Despite Economic Turmoil And Slow-To-Return Audiences, Some Dance Organizations Are Spending Serious Money On...
For instance, the Joyce Theater in New York has purchased a six-story, 58,000-square-foot building in Manhattan's East Village. San Francisco's ODC bought its third...
Australian Report Questions Payments To Academic Publishers
The Australia Institute report, released on Wednesday, questioned if more public money should be used for research and education instead of being directed to international...
Norman Foster’s Firm Designs A Billion-Dollar Office Tower For Sunset Boulevard
"The eye-catching proposal, which was formally submitted to (Los Angeles) city planning authorities this week, will transform a two-acre site on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard...
The San Diego Museum Is Selling Buildings. What About The Art?
The sale of the downtown facility will dramatically alter perceptions of the museum’s long-standing binational mandate, aimed at artists and audiences in the border...
Off-Broadway Is Prospering — And There’s A Lesson In That
"A group of commercial off-Broadway shows have bucked the trend and are packing in ticket-buyers. … Taken together, though, these off-Broadway gems offer an...
COVID Was Supposed To Spark A City Doom Loop. Instead, They’ve Bounced Back
Twenty-five of America’s 26 largest downtowns have more residents today than they did on the eve of the pandemic. Meanwhile, both violent and property crime plummeted...
Harlem’s Apollo Theater And Opera Philadelphia Renew Their Producing Partnership
"Few details were available on the initiative, which picks up on the joint venture that brought Charlie Parker’s Yardbird and We Shall Not Be...
Georgia Lawmakers Were Going To Cap Hollywood Tax Subsidies At $1 Billion A Year....
"In February, the state House of Representatives passed a bill that would limit the tax credits that could be sold annually to 2.5% of...
Fired Colorado Public Radio Host Alleges Discrimination On Basis Of Disability
"Former host and reporter Vic Vela, who rose to prominence in recent years through his podcast about addiction, recovery and mental health, filed complaints...
Tennessee Is First State To Pass Law Protecting Songwriters And Performers From AI Infringement
"Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers...
Ex-Husband Of Murdered Gallerist Brent Sikkema Arrested
"Daniel Sikkema, the ex-husband of the New York art dealer Brent Sikkema, who is embroiled in allegations that he orchestrated his former partner’s murder...
One Of America’s Leading Public Art Programs, Mural Arts Philadelphia, May Lose $1 Million...
"The long-running arts organization, which specializes in project-based community programming, currently has more than $3.68 million in funding for the year. However, (Mayor Cherelle...
2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners: Lorrie Moore, Judy Blume, ALA
"Moore, best known as a short-story writer, won the fiction prize for her novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home. …...
Cast Off Your Streaming! Free Blockbuster Now!
The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction and eventually, more than 200 other community boxes had opened from Louisiana to Canada and even Britain...
Do We Live In An Age Of Cultural Stagnation?
Cast your eyes across this burgeoning literature of cultural stagnation—now so voluminous it counts as an authentic subgenre in its own right—and you won’t...
This Musician Has Been Streamed 15 Billion Times Under Fake Artist Accounts On Spotify
Johan Röhr is behind over 2,700 songs that have been released under various fake artist names on Spotify. His music across all of these pseudonymous artist accounts...
What Does It Mean To Be An Artist In The Era Of Everyone-Has-A-Camera-At-All-Times?
How much skill does it actually take to be a photographer? Is photography really and truly an art? These questions about photography – what...
End Of An Era: Gannett Newspapers Ends Relationship With AP Wire
The news ends a deep and decades-long relationship between one of the world’s largest news organizations and one of the nation’s largest newspaper publishers....
Cities Were Supposed To Be The Future. In The 21st Century They’ve Become A...
Never is it discussed that a cordoned-off, highly policed, highly regulated urban fabric of the kind that exists in every metropolitan center in the...
Meet The First B-Girl (That’s Woman Breakdancer) To Represent The U.S. In The Olympics
As a tween, Sunny Choi was a serious gymnast on an Olympic track but decided she should get a real education and job —...
Justice Department Sues Apple Over Antitrust
In an 88-page lawsuit, the government argued that Apple had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their...
American Youth Symphony Shuts Down
The American Youth Symphony, which shut down on Friday, is — or rather was — one of the few large national organizations involved in the vital transition...
For The First Time In 450 Years, Eight Panels Of Piero Della Francesca’s Augustinian...
"Museums have tried and failed in the past to assemble the (surviving) eight panels, spread among five museums in Europe and the United States,...
Reinventing The Concert Subscription
"Choose-your-own” subscription packages, in which attendees can opt for a handful of performances instead of an entire series, and membership models, wherein attendees pay...
To This We’ve Come: Virginia School District Censors Book About A Hermaphroditic Species Of...
"The Floyd County (Va.) Public Schools have suspended a One Division, One Book community reading of Katherine Applegate’s Wishtree following complaints that the middle-grade...
