Texas Librarian’s Lawsuit For Wrongful Termination May Proceed, Federal Judge Rules
"U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman — the same judge who, in March 2023, ordered several books banned by Llano County officials returned to library...
Japanese Dancer Wins Top Flamenco Prize, And Part Of Audience Gets Predictably Outraged
Never mind that Junko Hagiwara (stage name "La Yunko") has lived and studied in Seville for 20 years. Dance critics, fortunately, have been unanimous...
Britain’s Public Is More Proud Of Its Arts Than Even Its Sports: Survey
"The UK‘s accomplishments in the arts are something its public prides above all else, according to a new study, while fondness for British history...
Netflix-Style Memberships — A Better Business Model For Orchestras Than Subscriptions?
"You pay a monthly membership fee ... that entitles you to attend however much you’d like. As with a gym or a streaming service,...
Gustavo Dudamel Says Wherever His Career Takes Him, He’s Never Leaving L.A.
"Maybe the New York Philharmonic can, as Paris Opera couldn't, become a new family. But he launched his career in L.A. He grew up...
Rebels Have Looted National Museum Of Sudan: Report
"Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have reportedly looted the National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum and smuggled some of its artifacts across the...
Alvin Ailey Gets A Show At The Whitney Museum
"One of the most ambitious shows the museum has ever presented — six years in the making and bigger than any Whitney biennial —...
Despite Injury And Long Recovery, Ian McKellen Does Not Intend To Retire
"I shall just keep at it as long as the legs and the lungs and the mind keep working," says the 85-year-old actor. As...
The Kinds Of Shows Audiences Are Looking For Now
In a world that’s bleak enough already, feel-good, heartfelt comedy feels like more of a salve; earnest sitcoms seem to counteract the vitriol of...
How Should Traditional Museums Think About Immersive Experiences?
What we found leads us to believe that, when it comes to immersive art, established art museums are stuck between staying on the sidelines of...
Opera Philadelphia’s Big Ticketing Experiment
How the math nets out in the end remains to be seen. Last season’s production of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, for instance, had a higher...
Staatsballett Berlin Director Christian Spuck Reflects On His First Year On The Job
"We’re the only company in the world that performs in three different opera houses (in one city). … One-hundred-and-twenty people work at this institution....
Douthat: Why We Don’t Build Beautiful Buildings Anymore
"We don’t necessarily need to repeal the laws of economics or solve Baumol’s cost disease to build as beautifully as our ancestors once did....
CDs Have Always Had A Flaw. Streaming Could Fix It
The majority of your CDs have probably been downsampled perilously from studio to disc. And streaming has now righted that wrong; we can indeed...
Simon Verity, 79, Master Stone Mason Who Led Work At New York’s St. John...
"As a sculptor he contributed to cathedrals both old and young, from survivors of the Middle Ages such as Exeter and Wells to the...
Another Semester Of ChatGPT Havoc At Universities
“If the first year of AI college ended in a feeling of dismay, the situation has now devolved into absurdism." - The Atlantic
Good Investment? I Paid My Kid $100 To Read A Book
My daughter is a whip-smart kid, definitely smarter than I was at 12. But until I resorted to bribery, she’d never read an entire...
Academic Publisher Wiley Sells AI Rights For $44 Million, Won’t Permit Authors To Opt...
"Wiley has already earned $23 million from AI deals and confirmed … that it is set to make a further $21m this financial year....
The Successful Musician: An AI Advantage
"AI-generated songs lack the fluidity of music created by humans. But musicians who experiment with AI can give themselves an edge in an evolving...
This Fall On Broadway: Bring On The Divas
Theater stages are the diva’s holy playground, where complex characters and powerful performances ask audiences to question their received ideas. A new slate of...
More Trouble For Shuttered UArts As Bondholders Demand $51.7 Million Repayment
The Philadelphia school, which closed down without warning on June 7, was notified two weeks later by "successor trustee" UMB Bank that, due to...
Ousted Melbourne Symphony CEO Tried To Overthrow Board Chair After He Questioned Her Spending
Sophie Galaise, the orchestra's now-former managing director, reportedly attempted, along with the board's deputy chairman, to oust MSO chairman David Li after he expressed...
Florida Family Was Sold Dozens Of Fake Warhols, Claims Lawsuit
Matthew, Judy and Richard Perlman of Miami realized they had a problem when they brought some of the pieces to Christie's to sell and...
Disney Pulls All Its Channels, Including ESPN And ABC, From Satellite Provider DirecTV
"ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV" — on the first weekend of college football season and halfway through US Open...
Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco’s Sweet Deal To Move Into Building Part-Owned By...
The two-year-old museum is moving from the Dogpatch neighborhood into "The Cube," a modernist landmark downtown owned 70% by Vornado Realty Trust and 30%...
