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...
Preserving The Endangered Crafts Of Sacred Art — At A School In London
The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts is training and certifying craftspeople in disciplines that might otherwise be dying out, such as Pakistani kashikari...
Orchestras With Outdoor Summer Home Bases See Revenue Boosts
But the Pittsburgh Symphony doesn’t have an outdoor venue. Could that change - and could it help the symphony survive? - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Young Chinese Women Are Reviving Interest In A Centuries-Old, Secret Females-Only Script
Nüshu developed among women in the south of Hunan who were barred from education. By the end of the 20th century the script had...
As Arts, And All, Journalism Jobs Dry Up, What Skills Are The Journalists Left...
The situation in Australia is grim. "What this all shows is not only the precarity of the journalistic profession, but also the low value...
Exurbanism Is The New Urbanism
American downtowns may have mattered before 2020, but the enormous growth of remote work (with the resulting rise in office vacancy rates) and the...
Five Of The Best Metatextual Novels About Visual Art
“The anxieties of the art maker – the writer – come through in anxieties about painting, or photography, or sculpture, or dance. But the...
The Video-Game Actors’ Strike Could Be Even More Significant Than Last Year’s Hollywood Strikes
"Gaming employees at every level … (labor in) a highly profitable and popular sector that has long exploited their creativity and devalued their work....
Is Dance An Art Or A Sport, Or Both?
At the Olympics, that’s not really in question as it’s part of Paris’s “Cultural Olympiad, a program of multidisciplinary arts events directed by Dominique...
After Only Six Months, Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Resigns
Leanne Benjamin, a former principal and then coach at London's Royal Ballet, returned home to Queensland early this year to take the helm at...
State Of The Arts In The US: Report With Greatly Expanded Data
In late April, SMU Data Arts released its 2024 "National Trends for Arts and Cultural Organizations," analyzing figures from 233 institutions of varying sizes....
The Public Theater In New York Faces Big Deficits
"When it disclosed layoffs last July, the renowned nonprofit company said that it hoped to avoid a budget deficit in the year ending in...
Analysis: U.S. Ballet Companies’ Budgets Rebounded In The Year After The Pandemic Collapse
In FY 2021, aggregate spending by the 150 largest U.S. ballet companies had fallen by 39% from FY 2019. In FY 2022, spending rose...
Founder Of Collapsed American National Ballet Convicted Of Shooting Her Ex-Husband
Ashley Benefield was acquitted of second-degree murder but convicted of manslaughter in the 2020 death of her ex-husband in Florida. The Benefields were the...
Looks Like Someone’s Been Peddling Another (Potentially) Fake Basquiat
"An intermediary said to be acting on behalf of the American tech company Co2Bit Technologies was reportedly planning to exhibit an unauthenticated Jean-Michel Basquiat...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Appoints Houston Symphony’s CEO As General Director
John Mangum, 49, has no professional experience in opera, but he has spent a career in artistic administration at the Los Angeles and New...
Richard Crawford, Leading Scholar Of American Music, Has Died At 89
Crawford entirely changed the field. He “was a pioneer who shaped the scope of American music research. … It wasn’t about celebrating an unchanging...
Theatres Use Gaming To Attract New Audiences
For instance, Dungeons and Dragons improv can break through barriers and attract nontraditional audiences to theatres. - ArtsHub
Palm Springs Decides To Move Marilyn Monroe Statue To A City Park
The move is a result of a lawsuit from, well, people who love cars. They’ll be disappointed, though; the city council did not decide...
The Lincoln Center Composer In Conversation With Robert Schumann
Hannah Kendall knew, when she read Schumann’s letters about his struggles with depression, that her next piece would be a response to him, and...
Britain Releases Its Stirling Architecture Prize Shortlist
The list includes the entire new Elizabeth Line in London, a dairy farm in Dorset, and the National Portrait Gallery. - BBC
No, The Olympics Opening Ceremony Did Not Refer To Leonardo’s The Last Supper
“A depiction of Greek gods partying atop Mount Olympus at the Olympics opening ceremony spurred conflicting public reactions as primarily conservative critics erroneously claimed...
