Hong Kong’s Enormous New Arts Center Needs To Find New Funding, And Soon
The 99-acre West Kowloon Cultural District was given a start-up fund (called an "endowment" there) of HK$21.6bn (US$2.8bn) by the enclave's government in 2008....
Actor Louis Gossett Jr., 87
He was the first Black man to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (in 1983 for playing the drill sergeant in An Officer and...
Life Magazine Is Being Revived (Yes, As A Print Publication)
"Bedford Media, the holding company founded by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her husband, investor Josh Kushner, has acquired the publishing rights to...
Artist Robert Moskowitz, “A Rare Bridge Between Abstract Expressionism And Minimalism,” Has Died At...
"Beginning in the late 1970s, (he) began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three...
Workers’ Strike Closes Toronto’s Largest Art Museum
"Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations,...
Another Boston Public Media Outlet Warns Of Layoffs
Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of...
Kennicott: The Baltimore Bridge And Its Symbolism
The loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood...
Can There Truly Be “New” Opera Without Saying Goodbye To The Old?
In short: There can be no history of operatic modernity that is not also a memorial, no production of new opera that does not...
How The Hulu Merger Is Changing The Ways Disney Works
Yes, Hulu is just a tile. But that tile also seems to represent something bigger inside of Disney: the full Disney Plus-ification of everything,...
For Centuries The Dutch Have Fought Back The Water. In Climate Change Maybe Cities...
“I think some bowls should be full,” he said, suggesting that flooding the land would amount to little more than a natural evolution of...
It’s Been 35 Years Since The Pacific Symphony Last Picked A Music Director. The...
Carl St.Clair is currently the longest-serving music director of a major American orchestra, and under his baton the ensemble has flourished: It’s now the...
Standup Comedy Flourished In China During Lockdown. Now The Government Crackdown
Flippant references to China’s military, like those to top leaders, are considered off limits in official life, and such taboos have been codified under...
What’s The Secret To The Songs That Make People Want To Dance? Syncopation, Says...
But not too much — just "a moderate level of syncopation to the point where our brain can still extract the periodic beat from...
Christopher Knight: Questions About The Broad Museum Expansion
The conceit of a vanity museum’s design being dubbed “the veil and the vault,” with a perforated exterior draped over a treasury for a private collection...
LA’s Broad Museum Announces Major Expansion
The Broad on Wednesday announced a $100-million building expansion that will increase gallery space at one of Los Angeles’ most popular museums by 70%....
Florida’s New Budget Increases Arts & Culture Funding By Over 60%. However, …
"Allocations for fiscal year 2025 total $93.9 million, funding 669 different arts and culture projects or organizations. Just $32 million of that is allocated...
Toymakers Design Human Characteristics Into Their Work. And AI?
Large language models can seem to do more than what we ask them to; they exhibit something that we might call creativity if a...
Māori Postmodern: Indigenous Architects In New Zealand Are Creating A New Style of Design
"The country’s Māori population now numbers 17% and rising, and the new generation’s enthusiastic embrace of tribal cultural identity is making their presence more...
London’s Wigmore Hall Announces Endowment Campaign To Eliminate Its Public Funding
The venue has an annual grant of £344,206 from Arts Council England (ACE) but John Gilhooly, Wigmore Hall’s artistic and executive director, says that...
“Merrily We Roll Along” And The Nature(s) Of Long-Term Friendship
"Frank's and Charley's very different definitions of what constitutes a friend offers an astringent alternative to our culture’s sometimes treacly, overly simplistic portrayal of...
“Mama Mia” Star Informed She’s Being Replaced By AI Voice
Musical theater star Sara Poyzer publicly shared a screenshot of an email she received from an unnamed production company which read: “Sorry for the delay—we have...
What’s An Intimacy Director To Do On A Musical About Ladyparts With Chompers?
"(In Teeth,) a show in which violence begets vengeance, … it’s a lot to endure, for both biter and bitee. … Campy or not,...
Choreography On Broadway Is No Longer Broadway-Style Choreography
"Today’s shows are increasingly using movement makers from genres outside the musical theater world altogether, like experimental dance (David Neumann, Annie-B Parson, Raja Feather...
How The “Star Trek” Franchise Keeps Going After 58 Years
"Since the original series debuted in 1966, … the Star Trek galaxy has logged 900 television episodes and 13 feature films, amounting to 668...
Ex-Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick Is Out Of Jail, Trying To Figure Out What’s Next
In 2021 he pled guilty in an enormous art-fraud case and was sentenced to seven years in prison. This past January he was released...
