Australian Court Allows Exhibition That Banned Men From Entering
The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male...
Malcolm Gladwell — Beyond “Tipping Point” (But Where’s The Internet?)
Gladwell has insisted that change happens neatly, and he’s sticking to it. Epidemics, he writes in the new book, are “not wild and out...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Throw Soup At Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” Again
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London...
Report: This Spring’s Art Auction Season Was Worst Of This Century
A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei...
America’s Two Biggest Satellite TV Companies To Merge
DirecTV, founded in 1994 by Hughes Electronics, is owned by AT&T Inc. and TPG Inc., and has about 11 million customers. Dish, started in...
A National Trust For Local News Has Been Buying Up Newspapers Around America
The Trust’s newsrooms earn revenue from traditional sources: advertising and reader revenue, with events, commercial printing jobs, and branded content in the mix as...
Assessing The State Of The Arts In Maine
At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn't fully recovered...
How Austin Got A Museum Matching Its Cultural Vitality
It took the Blanton from good college art museum to global arts pilgrimage site in an instant. - Forbes
Exit Interview: Rufus Norris On Running London’s National Theatre
Known for his lack of grandness, Norris is reluctant to offer up high-minded pronouncements on his departure. - The Guardian
How Humor Sells
Research from Oracle indicates that 90% of consumers are more likely to recall a product or brand associated with a humorous treatment, and 72% would choose...
This Poor Cellist’s Instrument Was Just Stolen For The Second Time
Ophélie Gaillard's 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window...
A Theater Critic Watches A Show From Backstage. Fittingly, It’s “The Play That Goes...
Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like...
Why Did Houston Public Media Spike A Podcast It Had Promoted The Heck Out...
The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter's long-term partner...
Maggie Smith, 89
Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime...
In A Metro Atlanta Town That’s Half Hispanic, A Theater Company Goes Bilingual
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time,...
Alec Baldwin’s “Rust” Prosecution For Manslaughter Was Thrown Out. What Happens To The Armorer...
The case against Baldwin, who accidentally shot the movie's cinematographer because the prop gun he was handling turned out to have live ammunition in...
Art Historian Left His Rembrandts To Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back. The Law...
Abraham Bredius was director of the Mauritshuis in The Hague 1889-1919, and he bequeathed 25 Rembrandts and other Old Master paintings to the museum...
Lloyd Macklowe, Major Dealer In Art Nouveau, Is Dead At 90
He and his wife started in 1965 with one Tiffany ceramic vase, purchased for $55 (roughly $548 today). By 1971, they opened Macklowe Gallery...
At Stake In Landmark Case: Can You Copyright A Rhythm?
Plaintiffs Clevie and Steely are seeking remuneration for a series of songs that not only sample “Fish Market,” but that interpolate or copy its...
Why Is Virginia Woolf This Fall’s Fashion Muse?
According to Claire Nicholson, chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and a retired lecturer at Cambridge University, “Bloomsbury dressing is creative...
“Unprecedented” Threat To Sudanese Culture From Civil War
At least one performing arts center has been destroyed, cultural and heritage sites are being looted, and the 2,000-year-old ruins at Naga as well...
The Art Market Is Plunging And Sotheby’s Is Scrambling
Sotheby’s had been riding a rollicking art market wave in recent years, bringing in at least $7 billion in sales annually and setting record-level...
A Gala Of Movies Created By AI
In some ways, the event had the trappings of a normal short film festival. There were awards and prizes, as well as appetizers, poke...
Why I’ve Reset Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” In 20th-Century Ireland
Annilese Miskimmon, English National Opera's artistic director and a native of Northern Ireland, sees enough similarities between the original story (a young 17th-century woman...
In Qatar: Library As National Cultural Museum
"In a library, you create your own narrative. The material in the Heritage Library is of such a caliber that it could be considered...
