New Zealand’s Museums Are In Crisis
What the research revealed was an overworked workforce overly reliant on volunteers, snowballing costs and shrinking funding. Small museums and galleries in the provinces...
Warhol Museum Director To Step Down
Patrick Moore joined the Warhol Museum as the director of development in 2011, and assumed other leading administrative roles at the museum before being...
What LitBlogging Turned Into
In short, the literary weblog may have prepared the way for a critical writing about literature online that not just rivalled but eventually exceeded...
Report: Many Of World’s Biggest Museums Have Recovered To Pre-COVID Visitor Numbers
The number of people visiting the most-visited 100 museums fell from 230 million in 2019 to just 54m in 2020. Although the total number of...
Tim Page Remembers Byron Janis
For years, Mr. Janis was one of the best-known classical musicians in the world, playing major stages from Philadelphia to Paris. - Washington Post
Why Are An Increasing Number Of Writers Okay With Censoring Other Writers?
The spectacle of writers refusing to entertain the work of other writers in the name of freedom never fails to dispirit, though at this...
Choreographer Arlene Phillips Is Still Working Full-Time At Age 80
"(Her) 60-year career … has included choreographing stage musicals, including Starlight Express and We Will Rock You, and films such as the 1982 version...
Site Clones 3000 Deepfake Pop Voices For Use In Music
The site, which has described itself as the “#1 platform for making high quality AI covers in seconds,” has become big enough to warrant...
Peak TV Is Not Yet Over In Europe
"While the U.S. TV business has seen a sharp downturn, with a drop in the number of shows commissioned and broadcast and headline-making layoffs...
British Museum Had Record Number Of Visitors In 2023
Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its best-ever year, with a 22% increase in visitors to 5,688,786. The most-visited outdoor attraction was Windsor...
The Latest Challenge For European Publishers And Translators: Younger People Are Reading In English
"A panel yesterday at the London Book Fair addressed the threat of English-language editions cannibalizing or otherwise supplanting sales of translated books, as the...
The 20-Year-Old Transcribing Performances Into Detailed Notation
George Collier takes snippets of videos from live performances by well-known artists like Wynton Marsalis and Celine Dion, or bedroom musicians who’ve posted clips...
Is TikTok Really An Agent Of The Chinese Government? In Today’s China, It’s Not...
"Simply put, there’s no clear line between the state and society in China in the same way that there is in democracies. The Chinese...
A Statistical Portrait Of Artists In Canada
The 202,900 professional artists in Canada represent 1.0% of the national labour force. A finer analysis shows that 1 in every 102 Canadian workers...
Actors From The Bombed-Out Theatre In Occupied Mariupol Return To The Stage
"A small group of actors and staff from the theatre have resurrected the troupe in Uzhhorod, in the far west of Ukraine. Performances take...
Putin Has Sent His FSB To Go After Russian Artists
"The (secret police) have reportedly searched at least 30 artists’ homes and studios across at least eight cities. … Among those targeted were members...
For The First Time, A Full Wagner “Ring” Cycle With Historical Instruments And Singing...
"In 2026, it will be 150 years since Wagner premiered the full Ring at his festival in Bayreuth, Germany. Each year until then, (Kent)...
How Britain’s Labour Party Can Fix The Arts Funding System That The Tories Have...
"Labour’s first easy (and free) win would be to talk proudly about arts and culture – and especially the biggest cultural powerhouse the country...
Even 34 Years Later, Tips Still Come In About The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...
"About 20 tips (were) reported to the museum over the past year from people who thought they saw one of the two most recognizable...
Andrew Crispo, Gallery Owner Involved With Murders And Financial Crimes, Is Dead At 78
"Though he lacked formal training in art, he was widely respected for his exacting eye, which he used to identify promising young painters. …...
EU Passes Landmark AI Legislation, And Will Regulate Use Of Copyright Material
The act places a number of legal and transparency obligations on tech companies and AI developers operating in Europe, including those working in the...
Gen-Z’s Poor Mental Health Comes From Smartphone Culture. We Should Stop It
Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental...
AI – Understanding Versus Finding Patterns
How can these powerful systems beat us in chess but falter on basic math? This paradox reflects more than just an idiosyncratic design quirk....
Will Rethinking Liberal Arts From A Conservative Tradition Make Them Better?
Classical education is premised on the idea that there is objective truth, and that the purpose of school is to set kids on a...
Remembering America’s Most Notorious Art Heist
The legacy of the heist is always apparent to museum visitors who, decades later, still confront vacant frames on the gallery walls where paintings once hung. -...
