Have China’s Universities Really Become Best In The World?
It’s true that Chinese universities have made remarkable strides, and some of them host superb centers of research and education. However, they aren’t nearly...
Stop Trying To Make Classical Music Popular By “Fitting In”
The embarrassment comes in what can all too easily happen when classical music tries to get down with the kids with new formats. Visuals!...
Artforum Editor Steps Down
Tina Rivers Ryan had stepped into the leadership role at Artforum after a tumultuous year. It had just fired David Velasco, at the time its...
Why More Oscar Categories Are Open To Foreign-Language Films Then Ever Before
Yes, of course the fact that the Motion Picture Academy has made a conscious effort to internationalize its membership is part of it. Yet...
The Messy, Sordid Controversy Underlying The Olympic Ice Dancing Competition
Or, how France’s Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who’s actually Canadian) ended up paired at all, then became the gold medalists despite having...
Conductor Helmuth Rilling, Last Of The Old-School Bach Specialists, Has Died At 92
With his ensembles Gächinger Kantorei and Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, he undertook the first complete recording project of Bach’s cantatas and major choral works. As the period-instrument...
Proposed Jersey City Branch Of Pompidou Center Is Officially “Dead”
“After announcing last week that Jersey City is facing a $255 million deficit, Mayor James Solomon removed any doubt about where he stood on Centre Pompidou’s...
Kennedy Center Boss Warns Of Job Cuts During Shutdown
In a Tuesday memo obtained by The Associated Press, Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell told staff that ‘departments will obviously function on a much...
Bud Cort, Star Of “Harold And Maude” And “Brewster Mccloud,” Is Dead At 77
He was discovered by director Robert Altman for the 1970 films M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud; he subsequently featured in Heat (1995), Dogma (1999) and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)....
Leonard Slatkin Named Music Director Of Nashville Symphony
The 81-year-old conductor has served the orchestra as “Music Advisor” for the past year, following the departure of Giancarlo Guerrero. (He did the same...
A Choreographer Adapts Flamenco For Ice Dancing
Antonio Najarro, former director of the Ballet Nacional de España and choreographer of several medal-winning routines in ice dancing: “It seemed very difficult to...
Permission To Star(e)
Depending on where you stand, the human face has become either a digital playground or digital battleground. Your Instagram feed can now produce a...
Playwright Tracy Letts On Why He Wrote “Bug” (And Why Now’s A Good Time...
“I was studying this issue of conspiracy theories and what makes people susceptible to a conspiracy theory. There’s a real terror of (not conforming)...
Study: Using AI Doesn’t Reduce Work, It Intensifies It
In an eight-month study of how generative AI changed work habits at a U.S.-based technology company with about 200 employees, we found that employees...
France’s “Inalienable” Problem In Repatriating Museum Art
The principle is currently set out in two French legal codes, including the Heritage Code, which applies to public museum collections. Under the principle, nothing...
How Sundance’s Move To Boulder Could Reinvent The Festival
Sundance’s move to Boulder is coinciding with a fortuitous moment in the specialty film space, with an uptick in post-pandemic interest from younger moviegoers....
You’re About To Release A Novel, And Suddenly A News Event Comes Too Close...
That’s the dilemma that faced Simon & Schuster last fall, when right-wing media star Charlie Kirk was assassinated not long before the scheduled publication...
Paramount Sweetens Its Offer To Buy Warner
On Tuesday, the Skydance-owned company said it would pay Warner shareholders an added “ticking fee” if its deal doesn’t go through by the end...
Report: Trump “Obsessed” With Kennedy Center Makeover
Overhauling the Kennedy Center has become a fixation for Trump—and no detail is too small for the real-estate-developer-turned-president. - The Wall Street Journal
France’s Le Pen Planning Makeover Of French Arts Scene
Marine Le Pen’s party is concocting plans to replace a vital, vibrant arts scene with a retrograde movement that would glorify the country’s past....
Philippe Gaulier, Clown School Professor With A Galaxy Of Movie-Star Alumni, Is Dead At...
“The influential founder of France’s École Philippe Gaulier … taught the art of clowning for decades and his students included Sacha Baron Cohen, Helena Bonham...
A New Iron Curtain Between Russian And American Dance
A new iron curtain now separates American dance and Russian dance, bringing an abrupt end to a rich dialogue that spanned centuries. Swan Lake and The Nutcracker,...
LACMA’s New Galleries To Open April 19
That Sunday, a ribbon-cutting ceremony will kick off two weeks of priority member access to the galleries, with general admission beginning May 4. -...
How Washington National Opera Left The Kennedy Center
“It has nothing to do with the name change. It is strictly dollars and cents, and the Kennedy Center’s inability to understand the economics...
Ireland Makes Its Basic-Income-For-Artists Program Permanent
“The Basic Income for the Arts initiative will provide €325 ($386) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic in three-year cycles....
