Whitney Museum Goes In-House For Curators Of 2026 Whitney Biennial
Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer are both staff curators at the Whitney; Guerrero is the museum's first curator devoted specifically to Latinx art, while...
Metropolitan Opera And Yannick Nézet-Séguin Extend Their Contract Through 2029-30 Season
Over the next six years, Nézet-Séguin will conduct four or five operas each season, including new works — such as Mason Bates's The Amazing...
A Second Animal-Themed Banksy Emerges In London
This one is "two elephants reaching towards each other from blocked-out windows” in Chelsea. - The Guardian (UK)
Marianna Martines, A Phenom In The 18th Century, Comes To Lincoln Center
“Martines began her remarkable career at just 16. At 38, she became the first female composer programmed by the Society of Musicians, whose elite concert...
Walter Arlen, Who Fled The Holocaust And Became A Composer, Has Died At 103
Arlen was “a Viennese musical prodigy who fled to the United States after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in 1938 and became a music critic...
The Artist Jailed By Putin For Five Tiny Pieces Of Paper
Sasha Skochilenko, released in the multi-country, multi-person prisoner swap, was serving seven years for substituting price tags in a grocery store with messages like,...
Banksy’s Newest In London Is A Black Goat
Why? It’s a mystery. “A Banksy fan who raced to the artwork’s location as soon as it was revealed on social media said she...
Women Of Color Are Losing Ground In Hollywood
The Annenberg report: Of the top 100 2023 films, the numbers are grim - from the 99 that had no Native or Pacific Islander...
Miami’s Small Arts Organizations Slash Their Budgets And Search For Life Rafts After DeSantis’s...
"Arts organizations across Miami-Dade County have been left to their own devices ... to deal with the cuts in funding, and in many cases,...
If You Want Your Broadway Show To Do Well, You’ll Need To Capture The...
How did The Great Gatsby get excitement for its cast album flowing? TikTok, of course - and also YouTube, Instagram, and X/Twitter, not to...
Meet Mourad Merzouki, Choreographer Of The Olympics’ Official Dance Showcase
No, this doesn't mean the breaking competition. This is free performance before 13,500 spectators at the Trocadéro Champions Park, where the Algerian-French hip-hop choreographer's...
They Asked AI To Write A Stand-Up Show
One program delivered lazy, sexist jokes and couldn’t be trained out of its ways. So that’s going great - but researchers keep saying it...
Yuval Sharon Will Stage Metropolitan Opera’s Next “Ring” Cycle And “Tristan”
Sharon’s Tristan und Isolde opens March 9, 2026 with Lise Davidsen as Isolde. The Ring begins with Das Rheingold in spring 2028, continues with...
Ella Jenkins Revolutionized Music For Children, And At 100, She’s Not Finished Yet
“Jenkins captivated her listeners because she presented music not as lessons but as play. A charismatic performer whose accompaniment often consisted of only a...
Chimpanzees Have Back-And-Forth Conversations Much Like Humans Do
"Researchers analysed thousands of gestures made by wild chimps in east Africa and found striking similarities with the turn-taking seen in human conversations, in...
Let’s Chat About That Abbott Elementary Dance
“To be dancing in the spotlight for that long, and also making sure it’s funny,” says actor Janelle James. But she was also considering...
How On Earth Does One Write A Musical About Particle Physics?
David Henry Hwang wondered that, too. Yet he's part of an impressive team working on a show about the Large Hadron Collider and the...
Lots Of Legal Drama Around Mysterious African Art Collection In Houston
The collection of 1,400 objects belongs to broker Sam Njunuri, who's been ordered to sell part of it to pay $990,000 in damages to...
Even Now, Hollywood Still Gives Twice As Many Roles To Men As To Women:...
"Just 32% of speaking characters in the top 100 movies at the box office in 2023 were women or girls, according to (USC's) Annenberg...
Another Spanish Church Restoration Goes Wrong
This isn't as bad as "Beast Jesus," but the repainting at the Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Mirón in the city of Soria has...
Writers At The Atlantic Push Back Hard Against Management’s Deal With OpenAI
"Nearly 60 journalists — including marquee names such as Adam Serwer, Caitlin Flanagan, Jerusalem Demsas, and George Packer — signed a letter calling on...
Uh-Oh, Last-Second Cancellations Of Shows Due To COVID Are Back (At Least In Chicago)
This past weekend, the Goodman Theatre called off two performances of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil just before curtain time. On...
David Lynch Has Emphysema And Can’t Leave His House, But He Is Not Retiring
He dares not venture out for fear of catching even a cold, and he can only walk a short distance before running out of...
The Five Composers Who Defined The Sound Of Horror Movie Music
"The history of horror scores is a long, winding path (that leads to an old abandoned shed stocked with rusty hatchets), with legends of...
Irony-Impaired Florida Man Pleads Guilty To Bombing Satirical Sculpture of Lenin And Mao
The artwork by the Gao Brothers, titled Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenin’s Head, was brought to San Antonio...
