How Trump Gamed Approval For His Ballroom
“It’s sad that a majority of the commissioners lack expertise in art and architecture,” the person told CNN. “There is only one architect, yet...
A Major Project To Revive Indigenous Languages
Chicago’s Newberry Library has received $4 million from the Mellon Foundation that will help widen access to Indigenous languages, some of which have been...
Trump Administration Restores Philadelphia Slavery Exhibition After Court Order
The stories and images that had been on display for two decades were abruptly removed last month following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The...
Germany’s International Broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, Loses Millions In Government Funding
Between a reduction of €10 million ($11.8 million) in federal subsidies and the requirement to cut €11 million ($12.9 million) in expenses due to...
Are We Falling Out Of Love With Our AI Confidants?
There are good reasons why people, at least at first, feel positive about their relationship with an AI companion. But new research is showing...
Attention Spans Are A Design Problem
The same teenager who supposedly lacks attention span can maintain game focus for hours while parsing a complex narrative across multiple storylines, coordinating with...
Why A Small Artist Group Decided Not To Canel Its Kennedy Center Dates
There were the contractors it had hired to build an ice rink on the center’s plaza, and the work visas that took a year...
Commercialization Of Frida Kahlo Has Gone Way Too Far, Says Her Grandniece
There is by now an untold variety of Frida merch, from watches to candles to tequila to home décor to a branded Miami condo...
Isaiah Zagar, Known For His Psychedelic Philadelphia Mosaics, Is Dead At 86
A self-taught mosaicist, Mr. Zagar used broken bottles, handmade tiles, mirrors, and other found objects to cover walls across the city, particularly in South...
Seattle Symphony’s Home To Close For Renovations This Summer
“Benaroya Hall, the longtime home of the Seattle Symphony …, will close for six weeks beginning in July for the final phase of a...
Architectural Drawings Of Trump’s Planned White House East Wing Released
“The drawings picture the East Wing volume extending well into the White House lawn. At roughly 90,000 square feet, its footprint is more than...
Internal Kennedy Center Email Reveals Details Of Planned Renovation Work
“The renovations are more modest in scale and scope than what President Trump has publicly outlined for the revamped arts center, and it is...
Black Actress Sues Harvard’s American Repertory Theater For Discrimination, Alleging Permanent Scalp Damage
Nike Imoru said that for last year’s staging of The Odyssey, she was told to get cornrows but was not provided with a competent...
Peter Gelb, Controversial Met Opera Boss, Announces Retirement Date
The company’s general manager — who drew widespread praise in his first few years but has recently come under fire as the Met has...
Met Operas’s Next Season Will Be Its Smallest Since The 1960s
During its 2026-27 season, the Metropolitan Opera will present only 17 productions, the fewest in a full season since (at least) the company moved...
Why Does Bernini’s Beloved Elephant Sculpture In Rome Keep Losing The Tip Of Its...
Because people keep knocking it off — most recently, this past weekend, when police found the four-inch marble fragment from the left tusk on...
Vertical Dance: A Brief History
How a cross between rock climbing, rappelling, circus aerobatics and contemporary dance turned into a performing art of its own. - The Mercury News...
Almost Everything We Knew About Mayan Culture Turns Out To Be Wrong
Outsiders’ power over the story of the Maya is written into the people’s very name. After their arrival in the early 1500s, the Spanish...
Outsourcing Publishing Decisions To Influencers
Bindery Books, a startup founded by publishing veterans, uses social media book influencers as acquiring editors to champion underrepresented authors and build engaged reader...
Royal Shakespeare Co. To Stage New “Game Of Thrones” Prequel
George R.R. Martin, author of the series of novels at the heart of the franchise, says that the RSC was the ‘obvious choice’ to...
Children’s Vocabularies Are Shrinking In Shift From Reading To Screens
“So many children are now falling behind,” Dent said. “The vocabulary gap is getting bigger and there is a real perception that vocabulary development...
V&A Museum Acquires First-Ever YouTube Video
“The V&A has acquired a reconstructed early webpage and the first video ever uploaded to the platform by co-founder Jawed Karim,” a V&A spokesperson...
Marketing To Chatbots
The rise of chatbot marketing is happening as A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini hit mass adoption. OpenAI has said that 800 million...
Could The Pipeline Of Venezuelan Classical Musicians Start Running Dry?
Graduates of the country’s El Sistema program can be found on concert stages and in top-flight orchestras all over the world; conductor Giancarlo Guerrero...
Metaphor? Leader Of US Constitution Center Steps Down As America’s 250th Birthday Begins
The first and only museum dedicated to the US constitution has been plunged into turmoil over the sudden departure of its president, a legal scholar widely...
