San Francisco’s Top Arts Official Retires As Mayor Rethinks Arts Policy
The exit, announced Monday, Feb. 2, comes just days after Mayor Daniel Lurie posted a job description for an executive director of arts and culture to...
What Trump’s Kennedy Center Fiasco Shows Us Abut MAGA’s Culture Wars
What’s even fascinating is what this whole debacle tells us about the MAGA movement as a whole, and how Trump is the perfect symbol for their...
Whitewashing History In Philadelphia
To many Philadelphians who having been coming daily ever since to leave protest messages, it felt like an attack on a hard-won monument, and...
Pianist And Conductor Tamás Vásáry Has Died At 92
“The Hungarian pianist … was one of the finest interpreters of Liszt and Chopin in the second half of the 20th century. He also...
We Think Cooperation Is The Ideal. In Fact A little Deceit Might Be Good
We evolved not to cooperate or compete, but with the capacity for both – and with the intelligence to hide competition when it suits...
Reimagining Shakespeare In Shanghai
Instead of Venice and Cyprus, Shakespeare’s setting for “Othello,” the Shanghai version takes place on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River,...
The Muppets Were On Top. Then Decades Of Bad Business Decisions Toppled Their Popularity....
The characters have survived a cruel decade defined largely by false starts, aborted projects and creative in-fighting. - The Wrap (MSN)
Enormous Challenges For Disney’s New CEO
The entertainment industry is in flux, and Disney will need someone with a deft hand if it is to survive and thrive. The business...
Something Is Not Working In Sacramento’s Arts
This struggle, we have found, applies across the board and includes live music venues, theater groups, performance arts, galleries, and does not discriminate between...
An Ambitious Project To Document Dance
The ambitious project was five years in the making and culled street dance resources from a wide-ranging array of sources spanning mediums. - Fjord Review
Farewell To The Mass-Market Paperback Book
First introduced in the 1930s, mass-market books (once called “pulps”) sold in huge quantities for decades. Yet sales have been slowly-but-steadily sinking since the 1990s,...
Los Angeles To Host Major New Jazz Festival
Concert promoter and former city councilman Martin Ludlow always wondered why a city full of excellent musicians had no equivalent of the big jazzfests...
Minnesota Orchestra Reports Record Earned Revenue — And $4.2 Million Deficit
In fiscal year 2025, earned revenue (ticket sales, hall rentals, concessions) reached a record high of $12.1 million. Orchestra Hall reached 82% paid capacity,...
“Great American State Fair” To Replace Smithsonian Folklife Festival On National Mall This Summer
The Folklife Festival normally brings artisans and performers from various spots to the Mall for several weeks. This year, the Smithsonian says it will...
Buffalo AKG Art Museum Gave Its Director A Low-Interest $335K Loan For A House....
“Janne Sirén, director … since 2013, used a museum loan to help finance a $710,000 home — more than half of which remains unpaid,...
Newspaper Bloodbath Continues As Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lays Of 15% Of Its Staff
“About 50 AJC employees (will) be losing their jobs, with about half of the cuts coming from the newsroom.” - SaportaReport (Atlanta)
Washington Post Lays Off Art Critic Sebastian Smee And Entire Photography Staff
All eight of the paper’s in-house photographers have lost their jobs, as has the Pulitzer Prize winner Smee, who has been with the Post...
Boosterism? Why, It Made America What It Is Today!
“Boosters don’t describe real things so much as what they hope will become real things, often presenting growth as inevitable and betting on optimism...
Crypto Investors Pay $300K To Create Gold Trump Statue
At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a...
The Difference Between Human Hierarchies And Other Primate Hierarchies
Evolutionary anthropologist Thomas Morgan: “People can be coercive, but unlike other species, we also create hierarchies of prestige – voluntary arrangements that allocate labor and decision-making...
Critics Hate Proposed Plans For British Museum Spruce-Up
New security buildings in the grounds of the British Museum would look "too flashy" and resemble "a shop and wine bar", opponents to the...
Netflix CEO Goes To Testify Before Congress; A Culture War Ensues
He ended up spending much of his time before the Judiciary subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights pushing back against accusations from...
Michelangelo And Titian: A Contemporary Odd Couple
The two men couldn’t have been more different. Titian was a painter while Michelangelo, though renowned both as a painter and a sculptor, saw...
A.O. Scott Annotates The Court Order Freeing The Five-Year-Old Held By ICE
“Judge Biery’s decision … is much more than dry judicial reasoning. It’s a passionate, erudite, at times mischievous piece of prose. … In fewer than...
Bruce Springsteen’s Protest Song In The Age Of Digital Spread
What distinguishes Streets of Minneapolis is not just its fidelity to the tradition of the protest song, but its mode of circulation as a...
