Portland’s Upcoming City Council Election Will Have A Massive Effect On The City’s Arts...
Portland, Oregon, voters recently voted for a new city council structure. That council will have to figure out what to do with the home...
Suspect Arrested In Connection With Vandalizing Home Of Brooklyn Museum Director
“Taylor Pelton, 28, has reportedly been charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime. Pasternak’s Brooklyn Heights residence was splashed with red paint in...
Book Bans Are Hurting Indigenous Authors And Books, And Everyone Else Too
“Books that are getting published today are not just for Native kids. They're important to Native kids because they affirm our existence as Native...
Plagiarism Accusations Are Blowing Up The Dance World – Again
“Given that there are few protections for choreographers’ intellectual property unless that property has been copyrighted, and that copyrighting choreography is highly uncommon and...
Plant Philosophy (Yes, It’s A Thing)
"By the end of the 20th century, our understanding of plant behaviour had expanded …, and it continues to expand. Plant behaviour is, as...
Cal Shakes, Not Yet Successful At Its Emergency Fundraiser, Extends Over The Weekend
The company is really hoping to make enough money to produce As You Like It in September. "The 50th anniversary performance ... is supposed...
Elsa Davis Never Expected Her Play “Bulrusher” To Become An Opera
The original version, about a Black baby girl found drifting in a basket along a river, premiered off-Broadway in 2006 and was a Pulitzer...
In Turkey, Archaeologists Find The End Of The Rainbow
That is, what they’ve called “a pot of gold” (golden coins) that help explain the political landscape from the time of the Pelepponisian War....
Where Does Donald Trump’s Hannibal Lecter Fixation Come From?
"After a harrowing deep dive through old Trump-rally speeches and xenophobic Tucker Carlson clips, I believe I have come as close as one can...
Philly’s Free Library, Despite The Resignation Of Its Staff, Says Author Events Are Returning
The entire Author Events staff resigned in June, after “layoffs loomed internal meetings became contentious.” The resigning staff said they found the work...
In The Advertising Market, Can Snapchat Ever Catch Up With Facebook, YouTube, And TikTok?
Ad revenue at Snap is weaker than expected, and its stock price has fallen by a quarter. With the giants' dominance of the social...
If You Think Climate Change Doesn’t Affect Art, You’re Not The One Trying To...
“Art shipping and storage companies seek to avoid abrupt changes in temperature and humidity as much as possible to prevent possible damage, especially to...
The 1984 Olympic Arts Festival Transformed L.A.’s Cultural Scene. Could The LA28 Cultural Olympiad...
Mark Swed recaps the earlier festival and explains something difficult to remember now: just how large the project was and how profound an effect...
Play At London’s Almeida Briefly Halted Because It Made Grown Men Faint
The play, titled The Years and based on the memoir by 2022 Nobel literature prizewinner Annie Ernaux, was stopped for 10 minutes on Monday...
The Collapse Of Newspapers Is A Loss To Literature, Too
"The hothouse atmosphere of newsrooms, especially at urban dailies, teaches the aspiring writer more about the world, about life, and about writing than any...
“Zombie Alt-Weeklies” Village Voice And LA Weekly Are Running AI-Generated Listicles About OnlyFans
"Clicking on (the 'OnlyFans' tab) pulls up a catalog of listicles ranking pornographic performers by demographic, from 'Turkish' to 'incest' to 'granny.' These blog...
Paris’s Musée Rodin Will Open Its First International Outpost In Shanghai
The new museum, called the Centre d’Art Rodin, will open in September in the building constructed as the French pavilion for Expo 2010. The...
Golf Club Will Vacate Site Of Ancient Native American Earthworks
"Ohio History Connection and Moundbuilders Country Club have agreed to terms over the Octagon Earthworks in Licking County. The site is part of Ohio's...
Dance Program At Shuttered University Of The Arts Finds New Home
"Two months after the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, the school’s dance program will be revived at Bennington College in Vermont, which...
Cracking The Code Of Rembrandt’s Golden Luster
A team of scientists found that “the Dutch Master incorporated 'pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar' — yellow and reddish-orange arsenic sulfide mineral variants that he...
A Cultural History Of London’s Biggest Sandwich Moments
“These are sandwiches that announced themselves, generating queues and crowds and noise, from hollers in the streets to streams of hyper-colourful Instagram photos. This...
Did This College Student Really Find A Hidden Chagall And Buy It For Two...
The California student was at an estate sale. “I looked closely at the back and I saw it said Chagall and I was like,...
Why Is NBC So Obsessed With Showing Us Non-Athlete Celebrities At The Olympics?
“I’ve had mixed feelings about the effectiveness of NBC’s strategy — do I care about what John Mulaney has been watching (and wagering on)...
Buffalo, Desperate For Money, Decides To Add Taxes To Music And Arts Tickets
Surprised "venues received letters saying that going forward the city would require a paid license for every event that 'falls into the category of...
In Minneapolis, Indigenous Teens Get A Summer Filled With Architecture And Design
“Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about...
