The World’s Oldest Story Painting Is 51,000 Years Old
The previous record holder was a lifesize picture of a wild pig believed to be created at least 45,500 years ago in a cave at Leang...
The Man Who Stole Munch’s “The Scream” Has Died At 57
Once a promising teenage soccer player, Pål Enger decided he was a better criminal than athlete and began a career of art and jewelry...
LLMs And AI Challenge Our Notions Of Consciousness
LLMs challenge traditional notions of intelligence and consciousness, blurring lines between AI and biology. - Psychology Today
Meet Simone Biles’s Choreographer, Who Trained At The Paris Opera Ballet
"Until now, Grégory Milan wryly considered his life to be 'a series of failures of sorts.' When he turned to gymnastics choreography full-time, in...
Are There Too Many Non-Profits?
While each example in the litany of headlines of late is unique, taken together, the drumbeat of bad news raises serious questions about nonprofit...
Aphra Bean Comedy, So Controversial It Was Only Performed Once, Is Revived After 353...
Bean's The Amorous Prince, or The Curious Husband was considered "too radical, too shocking" in its day, says director Natalie Cox. "Some of the...
Finland’s Latest Boy-Wonder Conductor Gets His First Major Orchestra
"Tarmo Peltokoski was hired Thursday to succeed Jaap van Zweden as music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. Peltokoski, at 24 far younger than...
The Utterly Bleak TV Series That Captures Russians’ Utterly Bleak Mindset
Slovo Patsana: Krov na Asphalte (roughly, "The Boy's Word: Blood on the Asphalt") "is a warning about what happens when our ability for moral...
Melodies Of Hit Pop Songs Have Become Much Less Complex Over Past 50 Years:...
"(Researchers) studied songs placed in the top five of the US Billboard year-end singles music chart each year between 1950 and 2022. … The...
Titian Painting Discovered In A Plastic Bag Sells For $22.3 Million
The Venetian master's Rest On The Flight Into Egypt (1510) was looted by Napoleon's soldiers in 1809 and returned at bayonet-point after Waterloo; it...
New British Government’s Designated Culture Secretary Lost Her Seat In Parliament
"Incoming UK prime minister Keir Starmer will need to appoint a new secretary of state for culture, media and sport (CMS) after shadow culture...
What Britain’s Arts And Culture Sector Expects From The New Labour Government
As UK Equity summed it up, "We’ll be pressing ... for UK arts funding to reach the European average, ... to make Universal Credit...
Big Media Stocks Have Had a Rough Time While Tech Soars
Media heavyweights are likely due to endure more pain as the year goes on. The political and regulatory environment for mergers and acquisitions is...
The Politics Behind Canceling New Jersey’s Pompidou Center
The mayor of Jersey City and a major supporter of the museum, blamed the cuts instead on his deteriorating relationship with the state’s governor,...
Amid Controversy, Scotland’s National Gallery Says It Will Continue To Take Money From Financial...
First Minister John Swinney has criticised the “misplaced” targeting of the firm, while Scottish culture secretary Angus Robertson has warned that disinvestment campaigns were...
Literary Studies Are Dying. How Should The Field Cope?
Especially cruel realities face a struggling field like literary studies, with its disappearing majors, budgetary pressures, abysmal job market, fears about academic freedom, and...
Brooke Shields Is Actors Equity’s New President. Here’s What She Wants To Do.
Shields’s music director suggested she consider the opening, and soon enough, she had tossed her hat in the ring, and in May she won the vote...
This Year’s Classical Music Programming Diversity Report
The Donne report found that 78.4 percent of works in 2023–2024 were by historical (deceased) white men, with 30.6 percent coming from the top...
Is Australian Arts Funding At An All-Time Low?
Right now, after the chaos of the COVID years and amid a cost of living crisis, many in the sector are feeling like arts...
Vandal Beheads Sculpture of Virgin Mary Giving Birth To Jesus
"The Catholic diocese of Linz (in Austria) said in a statement that the Virgin Mary’s head was sawed off early Monday morning in an...
Oooh. Now We Have “Malevolent” Creativity
When you think of creativity, you probably imagine a genius behind an easel or at the heart of a brilliantly directed movie. However, people can...
London Museums Should Charge Foreign Tourists Admission Fees, Says Former Director Of British Museum
Mark Jones, who stepped in as interim director last summer amid the stolen-items crisis, says that admission should remain free for under-25s and UK...
“Carnegie Hall Of The West” Is For Sale
Harvest Rock Church is asking $45 million for the 1,200-seat auditorium near the Old Pasadena district that has also hosted jazz greats including Ella...
The Extraordinary Female Composer Whose 1835 Opera Has Been Rescued From Oblivion
Will Crutchfield: "(Carolina) Uccelli was indeed extraordinary, and so is the single surviving opera" — Anna di Resburgo — "by which we can assess...
LA’s Jazz Clubs Are Under Stress. Can They Survive?
The city is brimming with jazz musicians releasing stellar albums and taking risks live. But is L.A. so expensive and disconnected that it’s risking...
