Philadelphia Museum Of Art Reverses Its Disastrous Rebrand
The decision, it said, reflects “the recommendations of an interdisciplinary task force of museum trustees and staff, which examined the process and rollout of...
Audiences Singing Along At Broadway Musicals — Is It Getting Out Of Hand?
"Encouraging audience enthusiasm while upholding basic theater etiquette has become a tricky balance, but attracting fans itching to sing along is also a badge of popularity. …...
“Resistance Theater” Spreads As Trump’s Second Term Goes On
“The Unquiet series, organized by Sara Candela, a poet, is part of a larger movement in which artists, writers and theater groups across the...
What Gustavo Dudamel Told Domingo Hindoyan About L.A.
Dudamel is the outgoing music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Hindoyan is the incoming music director of Los Angeles Opera; they have known...
Sony Spent $457 Million To Buy The “Peanuts” Franchise. Now What Will The Conglomerate...
It’s going to “leverage the iconic IP across music, film and global distribution platforms,” as one would expect. On the music side, this means...
30th Anniversary Performance Of Michael Flatley’s “Lord Of The Dance” Canceled And Then Uncanceled...
Amidst ongoing lawsuits between Flatley, creator of the Irish step-dancing spectacle, and Switzer Consulting, whom he contracted to manage the show’s touring operations, Switzer...
Former Muppets Exec Sues Jim Henson Company
"Jason Lust, a former senior executive … who helped shepherd some of The Jim Henson Company's most successful modern movies and TV series, …...
Alvin Ailey Company Gets Dedicated $10 Million Endowment For Artistic Director
Daria L. Wallach, a retired financier and the chair of the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s board of directors, and her husband are the donors....
This Opera Lampooning Trump Features Zombies, Vampires, And A Libretto By A Nobel Prizewinner
Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature, and composer Olga Neuwirth, who received the 2022 Grawemeyer Award, have created Monster’s Paradise...
Hollywood Unions Express Concerns About Netflix’s Warner Buy
“Both proposed transactions raise significant issues that impact stakeholders across the media sector, including our members,” the DGA’s statement read. - Deadline
Ukraine Punishes Two Prominent Ballet Dancers For Performing In “Swan Lake” Abroad
“The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture slammed Serhiy Kryvokon and Natalia Matsak’s performance as ‘promoting the cultural product of the aggressor state’. The National Opera...
Judge Stops More Changes To Displays At George Washington’s Philadelphia House
It orders “no further removal and/or destruction” of the site “until further order of the court.” That would appear to cover other parts of...
New Exhibitions Are Upending The Ways We Look At Indigenous Art
Somehow, modernist aping of Indigenous models got told as a story of increasing originality, while Indigenous adaptation of Western models was seen in terms...
How Imagineers Reimagined Burned-Out Altadena’s Community Centers
After last year’s Eaton Fire tore through town, incinerating community infrastructure and scattering residents across the region, the importance of such places has grown...
Author Neil Gaiman Breaks Silence To Insist That Sexual Assault Allegations Are “Completely And...
The accusations were made in 2024 podcast from Tortoise Media and a New York magazine article early in 2025; several media adaptations of Gaiman’s...
Too Close To Home: Philip Glass’ Lincoln Symphony
The specific outrages Lincoln recounts—lynchings, burnings, mob executions—belong to his era. But his insight is structural. The deepest danger of mob law, Lincoln explains,...
How Miss Piggy Became A Star
A sow in opera gloves would have been a decent gag in itself, but it soon became clear that the character was destined for...
Lessons From The Adelaide Festival Meltdown: Arts Governance Has A Ways To Go
Australia’s arts and cultural sector still has much to learn in terms of fiduciary duties and duty of care, risk and crisis management, communication...
A New Fund For Training The Arts Teachers Now Required In Every California School
Since Prop. 28, the Art and Music in Schools Act, passed in late 2022, California has struggled to locate enough qualified arts teachers to...
Did Plato Espouse Ideas Leading To Totalitarianism?
In his massive The Open Society and Its Enemies—published just before his return to Europe in 1945—Popper in effect identifies Plato not just as the...
Copyright Wins: Meet The Judge Who Presided Over The Anthropic/Writers Case
Winning legal copyright battles may force tech companies to curb their blatant piracy. But copyright alone can’t halt AI’s advance. - AI Humanist
How The Arts Sector May Be Misreading The AI Revolution
"The sector is responding to AI as if it were a tool to be adopted responsibly within existing organisational life, often through skills development,...
Founder Of Chicago’s Invictus Theatre “Steps Away” Following Accusations Of Bullying
The company’s board said that there will be a third-party investigation into social media allegations that founder/artistic director Charles Askenaizer engaged in aggressive behavior...
Inside The Police Investigation Into Ex-CEO At Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio
Monica Bustamante, the lead detective on the case, “said a portrait emerged of an executive who exploited the station’s lack of internal controls and...
Nebraska Public Media Will Finally Get Its Own Radio Outlet In Omaha
The network has nine other outlets of its own throughout the state, but the NPR affiliate in Nebraska’s largest city, news/talk KIOS (91.5), is...
