PEN America Gives Up, Cancels Its 2024 Literary Awards
"Facing widespread unhappiness over its response to the Israel-Hamas war, the writers’ group PEN America has called off its annual awards ceremony. Dozens of...
U.S. House Passes TikTok Sell-Or-Be-Banned Rule — In Way That May Force Senate To...
"While lawmakers in the House advanced a similar bill last month, this effort is different for two reasons: It is attached to a sweeping...
What Is The Deal With LACMA’s Plan To Share Art With An As-Yet Unbuilt...
“Rather than enlarging its physical footprint, LACMA aims to broaden its cultural reach, influence and presence in the West, and globally — a benign...
Things We Learned From The World’s Largest Music Company’s Annual Report
Much of the publication obviously focuses on UMG’s extraordinarily successful 2023: A year in which it posted USD $12 billion in total revenues, with annual adjusted EBITDA just north...
Tending To The Legacy Of Dance Theatre Of Harlem
“Moving the organization forward would depend not only on the art that the company produced, but also on the legacy through its alumni. And...
The Toll That Questioning Someone’s Authority Takes
Growing research shows regular exposure to even relatively subtle prejudice and discrimination degrades physical and mental health, leading to outcomes like high blood pressure, chronic...
Designers Are Rebranding: Say Hello To “Visual Strategists”
Look at the way most branding agencies describe themselves today and “strategy” now gets top billing. Design is out. Strategy is in. - Fast Company
How Studying Music Makes Better Employees
It is well known many musicians work simultaneously in arts and non-arts roles, often to create some income security. Less understood is just how...
The War On Theatre
In the Educational Theater Association’s most recent survey, 85 percent of American theater teachers expressed concern about censorship. Even Shakespeare is at risk: In Florida,...
Amazon Is Clogged With Fake Books. How Does This Happen?
Many of them gleefully share misinformation or repackage basic facts from WikiHow behind a title that’s been search-engine-optimized to hell and back again. Some...
Opera Is Elitist? Er… Not So Much
We have entered a culturally risk-adverse period. Our present age of anxiety — which includes post-pandemic economic challenges to the arts, diminished attention spans...
AI Copyright Wars: US Copyright Office Shifts On The Rules
he is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the...
Christopher Knight: LACMA Will Provide Art For New Vegas Museum — What A Bad...
As bad art museum ideas go, this one is right up there. But it fits LACMA’s similarly bad — and unprecedented — decision to build a...
How Five Actors With Limited Musical Training Became A Band For Broadway’s Stereophonic
“'I was like, as long as someone is musical, any idiot can be in a band,’ Butler said. ‘I can write to whatever...
The Critical Book Stanley Kubrick Blocked With Legal Threats Is Now, At Last, Going...
“His reaction to The Magic Eye showed Kubrick’s image-control obsessions taken to extremes. He didn’t just make edits – he erased the entire project.” But now,...
Smithsonian Staff Are Worried About A Clampdown On LGBTQIA Content
At a GOP hearing in December, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told representatives that he didn’t think having children at drag shows was “appropriate.” Since...
Marvel Star Chris Pratt And His Wife Demolished An Architecturally Significant Los Angeles House
The Zimmerman House was designed by architect Craig Ellwood in 1950, and was - before Pratt and his wife, Kathryn Schwarzenegger, had it torn...
Blue Denim, A Painting Seems To Show, Is Centuries Older Than Levi’s
An Italian gallery "is appealing for further research to help identify an anonymous painter who specialised in street scenes that often depict poor people...
At The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Winners Support Ousted USC Valedictorian
"Tananarive Due, who won ... for her novel The Reformatory, used her speech to add: ‘As we face the horrors in our cities, in...
The Tips And Tricks Of A 23-Year-Old Crossword-Solving Champion
The young speedster says, Ttraining your eye to move back and forth from clues to grid without losing your place, remembering clues when you...
The Original Star Trek Enterprise Model, Missing For Decades, Has Surfaced At Sotheby’s
"For die-hard Trekkies, the model’s disappearance had become the subject of folklore, so an eBay listing last fall, with a starting bid of $1,000, didn’t go...
Why Is Caravaggio Everywhere On The Cultural Scene?
"This is, after all, the guy who changed it all by introducing emotional intensity and identifiable humanity into the business of representing biblical stories."...
Lourdes Portillo, Director Of ‘The Devil Never Sleeps’ And A Visual Artist, Has Died...
The documentary filmmaker " ocused her work on writing, directing and producing film and videos that centered the emotions and circumstances of Latin American, Mexican...
Netflix Gets Caught Using AI-Generated Images Of A Murder Victim In A True-Crime Documentary
"This isn't inventing a fictional narrative for the sake of entertainment — this is tinkering with the fabric of reality itself to manipulate a...
The Very Dark Side Of The Rare Book World
That is, the side where some books are bound in human skin. - The New York Times
