Minority-Led Arts Groups In Chicago Are Getting More Money From Donors
"Major arts donors nearly doubled their funding to Chicago groups with diverse leaders and audiences over the past three years, but the authors of...
After Public Radio’s WAMU Closed DCist, Laid-Off Journalists Start New DC News Site
"They are calling it The 51st — a nod to the District’s lack of statehood — and say it will deliver hyperlocal news relevant...
The Message Of Footwear: Jonathon Heyward, The “Converse Conductor”
Wearing sneakers onstage (and a Nehru jacket rather than a tux) is just one of numerous steps which the new Baltimore Symphony music director...
Mounties Seize 138 Pounds Of Cocaine Hidden In Grand Piano
Quebec RCMP say they seized 62.7 kilograms of cocaine hidden in the walls of a grand piano during searches in the Lanaudière and Sherbrooke...
Philadelphia Museum of Art Faces Yet Another Labor Dispute
"The museum workers’ union says management is violating their contract by not allowing employees to work from home up to two days a week...
How Lonnie Bunch Has Transformed The Smithsonian
Initiatives such as an ethical returns policy that restored twenty-nine looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria—shifting the global conversation around restitution—and a more recent effort, spurred...
What A Long Overdue Kaethe Kollwitz Show Says About MoMA’s Expanded Vision
Charting its way through changing times, MoMA is building out how it tells that history in the 21st Century, increasingly embracing women, African-American artists and...
Amid Financial And Leadership Woes, San Francisco Symphony Considers Cutting Its Chorus
Dozens of San Francisco Symphony Chorus members say leadership has proposed slashing their budget by up to 80%, a move they believe could further tarnish the...
Climate Change, Pandemics… We Face Global Threats. Our National Governments Aren’t Equipped
This basic mismatch between the scale of the problem and the scale of possible solutions is a source of many of today’s failures of...
Major Recording Labels Sue Verizon For Not Banishing Pirates
Verizon "knowingly provides its high-speed service to a massive community of online pirates," said the complaint filed in US District Court for the Southern District of...
Does Music Lose Its Power When It’s Too Easy To Make, Too Easy To...
Music being too easy to make means too much of the same music is made, “making it harder to find really exceptional things.” Because...
Now That Breakdancing Is An Olympic Sport, Will Dancers Get Paid Like Athletes?
"The 2024 Olympics could be a turning point for dancers who are accustomed to making a living performing and teaching." What's more, "like dancers,...
Disney’s Plan To Keep You Watching More
The entertainment giant is developing a host of new features aimed at lengthening the amount of time subscribers spend viewing its shows and movies....
Badass Bathing Beauties: A Brief History Of Synchronized Swimming
"Now known at the highest level as 'artistic swimming,' it was for decades one of the few athletic activities women could pursue, albeit in...
Nicholas Serota’s Plan For The UK Arts Sector In The New Era
The plan includes putting culture and creativity at "the heart of education" and advocating "for the role culture can play in local renewal", as...
Madrid Tries Luring Folks To Spend Scorching Summer Afternoons At Air-Conditioned Arts Venues
"The new programme, called RefĂşgiate en la cultura (Take Shelter in Culture), offers free flamenco shows – in the Prado, the Reina SofĂa and...
Hum-And-Search Music Is Here
The tool lets people hum the song, sing the song or even play the song on another instrument. The feature is rolling out to...
Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts Loses Its Chief Curator (And Isn’t Replacing Her)
PAFA chief of curatorial affairs Anna O. Marley is departing for a similar position at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio. The financially...
When Police Came For Her Child-Molesting Husband, Alice Munro Told Them Her Daughter Was...
Retired Ontario Provincial Police Detective Sam Lazarevich recalled coming to arrest Gerald Fremlin in 2004 and the furious reaction from Munro; he remembers thinking...
Chrysler Building, New York’s Most Beautiful Skyscraper, Is In Pretty Sorry Shape
Its iconic crown and fabulous Art Deco lobby are still handsome — if you don't look closely. As the 94-year-old landmark's ownership keeps changing...
German Media Giant Axel Springer, Owner Of Politico And Business Insider, Considers Breaking Itself...
"A potential deal would separate its media assets from its digital classifieds operation, handing the former to CEO Mathias Doepfner and the founder's widow...
Amid Job Cuts, SoCal Public Radio/LAist Appoints New CEO
Alejandra Santamaria, most recently interim president and general manager at Univision Los Angeles, takes the helm at a difficult moment: 28 positions were recently...
Edinburgh Fringe Faces A Shortage Of Venues
"As arts spaces across Scotland’s capital struggle to stay afloat, the number of venues hosting fringe shows this year is among the lowest of...
La Scala’s Superintendent To Leave For Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Dominique Meyer, considered a good manager of the notoriously difficult Milan opera house, has been denied a second term by Italy's nationalist government, which...
Peter Schjeldahl And The Art Of Dying
Like Karl Marx and Jim Harrison, who died at their desks, and George Orwell, who was writing a book review when he died, Schjeldahl...
