What Does It Look Like To Give Guaranteed Income To Artists?
It seems like such a basic thing: paying working artists a living wage. But it’s not something that most arts organizations, particularly smaller ones,...
Nashville’s Arts Funder Agrees To Restore Grants It Clawed Back From Minority-Led Arts Groups
The Metro Arts Commission had rescinded the funds in 2023 on advice from the city's attorneys that, because commissioners had discussed race in awarding...
Spanish Residents Protest Mass Tourism
Some popular locations are struggling with the crush of visitors. Tens of thousands of Spanish residents have taken to the streets in Málaga and the Canary...
Silent Demonstration During Performance Calls For Getty Museum To Stop Underpaying Dancers
Last Sunday, as dancers carried heavy sheets of metal and glass in Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I & II, audience members from Los Angeles's...
Yet More Layoffs At Warner Bros. Discovery
The staff cuts, coming a week after the conglomerate eliminated around 100 jobs at CNN, involve multiple departments, including production, business affairs, finance, and...
Musicians’ Union Pension Fund Rescued By $1.5 Billion Of Federal Money
The American Federation of Musicians and Employers Pension Fund, set up for AFM's roughly 50,000 members in New York but underfunded for decades, was...
Macron’s Plan To Install Contemporary Stained Glass Windows In Notre-Dame Is Vetoed
The French President's proposal to replace six 19th-century stained glass windows with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission....
2024 Kennedy Center Honors Go To Francis Ford Coppola, Bonnie Raitt, Anturo Sandoval, The...
"Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said there isn’t a theme when selecting the honorees, but one often emerges organically. This year, that accidental...
Ford And Mellon Foundations Name Final Class Of Disability Futures Fellows
"The initiative, (20 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to disabled creative artists,) administered by United States Artists, named its inaugural class of fellows in...
Boris Kachka, Books Editor Laid Off By L.A. Times, Moves To The Atlantic
Kachka was one of the 115 staffers (roughly 20% of the newsroom) at the Los Angeles Times who were made redundant in January. Before...
The Decline Of HBO (Worst Emmys Outing Since 1996)
On Wednesday, HBO, as well as its accompanying streaming service Max, earned 91 Emmy nominations, down from its massive haul last year (127), and...
Taxonomy Is Our Superpower (And It’s In Dire Shape)
Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation for conserving disappearing plants and animals. Yet the field — often viewed as...
New JFK Terminal Is Stuffed With Art
The $4.2 billion facility in Queens will showcase the largest number of works of any New York airport by major figures from the United...
Country Music Is Hot Again (And Fans Are In Charge)
Across the musical universe, country is cool again. This year, for the first time, the country festival Stagecoach sold out before its better-known mainstream...
“The Bear” Leads With Record Number Of Emmy Nominations
“The Bear,” about chefs under pressure at a Chicago restaurant, set a new record for nominations in a single year for a comedy. It has...
How The Sports Novel Reached Adulthood
"For much of its history, the Western sports novel had been the stuff of inspirational boys’ tales, full of moral instruction and can’t-lose heroes....
Australian Media Say Catastrophe If Meta Removes News Links From Facebook
Meta has threatened to remove all news from Facebook in Australia if it is “designated” under the world-first News Media Bargaining Code, which has the power...
One Of San Francisco’s Coolest Theaters Is Closing Its Doors
Cutting Ball Theater plans to cease operations at the end of 2024. In its 25 years, Cutting Ball has mounted a Strindberg marathon, a...
Academic Publishing Is A Rip Off. We Need Reform
The annual revenues of the “big five” commercial publishers – Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, and SAGE – are each in the...
The “Yoda-Like Guru” Of Tap Dance
The youngsters who studied with Gene Medler at the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble remain devoted to him and his teaching methods for years...
Why Silicon Valley Is Exploring Guaranteed Income
It is a critical moment for guaranteed income, which has been touted by the OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, the Tesla chief executive Elon Musk,...
MOCA In L.A. Launches New $100,000 ‘Environment And Art’ Prize
"Called the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, the (biennial) award, which comes with $100,000, will go to an artist whose practice...
Librarians Cull Books All The Time. How Do They Decide What Goes?
With public libraries mandated to support literacy, recreational reading, and free access to information, today’s librarians make decisions about removing books amid competing pressures...
Eat Your Heart Out, Jersey City: Centre Pompidou Málaga Will Remain Open For Ten...
"Debuting as a pop-up along the (Spanish) city’s waterfront in 2015, the 65,000-square-foot museum is notable for the brightly hued glass cube created by...
Pete Wells, New York Times’s Most Entertaining Restaurant Critic Ever, Is Moving On
"A funny thing happened when I got to the end of all that eating: I realized I wasn’t hungry. I’m still not, at least...
