Rebecca Horn, Sculptor And Installation Artist, Is Dead At 80
"(She was) known for her surreal and sensual 'art machines' incorporating musical instruments, bird feathers and mechanical engineering." - The Guardian
Li-Young Lee Wins $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Lee, whose books include The Dressing and The Invention of the Darling, joins such previous winners as Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin and Joy Harjo....
After DeSantis Eliminated State Funding, Arts Organizations In Miami Face County Funding Cuts As...
"The proposed budget cuts nearly $2.5 million from Miami-Dade County’s current $25.5 million budget for art grants. … As Miami bolsters its reputation as...
Art Institute Of Chicago Gets $75 Million Gift For New Building
"The funds — which amount to the single largest naming gift the museum has ever received — come from longtime art collectors Aaron I....
New York City Opera Tries Again For Revival With New Director
"Constantine Orbelian was promoted Tuesday to executive director of the largely dormant New York City Opera, which hasn’t given a staged performance since 2022...
Lincoln Center Theater Appoints Lear deBessonet And Bartlett Sher Its Next Leaders
The new directors will take up their posts when current artistic director André Bishop retires next summer after 33 years. Sher, as executive producer...
Orlando Ballet Hires New Executive Director From Joffrey
"Bradley W. Renner … comes to the position after serving as General Manager and then Director of Development at the Joffrey Ballet for the...
Italy’s Culture Minister Is Out After Giving His Ex-Mistress A Job
"Gennaro Sangiuliano, a 62-year-old former journalist, had faced a media storm since Maria Rosaria Boccia, a self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur, said last month she had...
Orlando Fringe Opts For Group Therapy
The new leadership structure is dubbed a "tri-directorate model" with three equal directors at the top each with distinct areas of specialization, as opposed...
Audible Will Allow Authors To AI Clone Their Voices To Read Their Audio Books
Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding...
Australian Government Proposes Banning Children From Social Media
The government will soon trial age verification technology to restrict children from opening social media accounts by the end of 2024, blocking children from...
How To Create Things? New Movie On Brian Eno Takes On The Question
How should we create things? The word “should” isn’t quite right, since there’s no correct way to be creative; still, when you’re actually creating...
This Year’s National Book Award Longlist
The list includes two début young adult novels, one writer who has been previously honored by the National Book Awards—Randy Ribay, the author of...
In Staging A Script About Sri Lanka’s Civil War, A Playwright Suddenly Learns About...
S. Shakthidharan, born a Sri Lankan Tamil, was a toddler when his family fled the fighting and settled in Australia. When he asked his...
James Earl Jones Gave Permission To Use AI To Create Performances After His Death
It’s a particularly interesting question when it comes to voice acting specifically. The full recreation of vocals may feel further along than the full...
MoMA Director Glenn Lowry To Step Down In 2025 After 30 Years As Director
"He has held the top post since 1995. When it was revealed in 2018 that he planned to continue through 2025, (when his contract...
New Arts Rights Group Aims To Battle Inequities Inside Museum Culture
“We saw museums leaning into reactionary methods: colleagues doing token hires, museums using artists as cover, and others being ousted from museum associations. There...
In A Painful Profile, Kathy Bates Says That Her Current Role Will Be Her...
Bates — who said she'll retire after finishing the title role in the reboot of the TV series Matlock — was having a very...
How Might The Art Of Dance Reshape The Business Of Dance?
What does dance bring to a conversation about creative administration? Well, to start, dance artists have an embodied understanding of dynamic systems. The human...
What’s Wrong With “Extreme Audit Culture”
Scholars around the world are concerned about the effects of an extreme audit culture in higher education, one in which researchers’ productivity is continually...
The American Right Attacks Wikipedia
While most of the planet sees Wikipedia as a generally reliable source for basic facts on everything from Ansel Adams to ZZ Top, it...
Apple Must Pay Ireland $14.4 Billion In Back Taxes, Rules EU’s Highest Court
Finally closing a case that started in 2016, the European Court of Justice agreed with the European Commission (the European Union's executive branch) that...
LACMA’s New Building Won’t Be Opening Until 2026
The new home for the museum's permanent collection, designed by starchitect Peter Zumthor and named the David Geffen Galleries, was initially scheduled to open...
Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized For Emergency Heart Surgery
The disgraced film producer and convicted-then-unconvicted rapist was rushed to New York City's Bellevue Hospital from Rikers Island, where he is being held pending...
2024 Praemium Imperiale Awards To Maria João Pires, Shigeru Ban, Ang Lee, Doris Salcedo,...
The 15 million yen (roughly $105,000) prize, intended as an arts equivalent of the Nobel prizes, go to Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban, Oscar-winning...
