Some Of Paris’s Leading Museums And Monuments Are Raising Prices For Non-EU Visitors
“Beginning January 1, 2026, major French museums — including the Louvre and the Château de Versailles — will charge non-European Union visitors €30 (about $35), up...
Kyiv’s 1,000-Year-Old Cathedral Damaged By Russian Air Attack
St. Sophia, the 11th-century landmark considered the mother church of Orthodox Christianity in Russia and Belarus as well as Ukraine, was damaged by blast...
Hamburg Ballet’s Artistic Director Fired For “Toxic Working Environment”
After months of increasingly public complaints by company dancers, Demis Volpi, an Argentine-German choreographer who succeeded company founder John Neumeier one year ago, will...
Paramount Global Is Laying Off Another 3.5% Of Its US Workforce
Less than a year after reducing its stateside payroll by 15% (roughly 2,000 employees), the entertainment conglomerate is eliminating another several hundred jobs —...
Twenty Years After His Fabricated Memoir And Grilling By Oprah, James Frey Is Trying...
“As Frey sees it, the public has gotten increasingly comfortable with falsehoods, without getting fully comfortable with him. He finds it all a bit...
Actors Unions Make Deal with Video Game Producers After Strike Over AI
With the strike, the union took a stand against proposed AI terms that leaders claimed would have allowed companies to undercut members and their...
Despite Ongoing Bombardment, Kharkiv’s Ballet Dances On Amid The Destruction
“In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones...
William Kentridge On Creating Art
You’ve probably had the experience where you’ve written something, it feels really great and, the next morning, you read it and think, “Who wrote...
What Monet Understood About Evoking A Place
This immersiveness does not come from an illusion of being in three dimensions – the opposite, in fact. Monet does a few subtle things...
The Truth About Finding Your Own Creativity
The myth of the genius is that these individuals woke up one morning and excelled. As a result, too many people are convinced that either you’re creative...
Pianist Maria João Pires Suffers “Slight Stroke”, Cancels Three Concerts
Pires, 81 next month, has withdrawn from performances this week and next in three Portuguese cities. She also has concerts scheduled in Monaco on...
The Really Good News Out Of This Year’s Tonys
On Sunday, the Tony Awards paid homage to the astonishing array of acting talent that drew audiences back to the theater. But it wasn’t star power...
The Great Unwinding: Warner Discovery Will Break Up
The decision to split is a major about-face from the conventional wisdom in the industry when Warner Bros. Discovery was created three years ago...
Smithsonian Pushes Back Against Trump Over Attempt To Fire Portrait Gallery Director
The statement, which does not mention Trump, Sajet or the NPG, goes on to obliquely rebuke the president’s claims, clarifying that he does not have...
What The New Conductor Of Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival Has In Mind
“Giancarlo Guerrero, 56, ended his 16-year tenure in May as music director of the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, where he put an emphasis on contemporary...
How Irving Thalberg Helped Create Hollywood’s Golden Age
Thalberg produced some three or four hundred movies in his years at M-G-M, ranging from big pictures like “Mutiny on the Bounty” to the...
As AI Writing Becomes More Ubiquitous, Will We Change How Humans Write?
Will we now push ourselves to write in a style that means we can’t possibly be confused for AI? Might we try to sound...
Is Poetry Just About The Words? (Not Really)
While what’s lost in translation is admittedly enormous, to conclude that poetry is therefore untranslatable is to fundamentally misrepresent both what poetry is and...
In New Fiction, The Subject Of AI Has Moved Beyond The SciFi/Fantasy Genre
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) has long been a staple of science fiction, but editors are seeing a change in how novelists are exploring the subject...
Frederick Forsyth, One Of The World’s Best-Selling Thriller Novelists, Has Died At 86
“A mega-selling British novelist of political thrillers, cunning spy craft and globe-trotting intrigue, (he) used his own background as a foreign correspondent to inspire...
Former Director Of Kahlo And Rivera Museums Alleges Missing Artworks And Mismanagement
Hilda Trujillo Soto, who was adjunct director and then director of the Mexico City museums from 2002 and 2020, alleges that the trust overseeing...
Federal Judge Rules That Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Independent And Trump Cannot Unilaterally...
While the U.S. District Court didn’t explicitly and directly reverse Trump’s removal of three CPB board members, it affirmed that Congress created CPB to...
Smithsonian’s Board Confirms That Its Chief Executive, Not The U.S. President, Has Hiring And...
While the Board of Regents (which includes the U.S. Vice President and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice) didn’t directly address Trump’s attempt to fire...
After Two-Year Struggle, Disney Buys Full Control Of Hulu (For Far Less Than Comcast...
In December 2023, in an initial payment toward the Hulu purchase, Disney agreed to give Comcast/NBCUniversal $8.61 billion — one-third of the $27.5 billion guaranteed...
Art Historian Claims To Have Identified Caravaggio’s Oldest Known Painting
“Gianni Papi — one of the world’s leading experts on the artist — announced the discovery of what he believes to be the earliest...
