed the car...
Together: Inside The Sonia Friedman-Hugh Jackman-Ian Rickson Low-Cost Theatre Project
While the actors are high-profile, the production costs are kept down: small casts, minimal sets, simple tech, smaller Off-Broadway venue. A quarter of the...
Cambodia Bans Thai Films And TV
“Cambodia escalated its cold war with Thailand on Friday when it announced a ban on Thai movies and TV shows and a boycott of...
Is Art Basel Being Overshadowed By Its Own Spinoffs?
For decades it was the contemporary art world’s do-not-miss fair, but the Swiss mother-ship now faces competition from Art Basel events in Qatar, Hong...
Audience Members Explain Why They Went To L.A. Opera Despite Protests, Troops, And Curfew
Steven Lass: “L.A. is not scary. You could be in a bad place at the wrong time, but that can happen anywhere.” Jason Roblee: “They...
With Its Own Building Closed For Renovations, Pompidou Center Moves Into Newly-Restored Grand Palais
The Beaux-Arts landmark on the Champs-Elysées, built for the Paris Universal Exhibition (World’s Fair) in 1900, has been renovated for the first time in...
One Of Philadelphia’s Biggest Arts Funders, Left Homeless By UArts Collapse, Has New Home
“The Barnes Foundation will be the new home for The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, a major funder of local arts programming, after...
Indoor Skydiving — Not Only Is It Really A Thing, It’s Turning into A...
In glass-sided vertical wind tunnels, powerful fans shoot air upward at approximately the speed a human body would fall from an airplane. …But over...
Alt-Weeklies Are Not, In Fact, Dead (Despite The Long Casualty List)
The many postmortems after The Village Voice closed in 2017, plus the disappearance of alt-weeklies in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Baltimore, the Bay Area, and...
