Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
"The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120...
Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
"The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following...
Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A...
US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as...
Is It True That Quality TV Is Done For?
"There's definitely been a contraction after years of it feeling like TV was undergoing this crazy expansion." - BBC
How The Head Of Juilliard’s Dance Program Is Shaking Things Up
In 2018, she became the prestigious New York conservatory's first woman of color to head the dance program — and the youngest person to...
How Two Amsterdam Museums Managed Hyper-Demand For Blockbuster Shows
“I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could...
Inside San Francisco Symphony’s Budget Issues And What They Say About Priorities
Given these “significant financial pressures,” where does the multimillion-dollar Davies renovation project stand, certain to pose challenges even if the cost of application and...
How Steppenwolf Theatre Reimagined Its Educational Mission
It seemed that the education department functioned as a sort of nonprofit running within another nonprofit, having separate conversations about programming. - American Theatre
Meet The Organist For The Boston Red Sox At Fenway Park
"It’s (Josh) Kantor’s job to punch up the action when it’s going well on the field and soothe fans’ frayed nerves when it’s not....
For The Second Time Since 1987, Vinyl Records Outsold CDs Last Year
People bought 43 million vinyl records last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). That’s 6 million more than the number of CDs...
Michael Ondaatje On His First Poetry Collection In 25 Years
"The real question I had “was could I write poems anymore? … I didn’t want to miss out on a certain pensiveness, and a...
There Are Lots Of Music Subscription Experiments Going On. How About This One?
The term “blockchain” has dropped out of the public consciousness since the calming of the NFT frenzy of the early 2020s. But the technology...
Making Dementia-Friendly Theatre
"Designed in collaboration with people living with dementia and their carers, these performances are specifically adapted for their audience, allowing them to have a...
Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?
The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as...
Algerian Officials Rebuke TV Stations For Too Many Ads And “Immoral” Programming During Ramadan
The communications minister's complaints were about some of the prime-time soap operas that draw massive viewership as people break their Ramadan fasts in the...
AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction
Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern...
“Information Is Power” — Dance Data Project’s Founder Talks About Five Years Of Collecting...
"We are here to provide data and analysis which journalists, funders and advocates can deploy to create a more interesting dance world. Artistic-director candidates...
Richard Serra Made Modern Sculpture Exciting — By Creating The Feeling That It Might...
Sebastian Smee: "As an artist, he was no bully. Rather, he was a physicist. He wanted you to know, and to feel in your...
Smithsonian Misused Federal COVID Relief Funding, Finds Internal Audit
"The Smithsonian’s internal Office of the Inspector General last month released a report saying that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million...
Ohad Naharin On Ballet Ireland’s Cancellation Of His “Minus 16” Because He’s Israeli
"From the abyss of my sadness witnessing the ongoing catastrophe ... I am writing to you. If the act of cancellation would have helped...
Boston Public Radio Station WBUR Is Offering Staff Buyouts
As management looks to cut 10% of the budget, it "hopes the plan will help reduce some expenses, but … the station expects to...
Arts Funding In Hawaii Is Saved By State Senate Committee
The state's percent-for-art law, the oldest in the US (1967), requires 1% of the construction or renovation costs of state buildings to go to...
Sagrada Familia In Barcelona Will Be Finished (Sort Of) In 2026
With the completion of the Chapel of the Assumption in 2025 and the last and highest of its six towers the following year, construction...
Richard Serra, 85
Serra’s most celebrated works had some of the scale of ancient temples or sacred sites and the inscrutability of landmarks like Stonehenge. - The New...
